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YouTube has revealed that it has updated the terms that make a channel on the site accepted by the Partners Program or the Partner Program which allows YouTube to profit by placing ads on the video. But what are the new conditions and what are their effects? Why did YouTube take this step? Are there solutions for all this? All of this is discussed in this article.
What are the new changes?
It is difficult for YouTube to profit from the channels of YouTube and acceptance in their program, where acceptance requires that the number of subscribers to the channel more than 1000 and the number of watch hours for channel videos more than four thousand hours will not accept those who do not meet the conditions now.
As for the subscribers already will be filtered from the beginning of February 20, where the conditions will apply to the participants in the program already will not be placed ads on their videos if the two conditions, which are a big step after the imposition of YouTube that the channel has broken the barrier of 10,000 views only to accept the The program is a condition set by YouTube in April.
Why does YouTube do this?
Before you judge the new site's decisions, you must know very well that it is a consequence of what happened in 2017. Last year Facebook was heavily accused of influencing the US presidential election. In late 2017, the site took a number of decisions that change the news feed of users on Facebook , Facebook was not only accused of publishing misleading news, but also accused the YouTube video site of similar charges.
At the same time, some big companies have stopped advertising on YouTube, stressing that the reason for their ads to appear on content is not appropriate to incite children to violence and hatred, the Executive Director of YouTube in a statement that confirms that there will be changes and that YouTube is already working on a number of technologies to stop the spread Hate content and teach children violence and others, although a large number of videos have been deleted using techniques, without specifying when these new technologies will be mainstreamed.
YouTube also earlier prevented a number of content types from appearing on ads like natural disaster videos and others, and this new step to narrow down on small channel ads seems to be another step to try to prevent ads from appearing on videos that do not deserve.
What can channel owners do?
YouTube knows very well that it has no alternative before making these decisions so do not expect the solution to be to go to another site, certainly the solution is to try to match the terms by paying attention to the place of your videos in the search engines and to provide strong content.
The profits you have earned will not hurt anything in your Adsense account until February 20th so you should not worry if you have made a profit and do not match the terms now, in accordance with Google Adsense Terms and Conditions.
I think YT is a waste of time if you don't have really big number of followers.. much better steemit.