Enter where you are
Subscribers and watch hours for the last 12 months, from the YouTube Studio dashboard. A new channel starts at zero.
When will your channel be monetized?
There is no countdown: a long-form channel qualifies for YouTube ads when 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 public watch hours from the last 12 months are true at the same time. Put in your upload pace and your numbers from YouTube Studio, and see which threshold is holding you back.
Example values for a new channel. Replace them with your numbers from YouTube Studio.
Over a video's first year.
YouTube Studio → Analytics → Engagement.
Subscribers gained ÷ views × 1,000, from Studio.
Eligible for the Partner Program
~11 months
The slower of the two thresholds is subscribers.
1,000 subscribers
~11 months
4,000 watch hours
~4 months
Your uploads add about 233 watch hours a week; at most 12,133 count at once.
How it works
Free, and no account.
Enter your pace
Uploads per week, views per video, video length, average percentage viewed and subscribers per 1,000 views.
Read the bottleneck
The forecast names the slower threshold and, when watch hours cannot get there, the views per video that would.
FAQ
YouTube monetization calculator: common questions
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