11 way to make money on YouTube

11 way to make

 Money on

 YouTube 2021

11 way to make money on YouTube 2021

First of all most of the people don't believe that it's possible to make a decent money on the internet even today and off Course YouTube also a part of the internet. And my ANSWER is yes it's possible for normal people to make a decent money on YouTube.

And YouTube is the half internet as many people use to mention that. But I am not going to tell you that but if you see internet on the bases of number of active user than yes for now YouTube is world's second biggest search engine in terms of monthly active users.

Now as most of the people on the internet are audience that they consume content that solved their problems whether it is text, audio, video or whatever type of content. If we particularly talk about YouTube for most of the YouTube account holder, YouTube is a video streaming platform where they can easily and endlessly consume hours of cat videos, dog videos, vlog videos, product reviews or lifestyle video, music, movie whatever they want to watch all-day. And for few people YouTube is the easiest way to make money on the internet.

I said YouTube is the easiest way to make money online, yes you read it right. All the methods out there to make money online, Among them YouTube is the easiest way to make money on the internet. You can make millions of dollars per month on YouTube like few YouTube star already making that much money every single month. But for reaching that level where you can earn in millions per month need tons of hard work and straight focus towards your goal.

There are lot of people trying to  become successful on YouTube, they struggle every day with ideas. And if you want to become one of them you need to do the same. I mean you have to do struggle like all of them and need to convince you brain to work hard.

Although Becoming a professional YouTuber who make a great money might sound like fun and easy for most of the people. But in reality it isn't.

And supposed you done all the hard work that needed and after all of that there’s no guarantee that you'll successful. You need to hold your patience for atleast six months and making videos continually everyday. It will be easier for you if you are interested to making videos without being tired.

Because it's difficult to get attention by making only twenty to thirty videos. But if your video goes viral that it's possible to see success with that amount of videos. But chances are so rare. There are THREE types of people who makes videos for YouTube.

First One  who wants to get famous and make a name out of it like a celebrity.

Second by company who wants to promote their products through internet and YouTube is source of audience for them.

And the third peoples who just want to make money on the internet and as I said earlier YouTube is the easiest one to do that.

Below I am going to explain important methods out there that you can use to make money on YouTube.

And later will explain the right ways for those people who want to get attention from lot of people and become famous. And than for companies who wants to promote their products on YouTube. And I will make sure that you don't need to go elsewhere after reading the whole article.

Before you start here is the reality check

Now I wanna tell You reading the above portion of this article if you mistakenly believe and if you consider that YouTube is get rich quick schemes and youtube is a source of additional income quickly then you are wrong. Also, it is not about creating that one viral video and leave it to youtube and think that the money will follow automatically than also you are wrong.

But the truth about youtube is you need to upload videos regularly that high quality and content should good to get attention of the audience.

Now, lets talk about making money on YouTube: the reality is that majority of mainstream media companies in the world are not yet to make any significant amount from their YouTube channels. They have their own expenses to produce videos with camera person, anchors, producers and video editor but the amount of money they get from YouTube not enough for them most of the time. And on the other hand, you'll find many individual youtubers are making decent salary from YouTube. And you'll find so many YouTube millionaires.

So competition are there but it's not impossible to become successful on YouTube. It's possible. But you need to keep in mind couple of things that are very common among struggling youtubers. From your stating date to first one to two years will be difficult for you and You will hardly make any significant amount of money from your YouTube channel. It might seem like easy to become successful within few months but in reality it's hard, I am not saying it's impossible but relatively hard. To be a successful youtuber you will have to focus on providing quality content regularly.

How To Make Money On YouTube In 2021?

YouTube pays for views your YouTube channels videos get, or putting ads on your video. But is that enough? Check out top ways to make money on YouTube & start earning today.

1.Join YouTube Partner Program

So many people start YouTube channel with the intention of making some good money with it and for many of them, the most essential revenue stream or money making method is running ads through Google AdSense.

When you become a YouTube partner after completing necessary YouTube policies, you can make money with YouTube partner program in very different ways. You can make money using Google AdSense before your videos or middle of your videos or in the end of your video whatever time you want, from channel memberships, or with the Google AdSense banner ads.

However YouTube have some policies to observe before your channel become a certified YouTube partner that you have to fulfill if you want to join their program. And as well as some prerequisites needed to start. Along with that there are some YouTube ads rules, and those are you must complete of 4,000 hours of watch time on your youtube channel in the last 12 months. And you also need to have 1,000 subscriber minimum to apply for the AdSense program.

