YouTube Shorts 10 Million Views Tracker

YouTube’s rule, in its words

YouTube’s changes to the Partner Program say that from 1 February 2027, “creators will now need to maintain 10M qualified Shorts views over the last 90 days” to earn each month from the Shorts Creator Pool. Its Shorts monetization page sets the dates. Views “will be measured against this threshold over the 90 day period ending on the 15th day of the calendar month preceding the month for which earnings are being calculated.”

Missing the line pauses Shorts revenue only. YouTube says a channel below it is not removed from YPP, and it “will not impact other YPP earnings, including long-form video.” Its announcement of 10 August 2026 adds that Shorts revenue sharing resumes automatically once a channel reaches 10 million again.

Which 90 days decide each month

Each earnings month has its own window: the 90 days ending on the 15th of the month before. The first month under the rule is February 2027, and its window opens on 18 October 2026.

These dates are our arithmetic, counting the 15th as the last day, and the tracker uses the same sums. YouTube doesn’t say whether the 15th itself falls inside the window, so allow a day either way. Our Shorts monetization guide walks through the same table.

Which number to enter

Use engaged views on your Shorts, not the view count under each Short. Since 31 March 2025 that public count includes every start and replay. YouTube kept the older measure in Analytics as Engaged views, and its Shorts help page says the Partner Program and Shorts revenue sharing are based on “Engaged Shorts views.”

YouTube’s blog defines an engaged view as “clicking to watch or watching past the initial seconds”. Three more rules shrink the number that counts:

• Public, in the Shorts Feed. The YPP page counts “Qualified views from Shorts you’ve set public that appear in the Shorts Feed”. Private, unlisted and deleted Shorts, ad campaigns and Image Posts don’t count.
• No paid views. “Views and watch time generated from paid ad campaigns don’t count toward thresholds for YouTube Partner Program eligibility” (Choose how you want to monetize).
• No ineligible views. For payments, YouTube “won’t count engaged views that are ineligible”, such as reuploads or bot views (Shorts monetization policies).

YouTube Analytics shows the Engaged views metric, and its Advanced Mode can “get specific data, compare performance, and export data” (Get started with YouTube Analytics). Our suggestion: set the range to the last 90 days and read engaged views on your Shorts, or export them by day for the daily log. Menus may differ by app version.

How the tracker does the sums

• Windows are the 90 calendar days ending on the 15th of the month before each earnings month. The tracker counts whole dates, so your time zone doesn’t move them.
• Quick check divides what is left to reach 10 million by the days left in the next window. To know how many of your 90 days already fall inside that window, it assumes they were spread evenly. That part is our estimate; a daily log replaces it with your real days.
• Daily log adds each day to the 89 before it. Until 90 days are logged, the total is a floor and the chart draws it dashed. A missing day between two logged days counts as 0, and a line the tracker cannot read is listed, not guessed. When a line has more than one column after the date, it uses the first number and says so. It reads thousands separators only inside quotes or when the line holds one number after the date.
• Days after your log are paced evenly: the views still needed, divided by the days left.
• No money. The tracker counts views only. YouTube publishes no fixed rate per view, so it makes no earnings estimate.

What moves the 90-day number

An engaged view needs viewers to click to watch or stay past the first seconds. Our view: those seconds are where editing helps most. The Shorts retention guide explains engaged views and how to read where viewers leave, and how to edit YouTube Shorts starts with the opening line.

Older Shorts count too, by our reading: the rule counts views inside the window, whenever the Short was posted. The YouTube Shorts monetization guide covers everything else that changes on 1 February 2027, from new entry thresholds to the terms you must accept by 31 January.