In this post (and in the video above), we're going to guide you through what it takes to get 4000 hours of Watch Time on YouTube.

We're all adults here, so I'm not going to insult your intelligence and ask you why you want to get 4000 hours of Watch Time. It's obvious - it's the only way you're going to be able to monetize your content on the platform. 4000 hours of Watch Time was never a milestone for any creator until YouTube introduced it as a rule for applying for the 

. Now that YouTube has set that unique benchmark, let's find out what Watch Time is all about.

What Does 4000 hours of YouTube Watch Time Actually Mean?

In order for the 4000 hours of Watch Time to count, your videos have to be public. So that means you can't do a live stream, and then set it to unlisted. You also can't make videos and then six months down the line, delete them or set them to private. They have to remain public to count.

Also, you have to achieve that 4000 hours in 12 consecutive months. So, from today's date, going back 365 days. The videos don't need to have been published in the last 12 months, but they need to have been watched on your channel in the last 52 weeks.

But we have covered the 4000 hours topic to within an inch of its life 

 so please take time to watch if you want more details.

How to Keep track of 4000 Hours of YouTube Watch Time

If you want to keep track of your Watch Time hours, YouTube Studio has a dedicated page in the left-hand navigation panel called ‘Monetization’. This will show you both subscriber and Watch Time progress.

Alternatively, if you want to keep tabs on your Watch Time, subscribe account, and other channel stats, anywhere on YouTube, 

, and you'll get this awesome realtime stats bar. No need to worry about the price either, this one's on us, completely free.

Why 4000 Hours of YouTube Watch Time is a Major Creator Goal

With that all being said, let's get into mindset. This is something I frequently talk about with creators who have these types of goals in mind. If you start a YouTube channel with the sole intention of getting 

4000 hours of Watch Time, and 1000 subscribers,

 and then monetizing your content, then I'm afraid to say, the majority of you are never going to make it.

First of all, you're thinking far too much about yourself, as opposed to your audience. Second of all, it's too big a goal to achieve when you first start out on YouTube.

__4000 hours of Watch Time is a lot. It's 240,000 minutes or to put it in another way, it's a single person watching your content continuously for 166.6 days. __

If you publish your first video on YouTube, and you get just an hour of Watch Time out of it, over the first week, I would be pretty satisfied with that. Not going to lie - 4000 hours of Watch Time is hard for a reason.

YouTube wants as much data as possible out of your content so that it can trust you with their advertising partners. Remember, it's not YouTube who's paying you directly, it's those advertisers. YouTube essentially is a middleman in this case, and it needs to make sure that the content it broadcasts on its platform doesn't create controversy. There has been a whole ton of that in the last decade.

__And this is where we've ended up, 1000 subscribers, 4000 hours of Watch Time. __

Now, some people may disagree with this but I believe YouTube doesn't owe you anything. They allow you to broadcast your content to a global audience for free. When you are, over time, able to prove yourself to your audience and YouTube, then yes, let's start making some money together. But don't see monetization as an entitlement, see it as a privilege. Work for it, earn it, respect it.

Why Evergreen Content is the Key to Watch Time Success

Take a look at these stats. They are real-time view counts for some of our best performing videos on the vidIQ YouTube channel. Notice anything in particular? Take a look at the publish date:

Almost all of these videos were published more than six months ago, and yet today they still bring in thousands of daily views for us. These videos work for the channel days, weeks, months, even years after I've published them.

You've probably heard of these types of videos before. They are evergreen content, and we've done a very detailed case study into how we implemented that strategy into our channel:

To get discovered on YouTube can be quite difficult. One of the ways to do that is for your content to appear in the search results. If you can answer questions, provide valuable information on topics people are searching for, especially if those topics are recent, for example, the latest software update on a game, new beauty products, the latest tech, etc, you can establish yourself in the search for those topics.

And depending on the shelf life of that topic, your videos can last longer in terms of getting views, and Watch Time. It may not be as sexy as viral content that gets you lots of views in a very short space of time. But if you get it right, you can see your videos generate consistent views over a long period of time.

