{"id":2507,"date":"2026-08-11T02:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/youtube-is-making-it-harder-for-creators-to-start-getting-a-cut-of-ad-revenue\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T02:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:53:42","slug":"youtube-is-making-it-harder-for-creators-to-start-getting-a-cut-of-ad-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/youtube-is-making-it-harder-for-creators-to-start-getting-a-cut-of-ad-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is making it harder for creators to start getting a cut of ad revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New YouTube partners will now need twice the number of watch hours or Shorts views in order to qualify for a cut of ad revenue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/youtube-is-making-it-harder-for-creators-to-start-getting-a-cut-of-ad-revenue\/intro-1786387951.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/youtube-is-making-it-harder-for-creators-to-start-getting-a-cut-of-ad-revenue\/\">YouTube is making it harder for creators to start getting a cut of ad revenue<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New YouTube partners will now need twice the number of watch hours or Shorts views in order to qualify for a cut of ad revenue. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; YouTube is making it harder for creators to start getting a cut of ad revenue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}