How can I become a YouTube partner without Adsense?
HELP – I’m creating a YouTube account for my business (we do event photography and are creating little event highlight reels for our clients that we upload for marketing purposes) and we want the nice sleek channel design that you get with the partnership program (no banner ad, our own customized header and such) but we don’t want adsense! We have no need to raise money with our ads on these videos, we simply want the higher level of channel customization. Is this possible at all? We get tons of views on our videos and channel due to the marketing emails with links to our videos we send out to customers; we don’t have many subscribers (one really); not sure if all that matters, but thought I’d throw it in.
Can anybody tell me if we can make this work? I’ve searched around online and on the youtube site but all you can find are people who really want the money you get with adsense, which doesn’t help me. I appreciate any help anybody can give me! Thanks in advance!
This WILL work, just don’t make an AdSense account.
However, YouTube will keep the advertisements next to your videos. YouTube isn’t going to FORCE you to take money.
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To be a partner you need to have a certain amount of views, videos, and subscribers. However, there is no rule set in stone, no bold requirements. YouTube has a program that calculates your views x (times) videos x subscribers. You need to reach past a certain “high” number in order for them to consider your request seriously. AT LEAST 2,000 subscribers is standard I think. Also, make sure you upload material you own entirely (don’t use copyrighted mp3s in the background, which is pretty much every song).
APPLY HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/partners
