We have all heard stories of people earning a regular income via YouTube and some of us have also wondered if it is something that we could be doing too!
The answer is quite simply – yes!
While earning thousands of dollars is a little unrealistic, there is no reason why you cannot start off building up a modest income and grow from there, especially if you already have a fairly decent number of subscribers.
Let’s take a look at how you could be earning money on YouTube.
How to Make Money on YouTube
One of the most common ways to earn money on YouTube is by monetizing your channel.
Assuming that you have already created your channel, uploaded some videos and started to cultivate an audience then the next step is to enable monetization on your account.
This will allow YouTube to place ads in your videos.
In order to so this it is essential that your videos do not contain copyrighted material – they must be your own work and they must be eligible for monetization.
All accounts which are monetized are placed under review before ads will begin to appear.
Once your account is approved you can choose which videos you want to allow ads on and you will be compensated accordingly.
This is by no means the only way to earn money on YouTube, but it is a good starting point.
If you want to find out more about how to turn your YouTube channel into a source of income then take a look at the following infographic from YouTube Downloader for some ideas.
YouTube Success Stories
There are so many examples of regular people who have found ideas to create interesting or useful YouTube videos and turned them into great earnings.
Here below you find some of them.
David After Dentist
It’s not a surprise, that funny kids can help a YouTube video becoming popular.
“David After Dentist” is a two minute video of a six-year old, just went out of a teeth cleaning session and his follies due to anesthesia.
It has been viewed more than 125 million times.
This resulted into more than $100,000 of earnings for the parents of this kid.
Not too bad!
Jenna Marbles
Jenna Mourey, aka “Jenna Marbles“, has produced some of the most watched videos in the history of YouTube.
Like the one I shared just above : “How to trick people into thinking you’re good looking”, seen more than 58 million times.
She just published her 200th video, and watching it will tell you more about her success story.
Ray William Johnson
The above shared video, published just a couple of days ago, already hit almost 2 million views.
Ray’s popular series are the “Equals Three“, where you can see him providing commentary on other popular videos.
His YouTube channel has more than 10 million subscribers.
He reported to receive an income close to $ 1 million annually from His YouTube videos.
YouTube Tools and Tips
This is a small list of useful tools and tips you can use to boost your chances to reach success with YouTube.
1. Use Content ID for Your Copyright : this tool helps you protect your earnings with YouTube by essentially identify your material as original.
2. Visit Your YouTube Insight Page : this is a analytics tool that gives you details and information about your YouTube audience.
3. Use YouTube Keyword Tool : this is a very useful tool to help you find out interesting topics and keywords among YouTube audience.
4. Subscribe to official YouTube blog : you should check it to stay updated on the popular topics and latest trends of YouTube. Visit the YouTube official blog here.
Conclusion
I hope this article will help you in your journey toward making money with YouTube.
Do you already have a channel on YouTube?
Have you created some videos?
Have you monetized your content?
What’s your experience?
Please let me know what you think in the comments below, thanks!
Excellent topic for Earning Money.
Its very good and vital information for money earning people.I think is new world for earnings and good lively-hood works for people
Its very Excellent
Thanks for Sharing
Hi Hanuman,
thanks for visiting and commenting!
I guess from this post it is obvious that there are lots of ways to make money from YouTube. Monetization of the channel is not a rocket science but it is what can be done if simple processes are applied!
Somehow I see this infographic as covering a lot of details about how to make money with videos shared on the YouTube platform!
I upvoted this post in kingged where it was shared for Internet marketers.
Thanks Sunday.
Hi Erik,
Informative infographic about earning from Youtube channel……!!!
Youtube allows monetization only for original videos created by you because many people uploads other videos and want to earn income from it. Which is prohibited by Youtube.
This infographic is easy to understand and share each and every information to make money from it.
Thanks for sharing this helpful infographic to monetize your Youtube channel.
I found this post on kingged.com
Thanks for your feedback, Gangadhar! 🙂
Glad you enjoyed the infographic.
