How close is your channel
to monetisation?
Your numbers against the published YouTube Partner Programme thresholds, and exactly what is still missing.
There are two numeric routes into the Partner Programme and both need the subscriber count. This checks your numbers against the published thresholds and is honest about the requirements that are not numbers at all.
Last 12 months, from Studio.
Last 90 days.
Used only for the forecast.
Not a number, still required
The Partner Programme has to be available in your country.
You need an active AdSense for YouTube account linked to the channel.
2-step verification has to be on for the Google account.
No active Community Guidelines strikes on the channel.
Your channel has to follow the monetisation policies, including the rules on reused and repetitious content — the ones most likely to matter for a loop.
We do not score these, because they are judgements about your channel rather than numbers. Confirm the current requirements on YouTube Help.
On the published numbers
Not yet
closest route: watch hours
Subscribers
250 / 1,000
25%
750 more needed
Valid public watch hours in 12 months
900 / 4,000
23%
3,100 more needed
Valid public Shorts views in 90 days
0 / 10,000,000
0%
10,000,000 more needed
Not there yet. Missing: 750 more subscribers, 3,100 more watch hours, 10,000,000 more Shorts views. At 8 average concurrent viewers streaming 24 hours a day, the watch-hours half would take about 17 more days — around 25 Aug 2026.
Watch hours per day
192.0
Days to the hours target
17
Approximate date
25 Aug 2026
if viewers hold
Clearing the numbers is not approval. Country availability, AdSense, 2-step verification, no active strikes and the reused-content policies all still apply — and no tool, ours included, can tell you how YouTube will judge your specific channel.
How this is calculated
Two paths, one shared requirement
Both routes need 1,000 subscribers. After that you either need 4,000 valid public watch hours in 12 months, or 10,000,000 valid public Shorts views in 90 days. You qualify on whichever you clear first.
What "valid public" excludes
Private and unlisted videos, deleted content, and anything YouTube judges to be invalid traffic. The figure in your Studio dashboard is already filtered this way, so use that number rather than adding things up yourself.
The rolling window
Watch hours are counted over the last 12 months and Shorts views over the last 90 days. Hours older than the window drop off, so a very slow climb can stall short of the target even while your lifetime total keeps growing.
Where the forecast comes from
Your average concurrent viewers multiplied by your hours live per day. It is the same arithmetic as our watch-hours calculator, applied to whatever is still missing — nothing about your growth rate is assumed.
Questions about this tool
Can a 24/7 looped stream be monetised?
Channels running always-on streams do get accepted, but it depends on the channel, not the format. The policies on reused and repetitious content are the ones that matter, and content you made or licensed with something of your own added stands a far better chance than a re-uploaded loop of someone else's work.
Do live stream watch hours count towards the threshold?
Valid public watch time counts whether it came from a live stream or an upload. That is exactly why a stream that is live all day can reach the hours target with a modest number of concurrent viewers.
Which path should I aim for?
Whichever suits your content. A 24/7 stream accumulates watch hours steadily and does nothing for Shorts views, so if you are already running a loop, the watch-hours path is the one your format actually feeds.
Why does the tool not tell me what I will earn?
Because we would have to invent an RPM for your niche and your audience. Your own YouTube Studio RPM, once you are monetised, is the only figure worth building a plan on.
What this tool cannot tell you
Every calculator on the internet hides its assumptions. Here are ours, in the open.
Clearing the numbers is necessary but not sufficient. Application review, country availability, AdSense, 2-step verification, no active strikes and the monetisation policies all matter, and a calculator cannot assess any of them.
The reused and repetitious content policies are the ones most likely to affect a looped stream. Whether your channel passes is a judgement about your specific channel, and nobody outside YouTube can promise you an answer.
Thresholds are what YouTube has published and are widely corroborated, but they can change. Confirm them in YouTube Studio or on YouTube Help before making plans.
This tool shows no earnings figure. Revenue depends on your niche, your audience geography and advertiser demand, and any number we invented here would be a guess dressed up as a projection.
The projected date assumes your viewer numbers stay flat. It is arithmetic on today's figures, not a prediction.
Next steps
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Guide
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