Google’s method of enabling content producers to monetize their work on the website directly is the YouTube Partner Program. One of the most popular destinations for Google ads is YouTube. Advertisers using Google Ads can now run their advertisements in Google search results, on YouTube, and in other places within their publisher network.
How Does It Work?
Creators qualified for the YouTube Partner Program can include advertisements in it. Although they have some control over those advertisements, they cannot specifically choose which advertisements appear on their channel or particular videos. Across videos and embedded versions of those videos on other websites, promotions may occur before, during, or after videos. Each of these slots is rarely active simultaneously, but it may be true on viral Content.
How to Qualify?
You must have a channel that meets the required criteria for relevant metrics, passes an audit to check for fraudulent metrics, and is located in an eligible country to qualify for the YouTube Partner Program.
The YouTube Partner Program now has two additional requirements in addition to location. A minimum of 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 viewing hours every rolling 12-month period are required.
What are the Benefits?
Producers participating in the YouTube Partner Program can get paid when YouTube Premium subscribers watch their videos. For those unaware, YouTube Premium is the new moniker for YouTube Red, their premium subscription service.
To briefly digress, many people find YouTube Premium a fairly significant service. It permits ad-free browsing and the local download of videos for offline play. What’s more, you can view videos in the background while completing other tasks, allowing you to listen to music while using a task app or playing a game. Moreover, Premium grants you access to Original Content made only for Premium subscribers and unavailable to free users.
YouTube Partner Program Country Restrictions
Some international rules are something YouTube wants to avoid. For instance, there are continuous trade embargoes on several nations. Although a worldwide corporation, Google avoids certain prohibited countries because it doesn’t want to take a chance on breaking international law.
YouTube wants to avoid dealing with different tax and payment requirements in other nations. Due to the difficulty in sending money to some parts of the world, many third-world con artists ask for payment in the form of Bitcoin, iTunes gift cards, or Western Union (or other cashier’s checks).
Certain nations are removed from the list by YouTube because they are known to be hotbeds of fraud. Instead of fighting, auditing, and taking the chance of paying people who didn’t earn their money, YouTube decides to blocklist that nation if 90% or more of the accounts monetizing from that country are only making money because of false views they purchase through view networks.
Google needs to satisfy its advertising. An advertiser will likely only be pleased if they pay for an advertisement on their platform and it only receives views from Bangladesh. Sure, their ideas might be cheap—in certain situations, they might even be pennies—but they won’t make any money off that advertisement. Google would instead satisfy their advertisers than add a new nation to the list of those they must pay.
Countries that are Qualified on the YouTube Partner Program
Many African countries are not included, primarily due to a combination of high fraud and poor consumer intent. Because China influences the regional Internet and the Middle East’s propensity for fraud, some parts of Asia are not accessible. North America and the majority of Europe are currently accessible. Outside of the two countries that most people associate with the region, much of Oceania is unavailable, though the remaining nations are often little islands with scant Google presence. Meanwhile, South America’s political and economic problems impede the development of various countries, including Venezuela.
Asia
Qatar, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen, Bahrain, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia
Europe
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Azerbaijan, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia
North America
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Canada, Costa Rica, and the United States
South America
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Argentina
Oceania
New Zealand, Australia
References
- Web Post, We help you get more YouTube views, retrieved from https://boostlikes.com/blog/2018/12/youtube-partner-available-country
- Web Post, How the YouTube Partner Program Works, retrieved from https://www.filiatly.com/how-the-youtube-partner-program-works/
- Web Post, YouTube’s New Partner Program Terms: What You Need To Know, retrieved from https://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtubes-new-partner-program-terms-what-you-need-to-know/476111/#close