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YouTube Shorts monetization policies

YouTube Help · support.google.com Free Intermediate

How Shorts ad revenue is pooled and shared. Revenue from the Shorts feed goes into a Creator Pool split by each creator's share of engaged views in a country, and monetising creators keep 45% of their allocation whether or not they used music.

  • A Shorts-only channel earns from a pooled share, not from the ads shown on its own videos.
  • Creators keep 45% of their allocated Shorts revenue.
  • Private, unlisted and deleted Shorts do not count towards eligibility.
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