[0:00] YouTube has been rolling out new
[0:01] monetization requirements for 2026. And
[0:03] one of the recent monetization
[0:05] requirements that have been rolled back
[0:07] in into YouTube monetization is now the
[0:09] pin verification. Pin verification is
[0:12] now compulsory for anyone who is going
[0:14] to be applying for YouTube monetization
[0:16] in 2026. As of early last year, 2025,
[0:20] pin verification was an option when it
[0:22] comes to Google AdSense. When I was
[0:24] applying for my YouTube monetization
[0:26] back in 2025, I did not do any form of
[0:30] in verification and that was because I
[0:32] choose the online verification which is
[0:35] a 10-minute verification you do just to
[0:37] avoid the pin verification. I did that
[0:40] and my application was successful. As of
[0:43] late January 2026, pin verification is
[0:46] now compulsory for anyone who is
[0:49] applying for YouTube monetization. I
[0:51] noticed this because of all my student I
[0:53] have been guiding in applying for
[0:55] YouTube monetization. All of my students
[0:57] I guide in applying for YouTube
[0:59] monetization starting from the late
[1:01] January 2026 up until this date I've
[1:05] been asked to do pin verification. Pin
[1:08] verification is now compulsory for
[1:10] anyone who is applying for YouTube
[1:12] monetization for the first time. So,
[1:14] starting from February 2026, as long as
[1:17] you're applying for YouTube monetization
[1:19] or as long as you're opening a Google
[1:21] AdSense account for the first time,
[1:24] you'll be asked to do pin verification
[1:27] is not a compulsory um policy that you
[1:30] have to do for you to move forward.
[1:32] Right now, in as much as you do the
[1:35] online verification, maybe some of you
[1:37] still will still go and choose 10 minute
[1:38] verification. In as much you still
[1:40] choose 10 minutes online verification.
[1:42] After your 10 minutes online
[1:44] verification, you will still be asked to
[1:47] do pin verification starting from
[1:49] February 2026 is now mandatory for
[1:52] anyone that will be applying for YouTube
[1:55] monetization. Now, some of you guys
[1:56] might not know this. Why Google AdSense
[1:58] always request for verification be the
[2:01] online verification or the pin
[2:02] verification which has now been brought
[2:05] back into Google AdSense. why they
[2:07] always request for verification is so
[2:09] that they make sure that the person they
[2:11] are interacting with is actually not a
[2:13] robot. That is why when you're doing
[2:15] that your online verification they
[2:17] usually tell you turn towards the left
[2:19] slowly and turn towards the right slowly
[2:21] so that they know that they actually not
[2:24] um relating to a robot. they actually
[2:26] relating to a physical person right now
[2:29] with the whole AI thing going on on the
[2:32] internet right AI can now do videos of
[2:35] people turning towards the camera slowly
[2:38] turning towards the left right hand
[2:39] slowly so that pin verification has been
[2:43] brought back into verification for
[2:46] Google AdSense so that that way they
[2:48] know they are going to be sending a pin
[2:49] to a postal office to your address and
[2:53] that way you are going to pick up that
[2:54] pin and then fill in that being on your
[2:56] computer. That way they know they
[2:58] actually interacting with a physical
[3:01] human being because trust me AI can do
[3:03] the same thing under online
[3:05] verification. I've seen a video of AI
[3:08] doing turn towards the left slowly and
[3:10] turn towards the right slowly. So the
[3:12] only way they can cut off that bridge in
[3:14] terms of knowing if these are physical
[3:16] people or if this is just an AI
[3:19] generated people is by sending pin to
[3:22] your mailing address. That's why pin
[3:24] verification is now brought back into
[3:27] Google AdSense verification. So now
[3:29] after doing your online verification
[3:31] which is a 10-minute verification you do
[3:33] in Google AdSense you do the facial
[3:35] verification after doing that facial
[3:37] verification you'll still be requested
[3:40] to do a pin verification so that that
[3:43] way Google AdSense actually know that
[3:46] they are relating to a real woman being
[3:49] that's just why they brought back pin
[3:51] verification into monetization again. So
[3:54] now moving on to the second requirement
[3:56] that was rolled out for YouTube
[3:57] monetization for 2026 is now the dual
[4:00] account suspension. Now let me repeat
[4:03] this again is now the dual account
[4:06] suspension. What does this mean? This
[4:08] actually means that if for example you
[4:11] have two YouTube channel on a mobile
[4:25] mobile phone, right? And channel A
[4:29] actually have a an issue with their
[4:32] monetization or with reuse content or
[4:35] something relating to that. For example,
[4:37] channel A in the same phone, right? You
[4:40] are still the owner of the account have
[4:42] issue with reuse content. If that issue
[4:45] was not treated or if that issue was not
[4:48] treat is going to affect your channel B
[4:52] right let's say for example I have two
[4:54] YouTube accounts on my phone right I run
[4:57] two YouTube channels right maybe I run
[4:59] this YouTube channel and I run a
[5:01] faceless YouTube channel for example if
[5:04] my faceless YouTube channel had an issue
[5:07] and I was not able to resolve that issue
[5:09] there's 100% chances that my main
[5:12] YouTube channel is going to get
[5:14] suspended ended because of my first
[5:16] YouTube account. That is what is going
[5:18] on on YouTube now. So any of you that
[5:21] have two YouTube accounts on your mobile
[5:23] phone, it's advisable you use one device
[5:27] for a different YouTube account and use
[5:29] another device for a different YouTube
[5:31] account. This is something that is going
[5:32] on currently on YouTube. I've seen this
[5:35] happen to a student of mine, right?
