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Wow, YouTube just slashed its monetization requirement in half
If you’ve ever seen one of my YouTube videos, you know I’m a MASSIVE fan of the Medium platform.
One of the main reasons for that is the relatively low bar for monetization.
While YouTube requires 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours (over the past 365 days), Medium just asks you to have 100 followers and one published article to be considered.
The end result is that small-time creators can start getting paid a fair wage for their work almost immediately.
That makes Medium, in my humble opinion, the best platform to get started on if you want to make money online fairly quickly.
I also think Medium is far superior to freelancing because your articles have the potential to pay you forever.
Contrast that with YouTube, where it can take months — and frequently years — to see a dime for your hard work.
The grind
Take me, for example. I started writing on Medium back in late August.
Since then, I’ve been paid approximately $14,250 (in Canadian dollars, which is my home currency) for my work here.
Meanwhile, I posted my first YouTube video in late September — one month later — and have published some 40…
