Hey guys! Today's video is a little out of schedule and it's not about the topic
I usually talk about I usually talk about Pinterest marketing but I also
have another passion in my life for about nine months now and this passion
is you guys well to be more specific it's my youtube channel and all the
engagement and almost one on one communication we're having here in the
comments under the video so since YouTube became such a big part of my
online business now I'd like to share with you some behind the scenes of how
its growing and working for me in case you might be also interested in making
YouTube platform your home base by the way if you're also thinking about
starting a youtube channel I have a great tool for you it's a YouTube launch
checklist stay with me until the end of this video and I will tell you how you
can get this printable guide for free so I started this channel in February 2000
19 and by that time my blog was already two years old and you can go and check
Anastasia blogger.com and you will see that i have a blog link in the home page
and there i'm talking all about Pinterest tips and my goal with youtube
was that I wanted to create some complimentary videos from my existing
blog posts about Pinterest marketing and because videos can keep people on my
pages longer and I was hoping that this will help me with Google SEO and also I
realized that a lot of people prefer learning from videos so I wanted to
create some videos for you guys so making money with YouTube as was not my
goal but when I saw that I can add another income stream to my online
business I thought heck why not if you've been following my channel for a
while now you notice that a couple of months ago some ad blocks started
showing up on my videos so how long does it take to get monetized on YouTube and
how long did it take me I've got monetized on YouTube in about six months
after having published about 20 videos only and I will tell you in this video
what it exactly took me and what were the requirements to get monetized on
YouTube and in case you haven't checked it yet you
need to hit 1000 subscribers on your channel and you also need to hit 4,000
watch hours in the last 12 months so once you hit these two numbers YouTube
will review your account and will decide whether or not is eligible for ads so
that means even if you started a YouTube account
years ago and you published a couple of videos and you have been accumulating
the watch time ever since then all those hours will not be taken into
consideration except the watch time that you generated in the last year by the
way did you notice in these requirements for getting monetized on YouTube it
wasn't just these two numbers but also a google adsense account the google
adsense is a part of the beat google machine which is responsible for all the
ads that you see on youtube and on many other websites all over the internet
it's usually quite easy to get accepted to google adsense especially if you have
a blog like I did when I applied for Google Adsense by the time when you
apply for YouTube Partner Program so you do need to have a certain amount of
content on your site before you apply like at least 10 or 20 pages and if you
want to try to join with an empty web site with just a couple of articles
that's probably going to be rejected but not to worry you can try and apply it
later again but if setting up a web site is not an option for you and you want to
be a YouTube star without any website in this case you have to use your YouTube
channel instead of the web site and you will have to apply for google adsense
when your YouTube account is eligible for YouTube Partner Program and in this
scenario there will be a little extra delay to get your Google Adsense account
verified you will be asked to submit your entries and your bank information
so that Adsense can send your earnings to your bank and they will have to
verify all the personal information you provided and they will send you a real
letter not an email to your physical address so don't even try to create an
adsense account with some fake in or incomplete information because it will
backfire very soon as you will not be able to get that
letter with a special verification code from Google Adsense so that code is the
way to verify your personal information but there is one more step so Google
Adsense will also want you to verify your bank account so once you provide
your bank information they will send to your bank a few cents and it should be
reflected in your bank transaction history you need to take those exact
values and type them in Google Adsense to complete your bank verification since
Adsense verification involves mailing you a physical letter and sending money
to your bank account it can very heavily depending on where you live and how fast
banks in your country process transactions and all together it can
take from a couple of weeks to a month or even a month and a half so if there
is any way you could start your ends adsense account with a website before
your YouTube channel is eligible for monetization I would definitely use this
opportunity I actually didn't look at my watch time obsessively to see when I
reach the minimum requirements but I think that I first reached the 4000
watch hours in the middle of June and then a month later in the middle of July
I also reached 1,000 of subscribers and I also made another video on my channel
to share with you my five best tips which allowed me to grow my channel from
0 to 1000 of subscribers with only 20 videos in just five months I will give
you a link to that video in the top right corner and in the description
below this video so there was about one month gap between me reaching the 4,000
watch hours and hitting the 1000 subscribers and you can always check in
your YouTube analytics what's going on with your subscriber growth for example
in case of my channel I have about 70% of all views from people who are not
subscribed to me so there is definitely room for improvement in this I need to
keep reminding you guys that if you like my content and if you want to see more
videos like this one then click on the subscribe button and hit the bell icon
to get when I published my new tutorials by the
way I new to my channel well it's the best time to subscribe now
meanwhile I'm gonna be waiting for you then now let's move on
yep so how you can reach those four thousand hours of watch time well make
your videos longer if your videos are an average three to four minutes it will
take you at least twice longer to finally get monetized than if your
videos are almost ten minutes long or even longer when I started my channel I
knew that I have to make my videos at least 10 minutes long and just a couple
of reasons for you to know that this effort is gonna be worth it first you
will be able to monetize your channel much faster because you watch hours will
accumulate faster second when you finally get monetized you will say
thanks to yourself for making those videos longer every time when you check
your revenue analytics because when your video is shorter than 10 minutes you
cannot have ads included in the middle of your video and the reason number 3 is
is because of YouTube's algorithm YouTube platform wants to make more
money as much as we all do want to make more money and they prefer longer videos
because it allows YouTube to serve more ads in your videos now if you feel
confused by this thinking why is YouTube making money with ads on your videos
that's because for every ad that is served on your videos YouTube is getting
their cut from advertisers so the platform is interested in getting more
watch time and videos shorter than 10 minutes have lower chances to compete on
YouTube as well and now that we're here I can show you a few settings you might
want to know before your YouTube accounts becomes eligible for
monetization so you need to click on your channel settings in YouTube's to
your beta and then you click on upload defaults and find the monetization tab
here now setup the types of ads you want to be shown on your channel I personally
use these four types display ads overlay ads capable video
and before the video ads the ads cold during the video I haven't been using up
until now but I'll honestly give it a try for my future videos so guys it took
me about six months to get monetized on YouTube with this channel and I think
you could even do it faster it also depends on the niche I believe probably
people that are streaming video games on YouTube can make one our videos are even
longer without much effort but in my niche I have to respect the
viewers attention and provide as much value as possible in the shortest time
possible while still making my videos at least 10 minutes long it's not always
easy to find that balance but I'm doing my best on this channel so if you find
this video useful then go and find the fun button below this video and give me
a like I would really appreciate your support and now as I promised by the end
of this video you can get access to my free youtube line checklist so check the
link in the top right corner and also i'll give you a link in the description
below this video and when you use this checklist you can be sure that even as a
beginner you will not miss any fundamental rules and requirements of
YouTube platform when you are starting your channel and I wish you all great
success with your channels guys and let me know in the comments below if you
have any questions and let me know if you decided to start your own channel on
youtube or maybe you already have one and then definitely let me know how long
did it take you to get monetized on YouTube and I guess that's it for today
I will see you in the next videos
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