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  "name": "Do YouTube Shorts pay less than long-form videos?",
  "description": "Yes — dramatically. YouTube Shorts pay from a shared revenue pool that works out to roughly $0.03–$0.10 per 1,000 views in 2026, versus $2–$8 RPM for equivalent long-form ad revenue. In practice, Shorts pay 30–100× less per view than long-form on the same channel.",
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    "question": "Do YouTube Shorts pay less than long-form videos?",
    "shortAnswer": "Yes — dramatically. YouTube Shorts pay from a shared revenue pool that works out to roughly $0.03–$0.10 per 1,000 views in 2026, versus $2–$8 RPM for equivalent long-form ad revenue. In practice, Shorts pay 30–100× less per view than long-form on the same channel.",
    "tableTitle": "Shorts vs long-form payout per 1,000 views",
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      "Format",
      "Typical RPM",
      "1M views ≈"
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    "rows": [
      {
        "label": "Long-form (all niches)",
        "value": "$2.00–$8.00",
        "note": "$2,000–$8,000"
      },
      {
        "label": "Long-form (finance)",
        "value": "$12–$40",
        "note": "$12,000–$40,000"
      },
      {
        "label": "Shorts (pool)",
        "value": "$0.03–$0.10",
        "note": "$30–$100"
      },
      {
        "label": "Shorts (finance skew)",
        "value": "$0.08–$0.20",
        "note": "$80–$200"
      }
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    "context": "Shorts payouts come from a fixed pool YouTube splits across all Shorts views, regardless of who watched what ad. That structure caps the per-view payout — no matter how valuable your audience is, Shorts RPM stays in the pennies-per-1K range. Shorts still make sense for audience growth funneling into long-form, but they're not a direct ad-revenue play.",
    "methodology": "Long-form ranges from calculator medians; Shorts ranges from creator disclosures and YouTube's published Shorts fund methodology.",
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      {
        "label": "YouTube monetization requirements 2026",
        "to": "/blog/youtube-monetization-requirements-2026"
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