We've seen this happen many times on our YouTube channel. And once you have 5 or 10 pieces of evergreen content, you'll soon see your views graph go up and to the right, and you'll rapidly start chasing those 4000 hours of Watch Time.

How Live Streams Can Accelerate Watch Time Hours

If you're a user or follower of VidIQ, you’ll know that every Tuesday, we do 

 where you submit your YouTube channel, and we give you constructive criticism.

When we first started doing these live streams two years ago, we were getting maybe 50 to 100 people watching them. Now we get on average between 600 and 700 people. And every time we check our live stream analytics, we see Watch Time bombs!

if 600 people watch a two-hour live stream, that's 1200 hours of Watch Time

. Now I can't promise you those types of numbers, and I wouldn't even recommend it doing live streams when you first start your YouTube channel, because the chances are, you might not get a single person joining you on it.

When you're 6, or even 9 months into your YouTube journey, and you have built up an audience of a few hundred subscribers, even if you get maybe 10 or 20 people joining you for a live stream for one or two hours, that's a nice bit of Watch Time.

Those people who join your live streams are your super fans. They care about you and your progress on the YouTube platform. But it does take time to cultivate that audience.

Here at VidIQ, we've been live streaming for two years. But in the last few months, something amazing has happened, and it seems to have happened organically. A meme culture has sprouted up around the live streams, and we've embraced this so much so that we incentivize our viewers to make fun of us in exchange for channel audits.

We have no idea it was going to go in this direction, but we love this type of community engagements, and apparently so do you. So when you find your YouTube audience, make that audience your community, part of your channel, and you can do that through live streams, which means lots of Watch Time for you.

Why Consistency is Key to YouTube Watch Time Growth

Don't get me wrong, viral videos are a wonderful thing. They really give your channel a kick up the backside. But I never go into the video-making process with the intention of making a viral video. It's just a very happy and very welcome bonus when it does happen. When people ask this question, and they do genuinely ask it, "How do I make viral content?" This is my answer:

"Aim to make better content on a consistent basis"

Be consistent with every aspect of your YouTube workflow, whether it’s the way you film, the scripts that you write, how you present on camera, how you edit, the custom thumbnails you create, or the titles that you write - aim to improve on your previous content by 1% or 2% every time.

If you create 50 to 100 videos over a year, you'll look back at those videos from 12 months ago and say, "Wow, those were terrible, but look where I am today." If you put all of your effort into just one video, determined that this is going to be your viral moment, you are going to drive yourself insane, and 

you'll burn out on YouTube very, very quickly

Let me give you an example. We launched our 

 just over a year ago, and at first the channel grew very slowly. But we knew we were creating good content on a consistent basis. And once YouTube had enough data, and positive signals from our content, the channel started blowing up.

No viral videos, just good consistent content being shared more and more by YouTube to the right audience. And in the end, we didn't just reach 4000 hours of Watch Time, we crushed it. But we had to be patient. Now that content attracts pretty significant views like this one with 257K at time of writing:

The Secret to YouTube Watch Time Success: Quantity vs Quality

All right, let's start off with the obvious. Everybody wants to create the best quality content they can, but at what point do you reach diminishing returns? Is it worth putting in extra resources to make this video even better, or there is a cutoff point where you end the video and say, "I'm going to move on to the next thing?

It’s that classic question of quality versus quantity. My personal opinion is that quantity has more value to you as a creator when you first start out on YouTube. Let me explain.

First of all the experience you build by being consistent on YouTube helps you learn how the platform works. If you're focused solely on making videos all of the time, and never take the time to read the comments you attract or the metrics, you're never quite sure how your audience is going to react to that content.

Second of all, the more videos you publish on YouTube, the more data YouTube has to play with, in terms of serving up your content to the right audience. Think of it as filling out an application form. The more boxes you tick, and the more thorough your answers are, the faster and more efficiently this application form can be processed.

Also, when it's time-sensitive content, you really do need to consider how fast you can a video out. For example, when there is a big new story, yes, you could spend an extra few hours or even days working on the video to make it of higher quality, but then you're losing out on the potential audience that wants that information right now.

Now, this is not a hard and fast rule. For example, 

 is a very popular tech YouTuber, who does amazing reviews on products. But he doesn't try and rush those reviews out as a product is released.

