What is public watch hours in youtube?
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Public watch hours are the total time people have spent watching your public videos over the last 12 months. It’s a key metric for joining the YouTube Partner Program. You need 4,000 hours to qualify for monetization. Importantly, watch time from private videos, unlisted videos, deleted content, and most YouTube Shorts views does not count toward this total. It's all about valid hours from your public, long-form content. Hope that clears it up for you, eh?