How long does it take to get 4,000 watch hours? Does YouTube automatically enable monetization
for your channel if you meet the requirements of the YouTube Partner Program? Does rewatching
a YouTube video count as a view? In this video, I'm going to show you 10 ways to get 4,000
hours on your YouTube channel quickly, as well as answer your questions. Hi, my name
is Herman Drost. If you want to grow your audience on YouTube, and generate traffic,
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After being accepted on the YouTube Partner Program, you have access to the YouTube creator
support team, you get access to the copyright match tool and access to the monetization
features. Here are 10 ways to get 4,000 public watch hours on your YouTube channel quickly.
Number one, create videos on topics your audience wants to watch. If you provide a solution
to the problems that your viewer has, then they'll keep watching your video all the way
through. It's easy to create videos on topics that you want to watch, but maybe it doesn't
appeal to your audience. If it's a topic that people are hungry to
get more information about, they'll continue watching the video all the way through. Number
two, create more of what works. If you've already got a bunch of videos on your channel,
you'll be able to see very quickly which ones got the highest average view duration or highest
watch time. Login to YouTube studio, click on Analytics, then click on the Engagement
tab. Click on the See More and see which videos have got the longest average view duration.
Average view duration means the estimated average minutes watched per view for the selected
content, date range, and region. The higher the number, the better. Click on
the plus sign and select the average percentage viewed. This is the average percentage of
a video your audience watches per view. The higher the number, the better. Your goal should
be to get 50% of the people watching your video to watch it all the way through. If
you can achieve that, your watch time minutes will grow very quickly for each new video
that you upload. Number three, increase upload frequency. Obviously, if you increase the
number of videos that you upload to your channel every week, you're going to get more watch
time. So if you're only uploading videos once a
week, try uploading twice a week or even three times a week. How the heck do you do that
without going crazy? One of the strategies I use to publish videos more frequently is
to batch produce my videos, so sit down and write two or three scripts for future videos.
When I shoot my videos, I try to do two or three at the same time based upon the number
of scripts that I have available. I find that once you get into the flow of creating one
video, you might as well shoot one or two extra videos.
Number four, go live. When I go live on my YouTube channel, I find I usually go live
for about an hour. If you got four people to watch your live stream for an hour, that
means you've accumulated four hours of public viewing time. That converts into 240 minutes
of public watch time. If you get 10 people that are watching your live stream for an
hour, that's 10 times 60 minutes, which is 600 minutes of watch time. So your watch time
hours are going to accumulate very quickly on your channel if you do a live stream for
one hour every week. Number five, create longer videos.
If you can keep people engaged throughout your video, you will accumulate more watch
time minutes. For example, if people are watching five minutes of a 10-minute video, you'll
get more watch time minutes than if they're only watching one minute of a five-minute
video. But Herman, how do you keep people engaged throughout the video? Here's a few
things that you can do. You can tease them at the beginning about what to expect at the
end of the video. Reset the attention of your viewers every few seconds by adding text overlays,
graphics, transitions, jump cuts, et cetera. Every time you add one of these effects in
your videos, it helps reset the attention of your viewers and keeps them watching. Number
six, choose low competition keywords. It's difficult to rank your videos on the first
page of YouTube if you got a lot of competition for those particular keywords. If you want
to rank your videos on the first page of YouTube, you got to find videos that have a good search
volume but low competition. These are long-tail keyword phrases that contain two, three, or
even five words in the phrase. For example, the title of this video is How To Get 4,000
Hours Watch Time On YouTube Quickly. That's 11 words in this particular keyword phrase.
If your video ranks on the first page of YouTube, more people will see it and watch your video.
When more people watch your video because they saw it in the YouTube search engine,
you will accumulate more watch time hours. Click the link in the description to watch
my video on how to find low competition keywords. Number seven, create clickable thumbnails.
If nobody clicks on your thumbnail, they're not going to watch a video, and if they don't
watch your video, you're not going to accumulate watch time hours.
When creating your thumbnails, make sure they stand out in a small screen size, like when
people are viewing them on a phone. According to YouTube, 70% of the people watching your
videos, view your videos from a mobile phone. Click the link in the description to watch
my video on how to create awesome custom thumbnails. Number eight, increase watch time with playlists.
Did you know that you can increase the watch time of a single video by linking to another
video in a playlist? If people are binge-watching a series of videos
in your playlist, that means you'll accumulate more watch time than if they're watching a
single video. To make this happen, put a series of videos in a playlist, then link to that
particular playlist from the video that they're just watching. Instead of just watching that
single video, they'll be watching successive videos in a row. Hey, Herman, when are you
going to answer those questions? Keep watching because I'm going to answer them shortly.
Number nine, translate your videos. Did you know that you can reach a different
audience by translating your videos into another language besides English? Log in to your Analytics
and click on the Audience tab. If you scroll down to the bottom, you'll see the top countries
that are generating the most traffic to your channel. Probably most of them come from English
speaking countries, but what about those countries that don't speak English? For example, the
second most popular country is India, you might want to translate your videos into Hindi.
Click the link in the description to watch my video on how to translate your video into
different language besides English. Number 10, trending topics. If you're one of the
first people that creates a video on a hot trend in your niche, you can get a ton of
traffic to your video and grow your channel fast. For example, on YouTube changing requirements
to monetize your channel, I created a video for alternative ways to make money on YouTube.
As a result, that video got tons of views and even gets tons of views two years later.
You can find hot trends in your niche by going to Google Trends. You can also sign up for
Google Alerts via email. Here's a bonus tip. When making your video, remind people to watch
your video all the way through. If it's a long video, you might want to remind them
a couple of times. Here are some answers to some frequently asked questions about how
to get 4,000 hours of watch time on YouTube. How long does it take to get 4,000 watch hours?
4,000 hours of watch time is 240,000 minutes. If you divide it by the month, that means
you need 20,000 minutes of watch time per month. Wow, that's a lot of minutes.
The best way to get those public watch hours is to implement one or more of the techniques
I showed you previously. Does rewatching a YouTube video count as a view? Absolutely.
YouTube counts each view when you play a video that's 30 seconds or more. So if you watch
the same video 50 times, the 50 views would be added to the count. Just keep in mind,
the video has to be public for the views to be counted. If the video is set to private
or unlisted, the views won't be counted as public watch hours.
Will my channel automatically be monetized after I meet the requirements of the YouTube
Partner Program of 4,000 public watch hours and 1,000 subscribers? The answer is no. YouTube
reviews your channel first to see if you violated any of their policies and it meets the monetization
requirements. Typically, it takes about a month for your channel to get reviewed. Besides
4,000 public watch hours in the past 12 months, you also need 1,000 subscribers. Watch my
next video on how to get 1,000 subscribers fast on YouTube. Thanks for watching, and
we'll see you in the next video.