What up guys? Ashley Elizabeth here with AEHM artistry and let's
talk YouTube Partnership Program! As you, I'm sure know,
if you are part of the YouTube creator
community. That there are changes within the partner program for a YouTube. In
order to be eligible for Adsense income. but "income" I should say. My opinion, I'm
just gonna put full disclaimer, is slightly controversial among the small
creators. My opinion is not probably going to be a popular one.
I am fully warning you. So if you don't want to hear me say that what I think is
going on will be okay and will be good, then you'll probably just want to click
away right now. But if you want to hear my take on it, then you can keep watching.
So I think I have a little bit of a responsibility to touch quickly on this
subject, since I have created a couple videos showing my progress of YouTube
throughout this last year. I haven't quite hit my year mark yet. But I wanted
to give you guys my take on it. Since I had a high performing video of my 10,000
views and what happens with Adsense when hit 10,000 views. So that was a milestone
that YouTube put in place with a partner program back in April of 2017 and I hit
that in August, so it took me about four months to hit that. And you guys had a
lot of questions there. I hope, I guess, to be a somewhat inspirational video
right here. Somewhat ranty video. Like I said some of you guys won't like what I
have to say and that's alright, we're all entitled to our own opinions. No problem
but let's all just be kind about it. So with that being said, we can all calm down.
If you are unfamiliar with what the new requirements are for your adsense
account to be approved: its you must have one thousand subscribers and four
thousand hours of watch time. Four thousand hours. So me personally, I
already have the four thousand hours of watch time. And if you want to
know how I achieve that, with only...I'm just under seven hundred subscribers at
the moment, is I post at least two videos a week and on average those video
or 10 minutes. However, my average watch time is about 4 minutes and then views
vary depending on the video. And as I just said, my subscriber count is just
under 700 subscribers. So what that means, for my channel, is I need to pump out
more quality videos and faster. Faster I'd say because YouTube has created a
leniency if you're small YouTube creator. You have until February 20th to reach
that milestone without going through the process and I think that's pretty cool.
You know, it was more than 30 day notice and most companies can be just being
like "ok starting now you need to have it, if you don't have it too bad". So they
gave you some leniency. They are working with small creators, I feel. And I'm
readjusting my goals, putting out more content, and if I don't hit my thousand
subscribers by February 20th...it's gonna be ok.
It's gonna be a little annoying, I guess we'll see what happens, if I don't reach
that. And once I do reach the thousand - then figure out what happens next. Just
like what happened when you reach 10,000 views. You kind of just wait around and
then all of a sudden you're starting to make, you know, CENTS again. So I don't know
If that's the situation that's gonna happen, but you guess what we're gonna be
finding out. So if I don't reach the milestone that is set in place by
YouTube by the February 20th date, then I will post a video updating you guys what
happens once you do hit that milestone. So, what my opinion is as a small
youtuber, a small content creator on this platform of the YouTube Partnership
Program, is that it's gonna be okay. I first heard about it back, you know of
course, last week when everything came out. And my first instinct, and I mean all
of our first instinct is to react negatively.
Without thinking to just react. And of course, there's constant changes going on
with YouTube, especially in the last year or two. And it can be challenging to try
to not instantly go to a negative space. And...and that's hard. And I know. And I see
a lot of people going there. And instead of reacting to this one, this time I
decided to take a step back and just read evaluate my situation.
Reevaluate my goals. And see, is this doable? And putting that aside, I'm not
making much anyways. And I think all small creators need to sit down and
analyze their numbers here. And see that, for me at least, it's not a huge revenue
loss or anything. My December Adsense revenue was good, it however is because
of December and holidays and budgets for ad companies. December I made 200 bucks,
so that's nice that gets put right back into the channel. However, when I went to
January, and I'm sure you all know this that are watching it that have a youtube
adsense account, it went down to a dollar maybe, a day. Maybe, I think it went
down to 50 Cent's. But I want you guys, if you are a small creator out there, to
look at your goals and look at the reason why if you're super upset about
all of this. Let yourself be for a second and then pick yourself back up and say
how am I gonna hit it? How am I gonna get those goals? How am I gonna reach my
goals, in life and in YouTube? Things are gonna change in your job, in your 9 to 5,
or whatever you work, things are gonna change. And change is always
uncomfortable but it doesn't have to be a detriment. If you're in it for the
right reasons. And now that's all a question that we all need to ask
ourselves. For me, my channel is about growing the community and we can all
gather together and enjoy makeup and having fun with makeup and hair and
beauty, in this cool thing called YouTube. I am so..I'm such a nerd with
this YouTube stuff. That's why I sprinkle all these videos throughout. But I am
not discouraged. My agenda has a ton of videos planned out and I'm going on
vacation I need to film a ton before then and edit half of them before then.