There is no particular methods to get  these foundational 4,000 hours of watch time and 1,000 subscribers. You have to find your method. You can get 200 hours each on 70 videos or any combination to get your total to 4,000. But I can tell you with my 3 years of YouTube experience you will get it just within 6 months if you upload video regularly.

For example, a famous international pop star took an enduring five months to achieve 1 billion views. And however a song Despacito took less than 100 days to complete 1 billion views. I know you will tell well they are big, they have their audience base for a long ,so that's they get those views in such short time. Well you are right but my point is you can go with 6 months means 180 days in your hand. So am pretty much confident you will do it.

Now you are done after completing your 4,000 hours threshold and eligible for the place as a YouTube partner, your income from Google AdSense will start.

You will show a green "$" button in to your video Manager next to your videos indicates that you can now tap into YouTube monetization. And you can start earning.

And if you join with YouTube Premium program doesn't mean that you will not able to earn money but it's mean YouTube will give a percentage of the premium program money that the viewers will pay to YouTube. And the video creator will get a percentage based on the percentage of total watch time.

However, you don't need relay in your ads revenue on YouTube. There are lot of others way by which you can consolidate your earning potential on YouTube.

2.Use Affiliate link in the YouTube description To Earn Commission

Using product affiliate link in the YouTube description to earn money. It's very easy to place affiliate links into the YouTube description. If your channel offer in-depth tutorial for a particular product or things, then providing affiliate links in the YouTube description can be huge earning opportunity for you and your YouTube channel. You can also do in-depth and as well as insightful product reviews.

For example if you talk about a product feature and bad and good things for the product then providing a buying link in the video description and at the end of your video you recommended that particular product. If a viewer wanted to that recommended product then he/she will click your link to buy, and you will start earning commissions. It will be good if you provide those links in the first few lines of your description and tell your audience about those links in your video.

Providing affiliate links on your  YouTube channel shares a resemblance to promoting affiliate links on your blog. Thus, you can give affiliate links in the description in YouTube channel but I recommend you to not share too much product affiliate links all over your YouTube content because audience get negative impression. So you shouldn’t do that just for monetary benefits. And just remember one thing people will only buy things from your YouTube description affiliate links if they believe in you. So first build trust first.

And to build trust with your audience provide them high quality content that provides them some values. Keep your words if you promise them anything to provide on the right time. Create videos tutorials that can help them solving their major problem. And only provide knowledge or create solution video that accomplished yourself previously or experience in your own.

Now let's talk about affiliate program that you can join easily and earn high commission. There are numbers of affiliate program out there that you can join, affiliate network like shareasale or Awin. You can join many affiliate program in one place in those affiliate networking site.

If you want a maximum revenue then start a blog along with your YouTube channel and add affiliate links in your blog article too. I personally like the idea to having a blog along with a related YouTube channel. And that way you can increase your blog authority and increase website traffic.

3.Crowdfunding/Donation

Are you heard about crowdfunding, crowdfunding is popular among online content creators. By crowdfunding you can arrange money for next project or whatever reason, and people who believe in your idea and trust will give you money in the form of donation. And you can use that amount to create your next video. It'll only possible when you've built a following of loyal fans, and ask for donation if they like your works.

Patreon is a great example of crowdfunding platform where you can open an account and they will give a  unique link and you can provide that link in the description of your video and ask for donation. patreon introduce easy and seamless method to the process of getting paid for your videos. Some people want to donate but don't have much money but in patreon subscriber can make a donation as little as one dollar.

There is an another service called tipee where you can enjoy one time donation from people, and by doing you can enjoy a recurring donation.

All the people out there whether they are on YouTube or any organization all of them take donation from people, leveraging this fun funding with their audience to their activity or whatever they are doing running smoothly. Your audience will open the floodgates of generosity as long your content satisfied them or providing them some value.

Crowdfunding is for those who want to raise fund for their special project. And raising fund through crowdfunding is incredibly easy, platform like patreon makes the more easy then ever.

You can add cards and raise funds with a approved crowdfunding websites. Usually creators use crowdfunding or fan funding for special or dream project such as apps or software development, for making movies, making webseries, books and for developing other products. And they try bring attention of the public to a work they care about.

There are so many monetization strategy or method that you can apply for your YouTube video to make money. But crowdfunding monetization strategy is much more easier then the recurring membership revenue model, as crowdfunding only takes one time effort to create. But remember also it can be challenging for you.

There platform such as Indiegogo and kichu target, they the fund raiser to tell their fund donner about the project for they want to do crowdfunding. And the money required to execute the project and act of fundraising.

There are soo many crowdfunding succes stories are there on the internet that you can read to motivate yourself to go for a crowdfunding. You need to convince your fans or followers for project funding. One example is veronica mars movie project. They managed to successfully bring the movie concept into reality with crowdfunding. And it got money over $5M with over 91k backers.

