{"id":128884,"date":"2026-08-18T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/youtube-to-change-view-count-from-august-24-creators-may-see-bigger-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:35:49","slug":"youtube-to-change-view-count-from-august-24-creators-may-see-bigger-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/youtube-to-change-view-count-from-august-24-creators-may-see-bigger-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube to change view count from August 24; creators may see bigger numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From August 24, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing, matching the standard already used for Shorts, TikTok and Instagram. The old 30 second threshold survives as &#8220;Engaged views&#8221; inside Analytics Advanced Mode. Public counts will climb faster, but earnings and YouTube Partner Program eligibility stay unchanged, arriving just a week after YouTube raised monetisation thresholds for new creators.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From August 24, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing, matching the standard already used for Shorts, TikTok and Instagram. The old 30 second threshold survives as &#8220;Engaged views&#8221; inside Analytics Advanced Mode. Public counts will climb faster, but earnings and YouTube Partner Program eligibility stay unchanged, arriving just a week after&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/youtube-to-change-view-count-from-august-24-creators-may-see-bigger-numbers\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouTube to change view count from August 24; creators may see bigger numbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":128885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}