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Prescott says for monetizing my YouTube, do I need any specific number of followers and this is a question

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I get asked all the time, so I wanted to kind of tackle it.

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So, yeah, you need four thousand hours of watch time and a thousand subscribers.

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That's the threshold to monetize your content now after you hit that threshold on your channel within

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a three hundred sixty five day window.

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So if you don't hit it in the first year, it's not like you can never hit it.

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That's like a moving year window, right to a moving three hundred sixty five days.

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So you just need to hit four thousand hours of watch time and a thousand subscribers within some three

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hundred sixty five day window, eventually on your channel and then you can file and apply for monetization.

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OK, now depending on how backed up they are, because I monetize two channels now and actually have

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a third one in review.

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So my first channel, I think it took me like a couple of weeks to get approved for monetization and

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my second one actually took me two months.

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OK, so there are certain things that you can do to kind of prompt that process along and kind of back

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end stuff.

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And you can search all that stuff on YouTube, you know how to actually go about doing that.

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But generally speaking, it's going to take anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple of months after

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you hit that threshold for your channel to actually be fully monetized and for you to get accepted into

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the YouTube partner program.