[5:37] That's why I'm actually sharing this
[5:39] right now. So never you in any
[5:42] circumstances give your email address
[5:45] that is linked to your YouTube account
[5:47] to another person right because if that
[5:50] person's account has an issue your
[5:54] account because your account has been lo
[5:57] there's 100% chances that your account
[5:59] is also going to get issues right that's
[6:02] why where YouTube always tell people
[6:05] like people who have reused content
[6:07] YouTube always give a statement that if
[6:09] the issue on this account is not
[6:11] resolved, there's 100% chances and
[6:13] there's 100% likely that the other
[6:15] accounts relating to this device is
[6:18] going to be getting affected. So never
[6:20] in any situation give your YouTube
[6:22] account to anybody, right? They should
[6:26] log it on their they should log in in on
[6:28] their mobile phone because if that
[6:30] person YouTube account has an issue is
[6:32] 100% chances that your account is also
[6:34] going to have an issue. Right? So most
[6:37] of my students I've been working through
[6:39] I've been working with we have not I've
[6:41] not been doing anything relating to
[6:43] that. So all I do is that we do on a
[6:45] video call and I guide you on what to
[6:47] do. So I don't do any form of um give me
[6:50] your email, your password and I log into
[6:52] my computer. I don't do that. I do it by
[6:56] either any dex or WhatsApp. Right? So
[6:59] never in any circumstances share your
[7:01] YouTube email address or give it to
[7:03] someone to login into their device
[7:06] because if that person's account have
[7:08] issue for example your account because
[7:12] your account has been logged into that
[7:14] phone is 100% likely if that person's
[7:17] account was not resolved with the issue
[7:19] the person is having and the account was
[7:21] terminated there's 100% chances that
[7:23] your account will also be terminated.
[7:26] That's the new policy going on on
[7:28] YouTube, right? I'm going to be leaving
[7:30] a statement in terms of reuse content.
[7:32] One of my students account, right? So
[7:34] that's why they always if you see people
[7:35] that have reused content or inauthentic
[7:38] content, they always state there that if
[7:40] this channel was app was not successful
[7:42] or something, it's 100% likely that
[7:44] other channel related to this device is
[7:47] always going to have issue or suspension
[7:49] issue. So that's something you should
[7:51] take note in 2025. Never you in any
[7:54] circumstances give anybody your YouTube
[7:57] account to log into the different device
[8:00] because that person's account might have
[8:02] issue in the future and because your
[8:04] account has been logged in into that
[8:06] device is going to affect your account
[8:08] in the future. So these are just the two
[8:11] new updates that have been rolled out on
[8:13] YouTube recently. Now I always advise
[8:15] students if you know you cannot apply
[8:17] for your YouTube monetization by
[8:18] yourself and you do not want to make any
[8:21] mistake in your application now that pin
[8:24] verification is now compulsory is always
[8:27] advisable you reach out to someone who
[8:29] you know that can actually guide you to
[8:32] apply for your YouTube monetization now
[8:34] because once your pin has been sent to
[8:37] your address three times and you could
[8:40] not get that pin or get the postal
[8:42] office or something that your account
[8:44] will stop showing ad.
