ways to make money on YouTube (with and without a channel)
Popular YouTube channels make over €400,000 a year. At first, you won’t even get a tenth of that amount. As you increase your audience and your content grows, so will your income. The key thing is to learn how to make money on the platform, both with and without a channel.
How to make a profit?
Suppose you have your own You Tube channel. You should promote it. This can take years, but some owners manage to attract an audience faster. Initially, you must determine which method you will use to earn money. There are several current methods:
- blogging;
- AdSense;
- direct advertising;
- affiliate links;
- donations.
Blogging only appears easy on the surface. It seems complicated: create interesting content, post it, get views and subscribers. In practice, everything is more complicated. High competition doesn’t make it possible to create a 100% original product. Surely, a similar video clip or podcast already exists on You Tube. Therefore, you need to do it not only with high quality, but also better than your competitors.
Earnings on AdSense require that the account meets the minimum requirements of the video hosting service. As of today, it must have at least 100 subscribers and 1000 views. Once the option is activated, contextual advertising will start working. After 48 hours, the funds received for clicks on the link will be transferred to the account of the owner.
Direct advertising is a popular way for millions of bloggers to make money. It is the integration of links to a product, service or company into content. In essence, it is analogous to television advertising, but with an underlying message and original presentation. Earnings depend on the number of sales and, in some cases, can be as high as €10,000 per month.
Developing You Tube channels can place affiliate links beneath the content. Clicking on these is paid for by the owner. The amounts will be small – only a few hundred euros. This is a stable income, which will increase proportionally with the development of the account.
A separate item of income for bloggers is donations, i.e. sponsorship from users. The figure depends on the number and specifics of the audience. If the content is interesting and the user benefits or enjoys reading it, they can transfer a sum to the owner’s wallet. Some bloggers ask to support the channel financially, and many subscribers respond.
Earn money without a You Tube channel
In the absence of a channel and content, there is only one way to make money on You Tube. It involves performing tasks on services. Popular options are watching videos, leaving comments, reposting, and subscribing. There are many popular platforms that make good money in this way. Outline the most popular among them:
- TaskPay;
- Unu
- BossLike.
The fee for completing a task is minimal. For example, you get €0.1-0.3 for watching the video on the above mentioned resources. Video startup with further subscription costs €0.4-0.6. Watching the video and leaving comments costs more – €0.7-0.9. The price list depends on the length of the material. If a video is longer than 2 minutes you get €0.08-0.2 for every following minute.
Thus, You Tube is a popular content platform, allowing both channel owners and ordinary users to earn money. High competition has made monetising channels difficult, but if successful, your efforts will be generously rewarded financially.