YouTube has been a popular video hosting site for years. Millions of people log in every day to watch videos on their favorite channels and discover new ones. With the right know-how, you can make money with your own YouTube channel! In this blog post, we will show you 4 different ways that you can monetize your YouTube content and start earning some cash from it today!
Google AdSense
The first way to make money on YouTube is with Google AdSense. This is a program that allows you to display ads on your videos and any website, blog, or app where they are hosted! You can choose how many ads you want to run before the video starts playing as well as what type of advertisements will show up in the ad space. All you have to do is click “monetize my videos” when uploading them for YouTube approval and then fill out some basic information about yourself so that advertisers know who their audience might be.
Once approved by Google AdSense and accepted into the YouTube Partner Program, these ads will appear on your content instead of an advertisement banner at the bottom like we’ve seen from other platforms. They’ll also occasionally pop-up during playback if enough time has passed since the last one was watched.
You’ll earn a percentage of the amount advertisers pay to YouTube, with payment sent each month.
Sponsorships
The second way to make money on YouTube is with sponsorships. This is similar to a content creator sponsorship in that they can offer up their channel for sponsored campaigns from brands.
YouTube allows creators to charge sponsors money to promote products or services through video-based ads and/or product placements. The more subscribers you have on your YouTube account, the higher price tag you’ll be able to set for these types of deals.
Affiliate Marketing
Another great way to make money on YouTube is with affiliate marketing. This type of monetization can be done through product reviews, sponsored content or a combination of the two. With this type of sponsorship, creators will need to set up an account in order for viewers to purchase items they see being reviewed by clicking the links that are provided in the video description box below it.
Here’s a great site about affiliate marketing if you’re interested in learning more.
Merchandise
The final way to make money on YouTube is through merchandise. A lot of creators will have to start at a smaller scale and figure out what their market likes before investing in this option, but once you find something that works it can be very lucrative.
One example of a medium-sized channel that does well with merchandising is ‘DanTDM’ who has over 18 million subscribers on his channel. He sells all sorts of apparel and accessories as well as plushies, stickers and more!
However, no matter which of the above ways to make money you choose, the amount of money you make on YouTube will always depend on the amount of views your videos are getting. So it’s important to focus on building a solid fanbase first before even thinking about monetizing your YouTube channel.