Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.
Uh. No it wasn’t. Google footed the bill for years until they were able to make money on it. I’m not saying poor Google but to assume youtube would still exist without Google’s cash is very unlikely.
Maybe but YouTube wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for the years Google paid for it with no monetization in sight.
It was doing just fine until Google bought it.
Uh. No it wasn’t. Google footed the bill for years until they were able to make money on it. I’m not saying poor Google but to assume youtube would still exist without Google’s cash is very unlikely.
YouTube wasn’t created or owned by Google, originally.
I know. They bought YouTube and allowed it to grow for many years. The internet that it was Google being magnanimous but it was Google having a plan.