[8:47] Right? And some of you might not know
[8:49] doing your online verification where you
[8:51] do where you turn your face towards the
[8:53] left where you turn your face towards
[8:54] the right. If your online verification
[8:56] was not successful up to five times that
[9:00] verification will closed from your
[9:02] AdSense account. I've seen it happen in
[9:04] a student account. Right? So you always
[9:06] have five times to try your online
[9:09] verification. If you try your online
[9:11] verification five times and it was not
[9:13] successful, your online verification
[9:15] will automatically closed.
[9:19] Right? I've seen this happen for a
[9:21] YouTube a YouTube student, right? So
[9:24] that is something you guys should take
[9:25] note of. So you guys should be careful
[9:27] for YouTube 2026. YouTube is not smiling
[9:30] in 2026. I feel like in 2026, YouTube
[9:33] might actually roll out new monetization
[9:36] um updates concerning maybe um their
[9:38] monetization requirements being 2,000
[9:41] subscribers or 5,000 um watch hour. I'm
[9:44] I'm very certain that that might happen
[9:46] in the future because a lot of people
[9:49] are getting into YouTube monetization.
[9:51] That's why pin verification is back into
[9:53] YouTube monetization because that pin
[9:55] verification they always want to make
[9:57] sure that they actually relating to a
[9:59] real woman being pin verification is now
[10:03] brought back into monetization. So a lot
[10:05] of you has to be careful concerning the
[10:07] kind of content you post containing the
[10:10] kind of things you say in your videos
[10:11] concerning the kind of um videos you
[10:13] create
[10:15] AI related video. If you create AI
[10:18] related video, the setting that that
[10:21] video is authentic is not that you go
[10:23] and copy um a a a story from somewhere
[10:27] and then create a video about it. They
[10:29] are still going to find out that that is
[10:31] not your original work. So you need to
[10:33] be careful for YouTube 2026. YouTube is
[10:37] not smiling. Trust me, a lot of accounts
[10:40] have been deleted. A lot of account has
[10:42] been suspended. A lot is still getting
[10:45] suspended. A lot of students have been
[10:47] reaching out to me for suspension
[10:48] accounts, for reuse content, all those
[10:51] kind of things. So, you need to be
[10:52] careful in the things you do on your
[10:54] channel in 2026. A lot of people are
[10:57] getting accepted into the platform. A
[10:59] lot of people are also getting kicked
[11:01] out into the platform. So, you need to
[11:03] be very careful on the things you do on
[11:06] your channel. Like I said, for any of
[11:08] you that want to um get your PIN faster
[11:11] in your postal office, there's actually
[11:13] a way you can put in your phone number
[11:15] so that it appears when your PIN arrive
[11:18] in the postal office. So that once they
[11:20] see your phone number there, the postal
[11:22] um officers can actually call you to
[11:24] come and picking your PIN. So you can
[11:25] actually reach out to me on Instagram
[11:27] for me to guide you on how to do that.
[11:29] So that your PIN once you get to postal
[11:31] office, they can call you to come and
[11:33] pick up your pin. So yeah, that's it
[11:35] about this video. I just wanted to share
[11:37] new YouTube monetization requirement for
[11:40] 2026. This is what is going on in 2026.
[11:43] YouTube is not smiling. If one of your
[11:45] accounts have issue is likely that other
[11:48] accounts that you operate on are 100% to
[11:51] have issues. So this is what is going on
[11:53] on YouTube. So, if this video was
[11:55] helpful to you, don't forget to give me
[11:56] a thumbs up and don't forget that you
[11:58] can always reach out to me on Instagram
[12:00] for a one-on-one guide on applying for
[12:02] your YouTube monetization so that you
[12:04] don't make any single mistake in your
[12:07] application. I'm going to see you guys
[12:09] in my next one. Don't forget that my
[12:10] online class is going to be coming up by
[12:13] the first week of April. A lot of
[12:14] students have been paying for this
[12:16] online class, so you want to make sure
[12:18] you grab your own seat for the online
[12:20] class. I'm going to catch you guys in
[12:22] the next one. And I have a welldetailed
[12:24] video concerning applying for YouTube
[12:25] monetization here on my channel. If this
[12:28] video was helpful to you, don't forget
[12:29] to like as well as subscribe to the
[12:31] channel. And I'll catch you guys in my
[12:34] next one. Bye-bye.