 You can now make money from YouTube Shorts. Monetization started February 1st, 2023, but it is about 10 times less than the revenue earned from long-form content based on revenue per thousand views or RPM. Why is it so much less? Well, because this is how the YouTube Shorts revenue model works. It's not the same as long-form content. With Shorts revenue, you don't enable monetization and choose the type of ads. You simply create a Shorts video and YouTube monetizes it based on four different cuts. You start with the top pool of shareable ad revenue, which only includes YouTube Shorts that are created with your content. If you use Shakira or Andrew Tate or any of the other popular content out there that isn't your own content, it's not monetizable. It has to be your original content in Shorts. Then we look at the creator pool, which is based on per country. So YouTube aggregates all the views from all the Shorts in every country. USA, Russia, Japan, wherever you are as a creator, or sorry, as the viewer, they aggregate all the views for that country. Then they give a creator allocation after taking out all the revenue for music and other rights holders. So those guys get the first cut and then you get only 45% of whatever's remaining as your share, not 55% as YouTube pays everybody else for long-form content, so it's 10% less. With all these cuts, it basically comes down to 10 times less revenue. In other words, you need to get 10 times more views on your YouTube Shorts just to earn the same amount of revenue per thousand views. Now there is some good news. The good news is, and I'll shrink myself a little bit, that YouTube Shorts do count towards the YPP, towards being monetizable. Of course, if your channel is not monetized, you make no money from YouTube Shorts, but the views count towards the requirements to be monetized. So you need 10 million views in the last 90 days for your YouTube Shorts to qualify versus 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months, 365 days for regular YouTube videos to qualify for YPP. And of course you need one, oh my finger doesn't go that far, sorry guys. Of course you need 1,000 subscribers as well. My green screen, this is where it ends. All right. And here's a hypothetical example. I won't go over it, but you can read it. You just pause the video and read it if you like, showing exactly the splits, the cuts, that YouTube implements to calculate the YouTube Shorts revenue for you. And the links to all these are down there in the description below. Note that these are official YouTube help articles, also here, also here. You can see the little YouTube help in the top right corner here. And this is not just my opinion, this is YouTube's own published facts. If you'd like to learn more about how much money you earn from YouTube Shorts, click that I to see this video where my daughter, Avienda, introduced the George Show episode on how much money you earn from YouTube Shorts. And if you still are not enabled, if you haven't enabled monetization for YouTube Shorts, you do need to do that. It's a manual step. Click that I again to watch this video or explain exactly what you have to click in order to enable monetization for YouTube Shorts. Even if your channel is monetized, you still need to enable monetization for YouTube Shorts manually in your YouTube Studio. And I have something exciting to show you guys. What's this? Okay, that's a sports car. But what I'm gonna show you is the house behind it. So let me show you a few more pictures. These are villas, which they call them villas in Dubai, not houses, but they're houses in Dubai. And these are what they call renovated or upgraded villas. And guess what, guys? We're gonna be doing this. We've already started one project to renovate a villa in Dubai. And it'll look something like this when it's done. It's pretty cool. Now, if you wanna see the before and after, just click that I to see this new channel where I created Dubai properties where I will be documenting our project. And this video, the default one that says Dubai, Meadows to Villa is our project that we will be renovating. I'll just quickly show you a bit of this video to play it. And let's get to the cool part. That's the cool part. You can see me. Yeah, no, that's not the cool part. The cool part is the view of the lake and the skyline. So you can see this is the view from the villa that we purchased and are now going to renovate to make it look very beautiful inside. This could be a villa for one of you guys, Freedom Family, if you move to Dubai and buy it. So you'll have inside track and negotiating the price because yeah, it's from us, Freedom. All right, and I wanted to show you as well the view of the fountain because there is a beautiful fountain outdoors in this villa. It's a lake view. Ah, where is that fountain view? Come on, this is why we need heartbeat moments. Okay, so here is the view of the fountain from the balcony, the backyard of this villa. It's a beautiful view and the fountain runs throughout the day and it turns on and off periodically. But yeah, I mean, look at this, guys. Wouldn't you love to be able to see this from your balcony? And we'll probably add an infinity pool in the backyard, certainly rearrange, redesign the inside. I can show you more about this later if you would like to learn more about our Dubai Properties Project. And this is the best time to move to Dubai, guys. A lot of people are. That's why there is a lot of push towards renovating and providing real estate for people coming to Dubai. And that's because there's zero income tax. You pay no tax legally on your worldwide income if you live