Can I Watch My Own YouTube Video To Get 4000 Watch Hours?
I have monetized my YouTube channel over a year ago and how can you get monetized on YouTube by completing 4,000 watch hours.
It was 28th of the January that my YouTube channel was monetized. I had 2,000 subscribers and over 4,000 watch hours on YouTube. YouTube sent me an email 12-hours ago congratulating me for getting into YouTube Partner Program. Making videos always fascinate me. I thought uploading videos by sharing information should have a way to make money. There are a lot of people or YouTubers who struggle with the
If you are thinking that you can watch your own YouTube videos and it will help you in getting more watch time then you might be true but the question is “What is the purpose behind doing this?” YouTube is a platform that you can use to promote your brand, make money, and be good on the platform.
Monetization isn’t the issue, the issue is finding the audience
Let consider that your YouTube channel is monetized, now what? YouTube pays you only for getting viewers and you get paid when viewers on your channel watch ads displayed. This is where You and YouTube (Company) makes money. If you aren’t getting views and your channel is monetized then it has no purpose. In order to remain in the YouTube Partner program, you have to make sure your total public watch hours never goes down from 4,000 hours. Even if your channel is monetized through watching your own videos you will lose your YouTube partnership after less than a few months. The basic goal is to get viewership and make your YouTube channel a brand as well as showing ads and make money through other ways.
Instead, go with the right way of YouTube monetization:
Learn things that could help you in getting more viewers on YouTube videos like learning YouTube SEO, build a Facebook group about the niche of your interest, and make a Quora Space as Quora will promote your Space in front of the right type of audience. When you learn SEO, you just made one video that is 20-minutes long targeting a single keyword and you might complete your watch hours and the number of subscriber’s requirements using that video. One of my such videos made me over $100 just because traffic from search engine have high CPM ads. Also, I am very active on forums like Quora and sometimes write an article about any of my videos on my blog and on Medium and have made money through that method too.
If I were you, here what I will do in order to get 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers on YouTube;
- I will learn SEO first. It will help you in a long way. You will get more views, subscribers, build a brand, and be surer about the type of content you produce. Has this ever occurred to you that you made a video and it generates revenue for you for a lifetime? This happened to me. Several of my videos is making me $$ every month. It isn’t just about money but you will also get subscribers and views. You can learn video search engine optimization from YouTube for free.
- Editing my videos and researching for videos: Your video first 2 minutes should be a goldmine. It should be the best part of your videos. It is where your viewer will hook up and will watch the whole video altogether. For this, you have to learn some parts of the editing. You can learn editing for free on YouTube.
- Make a blog: If you are serious about YouTube, you should have a blog. In a blog, you write about the topic of your latest video and embed your video. This will help you in two ways; first, it will help you in getting more views, and second, it is good for video search engine optimization.
Can you watch your own YouTube videos for getting 4000 watch hours?
No, don’t do it.
It isn’t worth the time and effort. Before I present some logical and rational facts with you, let me do some calculations for you. A 4000 watch hour means 166 days which means you have to continuously turn on your computer for over 5.5 months. This is insane and it doesn’t work. Instead, if you create one video a day, you have 166 videos. Now, your channel might be near to 4,000 watch hours but the good thing is “You have built a library of videos that could help you getting more subscriber, views and build a powerful & potential passive income stream”
I also answer a very similar answer on a Quora thread: Can I watch my own YouTube video to get 4000 watch hours? I have explained a lot of things in this article that will help you to understand how to get more views and watch time as a YouTube creator so you comply with YouTube monetization policies.
YouTube is a powerful platform, you can promote your videos in many ways and if you make a great video, YouTube will promote it across the platform and you may end up making thousands of dollars and just one video could change your life. So, put more effort into making a video and you will get more views, subscribers, and watch time.
Recently, I have an article on Medium about my earning on YouTube: How Much I Earn As a Small YouTuber with 5,170 Subscribers
Disclosure: This article has no cracking or hacking thing. It encourages creators to use the right way to promote their videos.
