how to get 4000 hours watch time on youtube.

In order to monetize your channel and start making money on youtube you need 4000 watch hours and 1000 subscribers on your channel. In this article i'm going to tell you how you can get those 4000 hours of watch time the fastest way possible so you can monetize your channel and start making money.

In order to understand how to get 4000 hours of watch time. Let's first take a look mathematically on how we can get those first 4000 watch hours. So in your youtube analytics. you'll probably notice that watch time is displayed typically in minutes and this might make it kind of confusing you're wondering well. if i have this many watch minutes and how many watch hours do i have so let me break it down for you so you can understand how much you need to actually get and so you can monitor your progress along the way 4000 watch hours is 240000 watch minutes.

Now if you make 10 minute videos on your youtube channel and you get on average a 50 average view duration on your videos then that is five minutes of average watch time per video on your channel.

240000 total watch minutes which is needed to get monetized on youtube divided by 5 minutes of average watch time per video equals 48000 views.

240000 watch minutes/ 5 minutes = 48000 views.

So in this case you only need 48 000 views across all of your youtube videos on your channels in order to get those first 4 000 hours of watch time and get monetized on your channel.

So let's look it down even further if you upload 33 different youtube videos you only need an average of 1455 views per video. And if you upload a hundred videos you only need an average of 480 views per video.

I know you may be thinking well that's a lot of views. how am i supposed to actually get 48000 views on my videos.

So guys take it easy. The good news is that it's not as hard as you probably think.

Now i'm going lay out the process for you in these nine tips.

Tip number 1.

Make videos that are longer than 10 minutes: The reason i say this is because longer videos typically have a longer average view duration and in turn more watch time on those videos. Put this in perspective if someone watches 30% of a 10 minute video that's three minutes of watch time. So now you can start to see the benefits of producing longer videos because you're going get more watch time per view on those videos. Another benefit of producing videos that are longer than 10 minutes is that once you do get monetized you'll be able to put multiple ad breaks on your videos which make a lot more money as a result. Youtube recently released a policy saying that you can put multiple ads on videos that are longer than eight minutes. So i would just make sure that you're producing videos that are at least eight minutes long but longer than 10 minutes would be ideal.

Tip number 2.

Make list videos: So you might be wondering how you can actually produce videos that are longer than 10 minutes. what are you going to say in the videos and how can your videos actually be structured. List videos are an amazing structure to apply to videos on your channel. It makes it a lot easier to produce these 10 minute long videos and in turn get more watch time. I'm sure you've seen list videos out there on youtube for example The top 10 fastest cars, The top 10 biggest dogs in the world and videos of this nature and you could apply list videos to almost any different niche. Any different subject out there on youtube that you're talking about to demonstrate why list videos are so good? for example if you make a 10 minute video about The top 10 biggest cats then you only have to talk about each different cat for one minute each and just like that you have a 10 minute video. So whatever you're talking about if you make top 10 videos then all you have to do is talk about each subject for only one minute each and then at the end you'll have that 10 minute video. Another benefit of list videos is that they typically perform very well in terms of audience retention and watch time because they typically keep the viewers attention by covering lots of things in the video. And the more cuts that you have throughout the video the better you'll be able to hook the viewer in and keep them watching as long as possible.

Tip number 3

Use playlists correctly: so if you run a youtube channel that talks about multiple different subjects maybe just a single subject but you have multiple different categories of videos. Let's say for example you run an animal channel and you do top 10 cat videos talking about the top 10 biggest cat the top 10 smallest cat that would be a category of content. Then for example you could have another category of content comparing different cat breeds.The reason you want to make playlists for each of different subjects is that every time you link to one of these videos or you leave links in the description of one of your videos or people go to your channel and they look at your playlist every time. You get a viewer in the playlist environment. You'll get a lot more watch time as a result and you may be think. how's that possible? that's because when someone clicks to watch a video from a playlist link and you get them in a playlist environment they will automatically after they're done watching that video be prompted to watch another one of your videos and another one of your videos and another one and that in turn is going to get you a lot more watch time. That's get you a higher session time on youtube. So it's really imperative that you use playlists correctly on your youtube videos and you'll get a lot more watch time as a result and places. You can put these playlists are in the end screens of your videos, in the cards of your videos and directly on your channel page you can actually feature playlists.

Tip number 4.

Incorporate a popular upload section on your youtube channel: so when you go to customize your youtube channel you'll notice that you can actually add a popular upload section to your channel. Now your most popular videos are probably your most popular for a reason and typically on average. They'll also get more watch time as well so it can be really beneficial to feature some of your most popular videos on your main youtube channel page.

Tip number 5.

Feature a playlist of high watch time videos: Rather than just hoping that your most popular videos have a high amount of watch time. Which they most likely do but just to be sure what you can additionally do is go into your youtube analytics and you can do that by going to your youtube creator studio and then clicking analytics and then what you're going to want to do is go to engagement and then you can see your top videos in terms of watch time. And another thing you'll want to do is select for the lifetime of your channel from drop down and then you can see the videos of yours that have gotten the most amount of watch hours. So then what you're going to want to do is make a playlist ordering your videos from the first one having the most amount of watch time, second one having the second most amount of watch time, third one and so on listing your videos. chronological order from your top watch time to the least amount of watch time and then you can simply add that playlist on your channel page by clicking add section and then you're just going to want to select single playlist and then you can select that playlist.

Tip number 6.

Do live streams: Doing live streams is one of the most underlooked ways on how you can get 4 000 hours of watch time on your youtube channel. The reason that is is because live streams typically have a very high average view duration due to the fact that people who join live streams typically watch him a lot longer than watching like traditional videos. So all you really need if you're doing live streams is for a couple of people to join those live streams and this can add up very fast.

So live streams can be incredibly powerful. if you can go even longer than two hours you can really start to add up the watch time fast.

So remember that growth on youtube is usually exponential. So don't give up if you're not seeing any results you could literally just be one video away from everything taking off two the longer your videos are the easier it is to get 4 000 watch hours on youtube.

The most important rule do not stop uploading don't give up if you don't see any results in the first some videos that you upload or in the first 10 videos that you upload.

At last please select a neech of your content.

And do hard work.

I hope this helps you out a lot.