YouTube Monetization disabled and re-enabled!

Like many small time YouTube creators, I also got an email in January 2018 about changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP)  regarding changes new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. The revenue wasn't much but it was good to get some revenue from the little effort made in creating some videos. Unfortunately, my channel did not meet the subscriber threshold though watch time was alright. So, as per the new rules, monetization was set to be disabled.

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Free Music Tracks For YouTube Videos From YouTube Audio Library For Offline Video Editing

If you are one of those people who create videos for YouTube, you may be hunting for background music tracks and sound effects. As we all know, using any music is a big no, no. If the music used is not royalty free, YouTube Content ID system will detect copyright violations on the music used in the video. 

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YouTube terminates monetization for small creators with less than 4000 watch hours last 12 months and less than 1000 subscribers

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YouTube terminates monetization for small creators - Important updates to the YouTube Partner Program.

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Display YouTube videos in a gallery in WordPress website and how to get YouTube API Key

YouTube Videos Gallery in WordPress

There may come time when we need to show YouTube videos on websites. As most of us may already know, we can easily embed YouTube videos in web pages by simply copying the YouTube embed code from a particular YouTube video and put it in web page to display the YouTube video. Similarly, we can show YouTube library.

In this post, we shall discuss how to add a YouTube videos gallery in WordPress website that I did for one project recently. The requirement is to post videos on a YouTube channel and show the same to the WordPress YouTube Gallery to display.

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How to order, add new videos to YouTube playlist automatically and embed YouTube video playlist in websites and blogs

In this post we shall see how to order videos in YouTube playlist, add new videos to YouTube playlist automatically and embed YouTube video playlist in websites and blogs. As you might already know, videos uploaded to YouTube can be groups by playlists. Playlist settings can be configured to order the videos in a playlist, add videos to the playlist automatically by defining rules for the playlist. The playlist can then be embedded to websites and blogs and the order of videos is maintained as you desired. Likewise, even new videos uploaded are automatically added to the playlist by rules defined in the YouTube playlist settings.

Check out this video for the steps to order YouTube videos, auto add new videos to YouTube playlist:

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