--- title: 'YouTube Now Lets You Earn Money with Just 500 Subscribers' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=UPsgU5XUzVQ' video_id: 'UPsgU5XUzVQ' date: 2026-07-11 duration_sec: 381 --- # YouTube Now Lets You Earn Money with Just 500 Subscribers > Source: [YouTube Now Lets You Earn Money with Just 500 Subscribers](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UPsgU5XUzVQ) ## Summary YouTube has updated its monetization policies, allowing creators with 500 subscribers to access shopping and affiliate features, eliminating the previous requirements of 4,000 watch hours or 10 million short views. This enables smaller channels to start earning earlier through product tagging and brand partnerships. ### Key Points - **New Monetization Threshold** [00:02] — Creators no longer need 4,000 watch hours or 10 million short views; 500 subscribers unlock shopping and affiliate programs. - **Update Released March 25, 2026** [01:51] — YouTube rolled out an update expanding the shopping affiliate program to 500 subscribers, previously requiring 20,000 or 10,000 subscribers. - **Earning Example** [02:36] — The creator earned ₹17,000 in March from the affiliate program, showing real earning potential. - **Official Blog Announcement** [03:05] — YouTube's official blog confirmed the update: 500 subscribers unlock shopping and affiliate program. - **Creator Partnership Dashboard** [03:43] — A new dashboard in the Earn section allows brands to find creators based on keywords, average views, engagement, and content focus. - **How to Tag Products in Shorts** [04:23] — In YouTube Studio, select a short video, click Products, then pencil icon, search for products (e.g., Flipkart), and tag them. Commission example: 8% on a ₹139 product. - **Media Kit Features** [05:19] — The Creator Partnership includes a media kit showing subscriber count, unique viewers, returning viewers, demographics, and audience interests. ### Conclusion YouTube's new update lowers the barrier to monetization, enabling small channels to earn via shopping and brand partnerships starting at 500 subscribers, with real earning examples demonstrating viability. ## Transcript come and now you do Neither do you have to do 4000 hours of watch time nor do you have to do 10 million short views. Now you don't need any of these things if you want to earn income from YouTube. before starting this video, if you have not subscribed to our channel then and you will see a hype button, hype that too. Friends, ? If you want to monetize your YouTube channel, you need 1000 subscribers. 4000 hours of watch time was required for long videos and 10 million views were required for short videos and you should have uploaded three videos. There should not be any polishing. Your content should be ad friendly. But after doing all this, what started happening on your videos ? Ads would start appearing on your videos. From where the earning was done. Along with that, the affiliate program also started that now you can directly use shopping in your videos and by any Flipkart products. But what has changed now that what used to happen with 500 subscribers ? 3000 hours of watch time was required to get 3 million and this would help in monetizing your channel a little faster. There was a membership feature which meant the join button would appear on your channel. Along with that, you would get Super Thanks and Super Chat. But what people were concerned about was that brother, through the monetization that happens on 500Tiber, brother, one gets membership and super thanks. It is practically not possible to earn from this. Because brother, it is such a subscribers. Only a few views come. If you look at that, who will join the membership? Who will give him super thanks. and many people were concerned that YouTube is very difficult. It is very difficult to earn money from YouTube. So what a great thing YouTube has done is they just rolled out an update. You can also see that on 25 March 2026, the same update has been released that earn every year, brother, now you will be able to start earning a little early. Whatever was their shopping affiliate program, they expanded it and in 2023, the offer which was earlier given to 20,000 subscribers, was now Some people used to get this shopping affiliate program after having 10,000 subscribers. But now through this update, you will be able to use the shopping feature only on 500 subscribers. Now brother, if you are saying that this shopping feature is so good then how much can one earn from it which our own YouTube channel has update is also coming. We will talk about that too. Now friends, you will see a YouTube channel program, you can clearly see here. orders have been placed by people. And If I change the date here, see this is for the last 90 days. If I show you the month of March, then in the month of March we have earned ₹17,000 from this affiliate program. Now friends, you will be able to see this update clearly here. Look here, this is the official blog of YouTube and they have announced this update there. what are the things in it, brother, now on 500 subscribers you will be able to unlock YouTube shopping and you can also become a part of the affiliate shopping program and many people are starting to earn money from this. Now brother, the concern you had was that we have a small channel and let me tell you this thing that the people who are able to earn the most from this are those who tag products in short videos. How to tag a product in a short video ? Once you understand the process of how to tag, you can also start earning. But before that, let me show you another update which is a very good update that now YouTube Creator Partnership has also come. Brother, what is there in Creator Partnership is that all the want to reach out to you and run promotions on your YouTube channel will dashboard will be created for you also in the Earn section of YouTube and you can search in it if you want to search for keywords, you want to search for AI that tell me the names of such creators who make sports gear. So brands can send you promotions directly from there. what details will be shown to the brands. There you can see how many average views are coming ? How much is the engagement? What are the average views? How much is the engagement? What is the creator's overview? What do they focus on while creating content? So this is also going to Friends, now we understand how to tag your product in any short video. Let Here you will see a short video which has 49 lakh views. We clicked on it and here you can learn how to tag products using the shopping feature. video has opened here. This is the title of the video here. This is the description. Here We clicked on Products and ticked the pencil icon here. Now here I can go to the shops and click on Flipkart, NYK, MNTRA. and I will write it here. Look, all the products have come here, there is a screen protector here. There is a backguard here. Now what is there in this, brother, this is a product of ₹139 and if anyone buys it from here then he will get a commission of 8%. If around a product saying that brother, I have ordered this product. There is such a review of it or you can also make videos on the best products which will increase the earning potential. Along with this, you can see one more thing that the partnership which we were talking about in the earn section has also gone live here. but now it is written as Creator Partnership. Here is our media kit, it tells us what our audience is more interested in, that is, brother, there is more interest in South Asian movies. After that there is interest on green living. Here we can click on our media kit. Here you will get a complete overview of my YouTube channel, how many subscribers I have, how many videos I have uploaded. How many unique viewers are coming ? How many views are you getting? How many returning viewers are there? How many people come back and Where are people watching our videos from ? What is the age group, what is the gender? So from which view media can you see all these details. 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