YouTube is making it harder for creators to start earning money

Do you dream of making money as a content creator?

Well, it’s about to get harder to qualify for YouTube’s program that pays creators.

YouTube announced on Monday that it’s raising the entry requirements for the main tier of its YouTube Partner Program (YPP), the video platform’s advertising revenue-sharing program.

“The biggest changes are on what it takes to earn from ads rev-share,” Amjad Hanif, YouTube’s VP of creator product, said in a video about the changes.

The updates will particularly affect Shorts creators, who publish short-form content to YouTube.

Before you panic: “If you are in YPP today, you stay in YPP,” Hanif said.

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