Google’s popular video platform YouTube has relaxed the monetization policy under its YouTube Partner Program (YPP).

YouTube has made this monetization policy change to help small content creators.

Under the new policy, content creators will soon be able to monetize their YouTube channel once they reach 500 subscribers and 3,000 hours of watch time. The standard for short video views has also been reduced from 10 million to 3 million.

According to YouTube, content creators will be paid to run ads through short videos. Ads will run on YouTube shorts and 45 percent of ad revenue will go to content creators. For one million YouTube shorts views, the content creator will earn up to 900 USD but this amount can be lower or higher.

Earlier it was necessary to achieve 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time to monetize a YouTube channel.

According to media reports, YouTube has implemented a new monetization policy in the US, UK, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea. Soon it will be implemented in other countries including India.