Monetise Shorts as a rights holder

These features are only available to partners who use YouTube Studio Content Manager who accept new terms.

To monetise a Short as a rights holder, a Short needs to have an active upload claim created and have a monetisation upload policy applied.

Newly created Shorts may monetise if your default upload policy is to monetise. If you want to monetise older Shorts created before February 2023, you can create or reopen upload claims on them and apply a monetisation policy.

Before you begin creating claims, make sure that you understand and adhere to the YouTube Shorts monetisation policies.

Create a claim on a Short

To create a claim on a Short directly in Studio Content Manager:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Videos .
3. Find the Short and click its title.
4. On the Video details page, from the left menu, select Rights management .
5. Choose a monetising upload policy.
6. Click SAVE.

To create a claim on a Short using a content delivery template:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Content Delivery .
3. Click the Templates tab.
4. Download the Web video – Update template. Learn more about delivering content using templates.
5. Populate the list of video IDs to update in the video_id column and Monetise in all countries (or other policy name that allows monetisation) in the usage_policy column.
   Note: You may also have to add a chosen video/asset title in the Title column and asset ownership (e.g. WW) in the Ownership column in case there is no first-party claim created.
6. Save the file.
7. Go back to the Content Delivery page and click the My packages tab.
8. Click VALIDATE & UPLOAD to validate and upload the file.

Reopen a closed claim on a Short

To reopen a claim closed due to receiving a copyright claim or being manually closed:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Claimed videos .
3. In the filter bar click Source Partner-provided videos APPLY.
4. Click the filter bar and apply two more filters:
   • YouTube Shorts Yes APPLY.
   • Claim status Inactive APPLY.
5. Find the claimed video and click its title.
6. Under Inactive – Yours, click DETAILS.
7. Click RECLAIM CLAIM.

As with long-form videos, we don't allow using policies with match conditions as upload policies. However, you can use the territory criteria and monetise in selected countries/regions only.

Bear in mind: To monetise any content on YouTube, including Shorts, your channel must follow the YouTube channel monetisation policies, which includes our policies on repetitious and reused content. Channels must also adhere to YouTube's Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, copyright and Google AdSense programme policies.