To engage more with your subscribers you can consider occasional fundraising through live streaming and giving high quality exclusive content. Youtube features like "super stickers" and "super chat" can be a great option to gain some very good revenue.

So for a better understanding let's supposed person A , is one of my favorite YouTube creator, he do live stream in his channel. And during the live stream a viewer give a superchat with monetary contribution with their massage. In return the person who give the super chat will get a pinned in the live chat and receive a shout out from the live streamer.

Before going to do live stream with the intention of making a revenue out of your live streaming, ensure that your channel fulfill those eligibility criteria. You have to learn how to turn on the super chat and super sticker though it's easy.

Editor Note: If you run a non profit organization and for that purpose you started a YouTube channel. For those in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada Google launched the YouTube Giving suite of fundraising tools. So who are eligible for them, who have atleast 10k subscribers and a part of YPP, they are eligible for them. Creator like Trevor Noah who manage to managed to raise $127,000 for the National Revolving Bail Fund through YouTube Giving.

So understand how much helpful a fundraising campaign for your project. And it's very easy to do. But share that your viewers can do trust in you. Because trust is very important. They should know for what they donate their money to someone or something.

4 .Live  Streaming

Live streaming is very popular among both the youtube video creators and among the viewers or audience. Literally viewers do request to the videos to do stream and answer their question. Live streaming is very big business worldwide. Know one thing live streaming is more than just answering Fan's question, it's very profitable business whether it's on youtube or other platform.

Live streaming traffic is expected to much higher in 2021, and  total market value of the live streaming industry is estimated to cross $124 billion dollars by 2025 worldwide. That a lot of money  and lot of traff. There are lot of potential in live streaming industry.

As a world largest video streaming platform youtube claim that a successful youtube video creator can five to six or even seven figures per year on the platform of youtube. According to youtube the number of creator who have the potential to earn that much money will grow by 50% by 2021 to 2022.

Though youtube less forthcoming when it comes to disclosing how many creators  fall into that category where they can earn that much money. But the fact remains: a Creator can make a significant amount of money on the platform through youtube ads and other methods in live streaming.

So, for those creator who are earning well, they kniw how does YouTube monetization work? And Content creators who do live stream on YouTube Live features can access the monetization methods option through the platform’s Partner Program (as long as they fulfill youtube criteria of 4,000 hours of watched time and 1,000 subscribers atleast).  Selling ads, subscriptions, brand merchandise, and many more. So let’s take a closer look.

5.Earn Money By Becoming An Amazon Affiliate Influencer

The Amazon influencer program is becoming more popular then other monetization method. This influencer program allows creator like to maximize your YouTube (social media) revenue and make money via Amazon recommended.

After joining the amazon affiliate program, you can review and recommend products from Amazon and direct your viewers to Amazon to purchase via affiliate links. When your viewers click the that you provide in your YouTube description and make a Amazon purchase, you get your cut of the commissions – typically 8-10%.

However, this program isn’t open to everyone but for certain people. Social media follower count and other metrics dictate approval odds or some other criteria.

6.Use Paid Video Membership

If you’re producing high-quality content and publish on YouTube, then you can consider charging users some money for subscribing. And give them some exclusive content. This money-making strategy is reserved for YouTube content creators who already have lots of subscribers on their channel.

The minimum eligibility requirements for a YouTube channel membership according to YouTube itself include:

●18+ years old

●Must be living in an available location that YouTube listed

●Channel is must not labeled as “made for kids”

●At least 30,000+ subscribers (for gaming channel 1,000+ subscribers)

●Channel doesn’t have lots of ineligible or copied videos (Example: videos with claimed ownership)

If your account is eligible, you’ll see “Memberships” as an option on your admin page automatically.

Your channel memberships can include things like badges, videos, live chat, emojis, and other content that your subscribers will find useful and want to watch.

Just take care of one thing that you’re finding a way to add value to your YouTube video content and make your members feel special by consuming your video content. That your audience find your content atleast valuable for them. Contests, lotteries, sweepstakes, in-person meetings, and music downloads are all prohibited according to YouTube policies.

Once you establish a strong group of loyal fans by providing great value, when your channel memberships can be the perfect way to benefit from recurring revenue each month and you will get a fixed amount of money every month.

YouTube Red allows users who watch YouTube videos daily to pay $9.99 for ad-free YouTube viewing. Even without ads, content creators can still generate money and make 55% of revenue, based on view time from $9.99 that YouTube take from audience per month.