YouTube is a powerful tool to market your brand and to monetize your content!
Hi Erik,
It is an interesting thing getting to know some of successes choked through Yiutube and the story of Justin Bieber shocks me the most.
He was discovered through Youtube?
If there is one thing which is easier to acquire on Youtube, it had to be acquiring Adsense through it.
There is one musician in Ghana who only uploads his music videos on Youtube and interestingly he had made more than $10,000 through just one music video of one of his popular tracks.
Youtube is indeed a tool for making some real cash.
I found this post shared on Kingged.com and I thought it wise to add my voice to it as well. Do have a great week Erik!
That’s right, Emmanuel.
Bieber’s current manager, Scooter Braun first discovered Justin Bieber through his YouTube videos in 2007.
I just recently started to upload my skydiving videos on YouTube.
Check out my channel 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/user/Masterintheworld
Thanks for being here reading and commenting!
Hi Erik,
Excellent. I admit it; I’ve neglected my Youtube channel for too long. I enjoy publishing short videos from my tablet to Google Plus but see the earnings potential on Youtube.
Each example shows how creativity and persistence lead to great things on YT. Justin Bieber’s case is just about the ultimate. He went from unknown to about the most popular artist on earth by publishing soul-felt content on Youtube.
Be original. Enough people are copying each other, so if you copy too, you’ll see few clicks, no revenue and you’ll have no breakthrough moments.
Jenna Marbles is particularly intriguing. Yep, she’s attractive, and that may lead to a few views, but she is really funny, and her style of humor and take on life is authentic. Her facial expressions alone make me laugh. She’s good, very good, and I’d say that $300 K plus check makes a bunch of sense when you see her clicks, and her commitment to putting out top shelf content each and every week.
Thanks so much for the share Erik.
Power tips here.
Put out unique content, and really work at your video creating craft because the money is in the content.
Tweeting in a bit.
Ryan
I’ve started only recently too, tweaking and uploading videos on my YouTube channel, Ryan.
Will have to work on it a lot before even applying for the monetization program, but hey, you need to start from some point.
Thanks for reading, commenting and sharing, my friend! 🙂
I have interviewed Syed Balkhi and he has built an incredibly successful youtube channel. It can be done, but also depends on your niche.
Passion is the fuel of any business.
Thanks for commenting, George!
There are a lot of effective ways to make money online, and YouTube has been one of the powerful platform where you can start on.
YouTube has been a useful video-sharing platform online, which can also be a great tool to use in your business. I believe that YouTube has that potential power to be a profitable source of income and anyone can do it.
The tips you’ve shared are indeed helpful and effective. Thanks for sharing us your knowledge about this.
-Pauleen
I’ve found this post shared on Kingged.com and leave the same message there.
Thanks for commenting, Pauleen.
hi erik,
as you discussed you tube is also a sourse of making money online.in you tube if we watch videos we may get adds in that video.by that those video makes earns money.for that we have to create a you tube channel first to publish our videos if we put more interesting videos then no of visitos will increases by that we can earn money.thank you fo your post
Thanks Harish.
I have been running a video marketing site and doing it for years.There are gem in your tips because I find your articles and guides refreshing. Thanks!
Thanks Wade.
These are all interesting ways to make extra income without necessarily changing much of your daily life. Thanks!
Thanks Tarence.
Epic stuff, Erik!
I’ve looked into Youtube before, but only briefly. I will be keeping this post handy because it IS truly a goldmine.
Good thing about YouTube is that, well…it’s allowed people to make money from their passion. Whether they’re talking about video games or making fun of movies, you can rest assured that they’re enjoying what they do. All they needed was consistency and a following. Now they’re enjoying the fruits of their labor.
Take care, buddy.
Elvis Michael
Good to hear you enjoyed the content, Michael!
If you are creative, then YouTube can be really a goldmine!
Thanks for your kind words,
and have a great week!
Hi admin,
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Howdy Erik,
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