2023 New YouTube Monetization Requirements (YouTube Shorts Monetization & Copyright)

New updates to the YouTube Partner Program so more creators can make money from their content.

Today, YouTube Shorts — which are vertical videos of 60 seconds or less —aren’t included in the platform’s normal monetization program. You can’t put ads on a YouTube Short and collect money as people view your content.

Unless you’re posting long-form videos and achieving the right milestones — 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours, over the past 12 months — at this moment there’s no way to join the YouTube Partner Program (YPP).

However, all that is about to change.

YouTube’s Announcement

YouTube recently announced, that starting in early 2023 (mid-January), creators can apply to the YouTube Partner Program by meeting a threshold of:

• 1,000 subscribers
• 10 million public Shorts views
• over 90 days.

This change will allow creators to qualify for the Partner Program even if they don’t publish long-form videos (which require 4000 public watch hours).