For someone with a small YouTube channel, are there any reasons not to become a partner?

The process has always struck me as a little opaque as to who gets what benefits. As a partner, you might be able to do things like customize your thumbnails, which can make your videos more enticing than the three random ones YouTube generates. Your videos might also show up as Featured Videos once in a while.

I don't see any real downside.

And to maximize your views, follow the tips in the YouTube Creator Playbook:

http://www.youtube.com/yt/creators/playbook.html

growing to be large on youtube will be a really sluggish procedure, I recommend you in simple terms shop making video's and provides you a intending to them,cause them to humorous or serious (humorous works perfect) also shop your video's consistent and keep on with one typical topic ( elegance, dance, music, comedy, vlogs, spoofs) you may replace it up once you change into extra renowned on youtube and also attempt to entice visitors in by technique of doing some thing like a giveaway or some thing also make your video's for a reason and dont educate how a lot you wanna be large, change right into a one hit ask your self. sturdy success.

As for as I know Youtube channel partner is for earning money from your videos. If you can sure you can become a partner but it won't do you any good if you have not many people watching your vids. Remember, you can only earn money through your original videos, not from random clips.

Cuz partners sounds like somethn that ur already not a partg of