why do they discriminate my channel only because I decided to post short videos.
In this reguard, it's YouTube overall so ALL channels would be effected by this.
The interesting thing that your post brings to my mind is that in the past, short video I always thought DID count towards watch time. I think the mimumum length for a video is around 10 seconds, or something like that. Essentially YouTube rathers longer videos, but I was always under the impression that ANY watch time counted towards watch time.
Well... Since you probably know more, do you have any idea how long "Shorts" exist? Because if they are some new feature, maybe they will realize it is worth monetizing
shorts were only brought in very late last year when TikTok was rumored to be banned in America, I think that was in October. So either YouTube has had this planned for a long time and this was their opportunity to set it publich, or they rushed it out hoping to capitalise on the traffic.
I think the main reason it doesn't contribute is that they want to make sure there's not any room for bad actors to exploit the system. 99.99% of people do the right thing, but if 00.01% do the wrong thing, the media jumps all over it making things even worse for YouTube and the creators as a whole. I don't think hours will contribute for another few months, once they have a better grasp of how shorts works with everything. It's a massive new system implemented and it feels like it's still in a demo stage.
Also, seems this seems to have changed this year, that now all videos that are vertical and under a minute are treated as shorts, a lot of older videos might run into this watch time issue.
Or... There is another, do you think it is legit if I duplicate the videos to get them over 1 minute, even though they would just simply be like 4 loops of the same video? If so, That could work to get my hours.
I'd avoid doing that, I'm working on an animation right now that's simply an animated loop that goes for several cycles, but I can see YouTube mislabelling that as spam content unfortunatly.
What you could do, instead of looping one version for longer than 1 minute (that would be seen as spam) try merging a lot of them together as a bit of a best of. I've seen some tik tok channels collecting their videos and putting lots of 10 second clips together to from 5 minute videos, and to be honest, I generally prefer that method as well.
Ideally you just want to make your videos OVER 1 minute, or try making them horizontal rather than verticle.
From here:
Can I monetize my Shorts?
Whether Shorts are found on the Shorts shelf or through the short video player, ads wonΓÇÖt be served on them, and they wonΓÇÖt generate YouTube Premium subscription revenue.
Shorts also donΓÇÖt contribute to
YouTubeΓÇÖs Partner Program eligibility, but subscribers gained from watching your Shorts still count toward the eligibility threshold.
As we continue to experiment and improve the Shorts experience, there may be opportunities to monetize Shorts in the future.
@shortsciencevideos have you tried adding a top pinned comment to each short pointing people to a longer video? Remember, they don't show the comments on the shorts shelf, so you can use a pinned comment to point people to other content.
Thanks for that link mate, I think maybe we should make that particular post right there, a sticky as I feel this is going to be a bigger issue for people this year.
