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Using YouTube as my Artist Website - YouTube Monetization 2026

To monetize on YouTube, the program uses a two-tier system. The entry tier requires 500 subscribers and 3 uploads in 90 days, plus either 3,000 watch hours (past year) or 3 million Shorts views (90 days) to unlock fan funding.

The second tier requires 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours (past year) or 10 million Shorts views (90 days) to earn ad revenue.

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Very cool!!! Thanks for sharing! I hope you make it to millions of viewers!

Best of luck,

Teresa

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Miami World ArtJun 9, 2026

Thank you a million Teresa!

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You are quite welcome!!!!

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Tony ReddingtonJun 9, 2026

great info.

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Miami World ArtJun 9, 2026

Thanks Tony!.. looking forward to checking out your YouTube channel.

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Tony ReddingtonJun 9, 2026

been crazy busy building a back end system to track my photo/assets. , cross referencing to ig and pintrest posts and building look books ,

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Miami World ArtJun 9, 2026

The best completely free performance tracking I have experience with would be of course Google Analytics and Metricool (more user friendly) - Hope that helps!

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Tony ReddingtonJun 9, 2026

im not worrying soo much about anylitics atm,
renaming photos, , getting the paths back to the raw files, linking them all to an asset id, linking the story behind the photo to the photo, even locating where exactly the image was taken.
I normally have the gps in the camera turned off, but now I realise what a mistake that was.
Building a DAM lite for want of a better word.
But also trying to future proof it , my filing system and naming conventions were a mess,

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