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The initial hurdle many face is the sheer scale of the numbers involved in YouTube monetization. With an understanding that these thresholds are often perceived as intimidating, Matt emphasizes the importance of reframing this as simply a mathematical problem. He shares that if you upload one video each day for a month—each about 12 minutes long—and achieve an average view duration of around 50%, you would need roughly 40,000 total views to reach that coveted 4,000 hours of watch time.