With YouTube Red subscription, your watch time matters, how much time you spent watching a particular video. So you check your YouTube Analytics to know your statistics like watch time and video engagement. Start A Paid Membership  Program for your YouTube channel will help you to earn a recurring income without out take worry about anything.

Now you can ask who’s it For. Its for Creators who have the bandwidth to create “exclusive” premium content for their viewers. It's very much Intermediate level, so you shouldn't take any load in your head.

You can also turn around your loyal fanbase or viewership  into an exclusive community with special benefits or special things. Like access to the digital products you created in the last step. Interested people or subscribers can pay a membership fee, that can bringing in recurring monthly revenue for you.

Rob Scallon one  of my favorite guitarists on YouTube,  he runs a Patreon membership with four levels in his YouTube channel. He lets his audience pay for a particular videos they want to watch giving priority access, additional commentary, and an option to download that video — all the way to add their name in the credits!

He promotes this Patreon membership in his videos and ask do patreon, and also uses a “Super Subscribe” button in his channel art linking out to his Patreon page where his audience can do pay for their favorite videos.

Once you’ve built a reputation of such “premium” content on your channel, your membership becomes an even more encourage to do a purchase. For example, Rob offers 628 exclusive posts to welcome his new patrons, that a lot of post isn't it.

To compete with Patreon and keep viewers within its ecosystem, YouTube launched its own tiered channel memberships like patreon because YouTube also want a portion of pattern profit share. YouTube channel membership lets offer special and very good features such as emojis, badges, and more to the viewers who pay money for a specific content. You get to keep 70% of the membership revenue and rest 30% for YouTube.

Channels membership get a red Join button to join. By clicking on that button viewers can explore the membership tiers and their perks offer by YouTube.

At the time of writing this post. But for accessing this feature. But it’s only made accessible on a rolling basis to content creators, so that's why you might not have access to it yet.

The idea behind a paid community is to engage in  deeper lebel with a few of your superfans or subscribers. And chances are  a few of whom might be your true fans and they really appreciate your work and you. If you have the bandwidth and a trust value among your subscribers then adapting this strategy makes perfect sense.

After reading all of this if you planing to use channel memberships, then read the  YouTube’s policies correctly and guidelines about them.

7. Sponsor Videos

Sponsor video is very good way to earn a very good amount of money from YouTube. Sponsor video is good for video creators with an engaged audience and big subscribers based. And doing sponsor video is very easy like beginner level.

8. Selling Your Own Product/Marchendise

Selling your own product and marchendise can be a great idea on YouTube, because YouTube has worlds second largest audience base. Selling your own product and merchandise on live streaming would be really cool because that time you are interacting with your audience one to one. And you can convince them directly to buy your products or recommendation. And it's very easy to do if you learn it just once.

There is one youtuber let's say his name is A(I can't mention his name here because of some reason), he launch his in 2018 and by the end of the 2020 his brand franchise surpass $500 million dollars. That's amazing.
His use his popularity to sell his products, and you can do the same.

You might be thinking, well ok, may be his is very popular and have a large number of subscribers based, right? But guess what? If you are a youtube creator and have a small number of subscriber base but they are your loyal fans then you can also sell your merchandise to your audience.

There is a chance for every creator if you are willing to work hard. Some YouTube creators are earning in millions or some are earning only in thousands. But there is a opportunity for everyone. And that kind of earning don't need to work actively. And the most important thing is that every live streamer needs to know, the live streaming brand merchandise industry is nearly $2 billion dollars and that is a huge number of money.

So I thing you need start selling your own merchandise brand but the question is how you can start selling your own product and promotes your brand for more sales.

For those YouTube creators whom channel cross a minimum of 10,000 subscribers then you are for YPP. And if you get access to the merchandise shelf and related features then it will be more easy for you.

Once you YouTube allow you to use merchandise shelf and related features, you can display up to 12 specific items links on your YouTube description. Is it not awesome.

According  to YouTube itself T-shirts, hoodies, and caps are the best three product that sold the most and most of the famous creator do sell this three products the most. You can also do the same and start selling.

For designs , style or give the product a good look and also there is trend to put their quotes, logos, and channel on the merchandise among youtubers. So that those people think that this T-shirt, hoodies or caps is something special.

You can also hire talented freelance designer from freelancing site such as divert to help you design your merchandise product. And it's very easy to do.

You can also create your own e-commerce site to sell your products if you thing you are popular enough to do so and you have the money to create one. And YouTube also allows youtuber to promote their verified site through cards. You can also consider to open a e-commerce store on shopify.

But remember you wouldn't have any control of products, running sales and other business aspect on these platform.

