Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer and Robert Kyncl, Chief Business Officer wrote:Starting today we’re changing the eligibility requirement for monetization to 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers.
So now I'll be punished for not posting clickbaity thumbnails and some random attention-grabbing crap...well what can I say, the next step should be to limit video uploads for non-monetized channels to something like 100 MB per week
I'm not sure yet, but I'll think about migrating somewhere else, since I don't get that many views either way, and few $ is better than nothing at all, it's a pity that vidme died not so long ago, as that was my backup plan. I'll keep uploading to YouTube for now, but I might abandon it when/if migrated.