YouTube Monitization Policy 2020

Hi friends,

In this video I am going to discuss about YouTube monetization policies 2020.

You need to have 1,000 subscribers on your YouTube channel.
Your videos have generated 4,000 Watch Time hours over the last 12 months.
You comply with all YouTube's policies and guidelines.
You have an AdSense account set up.

Effective immediately, to apply for monetization (and have ads attached to videos), creators must have tallied 4,000 hours of overall watch time on their channel within the past 12 months and have at least 1,000 subscribers.

As per YouTube :

YouTube channel monetisation policies
Updated January 2020: There are no changes to our policies or enforcement with this article update.
We updated this article for clarity and to give more detail around our monetisation policies for channels. If you want to join or remain in the YouTube Partner Program, you’ll need to follow these policies.

The policies in this article apply to your channel as a whole, and not just individual videos. If you want to learn about when you can and cannot turn on ads for individual videos, you can check out our advertiser-friendly content guidelines.
If you’re monetizing on YouTube, it’s important that your channel follows YouTube monetization policies, which include YouTube’s Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, Copyright, and Google AdSense program policies. These policies apply to anyone in, or looking to apply to, the YouTube Partner Program. Learn more about why we enforce channel monetization policies.

If you want to monetize videos with ads, they must also meet our Advertiser-friendly content guidelines.

What we check when we review your channel
Our reviewers check content that best represents your channel against our policies. Since our reviewers can’t check every video, they may focus on your channel’s:

Main theme
Most viewed videos
Newest videos
Biggest proportion of watch time
Video metadata (including titles, thumbnails, and descriptions)

YouTube channel monetization policies

If you’re monetizing on YouTube, it’s important that your channel follows YouTube monetization policies, which include YouTube’s Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, Copyright, and Google AdSense program policies. These policies apply to anyone in, or looking to apply to, the YouTube Partner Program. Learn more about why we enforce channel monetization policies.

What we check when we review your channel
Our reviewers check content that best represents your channel against our policies. Since our reviewers can’t check every video, they may focus on your channel’s:

Main theme
Most viewed videos
Newest videos
Biggest proportion of watch time
Video metadata (including titles, thumbnails, and descriptions)
The above are just examples of content our reviewers may assess. Note that our reviewers can, and may check other parts of your channel to see if it fully meets our policies.

Anyone on YouTube needs to follow our Community Guidelines. Monetizing creators should k