Get your YouTube channel monetized. Once.
This is not trying to be the ultimate YouTube course. It is about one thing: getting into the YouTube Partner Program. Viktor has done it, so he can teach you how to do it. It is not easy, but it is doable.
Do it now. Next year it is twice as hard.
To be invited into the Partner Program you need 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of public watch time in twelve months. From 1 February 2027 YouTube doubles the watch time requirement for new applicants to 8,000 hours. Mr Hat Man gets around 8,000 hours a month, so once you have traction it is easy. Getting the traction is the work.
- 1,000subscribers
- 4,000watch hours in twelve months, until 31 January 2027
- 8,000watch hours for new applicants from 1 February 2027
YouTube is not going to send you visitors.
It might send a trickle. What YouTube wants to see is how good a promoter you are. Can you create content people want to see? Can you create fans who come back? Can you find the videos people are already watching, and make a better one? That is the essence of YouTube. It is psychology: find videos that people want to see, and make a better one.
Do not worry about the money in the beginning. When you are first getting started you will not make any. You are working for free, making content for YouTube, and they keep all the revenue. That is how it works. Once you are in the Partner Program you share the advertising revenue.
Then the next lesson: ad revenue only counts when people watch the ad. If a viewer skips it, you get nothing. So you teach your fans that watching the ads is how they support the channel. They can also support it directly: live streams, live events, interviews and donations all pay. Viktor has done all of these, and they are all inside the course.
The road to the Partner Program.
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The two numbers
1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours: what counts, what does not, and how to get there before February 2027.
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Find it, then beat it
How to find the videos people already want, and make a better one. Titles, thumbnails, end screens, and the mindset that makes fans come back.
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Get paid more than one way
Ads people actually watch, live streams, live events, interviews, memberships and donations, all from a channel that has done each of them.
The original training on the channel.
Mr Hat Man Original Training
8 videos: how to double your views, how to get more views, growth mindset, YouTube SEO tools, thumbnails.
The playlistThe tutorials people keep finding
Fix DPC Watchdog Violation in one minute (25 thousand views), create a Google Custom Search API key (15 thousand), convert a YouTube video to WAV (14 thousand), set up a mobile office in your car (8.4 thousand).
The DPC Watchdog fix
Adobe Premiere Pro for beginners, 2025
Video editing from the start, and how to edit PS5 4K video.
Watch the tutorialMarketing and SEO, since 2013
Search Triggers keyword tool demos, SEO 2.0, email marketing, Facebook, SociSNAP, and the interviews with Bob Heyman, John Demartini and Neil Patel.
All playlists
The Tube Relevance site is next.
Leave your name and Viktor will tell you when the course opens. Earthgrid is Viktor's company, and it builds these sites.