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As a TikTok ripoff, YouTube Shorts has had tremendous popularity to date with plans to more aggressively turn on revenue-earning prospects on its own short-form videos, YouTube (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is moving forward in its own personal conflict with TikTok (BDNCE).
The business is preparing an announcement to lessen entry requirements for its partner program at YouTube Shorts, allowing more video producers to earn money there, according to audio from an internal meeting quoted by The New York Times.
It would imply loosening prior regulations that only allowed producers with at least 1,000 subscribers and audiences who have watched their films for at least 4,000 hours to monetize.
According to The New York Times, YouTube intends to make it simpler for producers to take part in its partner program. The meeting was interrupted by Hanif, who declared that it was “the largest expansion we’ve done in recent years introducing new avenues for creators to join the program.”
It entails adding adverts to YouTube Shorts, the brief vertical videos that YouTube launched in 2020 in reaction to TikTok’s phenomenal growth in that format. The NYT reports that YouTube will pay creators 45% of the revenue from advertisements as opposed to the typical 55% split given to YouTubers.
According to Google, YouTube Shorts receives 30 billion views per day from 1.5 billion viewers each month. CEO Sundar Pichai cites TikTok’s competition as one reason why Google isn’t monopolizing its markets, while also noting that YouTube Shorts is off to a “fantastic start.”
In May, Google started to roll out advertising in YouTube Shorts, stating at the time that the rollout constituted a significant step in the company’s journey to creating a long-term YouTube Shorts monetization solution for creators.
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