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Did you wait until you were good enough in your niche, or just start anyway?

Would you rather upload your early, imperfect work and improve over time, or spend a few months learning privately and only start uploading once you can make something reasonably decent?

Obviously there’s a difference between something being imperfect and something being genuinely unwatchable. I’m not saying you should upload absolute garbage just for the sake of it.

I’m curious where you guys draw that line.

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u/Space_Akira — 10 days ago

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People who post 10-15 videos a month getting 2k views on avg and are monetised

What are youre feelings because i wanna know , i might be coming into the same boat , i know youre not here by choice , but is it enough to keep you going?

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u/bon9ne-1 — 10 days ago

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I shot my own video in the foot by publishing at the worst possible time 😂

I shot myself in the foot with my latest video launch!!

I’m about 450 watch hours away from full monetisation and yesterday I finished a video that I thought was pretty decent and could put a good dent into those 450 hours.

BUT - It was Sunday. I wanted it out. So instead of waiting, I went “f*ck it” and published it at about 10pm.

Stupid or what?

My audience is normally most active from about 5–10pm and I usually get a decent burst when a new video goes out. Sometimes 300 views an hour, and I’ve seen it go much higher when something takes off.

This time? Look at that bloody graph 😂. It's anaemic!!!

About 600 impressions in the first 12 hours when I’d normally see around 1,200–1,700.

The really annoying bit is the CTR is around 11% and AVD is 6:04 (on a 13 min vid). So the people who ARE seeing it seem to be clicking and watching.

Obviously it might still go nowhere. Not every video works and we all think our latest masterpiece deserves an audience 😂 But I definitely didn’t give this one the best start.

New rule for me: ALL videos get scheduled. If I’ve missed the sensible publishing window, tough. It waits.

Anyone else ever got impatient and completely buggered up a launch? Is there a way to recover it, short of deleting and reuploading at a better time lol.

u/nellis1971 — 10 days ago

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Why do subscribers gained through YouTube Promote appear in the Earn tab if they don't count toward YPP eligibility?

Hello, YouTube officially states that both watch time and subscribers gained through Promote do not count toward YouTube Partner Program eligibility. I've seen people claim that only watch time is excluded, but the official wording explicitly mentions subscribers too.

However, the subscriber count in my YouTube Studio Earn tab matches my total subscriber count, including those gained through Promote. They appear to be counted toward the subscriber requirement for monetization.

Do you think YouTube actually counts these subscribers anyway, despite what the policy says? Or are they checked and excluded later when you apply for YPP?

Has anyone here reached the requirement using Promote and then applied? I'd be interested to hear what actually happened.

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u/Reggieton34 — 10 days ago