Inactive 6 Months? YouTube May Turn Off Monetization

Under the heading "Stay active to keep making money", YouTube writes that to focus its support on creators who are active and engaged with the community, it may turn off monetization on channels that have not uploaded a video or posted to the Posts tab for 6 months or more.

The wording is "may", so it is a possibility YouTube reserves, not an automatic switch.

A 24/7 channel that runs one long-lived stream can go months without a new upload. The help page does not say whether an ongoing live stream counts as activity. We have not found a statement either way, so we cannot tell you that streams do or do not count.

What is clear from the text is the two actions it names: uploading a video and posting to the Posts tab.

YouCast turns the videos you upload into a 24/7 live stream that runs from the cloud, to YouTube and, with a stream key, to Twitch, Kick and Instagram, so there is no encoder to configure, no computer to keep awake and no home upload line to saturate.

A running stream may not count as activity under this rule, so do not rely on it. Use the time YouCast saves you to upload a new video or add a Post on a regular schedule.

You can try one stream on the free trial and add more streams as the channel grows.