How to make money from YouTube

Advertising - Sign yourself up as a YouTube Partner. You used to have to be accepted as a YouTube Partner but now anyone can do it. This means you get a percentage of the advertising on your video. The more traffic you get, the more people watch your vlogs… the more YouTube Partner advertising money you get. It may not be much to start with, but if you put your channel and subscribers first, that community will build into a money-maker.

The way the Google Adsense advertising works is that your payment depends on a range of cost-per-thousand ad rates (minus a 45% fee kept by Google for sorting it all out). You might get $.25 for every thousand views. You might get $10. It depends on what you talk about and all kinds of little things.

Free stuff – It is quite likely you can get products to review for your niche interest. The only problem is you need to keep telling yourself “don’t be evil”. Don’t review products unless you think your subscribers will be genuinely interested in those products. Always put your honesty and your viewers first. Also, be honest. If you’re given a product to review, that is totally fine! Just explain to your viewers you were given a product to review.

Promotion and partnerships - If you get big enough, you’ll start being approached by other people (the business term for this is “third parties). They might want you to promote their stuff in all kinds of creative ways. Keep your professional business head on. Don’t get taken for a ride, and play it safe – only consider partnerships and promotions if they truly fit your personality and brand.

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