A little while ago, we wrote a post on our latest YouTube stats. Since our last update, we've written a series of posts for 
It seems pretty crazy that it took us 3 months to get our first 100,000 views on our channel and just 6 more days to get our next 100,000 views.
The graph below shows our minutes watched each day. There still seems to be a strong upward trend but we'll have to see if that continues. It seems like every couple of weeks, YouTube ranks us lower for a few days before the next big uptrend resumes. That de-ranking seems to be happening again right now. I still don't understand why this happens, but as I said in a previous post, I think they're running some kind of test to determine how good our content actually is.
I prefer to view this same graph with "Rolling 7-day averages" because I feel like it provides a better picture of performance over time than the "Daily" graph above. It does a lot to smooth out the daily fluctuations as is a little easier on the eyes.
Below is our net subscribers gained per day. About a month ago, we were growing at about 15 subscribers per day, and the last few days, we've been gaining anywhere between 200-300.
Our channel hasn't yet been approved by YouTube for monetization (the ability to put ads on our videos) but we aren't too concerned about that. In fact, we're not sure if we'll ever put ads on our videos because we think it detracts from the user experience.
Influencer marketing is how we're planning to make the real money, so it's really no big deal if they never approve our channel for monetization.
In the screenshot below, you can see what we see in regards to our monetization status. Before, it said they were in a backlog and they hoped to be caught up by the end of April. Now, it says the same thing, except for they'll be caught up by the end of June.
In talking to a friend of ours on Steemit, he said they've been saying the same thing to him and his channel since January.
Do you have a YouTube channel? If so, have you been approved for monetization in the recent past? We're wondering if they are approving anyone these days?