Building Your YouTube Channel and Getting Monetized
Today, I filled out my application for monetization on YouTube for my channel, MyBasicJourney. Getting to this point was not easy and took a lot of hard work, consistency and dedication. I'm here to tell you about the realities of getting monetized on YouTube and some helpful tips to get you started. In order to be monetized, your YouTube channel must have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours within a 12 month span. (Taken from google. Someone received this after their channel got demonetized in Feb 2018) I started my channel in late July of 2018 with a short pilot video. The video itself was basically a montage of random clips. I had never edited a video like that before and even though it's only a minute and so long, I was really proud of it. It was then that I fell in love with the process of creating videos and editing. I made videos regularly for the first few months on my channel; 9 total between July 29th and…