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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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What’s with the editorialised title? How do these changes make it harder for new creators?
Old requirements for comparison:
1,000 subscribers with 4,000 watch hours in the past year or 10 million Shorts views in the past 90 days.
It doesn't. This is just adding more money to creators who reach certain tiers of engagement. This doesn't make it any harder for new channels to earn.
The change that made it harder for new channels happened years ago, back in 2018 after the adpocalypse fallout when they increased the watch time requirements and removed a bunch of channels from YPP.
3.3 million views a month isn’t exactly new creator levels
It's not a new requirement, tho. 10M Shorts views over 90 days is already one of the requirements to enable monetization in the first place.