Two questions: Monetisation and old YT account

Ok. so I have a channel with almost 1k subs around the music niche, Basically promoting / uploading indie artists aka music promo channel, yea I know it's very hard niche.
The channel itself is looking very good visually, style of every video is in line with the channel identity.
Started making the content just for my own and friends pleasure, because of the music genre and supporting indie artists in this genre. Never thought that it'll bring the attention of others, but somehow one of my videos made to 34k views and now it's generating 200+ views on a daily basis. I'll give you some statistics of this video: CTR is 11,2%, average watch time is 41%. So the video is doing pretty well I guess?

Now here's my first question. Can I somehow monetise the channel once I hit 1k subs? It's a music with real suround high quality recordings for example sounds like a campfire noises with music playing along with it. I'm not planning on monetising it just yet, because YT will propably say it's reused content even tho those recordings are original records by me from a real places (except the music ofcourse). But I've seen some similar working channels for example Dreamy, Homework Radio etc. - and I can see the ads on the beginning of their videos, which I think it means that they are monetised?
Now I know that Dreamy as well as Homework Radio had some struggles with demonetisation back when youtube changed their policies, but somehow They've managed to become monetised. Now my question is... how you guys think they made it? If someone can give some insights. Maybe they have their own labels? If so how could that work...

Second question: I'm planning to open another channel, and I have found my old e-mail, on which I created YT account and it was back in 2010. So the account is 10+ years old... Does it make a difference in YT algorithm if I'll start making videos on this channel then the new created one?

Third question: is it true that - once the channel is monetised - Youtube pushes the content to viewers so it's more "visible"?

Please pardon me for my english It's not my mother language, but I hope you will understand what I'm trying to say

I'm just answering the 2nd and 3rd question since for the first one I don't have that info. If you have a 10 years YT channel, go with that one. Many users reported better reach from old accounts. Once you're monetized, YT pushes your content a bit more, but if your CTR is bad after the first initial push, YT will stop pushing ur video even if your channel is monetized.

RoyalCobra777 said:

I'm just answering the 2nd and 3rd question since for the first one I don't have that info. If you have a 10 years YT channel, go with that one. Many users reported better reach from old accounts. Once you're monetized, YT pushes your content a bit more, but if your CTR is bad after the first initial push, YT will stop pushing ur video even if your channel is monetized.

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there are some wrong things here based on my observations.

1. the aged account thing of ranking better is a myth. i thought it was true before but based on tests it wasn't.
i had a fresh account that was created a month ago that was getting 300k views daily from suggested right from day 2.

day 1 it got 20k views, day 2 it directly blasted to 300k views per day almost.


and I've had a lot of friends experience similar stuff with fresh yt channels that's not even aged and ranked better.


"Once you're monetized, YT pushes your content a bit more"

this is also wrong from multiple tests i did. basically I've gathered data from a few people to confirm this.
some of my own channels experienced the exact opposite of what you said after i was monetized.

first of all i used to have some channels that went viral when it had no monetization and it performed consistently well.
right after it got monetized the views instantly crashed. it was sort of like I'm grinding from zero subs
horrible views.
a few other people I know also reported the same thing right after they got monetized.

but again ofc if u continue grinding u can rebuild the ranking.

but this is how yt scams people after they get monetized, giving u shit views or everyone would be rich lol. u can usually go crazy viral without monetization.

but again this is an exception with big youtubers as they are whitelisted and have unlocked levels in algorithm. like mrbeast.

they keep these limits in place for growing channels.

i believe at monetization they reset the p score of your channel and you have to re grind for months again until you start getting views back

speedyallan77 said:

there are some wrong things here based on my observations.

1. the aged account thing of ranking better is a myth. i thought it was true before but based on tests it wasn't.
i had a fresh account that was created a month ago that was getting 300k views daily from suggested right from day 2.

day 1 it got 20k views, day 2 it directly blasted to 300k views per day almost.


and I've had a lot of friends experience similar stuff with fresh yt channels that's not even aged and ranked better.


"Once you're monetized, YT pushes your content a bit more"

this is also wrong from multiple tests i did. basically I've gathered data from a few people to confirm this.
some of my own channels experienced the exact opposite of what you said after i was monetized.

first of all i used to have some channels that went viral when it had no monetization and it performed consistently well.
right after it got monetized the views instantly crashed. it was sort of like I'm grinding from zero subs
horrible views.
a few other people I know also reported the same thing right after they got monetized.

but again ofc if u continue grinding u can rebuild the ranking.

but this is how yt scams people after they get monetized, giving u shit views or everyone would be rich lol. u can usually go crazy viral without monetization.

but again this is an exception with big youtubers as they are whitelisted and have unlocked levels in algorithm. like mrbeast.

they keep these limits in place for growing channels.

i believe at monetization they reset the p score of your channel and you have to re grind for months again until you start getting views back

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yeah, I think this is true I get fewer views after monetizing, I think it's kind of anti-spam because people buy monetized channels and change the content and whatever ...

speedyallan77 said:

first of all i used to have some channels that went viral when it had no monetization and it performed consistently well.
right after it got monetized the views instantly crashed. it was sort of like I'm grinding from zero subs
horrible views.

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So monetization can both ruin or boost your views... hmm... I wonder how that works.

RoyalCobra777 said:

If you have a 10 years YT channel, go with that one

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I think that's what I will do, I just started to make graphics for the old channel, and I will see if there's any difference.


but what about the first question, is there someone who have music promo channel here and it's currently monetised? If so how did they do that?
I've been discovered that many white noise natural sounds channels had been also hit by demonetization, just because they don't provide an 'original' content, which in many cases was ofcourse false, so from what I've read and saw on those channels. That some of them needed to add some educational content on their channels in order to get back on track - for example show the process of creating videos, or a short vlog about something meaningful. But I'm wondering about those music promo channels, because they are ofcourse reusing the content but somehow those channels are monetised... hmmm...

DreamSurfing said:

So monetization can both ruin or boost your views... hmm... I wonder how that works.


I think that's what I will do, I just started to make graphics for the old channel, and I will see if there's any difference.


but what about the first question, is there someone who have music promo channel here and it's currently monetised? If so how did they do that?
I've been discovered that many white noise natural sounds channels had been also hit by demonetization, just because they don't provide an 'original' content, which in many cases was ofcourse false, so from what I've read and saw on those channels. That some of them needed to add some educational content on their channels in order to get back on track - for example show the process of creating videos, or a short vlog about something meaningful. But I'm wondering about those music promo channels, because they are ofcourse reusing the content but somehow those channels are monetised... hmmm...

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such channels with long hours of relaxation music or nature sounds or mindless content is already not monetizable under the new ypp policies.

channels doing such content are subject to demonetization and this is already known.

the age of easy low effort spam content is over.

here people complaining about channels getting demonetized:

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/28745519?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/13617332?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/8680666?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/8230297?hl=en

speedyallan77 said:

such channels with long hours of relaxation music or nature sounds or mindless content is already not monetizable under the new ypp policies.

channels doing such content are subject to demonetization and this is already known.

the age of easy low effort spam content is over.

here people complaining about channels getting demonetized:

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/28745519?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/13617332?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/8680666?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/8230297?hl=en

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Yes, I have seen many articles regarding this, but thank You.
Ok. so if I see adds on channels like for example Dreamy, Homework Radio, or the channel that was mentioned in above links - Daniel Nelson channel. If I see adds, does that mean, the channel is monetised?