Monetise Your YouTube Videos
Case Study:
A friend of mine created his YouTube channel when he started studying in China. Due to the language used in his Vblog, his videos are meant only for a limited audience in a very small state of India. However, young people in the state are so excited to learn about China, Chinese customs, their people and development etc.
In a short span of 14 days, his channel got over 20,000 subscribers. I found that 1000s of people are watching his regularly uploaded videos. He started his Vblog with his mobile camera, then he used a simple video editing software tool. As he started getting some income from his channel, he bought a small video camera and a drone camera to create quality YouTube videos. He is still working with his channel and enjoying an increasing income.
Who can do this?
What skills should you have for this?
Pre-requisites to monetize my YouTube channel?
To monetize your YouTube channel, ensure that you have these requirements:
- Is your country eligible? The YouTube Partner Program (YPP) is available to eligible video creators in certain countries. For example, you are eligible if you live in India.
- Have you over 1,000 subscribers? You need at least 1,000 subscribers on your YouTube channel.
- Have they watches 4,000 hours over the last 12 months? If yes, you are eligible to apply.
- Follow YouTube’s community guidelines. Make sure you understand the guidelines about spam, impersonation, or fake engagement on your channel.
- Have a Google AdSense account? If not, create an AdSense account and wait for approval.
After you have these requirements, you can apply for the YouTube Partner Program. After you have applied, YouTube’s team will review if your channel has not violated YouTube’s monetization, content, and copyright policies. Once approved, you can start earning money through various features such as ads, channel memberships, shopping, super chat, super thanks, and YouTube premium. You can see your earnings in your AdSense account.
More tips to monetising your videos
- More views your videos get, more money you’ll make. So, share your videos anywhere possible and encourages viewers to share, subscribe, and leave comments.
- You can link to Amazon products from your videos. For this, you should be an Amazon associate.
- You can join any other affiliate programs to promote their products.
- You can even sell directly on YouTube if you have your own products.
- You can link to your blog for increasing traffic.
- And more others.
Tips to grow your YouTube channel viewership
- Create your channel: If you don’t have one yet, create your YouTube channel now. Think of a specific topic to be interested and helpful to visitors. Choose only the topic familiar to you and can work with. Visit www.youtube.com, sign up and create your channel with a name.
- Start small: Don’t invest a huge amount in the beginning. You can start shooting videos with your smartphone camera. Upload and experiment.
- Find what’s missing in other videos: View other related videos your topic and find any missing story or idea with them. Fill it up with your videos.
- Engage with your audience: Answer the comments from your audience and learn what they expect from you.
- Know your audience: Find out what they like and what they don’t like. Check your most viewed videos and learn why they are so popular.
- Learn from competitors: Study the videos of your competitors and learn why their videos are working.
- Experiment: Try new concepts and produce exciting videos to make your audience happy.
- Upload regularly: Remember some of the viewers are eagerly waiting for next videos from you. Always upload fresh new videos regularly. If not, they may forget your channel.
- Make them subscribe and share: Upload amazing videos and ask viewers for subscribing your channel to notify them your next wonderful content. Also make them share your video to reach other people in or out of YouTube.
- Keep relationship with other YouTubers: Try to keep good relationship with other YouTubers and work together to achieve your goals quickly.
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