YouTube just lowered the bar for affiliate earnings—now creators with 500 subscribers can cash in

The platform is allowing smaller creators to start tagging products in order to earn commissions.
The Daily Dot

“The era of copy-paste creators is over”: YouTube is changing its monetization rules targeting “inauthentic content”

The YouTube Partner Program (YPP) is the holy grail for creators. In short, it helps them monetize their videos in a variety of ways. They can earn revenue from video ads, channel membership, Super ...
Analytics Insight

YouTube Shorts Monetization Explained: How It Actually Works

The Complete 2026 Guide YouTube Shorts has fundamentally changed the content creation landscape, offering creators an unp ...
Digiday

How YouTube Shorts revenue compares to long-form video revenue for creators

Two years after YouTube launched the YouTube Shorts revenue share program in February 2023, creators are finding that their payouts for short-form content are still dwarfed by the ad revenue they can ...