Publishing, Blogging, and Freelancing
Recently, YouTube announced a change that creators will need 8,000 hours of watch time within a 12-month period or 20 million Shorts views within 90 days to qualify to monetize with ads. All of the other features and requirements remain unchanged. What does this do for writing and book channels?
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As I dabble with the idea of creating courses, I’ve decided to publish a few for free on YouTube. Essentially, they’re video playlists covering a specific topic, and I’m not sure how they differ from an actual playlist on the platform. Anyway, I am putting together a free course for WordPress in the coming weeks.
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Video content is vastly outpacing written posts. More people would rather watch than read, I suppose. Even my channel gets twice the viewership of the blog using the exact same content. So, when in Rome…
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After more than six years of making videos and live streams, the writing channel is finally monetized on YouTube. I’m not expecting to make a lot of money as AdSense isn’t the end-all-be-all of monetization. But it’s still quite exciting to get a few bucks each month.
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I finally hit the 3,000 hours of watch time in a 12-month span to monetize the channel – kind of. Although I still don’t have the watch time to get ad revenue, I can offer channel memberships! And these are similar to what I offer on Buy Me a Coffee.
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