What if I get 4000 watch hours before 12 months?

In a nutshell, you need 4,000 hours of watch time in the last 12 months, up until today’s date. For example, let’s say today is January 2, 2019. YouTube will track watchtime all the way back to January 3, 2018. The next day (January 3, 2019), YouTube will track back to January 4, 2018, and so on.

What happens if you dont get 4000 watch hours in a year?

Originally Answered: What happens if I do not get 4000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers in 1 year on YouTube? Nothing. That 4,000 hours and 1,000 Subscribers is for you to be able to enable a google ad-sense account and have ads played on your video. You don’t lose your channel or anything in that sense.

How many views does it take to watch 4000 hours?

The average view duration on our channel in a one year period was 4 minutes, 7 seconds. That would mean to reach that 4,000 hour mark, we’d need to accumulate 60,000 views on our channel.

Can we monetize YouTube after 12 months?

Effective immediately, to apply for monetization (and have ads attached to videos), creators must have tallied 4,000 hours of overall watch time on their channel within the past 12 months and have at least 1,000 subscribers.

How long would it take to watch 100\% of your YouTube watch time?

One day has 24 hours. That means we can just divide 4000 hours of watch time by 24 to get our answer. 4000 hours / 24 hours = 166 days and 16 hours To get 100\% of your YouTube watch time from one person, they would have to play your videos on loop for 166 days and 16 hours none-stop.

How much Watch Time do you need to reach 1000 subscribers?

1000 subscriber requirement ALMOST makes sense, but 4000 hours of view time is absurd. I have nearly 1000 hours of views in the past 12 months, even if I can hit the 1000 subscriber mark, there’s no way that I can quadruple my watch time in 30 days.

How do I get my YouTube videos to reach 4000 hours?

YouTube will subtract all of that time from your total. Also, you have to achieve that 4,000 hours in 12 consecutive months. The videos don’t need to have been published in the last 12 months, but they need to have been watched in the last 52 weeks.

Do unlisted videos count as watch hours on YouTube?

So that means you can’t do a live stream on YouTube and then set it to unlisted and expect all those watch hours to count. Also, any videos you’ve deleted or set to private won’t contribute to the 4,000 hours. YouTube will subtract all of that time from your total. Also, you have to achieve that 4,000 hours in 12 consecutive months.