The YouTube partnership program has grown a lot since it’s launch a few years back. Starting off with only a few of the most popular Tubers, it is now host to almost every YouTuber with a good majority of views, and even those without that many views. The problem with so many people being in it, is that so many people are also still applying for it, leaving it to be almost impossible to be accepted as a partner without waiting 2 months for a reply saying that you didn’t meet the standards. But my goal is to help you meet those standards.
So how do you actually get accepted into the YouTube partner program? Well first off do NOT just submit an application right off the bat. You will end up being denied and will then have to wait up to 6 months to resubmit your application, and that’s exactly what we don’t want. When YouTube reviews your application they are looking for a variety of things having to do with your channel including:
- How professional you come across
- How many views you get on a regular basis
- If you have multiple videos with a significant amount of views (aka in the 10′s of thousands or higher)
- How dedicated your fan base is
Firstly, you need to sell yourself as being professional, even if you’re not. If YouTube comes to review your account and you have misspelled words in your description (unless on purpose) or if your videos just are not done professionally, they are not going to want you to be a partner as it just makes them look bad. By professional videos, I do not mean Hollywood budget videos. I just mean at least put some production and editing time into them. Making good videos takes for time than money (most of the time). Just put some time into them and it should be good. Never rush. Rushing is bad. In case you didn’t catch that, RUSHING IS BAD.
Secondly they are going to look at how many views you get on a regular basis. Subscriber count means NOTHING. They most likely won’t even take notice of that. With new cheats like “box for boxing” or “sub for subs”, it pretty much makes subscriber counts irrelevant to them. Someone may have 30 thousand subscribers, but that does not mean all 30 thousand people actually watch his videos. YouTube wants to know how many views you get on a constant basis so they will look at all your video views as a whole and look at the insight of each video and see where exactly all the views are coming from. With all the features built into YouTube now, they can tell where each individual view comes from, and they want to know where your views come from.
This also brings me to the last topic, how dedicated your fan base is. YouTube likes a good active fan base. If you have videos with lets say 10,000 views, and only around 20 comments, it kind of shows that something is up. Make sure you put annotations on your videos kindly asking people to thumbs up your videos, and asking a question of the day for them to answer in the comment section.
Basically, you just need to make sure to prepare ahead of time before submitting an application. Try to get your fan and viewer base up the best way that you can before submitting the application, and make sure to continue on after submitting it. Also make sure to frequently make videos after submitting the application, it will show to them when they review your account that it isn’t dead and that you are still frequently making videos.
Don’t rush becoming a partner. Unless your videos are getting high thousands or 10′s of thousands of views, don’t even bother submitting the application. Even if you SOMEHOW got accepted, you wouldn’t even be making any money. It takes more than a couple thousand views to make some significant money.