9.Work As YouTube Video Editor

Nowadays more and more people going to the internet to make money or promote their  business to increase their sales. And YouTube is a very good way to make money on the internet. But in order to upload video on YouTube you need to record videos first you have to edit those videos also. And there is a market for video editors to earn money by offering them videos editing service and you can also make a business around it.

If you know video editing then it will be very easy for you to start a business around it. And if you own a YouTube channel then you may know how important it is to know video editing, but if you don't know how to edit a video, then what you'll do, you'll hire a video editor. right? So that is why with market demand video editing is one of the most lucrative skill.

There are lots who creating their own YouTube channel for their brand, so you can offer them a video editing service and the could make you a decent amount of money. In the past I personally paid a video editor over $1000 dollars to edit my two videos. And he just put together nurse footage into polished YouTube videos and earn a $1000 dollars payment for his service. So if you know even a little bit editing you can start your journey. 

But you need to remember few important stuff, video editing requires some good specialized that you need to before give your editing service to others, it's consumes time, and requires some creativity to ensure that the editing is good and that can keeps the viewer engaged. If you create video or edit videos regularly for your channel or for others channel then this practice of making videos and editing them will definitely improve your editing skills — while also  elevating your portfolio that will look good.

If you want to find you client whom for you will edit or making videos, you can find them on freelancing site. But if you have a YouTube channel then will be easier for you get client because chance are they might already be aware of your channel and the editing quality of your YouTube videos.

You can also try freelance site fiverr, Freelancer, and upwork to get client at first that everyone need in their journey.

At these kind platforms, they have lot of features on their platform like you can even offer packages to your client but it will depend on the level of video editing that include color correction, color grading,sound design, subtitles adding,video run time transitions, and lot more.

You can also go to local business in person in your locality and offer your video editing service. If tell you we don't have a YouTube channel where we can upload your edited video, you can convince them that a your can increase their sales and can help them to get more customer and side by side it can also help them to build their brand.

10.Check out YouTube premium

YouTube video creators paid on the basis of views their video got on YouTube platform.  Paid based on how much YouTube premium members watch their videos. YouTube premium is a secondary revenue streams for creators because may they already earn some decent amount of money using Google AdSense on their videos. The Creator of a particular video only get paid by YouTube premium when YouTube paid member watched their video.

Did you know? YouTube Premium not just offer benefits for viewers who watch videos on YouTube but also provide an extra way to the creators to generate some extra revenue by making videos for YouTube.

YouTube premium was called YouTube red when YouTube first introduce the features to the world. YouTube offers original video content, ads free video, play video in the background and many more to the viewers who watch videos on YouTube video steaming platform. And for fanatic this is just a small amount what YouTube premium offers to the subscribers. YouTube red to YouTube premium, this rebranded services offers a combines variety of features for the users.

Let me give you the complete list of all the exciting features that YouTube premium offers to its users...

●Watch ads-free videos on YouTube

●Watch ads-free videos on YouTube kids(youtube for kids)

●You can listen music without internet (download and watch later)

●You can watch video offline on YouTube (Download and watch later)

●You can use YouTube music premium

●You'll allow to watch YouTube original

●You can run your favorite YouTube videos on background (video plays when phone is closed)

These are the some great features for viewers, however, creators will appreciate Premium for a different set of reasons.

Now How can YouTube video Creators Earn More Money With YouTube Premium.

Now all of the above the main question is that how YouTube premium work? And how even the creator earn money YouTube premium on top of AdSense revenue.

In a nutshell, YouTube shares its YouTube Premium revenue with the video creators. How much percentage the creator get will depend but YouTube give a particular percent of money to the channel owners. But how much money will the creator get depend on how much watch time they earn from YouTube premium subscribers.

So for example, if your channel receives a higher Watch Time from viewers than your competitors. Then you will get larger chunk of money. In the end, creators get 65% of the premium paid money and YouTube takes a 45% cut of a creator’s Premium earnings. And the percentage remain same with Google AdSense.

11. Use YouTube To Get Traffic To Your Website Or Blog

First of all remember one thing, if there is people there is market and if there is a market there is a opportunity to make money. And this is the principal to make money on the internet.

In the past few years YouTube became very popular video streaming platform. And YouTube is the biggest video streaming platform and second most visited website in the world, of course Google is the first in terms of user. YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world. That's means there are lot of people on YouTube watching video content that you can use for your benefits.

If you have a YouTube channel with your blog, then you can the your YouTube audience towards your website. And if your website has a YouTube channel, it can increase your domain authority and bring some serious SEO benefits including more ranking opportunities. In short YouTube is very helpful for your website and it can increase the chances of lot more visibility than your average result.