How to Make Money with YouTube Shorts
Shorts is a new short-form video experience for creators and artists who want to shoot short, catchy videos using nothing but their mobile phones.
YouTube Shorts is a way for anyone to connect with a new audience using just a smartphone and the Shorts camera in the YouTube app. YouTube’s Shorts creation tools makes it easy to create short-form videos that are up to 60 seconds long with our multi-segment camera.
Over the years, YouTube has enabled an entire generation of creators who have shared their voice and found an audience of more than two billion people. As technology advances, creators and artists can now take advantage of the incredible power of smartphones to easily create and publish high-quality content wherever they are in the world. And people can be entertained and informed by bite-sized content in the spare minutes of the day.
YouTube Shorts, a new short-form video experience right on YouTube for creators and artists who want to shoot short, catchy videos using nothing but their mobile phones.
What is Shorts?
Shorts is a new way to express yourself in 15 seconds or less, and our team is focused on building its foundation across three main areas:
Create: Creation is at the core of short-form video, and YouTube want to make it easy and fun to create Shorts. YouTube starting to test just a few new tools for creators and artists.
- A multi-segment camera to string multiple video clips together,
- The option to record with music from a large library of songs that will continue to grow,
- Speed controls that give you the flexibility to be creative in your performance,
- And a timer and countdown to easily record, hands-free.
Watch: You may have recently seen a row on the YouTube homepage especially for short videos, and starting today YouTube also introducing a new watch experience that lets you easily swipe vertically from one video to the next, plus discover other similar short videos. YouTube also going to make it even easier to start watching Shorts.
The YouTube Shorts Fund is a $100M fund to reward creators for their dedication to making creative, original Shorts that delight the YouTube community. Youtube will reach out to thousands of creators each month to tell them that they qualify for a Shorts bonus from the fund.
To be eligible for a bonus from the YouTube Shorts Fund,
- Channels need to have uploaded at least one eligible Short in the last 180 days.
- Channels need to abide by YouTube’s Community Guidelines, copyright rules, and monetization policies.
- Channels uploading videos with watermarks or logos from third-party social media platforms, non-original videos (for example, unedited clips from movies or TV shows), or videos reuploaded from other creator’s channels will not be eligible.
- Creators must be in one of these countries/regions : Brazil, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States.
Youtube plans to expand eligibility to more countries/regions in future. - Creators must be 13 or older in the United States, or the age of majority in their country/region.
- Creators 13–18 years old must have a parent or guardian accept terms and set up an AdSense account for payment when one isn’t already linked to their channel.
- Channels do not need to be currently monetizing on YouTube to be eligible. Creators in the YouTube Partner Program and channels that are affiliates under a Multi-Channel Network (MCN) are also eligible.
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