- So once you've met the requirements
for monetization of your channel
and you've applied for the YouTube partner program
how long does it take to actually get accepted?
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About 60 hours over a weekend.
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Now, for some of you
who have already been previous experience
of applying for the YouTube partner program,
you're probably saying to yourself right now,
"No, it didn't take that long,
it took a hell of a lot longer."
Or "I didn't even get accepted
into the YouTube partner program."
And for those of you who do have stories,
please share them in the comments below.
But, what I would like to do with you right now
is share our relatively short and seamless experience
of applying for the YouTube partner program.
We have two channels that qualify.
So this is what we found out.
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Yeah, apparently I am fluent in both Spanish and Russian
and we have vidIQ channels to support
both of these languages.
We've had a Spanish channel
for almost two years now, actually.
And we're homing in on yet another, silver play button.
We launched the Russian channel,
in the summer of this year
and we've just hit the requirements
for monetization there too.
And we were absolutely delighted to find
that when we went to the monetization screen
in the YouTube studio app.
It told us we met the requirements for monetization
and we had a lovely, big fat blue button to click on.
Yeah, it's not quite as simple as clicking a button
and waiting for YouTube to do something.
There are a couple of hoops that you need to jump through.
Those being accepting YouTube terms of service
and setting up an ad sense account.
We have a full tutorial on the process
on how to do that in the video over here.
But let's just assume everything's good.
You've passed those two steps.
And now you're waiting for YouTube to review your channel
and accept you into the YouTube partner program.
It's so relatively simple and short process, right?
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COVID-19 has affected everyone and everything.
YouTube is no different.
They stated as far back as March,
that with reduced staffing in their buildings.
Things like create a support and applications
for the YouTube partner program
might take longer than usual.
The reason for this is because it's not simply a case
of a piece of software or an algorithm trawling through
your channel to see whether it's acceptable
for the YouTube partner program.
Human reviewers are taking a look at whether your content
is viable for companies to place adverts on them.
Which means that both YouTube and yourself
can earn some income.
So, you can understand why the coronavirus may have delayed
some of these applications.
But to YouTube credit, they've not used this
as a reason for delay in applications
for a couple of months now.
But they do still state on their monetization application
support page that it could take up to a month
for your channel to be reviewed,
once you've applied for the YouTube partner program.
However, given our experience,
that just seemed like a huge safety net
to make sure that there are no unrealistic expectations
of you having your channel monetize
within a couple of days, although that often happens.
So given the fact, that I needed to screen record
the application process for the YPP tutorial video.
I can give you the exact date and time I submitted both
of these channels to YouTube for the Partner Program
2:30 PM on October 16th.
I'm focused, you don't need to bother
checking your calendars.
That's a Friday.
Now at this point, I have to admit I had no clue
what was going to happen next.
Because I'm going to be honest with you.
It's been a while since I've applied for monetization.
The last time I did it was all the way back in 2012.
So I didn't know if this was going to take days,
weeks, months.
Maybe YouTube would reject the channel for some reason
because they are effectively repurpose content
from English speaking videos, who knows?
Until Monday morning.
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I couldn't quite believe it myself.
I was still asleep.
When YouTube told me I could start monetizing
the Spanish vidIQ channel.
And everything's already there.
From the welcome to monetization message,
to the monetization icons
in my video list to all of those irritating banner ads
and pre-roll videos I can inflict on all of our viewers.
What was even more surprising is
that the Russian vidIQ channel also got monetized as well.
Although I'm not exactly sure when
as YouTube have yet to send me an email about it.
Maybe they take longer to send from Moscow.
I kind of assume that the Russian channel
would take a lot longer to process.
Purely on the basis that it had far fewer subscribers
and less watch time, then the Spanish channel.
But it seems as long as you hit the requirements
the reviewers will process it as fast as they possibly can.
Maybe the speed at which the applications were processed
is down to the nature of a content.
Educational, very cookie cutter, no controversy whatsoever
unless you think I'm controversial.
Everybody, please vote (beep).
Keen to work out just how long it took
from application, submission to acceptance
into the YouTube partner program.
I key the numbers into a date calculator
and there we have it, 60 hours.
Or 3,627 minutes or 217,620 seconds.
And remember we applied on a Friday afternoon,
it was processed through out the weekend
and we got our acceptance email at 3:00 AM
on Monday morning.
I think it's fair to say that YouTube is a 24/7 company.
At least in the English speaking world.
Now I was trying to think of other reasons
why the application may have been processed so fast.
And the only one I can think of is that
we already have a YouTube channel.
The main vidIQ channel which is monetized
and it uses the same ad account.
So maybe there was a little bit of credibility there,
but I'm spit balling.
If you have any ideas
again, let us know in the comments below.
And another question you regulars
may be asking is, "Why enough do we need monetization
on our channels since we don't monetize any of our video?"
Well, it's actually to protect our own content.
Once you're in the YouTube partner program
this tool shows you if other creators are using your content
and enables you to contact the creator
and request a removal of the video.
And of course being the educational channel that we are
we have a full tutorial on how to use that tool over here.
As for why we don't monetize our channel.
Well, we're not here to nickel and dime ourselves
through ad revenue on YouTube videos.
We're here to educate you on your YouTube journey
and spread awareness of vidIQ.
Which of course you can, can download for free.
We want to help you grow YouTube channel
as soon as you start.
So that you can reach this milestone, monetization.
And now, you know how long it takes at least for us.
Enjoy the rest of your video making day.