Your Shorts views don't count toward watch hours. Long videos do.
Starting Feb 1, 2027, new channels need 8,000 watch hours to get monetized instead of 4,000 (plus 1,000 subs). If you apply before then, you only need 4,000. Views from the Shorts feed don't add to that number. (YouTube Help)
Send us your Shorts or stream clips. We cut them into one longer widescreen video with chapters, a thumbnail, title ideas and a description, ready to upload. Every view on it counts toward your hours.
See if you'll hit 4,000 in timeWill you make it?
Why Dec 31? YouTube takes about a month to review applications, so you want to apply with room to spare (Alan Spicer, Upstream). Hours count over the last 12 months. This is a rough estimate, so go by what YouTube Studio says.
Pricing
Up to 15 min, built from 10–40 of your clips
- 1080p widescreen video
- Chapters and clip labels
- Thumbnail, description and 5 title ideas
- Even audio levels
- Done in 2 days
For when you want it to look sharp
- Everything in the basic video
- A custom intro to keep people watching
- A better thumbnail
- One round of changes
3 videos, save $28
- Three basic videos
- A simple upload schedule to hit Dec 31
- All three done in 5 days
Once you pay, you’ll get an email telling you how to send us your clips.
The fine print
- We don't sell views, hours or subs. That stuff gets channels banned. If someone's selling you "4000 hours," stay away.
- We only use clips you own. YouTube is fine with compilations of your own stuff.
- Music from the Shorts library can get copyright claims in long videos. Let us know and we'll mute it.
We can't promise you'll get monetized. That's up to YouTube. If we don't deliver in 3 days, you get your money back.