YouTube Monetization Checker

We read public signals from the channel's own pages: the subscriber count on its header, whether it has memberships or its own store (Partner Program features), and whether ads actually run on its recent long-form videos. Each check shows you every signal we found — pass, fail, or unknown — instead of a bare yes/no.

We don't claim a made-up accuracy percentage like some tools do. In late 2023 YouTube removed the public monetization flag, so every monetization checker YouTube creators can find online, including this one, infers status from public signals. We tell you our confidence level and show the evidence; the only authoritative source is the channel owner's own YouTube Studio.

Since June 2021 (November 2020 in the US), YouTube can run ads on videos from channels that are not in the Partner Program — and the creator earns nothing from them. That's why seeing an ad is a positive signal but never proof, and why we weigh multiple signals together.

Partly. Open the channel page and look for a Join button or a Store tab — memberships and connecting a store are only offered to Partner Program channels, though from the 500-subscriber tier. Then play a few recent long-form videos and watch for ads. The old trick of searching the page source for is_monetization_enabled stopped working in November 2023; the flag is gone. A checker does the same look-around faster and shows you what it found.

Yes — paste any video URL (youtube.com/watch, youtu.be, or Shorts) and you'll get the video's ad status, ad formats (pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll) and mid-roll break timestamps, plus the full channel-level check.

There are two tiers. Fan funding: 500 subscribers plus 3 public uploads in 90 days, and either 3,000 watch hours in the last year or 3M Shorts views in 90 days. Full ad revenue: 1,000 subscribers, and either 4,000 public watch hours in the last year or 10M Shorts views in 90 days. From February 1, 2027, new applicants for ad revenue need 8,000 public watch hours or 20M Shorts views instead. Subscribers stay at 1,000, and fan funding doesn't change.

It depends mostly on niche. Finance channels can earn $12–30 per 1,000 views, tech $8–15, gaming $2–7, entertainment $2–5. Our estimate lets you pick the niche instead of pretending one rate fits every channel.

No login, no ads, nothing to install. Paste a channel and check — you get 20 free checks a day without an account. If you'd rather check while browsing YouTube, our free Chrome extension runs the same check on channel and video pages, from the same 20 a day.

No. YouTube never publishes a channel's earnings, and sites that show a figure multiply estimated views by an assumed rate. What can be checked from outside is whether a channel is monetized, which is what this tool does.

Yes, through the 500-subscriber fan funding tier: memberships, Super Thanks, Super Chat and Shopping, but no share of ad revenue. A Join button on a channel under 1,000 subscribers means it's in the Partner Program, most likely through that tier.

Partly. Ads are sampled on long-form videos, so a channel that only posts Shorts has no ad signal to read. The result then rests on subscribers, memberships and the store, and often comes back as Unable to Determine rather than a guess.

It means the signals disagree or are individually ambiguous — for example, memberships exist from the 500-subscriber tier (below full monetization), and ads can run on non-partner channels. When the evidence is mixed, we say so instead of guessing.