So that they're ready to be posted as soon as I do. If you need any inspiration
or any help to help navigate through this crazy YouTube world, you guys know
who I like to watch/follow & thats: Roberto Blake, Derral Eves, and Tim Schmoyer with
Video Creators. They all are a wealth of knowledge.
There are a lot people out there too that have a ton information on how to grow a
successful YouTube channel. Not I'm not saying my youtube channel is "successful"
necessarily, but for my standards and what my goal is I am succeeding. I am
growing my community. If I eventually make money from this, then that's great!
But it's not my main priority. It's not. And I don't think it's realistic for me
to put that pressure on myself if I'm under a thousand subscribers here. And if
you haven't yet, make sure you download the tubebuddy extension app. What I love
about tube buddy is the tools that help me decide on what my best title, tags, and
keywords will be. As well as if a video will be searched a lot or if it has a
lot of competition. And it's just helped me out tremendously and I definitely
think you should a very least check it out. Smaller channels that are here to
grow and to succeed, in whatever capacity your goal is and it will not be wavered
by this, should actually be excited about this milestone. I mean right now anybody
can apply to it, which wasn't even the case. I think it was five years ago it
was only select people that could make money off Adsense. And it kind of got out
of control! Word got out, people started posting videos just to go viral, and do
stupid things. And the market is just... the YouTube is crazy now. And because of
this, now they're having to backtrack and make these milestones. And guess what?
I bet there'll be another milestone, if a bunch of people hit this milestone super easy.
Then I bet you, YouTube will do another one. So don't be surprised. And that just
gives me the challenge to be ahead of these things. To push myself to get ahead
of these things before they happen. I also hear a lot of people complaining.
Both small YouTube creators, large YouTube creators, and everybody in
between, even consumers complaining, that YouTube is not what it used to be. Or
it's not fun anymore or they're taking YouTube's taking the fun out of it. And I
have one thing to say about that... that's not YouTubes fault. Maybe the
only fault YouTube has for that is to let anybody apply for Adsense accounts
and get approved. Because that created this whole mindset that anybody can get
rich quick off of YouTube. And guess what? You can't, you can't get rich
quick off of youtube. If YouTube is not what it used to be, then stop making
videos about stupid things that aren't what it should be.
Stop making clickbait and everything! Make videos that you want to produce.
Don't make a bunch of rubbish that you don't really stand behind. And that is
the way that we can change YouTube back to whatever this ideological theory is
about how YouTube used to be! YouTube is how you want to make it! So moral of the
story is, do not be discouraged. If you're in it for the right reasons reevaluate
your goals, your quality, and challenge yourself. And see what you can do to
reach your milestones faster. I know easier said than done...but I am currently
doing it and that's kind of why I wanted to give you guys a take on what a small
youtuber thinks of this whole thing. And what I think of it, I just think it's another
challenge for me to a check off my list because I love my lists. So with that
being said, if you want SUBSCRIBE to this channel because you're interested
in watching my journey. Or you're interested in the beauty world (hair, skin,
makeup). I posted like three or four videos about my youtube journey so far,
not too many, so I am NOT here to be a YouTube about whatever you know techie
type of channel. But I am super interested in it, so I do sprinkle them
throughout as not to take away from what my channel is really about. Which is
beauty and having fun and whooping ooh! Thank you so much for sitting down and
watching my opinion. I am not entitled to your view and I'm not entitled to your
subscription and your watch time. If you enjoyed this, then that's freaking
awesome. Thank you so much for sitting down and watching it. Thank you for
taking time out of your day to devote to watching what I have to say. I'm not
entitled to it but I am so so grateful for it.
And with that being said, you guys have a wonderful lovely day! XOXO
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