in Dubai. Now there's some exceptions with US citizens. They have fatka, which requires them to pay tax on their worldwide income, even if they don't live in the United States. But most countries, in fact, I think all other countries in the world, maybe there's one or two that follow US's policy, you pay no tax in the country if you don't live in it. And if you move to Dubai, you can save on, have a tax reduction strategy, save on taxes. Note, some of you guys who are not very, like, you know, read up on this, it's not called tax evasion. It's called tax reduction because the law in Dubai states you pay 0% income tax. Tax evasion is if you're in a country that doesn't have 0% income tax and you try to get away with not paying the tax or you're paying less than you should. In Dubai, you should pay 0 income tax. So that's called tax reduction. And it's a smart thing to do. People who are smart, who know where to reduce their taxes, come to Dubai, typically. So I am living here, guys. I've been here four years now, almost five. It's a great place to live. And if you wanna learn more, click that I to see the playlist of all the videos I made while living in Dubai. And you can also check out my personal channel, which is at youtube.com slash georgevenuse. And here I talk about jumping out of an airplane. I did this in Dubai. Well, by the way, on my 45th birthday, that really is me, not a Photoshopped edited. That's like literally me jumping out of an airplane. Crazy guy. Anyway, I have some videos here of elephants and parks and sports cars in Dubai. So I encourage you to check it out. The link to my channel is right there. Click that I to see this behind you. And hopefully you'll move here too. If you do, let me know. I'd love to meet you in person, show you around. And yeah, help you settle in. We've already had four YouTubers come to Dubai since I moved here. We'd love to keep the trend going and keep the community of creators growing. All right, Freedom Family. I hope you enjoyed this video about YouTube shorts 10 times less revenue per thousand views. But in all fairness, it's easier to get views to YouTube shorts because they're short. And so more people will watch them. And YouTube is actively promoting YouTube shorts. So it could be that your shorts will get 10 times more views, which means they will now equal the amount of revenue per thousand views to your long form content. But tell me down there in the comments below what your experience is with YouTube shorts monetization. Now that it's been enabled since February 1st, two weeks now, yeah, exactly two weeks. It's February 14th, Valentine's Day. It's Valentine's Day in case, you know, the rest of the world hasn't clued in. I'm sure you have. I just realized it is Valentine's Day. So I've, you know, I haven't clued in. And now I have. I'll probably take my wife to a nice dinner. We have a lot of choices here in Dubai. In fact, they have an all you can eat sushi night here on the Palm, Jumeirah, on Tuesdays. So I'm gonna take her there. All right, I hope she appreciates that Valentine's gift. I went to the gym today, guys. Did you get off your butt and get some exercise? I hope so. And if you haven't, get up and go for a walk. Go for some push-ups. Go to the gym, go for a swim. Anything to make you sweat and get your blood flowing. It's so good, makes you feel so good. It's healthy and you'll thank me for it. I'm now the 47 year old CEO and founder of Freedom. And so if I can do it, you can do it. Let me be your motivation if you need some. So as you know who I am already, I am Papa George, George Sunpai and many other names. You, the beautiful Freedom family has given me and I'm standing up. This is me standing where are my feet? Yeah, you can see, right? Feet, feet on the floor. There we go. And I've been using my electric desk for all of my videos now and I work standing up now. If you wanna see my electric desk video, click that I up there and it'll take you to the, when I first bought it, to show you how it works. But I love it. I encourage you to get one as well. It's very healthy, it's very easy. You push a button, the desk just rises up and down about 50 centimeters difference in height, which is perfect for standing or sitting. All right Freedom family, hope you got your exercise. Hope you get an electric desk and stand up while working. And then you need to get one of those walking mats. I still haven't gotten it. And basically it's like a treadmill, but it's a small version which just sits on the floor. So while you are working, you can be walking as well. That's, you know, as good as you can get where you can exercise and work at the same time. I don't know how that'll work for me because then you get sweaty and you may not, you know, be in the mood for working. But I'll try it out. I'll let you know, I'll make a video once I get my walking mat. All right, until the next episode, Freedom family, where we all help each other grow together as a family because that is the spirit of freedom. It always will be and always has been. And I hope down there in the comments below we can all help each other, ask your questions. We read every comment, we reply to every comment that deserves a reply. So ask away and we'll help you grow. Until the next episode, I am George and you've been watching. Oh, you're dreaming but love here. Click that I to partner with Freedom and join the Freedom family so we can all grow together. You get many perks like position music, you also get epidemic sound, a lot of other access to royalty free videos, sponsorships and many things to help you grow. 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