Facebook Monetization Program

What is your experience with the waiting period for approval of the Facebook Monetization program? Did you have to wait a long time, if so, how long?

I'm curious to see how widely the program has been rolled out.

A friend of mine with a page with 600,000 followers was accepted the day before yesterday, and although the RPM isn't great, the revenue is definitely everything but bad. It's thousands of $ a month.

I myself have about ten pages with a total of 1 million followers (each page has at least 10,000 followers, the largest page has 134,000 followers). I didn't know you had to click the waiting list button; I've done this on every page now yesterday. Wish I've done it much, much sooner. Does anyone have any idea what the waiting time to get approved might be like here in Western Europe?

When I ask AI for this information, I'm told it could take up to three months, but there's a good chance I'll get access somewhere. Of course, I don't know if this is true; it's better to ask you guys. Subscriptions and star ratings are already available to me (perhaps this is a good sign). Oh yeah, the pages are several years old, and I post to them every day.

Waiting time varies, but many creators get approved within a few weeks to about 1–3 months after joining the waiting list. If your pages are active and already have features like Stars or Subscriptions, that’s usually a good sign.