He may do a quick hands on when it first comes out, but then he spends a considerable amount of time creating a very high-quality piece of content after. So in this sense, he gets the best of both worlds, a video that rides the waves of a trending news story, and then a really high quality, very high-value video for his audience. Like this one:

And finally, when you're creating content as a new channel, you don't have the volume to send YouTube enough positive signals so it recommends that content for a longer period of time.

How to Analyse YouTube Data to Understand Watch Time

There are a lot of YouTube education channels out there, ourselves included, but you know who else is a really good YouTube educator? It's YouTube itself with all the data they have to offer you.

Ignore YouTube's analytics at your peril. If you didn't already know this, on the ‘Reach’ tab of the ‘Analytics’ dashboard in YouTube Studio, there is a data funnel of impressions, click-through rates, and Watch Time stats.

If you mouse over the information icon, it tells you in YouTube's own words, that you can increase the chance of YouTube suggesting your content by increasing click through rates, and your video Watch Time.

When it comes to Watch Time, you can analyze each video in great detail by looking at the audience retention. You can do this via the ‘Videos’ dashboard on YouTube Studio.

Of course, you want to get as high a Watch Time as possible, and while there is no magic Watch Time percentage, if you're getting over 50% consistently, you're doing a good job. People usually abandon videos when they are bored, or when the video doesn't deliver what was promised in the title in the thumbnail.

Through this graph, you can see where you might have pain points. Maybe your intro is far too long for example and you lose viewers before you even start.

Every once in a while, check out your audience retention on the last 5 to 10 videos and determine whether or not there is a consistent pattern of audience dropping off your content.

And while we're on the subject of Watch Time, and audience visualization, don't fall into the trap of making longer videos in an attempt to get more Watch Time. Make the video as long as it needs to be for your audience.

For example, we cannot make a video on how to delete a YouTube video for 20 minutes. But we can create a bite-sized, two to three minute video, that gives the viewer exactly what they want. It also gives YouTube positive signals and launches our content to the top of the search rankings.

We received hundreds of comments from the vidIQ community saying that they wanted to get 1000 subscribers so that they could get a 

We already knew we had a lot of gamers who follow and watch VidIQ, but what we didn't realize was just how many of those gamers play Fortnite, and specifically want this Support-A-Creator pack.

While it is true that you will find out a lot about your general audience from YouTube analytics, you'll never find out key nuggets of information like that. And all we had to do was simply ask you our audience a question. and I bet you can guess what we did with that information.

That's right, we assigned Dan, our gaming expert, to get the answers that you needed, and to create a video on that topic. At the ti,e of writing, the video has generated nearly 150K views, and perhaps more importantly, now sits at the top of the YouTube rankings for a very juicy search term.

Given the evergreen potential of this video, I think that if it stays at the top of the search rankings, it will have half a million views by the end of the year.

If your community is generating video ideas for you, and they respond really well to those videos, you'll get to 4000 hours of Watch Time in no time.

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Make Money on YouTube: How to Get 4000 Hours Watch Time

So you've been diligently working away on your YouTube channel, trying to get to 4,000 hours of Watch Time to monetize your content, and checking YouTube to see how your progress is getting on. Then all of a sudden, you've lost a huge amount of those Watch Time hours. What on Earth just happened?

Now if you have been a regular visitor to vidIQ, you will know that I love to keep you up to date with all things monetization on YouTube. But this little news story came out of nowhere, and caught me completely by surprise.

What Just Happened to your Watch Time on YouTube?

If you are a video creator working towards 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of Watch Time, you'll be very familiar with the monetization eligibility screen which tells you exactly how close you are to meeting those requirements. That screen is very much part of the classic YouTube Creator Studio, and if you are a video creator, you should know by now that there is a new Creator Studio with lots of new analytics and features. For more information about that, 

But this screen is old and it needs updating, and YouTube has done just that. Creators working towards their monetization goal have a new much cleaner and simpler screen to reference. But what they also seem to have is new and much-reduced Watch Time hours than they saw before. I'm sorry if this has raised any alarm bells for you, but you might want to go check your monetization page right now.

