Have you noticed that your public watch hours have not been increasing over the past few days?
Are you concerned because you'll soon be applying for monetization and your watch hours are falling short of the required amount?
Are you worried that you'll lose your watch hours?
You don't have to worry.
Let's see what you can do about it.
Let's take a look at a case of public watch hours not been updated.
Here's a video that has recently been uploaded.
It was uploaded on October 1.
It has collected about 196 hours of watch time from October 1.
However, these watch hours have not been updated on the Monetization dashboard.
So, what should you do?
You have to be patient.
Public watch hours aren't updated in real time.
They're updated every few days.
The video was uploaded on October 1.
Let's check to see when the public watch hours were last updated.
Hover your mouse over the i icon.
You'll see that the hours were last updated on September 30.
This was before the video was uploaded on Oct 1.
It is now the 3rd of October. So, YouTube will soon update the public watch hours.
Let's wait and see for some time.
We can see that the public watch hours have been updated.
Your public watch hours will not be updated in the following instances:
1. Time generated by Unlisted, Private, or deleted videos
2. Time generated by active live streams.
3 Time generated by paid promotion through Google Ads campaigns
4. Time generated by views of non-monetizable content
5. Time generated by you viewing your own videos from either their Edit or Watch pages
So, if your public watch hours have not been updated, don't panic.
First, check when they were last updated.
And then wait for a few days.
The watch hours will be updated.
In our case, it took about three full days for the watch hours to be updated.
