Youtube has been around since 2005 and even today, it’s still growing with over 1 Billion users visiting their site monthly. Youtube allows you to become an entrepreneur from the comfort of your own home, all you need is a camera and some creativity! If you’re wondering how to get money from Youtube, there are several monetization methods that can help you earn money from your videos. Here’s some ideas on how to get money from Youtube
Setting up your channel
The first step to making money on YouTube is creating a strong channel and learning how to run it. Many channels fail simply because they are poorly run, and it takes quite a bit of effort and creativity. With that in mind, we recommend these five core strategies for getting viewers, subscribers, and revenue
Setting goals
Before you can start getting paid for your videos, you’ll need to create a YouTube channel and set some goals. In addition to choosing a username, come up with an overarching goal for your channel. Is it informational? How-to videos? Entertainment? It’s important that you have at least one goal in mind before you upload your first video.
This will help drive decisions later on when deciding what types of videos to create, what content is most likely to succeed and who should watch them. At minimum, pick two objectives: 1) how many subscribers do you want and 2) how much money do you want to make each month through ads.
Getting videos published
Getting on YouTube is simple and free. Uploading your video, however, can be a little more challenging. You’ll have to follow some specific guidelines for encoding and uploading. Make sure you have good lighting (not too dark) and good audio quality (no background noise).
This is especially important if you plan on monetizing your videos, because users will not only expect a high-quality product but won’t watch videos with poor quality either.
Once you get that down pat, it’s time to think about tags and keywords—the metadata associated with your video that helps people find it when they search for something related in Google or Bing Search or YouTube itself.
Direct ads
Setting up an account on AdSense allows you to receive a portion of ad revenue every time someone clicks on your YouTube video. It’s a freemium service (which means you need to have a registered YouTube channel with at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of total watch time over that period before it can be activated).
Advertisers will place bids against your videos; when one of their ads is selected, they’ll pay Google for each click and impression. The higher you bid for an ad spot, the more likely it is that yours will be chosen.
However, if advertisers see no engagement with your content or if their bids are surpassed by another advertiser, their ads won’t run at all.
Monetize your content through affiliate marketing
Let’s start with affiliate marketing, a strategy that can make you money right away, with little risk. Affiliate marketing is an attractive option for bloggers because you don’t have to put down any cash upfront—instead,
you sign up for free and wait for advertisers looking for your audience (in other words, it’s all about who you know) to pay you commissions of anywhere between 3 percent and 15 percent per sale.
Of course, those commissions add up quickly if your content generates high volumes of traffic or gets picked up by popular media outlets. And unlike many traditional jobs where paychecks come monthly or annually, affiliate marketers receive payments based on sales every time someone clicks their links.
Adding your channel to Google AdSense
When you sign up for AdSense, Google will ask if you want your channel included. If not, there’s a good chance that when your videos hit certain milestones—say 10,000 views or more—they’ll become eligible and you can apply.
Google AdSense works by serving relevant ads at regular intervals throughout your video (for example: after every few seconds). If a viewer clicks on an ad, then both you and Google make some cash.
These amounts differ depending on what type of content you’re creating and how often people are watching it; however, most YouTube channels see about $2-$4 per 1,000 views for non-skippable ads.
To get started with AdSense, simply go to your account page and click Get paid under Channel earnings. You’ll be asked to submit an application form with information like company address, website URL, business registration number, estimated monthly income and Adsense preferences.
Google usually processes these applications within 2–3 days but may take longer during busy times (like holiday seasons) so be patient! Once approved you should be able to start seeing income from your channel within 30 days. Learn more here .
Monetizing with Links
You can monetize a YouTube channel by inserting links within your videos. Make sure you have a linkable asset, like a button or text overlay, in your video. Once clicked, it will take users to another page that promotes your products or services.
There are two ways of doing so: through Google AdSense and Affiliate Links (for example through Amazon Associates). When you sign up for AdSense make sure that you’re agreeing with their policies as well as Google’s terms of service.
Monetizing with Affiliate Links is fairly easy but you’ll want to carefully select what products and services you’re going to promote because if they don’t match up with your audience’s interests, they won’t click on them.