The problem is unless you have a real eagle eye and have been checking these statistics every single day, you might now be sure whether or not your numbers have changed. Over the last few days, I've been seeing several 

 that creators have lost hours from their channels just as they thought they were going to hit the new monetization threshold. This is what YouTube are saying:

They fixed this technical issue in the new Studio sign-up page to clarify whether you're eligible to monetize. So that means one of two things, both of which are a little worrying to be honest. Either YouTube have been showing you the wrong numbers for eligibility for years, in which case, shame on you YouTube. Or YouTube have changed their policy a little bit and haven't clearly communicated that.

The reason I say that is because I asked YouTube over 12 months ago whether private and unlisted videos count towards your Watch Time hours for monetization. And at the time, they said private doesn't, but unlisted hours do. Now it could've been a miscommunication in the conversation I was having, but have YouTube quietly removed unlisted hours from videos?

If that second theory is complete baloney, then let's go back to the first one because it might explain why so many channels have been in review without ever being accepted because they don't technically have the required number of public hours even though they thought they did because that's what YouTube was showing to the creator. This all gets very confusing very quickly, doesn't it?

YouTube Watch Hours: What Creators Need to Know

Let's put these theories to one side however and concentrate on the cold hard facts as shown in this 

. They now talk about valid public Watch hours which is definitely a new term when it comes to monetization, and definitely suggests to me that YouTube wants to clarify this requirement. On the support page it now confirms that "not all watch hours count towards the YouTube Partner Program threshold," and states what does actually count as a valid public watch hour, which is:

Watch hours gained from videos you’ve set public

Watch hours gained through the following types of video 

The Trueview confirmation is interesting - it basically means you can't buy your way to monetization.

And all of this led to a question in my head that I wanted to pose YouTube. What if you have a video that was public? Let's say you do a livestream and then you want to set that livestream to unlisted. If the video is set to unlisted or private, do the views that you gained whilst it was public still count towards the Watch Time hours? And YouTube's answer was yes.

I don't know, I don't sound confident, do I? I'm not sure I'm confident on the answer they gave me either, but that's what they told me. I guess what you could do is set some videos to unlisted for a couple of days and see if that does affect your monetization number. But you don't really want to risk that so I'm not going to suggest you do it.

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 then make sure to download vidIQ. Join over 1 million other users and use vidIQ to help you research YouTube, analyze videos, audit your own channel, and take actionable steps 

YouTube has clarified its policy around Watch Time and what it takes to get to the magic 4000 hours so you can monetize your content. If you've seen a recent drop in Watch Time hours on your channel, we know why.

Major 4000 Watch Hours Update From YouTube! [Monetization News]

It's no secret that YouTube has been dogged by controversy over these last two years, with questionable content that seemingly gets pushed by the algorithm. Now, it's been confirmed that the platform has been working on two new metrics and they are both designed around the concept of gaging and promoting quality content. So what are these metrics, and what do they potentially mean for video creators?

New YouTube Metrics: Engagement Watch Time?

The first one sounds like a jacked up super enhanced version of session watch time. It will track, not only time spent on the YouTube platform watching videos, but also time spent posting and reading comments. So while posting comments may seem like something that's pretty easy to gain (after all how many sub-comments do you have on your channel?), if YouTube is going to start tracking how long a viewer spends on a Watch page reading comments, that's an entirely different and interesting proposition.

This sounds like a metric that might be called Engagement Watch Time. But, on the other hand, earlier on in the year YouTube was forced into a sweeping blanket 

ban of comments on videos containing children

, and while YouTube are slowly resolving this problem, if you do have comments disabled on your videos, for any reason, how do you benefit from this particular metric?

The second metric is simply and mysteriously called ‘Quality Watch Time’ which as of now, nobody outside Google completely understands. However, 

 that the new metric aims to “spot content that achieves something more constructive than just keeping users glued to their phones or desktops.”

What this potentially means is that YouTube maybe starting to distance themselves from what is considered the most important metric on YouTube, raw Watch Time. With the consensus being that more outlandish, more risque content leads to more Watch Time which is something YouTube keeps being dogged by because of controversial content.

