The YouTube Partner Program now allows short film creators to join and earn money from their content.
To join the programme, you must meet one of the following requirements:
- Have 1,000 subscribers and 10 million views of eligible public short films in the last 90 days.
- 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 public watch hours are valid for long-form videos.
Monetizable content must also follow YouTube’s originality policy, which means it must be yours and not someone else’s.
The ad revenue sharing model for short films is different from the revenue sharing model for regular videos. This article explains how it works so you can decide if short film monetization is something worth pursuing.
Revenue Sharing for YouTube Shorts – How it Works
Short ad revenue sharing works differently than traditional video content.
First, revenue from ads that appear between short films in your YouTube short feed will be pooled together.
Then, a portion of the total revenue will be allocated to the “Creator Pool” based on views and music usage across all shorts watched.
The Creator Pool revenue will then be allocated to eligible creators based on their share of the total views.
Creators will keep monetization 45% from the revenues of the shorts allocated to it.
YouTube says this new model rewards creator contributions for the entire short film experience, not just for videos with an ad next to them.
To view your short films’ earnings and performance, you can go to the “Revenue” tab in YouTube Studio Analytics, which will show your estimated earnings and daily views by content type.
The How to Make Money card will give you a more detailed view of your earnings across short films, video and live content.
How to start making money with a YouTube Short
If you are in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can find the short monetization agreement in the Earn tab in YouTube Studio.
Select Get Started under Short Feed Ads and accept the terms.
If you are not in the YouTube Partner Program, you will need to start accumulating views to meet the requirements at the beginning of this article.
Short Film Views can be grouped on any surface where people can watch short films, including the Watch page.
You can track your progress towards the eligibility criteria in the Earn tab.
Note that if you have been paid from the shorts fund in the past, this will not automatically qualify you to monetize the shorts.
source: Youtube
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