New shorts bonus program

[u/Logical_Broccoli2260]

So all over twitter right now is the new news of youtube rolling out a shorts bonus program that offers youtube partners extra money for posting a certain amount of shorts each month. It’s only invite only & in select countries. I was just wondering if this is only for youtube partners who already post shorts or can long form creators who don’t post shorts also be invited? I’m a long form creator and don’t post shorts but I feel like it’d be kinda unfair for this to be only for creators who post shorts. What do you guys think?

[u/Blewdude]

I got invited to this, I do all long short and live but mainly shorts daily so I’m excited about this since I was just doing it for the fun of it so it feels like an incentive to push a bit harder on my editing skills

[u/mistvale0 → u/Blewdude]

thats a solid bonus for something you were already doing anyway, congrats

[u/simpleproposal1 → u/Blewdude]

Did you find the invite in the studio app?

[u/Blewdude → u/simpleproposal1]

Yes I got it in the earnings page on the studio app and I think a notification showed up as well.

[u/PeggyKTC]

See the official info from YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/PX2YgUuXK4Q You have to be in the YouTube Partner Program in the US, UK, Germany, Brazil, Japan or South Korea.

[u/MorphingReality → u/PeggyKTC]

cries in canadian

[u/SupsMasPlusMas → u/MorphingReality]

Cries in Australian

[u/EquivalentFit7662 → u/PeggyKTC]

Just add Mexico and France and that would be Tiktok's 1 Monetisation, Tiktok also has this bonus stuff, I don't know when they got it buu I've seen post where there videos only got 50 dollar but the bonus is like over 300 to 500 dollars

[u/TrickyCartographer94 → u/PeggyKTC]

Does changing country of residence on the settings make a difference? lol

[u/NiandraL]

I got an invite and I suspect this is intended to ease some creators into the February monetisation changes - where you need to get 10 million views in 90 days to stay monetized

By encouraging people to have a bigger backlog of content, you're more likely to hit the first few targets

It feels like they know the monetisation changes are gonna cull a lot of legit shorts makers and this is trying to offset that

[u/MudSnout → u/NiandraL]

Wym stay monetized?

[u/Dr_Lockdown]

So question, does this replace the old shorts fund?

Because I've seen a massive drop off on revenue this month and I can't tell if it's me or YouTube.

[u/NextLevelVisuals2 → u/Dr_Lockdown]

I just posted about this. My video had 371k in one month. It was 1/10 and the best views video ever in a 30 day period. The next month it dropped to 19k. There is nothing organic or gradual about that massive decline. None of my videos, which average around 100k ever had such a fall off. Something def has happened and it impacts revenue.

[u/IdkMyName1846 → u/Dr_Lockdown]

My RPM went up a whole dollar in the past month but I’m seeing a lot of people saying their revenue is dipping. But I got invited to this bonus program and it says it ends in January, then YouTube has that new shorts policy crap in February

[u/castle2882 → u/Dr_Lockdown]

All the wording in the terms and service say it’s a bonus not a replacement. I personally haven’t seen anything to imply the shorts revenue pool is going away.

[u/Endda]

where are you seeing this join prompt?

[u/Advanced_Look_674 → u/Endda]

i got it in the bell icon, top right in youtube studio

[u/Ambitious-Type-3208]

I got this exact bonus and I only make shorts (US)

[u/Logical_Broccoli2260 → u/Ambitious-Type-3208]

Ok so I’m assuming it’s only for creators who already post shorts to their channel

[u/Daftfunk909]

Reminds me of the Facebook creator fast track

[u/acescorbunny]

Is it Global or USA and some countries only?

[u/JuiceNo7442]

anyone from india got this?

[u/MuditJadhhav → u/JuiceNo7442]

Nope. its only for US, UK, Germany, Brazil, Japan and south korea

[u/SimpleLifeOM]

Is it coming up
In your studio or email?

[u/bang]

Hope it earns like we hope it should.

There is no set figure for the 16 shorts is there?

[u/Live_Free_Moto]

the fuck is my invite!

[u/Thellie10]

It doesn’t matter if you think it’s unfair or not, it’s about what YouTube says it is

[u/awhee066]

I recently got this as well, and I had just given up on shorts. Guess I'm going to try again!