Please Hustle Responsibly
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YouTube Just Raised the Monetization Bar (Again) (opens the original)
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If you’ve ever treated YouTube monetization like a finish line—run fast, hit 4,000 watch hours, earn 1,000 subscribers, pop champagne on your way to riches—YouTube just moved the goalposts. Starting February 2027, the YouTube Partner Program thresholds will be double what they are now: 8,000 watch hours instead of 4,000, and 20 million Shorts views instead of 10 million. When I first heard this, my first thought was this has something to do with quality control. In practice, it likely reads like
Why I moved Please Hustle Responsibly from Substack to beehiiv (opens the original)
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I started this newsletter, Please Hustle Responsibly, here on Substack the way most good internet things start: half conviction, half curiosity, and a dangerous amount of optimism. At the time, Substack felt like the cleanest version of “just ship it.” No overthinking about fonts and colors. Just me, a blank page, and my notes app (which wasn’t great for long-form writing) telling me to write the thing and hit send. It gave me permission to show up before I had the whole brand figured out—before
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