Youtube announced a change for youtube partners. Channels with fewer than 1,000 subs or 4,000 watch hours within the past 12 months will no longer be able to earn money on YouTube.
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/01/additional-changes-to-youtube-partner.html
I already noticed that youtube invests more and more in the big content creators who generate a lot of views for their add platform. For example the video's of those partners are not re-encoded to a lower quality and now they raise the bar even more so only the big ones remain 'partner'.
I hope this will give a boost to Dtube were small content creators are rewarded from the first vote they make and everyone can show their content in the original quality they intended it to be viewed. I only hope Dtube and the underlying IPFS platform can scale with the growth that we see now and we will see in the near future.
Now is the time to advertise Dtube to your surroundings as the superior platform. Lets make the steem ecosystem big!