I need 1584 hours of view and 200 subscribers the next 30 days on my channel:
This is not a sustainable model. The world is not a charity.
I can see it might be read as me begging for help, but the idea was there must be so many more channels similar to mine that is about to get hit, but we we all pooled together, subscribed eachother and played some full play lists, we could help eachother keep the little funding it makes and watching the graph grow is a major motivator in making better videos.
This channel does not have many long videos. The opposite it more true. Many videos are just around 30 to 60 seconds. No introduction, no explanations, just (for example) some music played on a tesla coil. Efficient for the viewer, but not much time registered by YouTube. Adding some introduction etc will easily double the time registered by YouTube without annoying the viewers.
Yes, many of my old videos are short demonstrations that is used embedded on my website, so they do not stand out that great alone, however much has improved since as I hope you can see on the latest ones
Why YT is doing this? Why allow monetization only to some channels? What they are tring to avoid with this change?
Is it about a year ago now that Dave made a video about youtube cutting down on ad revenue? I guess they are trying to move away from amateurs and want to be a real competitor to other streaming services, so they want more money to pay the users that generate the most traffic.
They forgot who laid the road for them, they forgot that it was the amateurs that made youtube what it is today. It saddens me after having used it for so many years (electronics channel is much newer than my original account)