Bloomberg goes on to say “the changes are supposed to reward videos that are more palatable to advertisers and the broader public, and help YouTube ward off criticism that its service is addictive and socially corrosive.” Did you notice an important word there? Advertisers. Does that mean search and discovery of your content could be influenced by whether or not its monetized in the future?

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Quality Watch Time: YouTube's New Metric Could Change Everything

Ya que acaba de pasar el año nuevo, es posible que te preguntes: "¿Debo comenzar mi tiempo de visualización desde cero hasta alcanzar las 4,000 horas en 2019?"

La respuesta corta es no... pero está llena de matices.

4,000 horas de visualización de YouTube: un desglose

De acuerdo con YouTube, para ser elegible para aplicar para el Programa de socios (YPP), debes cumplir los siguientes requisitos:

Tener más de 4,000 horas de visualización en los últimos 12 meses

Crear contenido que cumpla con las políticas del Programa de socios de YouTube

Haber vinculado una cuenta de AdSense aprobada

En esta publicación, nos centraremos principalmente en el requisito número dos: tener más de 4,000 horas de visualización en los últimos 12 meses.

Tal vez estés pensando que 12 meses es un año calendario, pero YouTube no mide el tiempo de visualización por años calendario. En su lugar, YouTube mide los últimos 365 días de tiempo de visualización de tu canal. En pocas palabras, necesitas 4,000 horas de tiempo de visualización en los últimos 12 meses, hasta la fecha de hoy.

Por ejemplo, digamos que hoy es 2 de enero de 2019. YouTube hará un seguimiento del tiempo de visualización hasta el 3 de enero de 2018. Al día siguiente (3 de enero de 2019), YouTube hará un seguimiento hasta el 4 de enero de 2018, y así sucesivamente. Esta es la razón por la que tu tiempo de visualización total puede subir y bajar a medida que intentas alcanzar las 4,000 horas. Los grandes aumentos en el tiempo de visualización se anularán cuando alcancen ese límite de 12 meses, al igual que los grandes descensos, por lo que es inteligente vigilar esta métrica.

Cómo hacer un seguimiento del tiempo de visualización de mi canal de YouTube

Si tienes la extensión totalmente gratuita vidIQ Chrome instalada, puedes hacer un seguimiento de tu tiempo de visualización en tiempo real en la parte superior derecha de cada página de YouTube en la versión de escritorio.

En el siguiente ejemplo, vidIQ muestra un tiempo de visualización total del canal de 3,100 horas durante los últimos 12 meses. Notarás que la métrica está en color ámbar, lo que significa que el canal aún no ha alcanzado las 4,000 horas. Sin embargo, una vez que haya superado las 4,000 horas, la métrica se volverá verde; (¡habrás llegado al objetivo, amigo!). Y una vez que supere las 5,000 horas, desaparecerá.

Además de las horas de visualización, vidIQ también hace un seguimiento de la cantidad de suscriptores, para que también puedas tener en cuenta estos números. Pasa el mouse sobre el ícono del gráfico pequeño para revelar un desglose completo de las estadísticas del canal, incluido el tiempo de visualización de los últimos 12 meses y... (redobles, por favor), una barra de progreso que muestra exactamente qué tan cerca estás de alcanzar las 4,000 horas.

¿No ves la métrica del tiempo de visualización con la extensión vidIQ? Lo más probable es que ya hayas superado las 5,000 horas, ¡así que lo habrás hecho muy bien!

¿Qué pasa cuando llego a las 4,000 horas de visualización?

Tenemos una buena noticia para ti: no tienes que esperar 12 meses para alcanzar ese límite de monetización.

Si consigues las 4,000 horas de visualización en tres meses (oh, vaya), siempre y cuando tengas 1,000 suscriptores, ya eres elegible para aplicar para el YPP. Ten en cuenta que la palabra clave es elegible: aún tienes que aplicar y después ser aprobado antes de poder comenzar a monetizar tu contenido.

Después de ser aceptado, es posible que te estreses por mantener esas horas de visualización, pero no te asustes, YouTube no te echará si pierdes las 4,000 horas siempre y cuando esté claro que aún sigues activo. Sigue trabajando duro, publicando contenido y todo estará bien.

