YouTube partner earnings overview

The YouTube Partner Program lets creators monetize their content on YouTube. Creators can earn money from advertisements served on their videos and from YouTube Red subscribers watching their content. You can apply to join the YouTube Partner Program from your account in Creator Studio.

How do I earn revenue?

When you enable your channel for monetization, you can turn on ads for your videos and earn revenue from them. Ads are served through the AdSense auction, DoubleClick, and other YouTube-sold sources. Learn more about how ads show on videos you monetize.

There are no guarantees under the YouTube partner agreement about how much, or whether, you will be paid. Earnings are generated based on a share of advertising revenue generated when people view your video. More views may lead to more revenue.

What's my revenue share?

You can review your YouTube Content License Agreement for specific details about your ad revenue share:

Sign in to your Google account.
Go to your account Monetization tab.
Choose the option to "Review Terms of Service."

How do I get paid?

Unless you're part of a multi-channel networks (MCN), all payments are issued through your AdSense account once the earnings have been finalized.

In order to receive your payments, you need to sign into your AdSense account and make sure you have resolved all payment holds.

Once your holds are resolved you will be paid when your earnings reach your local payment threshold (as long as monetization is not suspended for your channel and you're in compliance with our policies).

When do I get paid?

Once you’ve associated an AdSense account with your Google account, you can be paid when:

Your earnings reach your local payment threshold, and
There are no holds on your account, and
Monetization is not suspended for your channel, and
You're in compliance with our policies.

Finalized earnings are not transferred to AdSense until about halfway through the following month (i.e. earnings accrued in June will be transferred to AdSense in mid-July).

Finalized YouTube earnings for the previous month are added to your AdSense account balance between the 10th and 14th of the month and paid out that month if your total balance has reached the payment threshold and if you have no payment holds.

For example, if you’re located in the United States and your balance exceeds $100 at the end of June, we'll send you a payment in July.

More information about specific payments can be found in the AdSense Help Center.