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My YouTube channel has a thousand subscribers and over 4,000 hours of watch time in the last 12
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months. What do I do now? How do I apply to the YouTube Partner Program to monetize my YouTube
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channel? As I've mentioned in a few previous videos, I launched a new YouTube channel
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late last year and just yesterday, April 13th, around 1am central time, we reached the 1,000
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subscriber mark and we already have around 6,000 hours of watch time. So we reached the 4,000 hours
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a couple of weeks ago, and now it's time to apply for the YouTube Partner Program so that we can
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start to monetize this channel. So I wanted to wait to really talk about this channel. It's
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called Greater Than Enough. It's focused on personal finance. This is the first time that
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I'm sharing the name in a YouTube video or really anywhere else. I probably told around a dozen
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people this channel exists. I haven't shared it on this YouTube channel or anywhere on social media
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I wanted to go all the way from zero subscribers to monetization just through the YouTube algorithm
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not from sharing it any place else. So now I can talk about the channel more freely and talk about
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how we went from zero subscribers to a thousand, got all the watch time. That will be for another
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video today. I just want to go through the process of applying to the YouTube Partner Program
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The best place to track your progress on reaching the requirements to apply for the YouTube Partner
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Program are within YouTube Studio. So if you log into your YouTube Studio account, it's going to
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look something like this. And then along the side, you can click on monetization. So you can see here
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we have checked all four boxes. So over a thousand subs, 1,010. We have 5,935 public watch hours
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or over 4,000. Two-step verification and zero active community guideline strikes. So before
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you meet all the requirements, instead of saying apply now, there'll be a button that says something
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like notify me when I meet the requirements. I clicked that button a couple of weeks or a couple
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of months ago. And so I got notified by YouTube through email today around 2 PM, 2 18. And so this
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was 37 hours after meeting the requirement. So if you want to apply for the YouTube Partner Program
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as quick as possible, don't wait for the email. Be tracking the thousand subs and 4,000 hours of
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watch time on your own. But I wanted to create this video. So I waited to apply until I was
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at the office with my camera so we can record today's video. Now it's time to hit the apply
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now button. Okay. So there's three steps. So review partner program terms. Well, we have a
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couple of other channels that are already monetized. So I'm familiar with this. Let's click on start
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Understand the terms. I accept the YouTube Partner Program terms, email me updates
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announcement announcements, and personalized tips to help grow my channel. Okay. Accept terms
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Are you just getting started on YouTube? Do you want help creating your account, creating your first videos and starting to grow on YouTube? We just launched a YouTube course for
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beginners. If you want to learn more, check out the link in the description below. So now step
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two, sign up for Google AdSense. Obviously we already have a Google AdSense account for this
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channel and the couple other monetized channel that we manage. So I won't have to go through
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this process here, but if you want me to create another Google AdSense account, so you can see
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step-by-step how that works, right. AdSense down below in the comments, let's click on start
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You'll be redirected to AdSense to complete this step. And then so you have three options there
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Yes, I have an existing account. No, I don't have an existing account or I don't know. So
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yep, we've got it. Yes, you're only allowed one AdSense account per person because you have an
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existing AdSense account. You should select the email address associated with that account on the
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next screen. I can do that. All right. Existing Google Publisher account. Yep, that's us. Your
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website. Accept association. Redirect to your host. Okay. Google AdSense check. And now step
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three is happening. So it says YouTube will review your channel to make sure it complies with the
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YouTube monetization policies. We'll email you a decision usually within a month. This step will
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begin automatically after you complete the first two steps. So review underway. So I'll be creating
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another video as soon as I hear back from them. And I'll tell you how long it took, if it takes a
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month, if it takes less than that, maybe it'll take less being that we already have a couple
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of monetized accounts, but you'll find out in that video. So as soon as that video is ready
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I'll link to it right here. And if you want to learn how to make money on YouTube
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check out the video below. Hope to see you in those and future videos. Bye