Respuesta directa de la sección Ayuda de YouTube. Gran suspiro de alivio. ¿Aún tienes preguntas sobre las 4,000 horas de visualización, monetización e incluso desmonetización? Ve nuestro vídeo de información detallada aquí y nuestra lista de reproducción sobre desmonetización aquí.

¿Quieres conseguir más reproducciones en YouTube?

Si quieres llevar tu canal de YouTube al siguiente nivel, asegúrate de descargar vidIQ. Te ayudará a estudiar YouTube, analizar vídeos, auditar tu propio canal y seguir un plan de acción 

Si eres un creador de vídeos trabajando para monetizar tu canal de YouTube, es probable que ya sepas que para eso necesitas 1,000 suscriptores y 4,000 horas de tiempo de visualización en un período de 12 meses.

No llegué a las 4,000 horas de tiempo de visualización en YouTube ... ¿Debo comenzar de nuevo en 2019?

С наступлением нового года вы, возможно, задаетесь вопросом о том, придется ли вам начинать все с нуля, чтобы заработать 4000 часов просмотра в 2019.

Ответ – нет… Но существуют некоторые нюансы.

4000 часов просмотра на YouTube – краткий анализ

Согласно правилам YouTube, чтобы получить возможность подать заявку на участие в Партнерской программе, необходимо следующее:

Партнерская программа YouTube должна действовать в вашей стране.

Вы набрали более 4000 часов просмотра в течение последних 12 месяцев.

Вы набрали более 1000 подписчиков.

Вы создаете контент, соответствующий требованиям Партнерской программы YouTube.

У вас есть подтвержденный аккаунт AdSense, связанный с каналом.

Данный пост в основном посвящен второму требованию (вы набрали более 4000 часов просмотра в течение последних 12 месяцев).

Ваша первая мысль: 12 месяцев – это один год. Однако YouTube не измеряет время просмотра календарными годами, YouTube принимает во внимание часы просмотра вашего канала за последние 365 дней. Проще говоря, вам необходимо 4000 часов просмотра за те 12 месяцев, которые предшествуют нынешней дате.

Например, сегодня 2 января 2019 года. YouTube будет учитывать время просмотра, начиная с 3 января 2018. На следующий день, 3 января 2019 года, YouTube будет принимать во внимание часы просмотра, начиная с 4 января 2018, и т. д.

Поэтому общее количество часов просмотра может варьироваться по мере ваших попыток достичь 4000. Резкое увеличение часов просмотра в течение кратких промежутков времени перестает играть какую-либо роль при приближении лимита в 12 месяцев, то же самое касается резких спадов. Достаточно важно следить за данными показателями.

Как отслеживать часы просмотра моего канала YouTube

Если вы установили бесплатное расширение vidIQ для Google Chrome, вы можете очень легко отслеживать часы просмотра в режиме реального времени. Показатель находится в верхнем правом углу каждой страницы YouTube.

В приведенном ниже примере расширение vidIQ позволяет увидеть, что общее количество часов просмотра в течение последних 12 месяцев составляет 3100. Желтый цвет показателя говорит о том, что канал еще не набрал 4000 часов просмотра. Когда 4000 часов просмотра будет достигнуто, число станет зеленым (вы обязательно добьетесь своей цели!), по достижении 5000 часов просмотра показатель исчезает.

Помимо часов просмотра, расширение vidIQ также отслеживает количество подписчиков, этот показатель тоже всегда будет у вас перед глазами.

Наведите курсор на маленький значок диаграммы, и вы увидите полную статистику канала, в том числе часы просмотра за последние 12 месяцев и… (барабанная дробь) шкалу прогресса, показывающую насколько вы близки к достижению 4000 часов.

Вы не видите показатель часов просмотра в расширении vidIQ? Вероятнее всего, 5000 часов уже достигнуто, и вы просто большой молодец!

Что произойдет, когда я наберу 4000 часов просмотра?

