Anna Washenko / Engadget ·
YouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams
The retailer just finally joined YouTube Shopping's affiliate program.
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4 stories tracking Shorts, ranked newest first, from TechSnif's permanent archive.
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Emma Roth / The Verge ·
YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos
By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1
YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge ·
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes
All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.