YouTube Creators Hub

YouTube just made the first significant change to the Partner Program since 2018, and most of the internet is panicking about the wrong part of it. In this solo episode I walk through the official blog post line by line — the 8,000 qualified watch hours or 20 million Shorts views it now takes to get in, the 10 million qualified Shorts views every 90 days you need to keep earn...

Daniel Braun narrowed personal finance down to credit cards, points and miles, and built a 247,000 subscriber channel on the back of it. In this episode he is unusually open about the numbers: $12,000 to $15,000 a month from AdSense, CPMs in the $45 to $50 range, two brand deals a month, and affiliate months that swing from below five figures to well into them. We also get in...

Alexa Milmont left a 12-year corporate marketing career, started documenting her reselling business on YouTube as a hobby, and was monetized in 19 days. Two months and 12 videos later she's past 14,000 subscribers with a video sitting near 400,000 views. We get into the real numbers. Her first AdSense check, what affiliate links actually brought in, and why a cell phone lanya...

Most creators are told to build an audience first and figure out the money later. Spencer Scott Pugh did the opposite — and it worked. In this episode, the tech reviewer behind Form and Function breaks down how one unpaid smart-ring review turned into $280K in sales for a brand, why he treats his channel as a marketing business instead of a personality play, and how he lands,...

He streamed to 10 viewers for two years. Now Zealand runs three 100K+ YouTube channels and a full-time team. He shares his real monthly numbers, his exact production system, why over-polished content is dying, and the one DM rejection that fueled it all.

About Zealand:

I was a professional sports broadcaster who started streaming my Football Manager gam...