Хорошая новость: вам не нужно ждать 12 месяцев, чтобы добиться включения монетизации. Если вы наберете 4000 часов просмотра за три месяца (ммм… вау), и у вас будет 1000 подписчиков, вы уже можете подать заявку на участие в Партнерской программе YouTube. Но учтите: ключевое слово здесь – «можете», то есть вам необходимо подать заявку и дождаться ее одобрения, чтобы включить монетизацию своего контента.

После одобрения заявки, возможно, вы начнете переживать по поводу достаточного количества часов просмотра. Но не стоит паниковать. YouTube не исключит вас из Партнерской программы, если ваш контент набирает менее 4000 часов просмотра, но ваш канал остается активен. Продолжайте работать над публикацией своего контента, и все будет в порядке.

Это ответ службы поддержки YouTube. Можно точно вздохнуть с облегчением. У вас еще остались вопросы по поводу 4000 часов просмотра, монетизации или даже демонетизации? Посмотрите наше подробное видео здесь и наш посвященный демонетизации плейлист здесь.

Хотите набрать больше просмотров на YouTube?

Если вы хотите выйти на новый уровень со своим каналом YouTube, обязательно скачайте vidIQ. Это поможет вам получать информацию о YouTube, анализировать видео, контролировать свой канал и совершать нужные шаги. Перейдите по ссылке, чтобы запустить установку!

Если вы занимаетесь съемкой видео и стараетесь добиться монетизации своего канала YouTube, то вам уже известно, что для этого необходимо набрать 1000 подписчиков и 4000 часов просмотра в течение 12 месяцев.

Мой канал YouTube не набрал 4000 часов просмотра… В 2019 все придется начинать сначала?

Năm mới vừa qua, chúng ta có lẽ đang tự hỏi bản thân rằng “Liệu có cần phải tính lại từ đầu thời lượng xem để đạt được mốc 4.000 giờ trong năm 2019”

Câu trả lời ngắn gọn là không… nhưng thực ra có còn nhiều khía cạnh hơn thế nữa.

4.000 Giờ Xem Trên Youtube: Bước phân Tích

Theo như Youtube, để được coi là đủ điều kiện tham gia vào Chương Trình Đối Tác Youtube (YPP), cần phải thỏa các yêu cầu sau:

YPP được áp dụng ở quốc gia đang sinh sống

Có hơn 4.000 giờ xem trong 12 tháng vừa qua

Sáng tạo các nội dung phù hợp với các chính sách của Chương Trình Đối Tác Youtube

Đã liên kết tài khoản AdSense chính thức

Bài viết này sẽ tập trung chủ yếu vào yêu cầu thứ hai: Có hơn 4.000 giờ xem trong 12 tháng vừa qua.

Đừng lầm tưởng rằng 12 tháng đây là một năm như trên lịch, YouTube không tính thời lượng xem theo lịch năm. Thay vào đó, YouTube tính thời lượng xem của 365 ngày gần nhất trên kênh cá nhân. Một cách ngắn gọn, một kênh cần có đủ 4.000 giờ xem trong 12 tháng vừa rồi, tính đến hiện tại.

Để lấy ví dụ, hãy xem như hôm nay là ngày 02/01/2019, YouTube sẽ truy và tính tổng thời lượng xem ngược lại đến ngày 03/01/2018. Ngày tiếp theo (03/01/2019), YouTube sẽ chỉ tính tới này 04/01/2018, và cứ tiếp tục như thế.

Đây là lý do tại sao tổng thời lượng xem có thể dao động ngay cả khi đang cố gắng đạt đến mốc 4.000 giờ. Các giai đoạn có thời lượng xem cao cũng sẽ trở nên vô hiệu khi chúng tới ngưỡng 12 tháng, tương tự đối với những giai đoạn thời lượng xem thấp, chính vì vậy nên cẩn thận chú ý đến những con số này.

Phương pháp theo dõi thời lượng xem trên kênh Youtube cá nhân

Khi đã cài đặt trình mở rộng miễn phí vidIQ, thời lượng xem có thể được dễ dàng theo dõi và theo thời gian thực ở khung trên bên phải của trang YouTube trên trình duyệt máy tính.

