I have been on YouTube since 2008 and have other channels that are monetized. I don't have any strikes against any of my channels and as you can see at the top of the screenshot I'm "Partner Verified." I applied for monetization on this channel almost a month ago. I had met all the criteria and I'm still waiting. I almost have 2,000 subscribers on that channel. There shouldn't be an issue.

When you click on Learn More it says, "We'll email you a decision, usually within a week.
Applications for the YouTube Partner Program are taking longer than normal to process. We hope to be able to review these applications soon. Thank you for your patience in the meantime."

I almost don't expect to hear from them anytime soon. So many people have gotten their channels demonitized and they seemingly aren't letting new people in at a very fast rate.

I like the YouTube platform and there is a good community out there but the Adpocolypse is continuing on. I want to get to 500,000 subscribers by the end of 2008 on this channel but it gets frustrating if I can't monitize it with the ads.

I believe that STEEM will be a honey badger taking a bite out of Facebook, YouTube, Instagram......etc. The smartest thing those companies could do is launch their own Crypto Currencies to do the same thing. They probably won't anytime soon though.

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