YouTube: How to monetize a channel on YouTube in the year 2025? How many likes and views will do the job..

In today's time, YouTube is not only a source of entertainment, but it has also become a big platform for earning money for millions of people. If you are also thinking of starting a YouTube channel in 2025 and want to know how to start earning money? How will the channel be monetized? Here you can understand the whole process.
What does YouTube channel monetization mean?
When YouTube shows ads on your video and gives you a part of its earnings, it is called monetization. With this, you can earn money by making videos.
To monetize the channel in 2025
To earn money on YouTube, your channel must fulfill some important conditions. For this, you must have 1000 subscribers. At least 1000 people should be subscribing to your channel.
All your videos should have at least 4000 hours of watch time in the last 12 months.
Otherwise, if you make short videos, your video should have been viewed 10 million times in the last 90 days.
YouTube Policy
Your content must follow YouTube's community guidelines and copyright rules. To start monetization, you have to create a Google AdSense account so that YouTube can send you payments.
Are likes necessary?
People have a question in their mind about how many likes are required on a video to get the channel monetized. But in reality, likes are not necessary. They help in increasing the popularity of your video, which brings more views.
How to apply for monetization?
For channel monetization, you have to open YouTube Studio. Click on the Monetization option in the menu showing on the left side. If your conditions are met, then there will be an option of Apply Now. Click on it. After this, link the AdSense account and accept the terms and conditions.
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