Theo như ví dụ dưới đây, vidIQ hiển thị tổng thời lượng xem của kênh là 3.100 giờ trong 12 tháng vừa qua. Dễ nhận thấy rằng số liệu này có màu vàng, đồng nghĩa rằng kênh chưa đạt tới mốc 4.000 giờ. Một khi vượt mốc 4.000 giờ (tức là đã đạt được mục tiêu rồi đấy!), con số sẽ chuyển sang màu xanh và đối với mốc 5.000 giờ, con số sẽ tự động biến mất.

Bên cạnh việc theo dõi thời lượng xem, vidIQ cũng theo dõi cả số lượng người đăng ký, giúp dễ dàng nắm bắt và ghi nhớ các số liệu này.

Di chuột qua biểu tượng đồ thị để xem tất cả chỉ số phân tích của kênh, bao gồm cả thời lượng xem trong 12 tháng qua và cả… (chú ý vào nhé), một thanh tiến trình thể hiện chính xác khoảng cách hiện tại so với mốc 4.000 giờ xem. Không tìm thấy các số liệu về thời lượng xem trong trình mở rộng vidIQ? Vậy là kênh đã vượt mốc 5.000 giờ rồi, quá tuyệt!

Chuyện gì xảy ra tiếp theo sau khi đạt được mốc 4.000 giờ xem?

Tin tốt là chẳng cần phải đợi đến 12 tháng để có được mức kiếm tiền trên.

Giả sử như là việc đã đạt được mốc 4.000 giờ xem trong ba tháng (umm, quá ấn tượng), có đủ 1.000 người đăng ký là đã hội đủ điều kiện để áp dụng chương trình YPP. Lưu ý rằng điều quan trọng là đủ điều kiện — đồng nghĩa với việc vẫn phải thực hiện đăng ký và và được phê duyệt trước khi thực sự có thể kiếm tiền từ nội dung sản xuất.

Sau khi được chấp thuận, số đông có thể chịu áp lực để duy trì lượng giờ xem tương ứng, nhưng đừng quá lo lắng, YouTube sẽ không nghỉ chơi với họ cả trong trường hợp họ bị tụt xuống dưới 4.000 giờ, miễn là kênh của họ vẫn đang hoạt động. Cứ tiếp tục cố gắng và đăng video đều đặn thì họ sẽ ổn thôi.

Đó là câu trả lời trực tiếp từ Đội ngũ Hỗ Trợ từ Youtube. Bạn có thể thở phào nhẹ nhõm rồi.

Vẫn còn thắc mắc về 4.000 giờ xem, cách kiếm tiền và cả việc bị tắt chế độ kiếm tiền? Xem ngay video phân tích sâu hơn tại đây và danh sách về việc bị tắt chế độ kiếm tiền tại dây.

Muốn Có Nhiều Lượt Xem Hơn Trên Youtube?

Nếu muốn đưa kênh YouTube cá nhân lên một tầm cao mới thì hãy tải ngay vidIQ. Một công cụ hỗ trợ nghiên cứu YouTube, phân tích video, hiệu chỉnh kênh cá nhân, và có những bước tiến chiến lược 

nhấp vào đây để cài đặt ngay!

Nếu bản thân là một người sản xuất video theo xu hướng kiếm tiền từ kênh Youtube riêng, chúng ta cũng đã biết rằng cần đến 1.000 người đăng ký và 4.000 giờ xem trong vòng 12 tháng.

Không Đạt Được 4000 Giờ Xem Trên Youtube… Liệu Có Cần Phải Bắt Đầu Lại Từ Đầu Trong Năm 2019?

With the New Year having just passed, you might be asking yourself “Do I need to start my watchtime from scratch to reach 4,000 hours in 2019?”

The short answer is no… but it’s a bit more nuanced than that.

YouTube’s 4,000 hour of watchtime: A breakdown

According to YouTube, in order to be eligible to apply for the Partner Program (YPP), you must meet the following requirements:

You have more than 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months

You create content that meets YouTube Partner Program policies

You have linked an approved AdSense account

In this post, we’ll be focusing primarily on requirement number two: You have more than 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months.

If you’re a video creator working towards monetizing your YouTube channel, you likely already know that in order to do so you need 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time over 12 months.

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