It is always said that necessity is the mother of invention and this can be truly proven if your habit or your passion start filling your pockets. Going precisely by the passion, we meant to ask if you have the capability to capture people on camera in the most amazing manner then voila, you are just a step behind from making money.
Well! As Andy Stack, the partner product manager of youtube reveals that in actual there are 4 key players when it comes to youtube monetization. To know those 4 basic players, watch out that not even a single word from this article on how to make money from YouTube goes missing.
- Viewer
Viewers are those people who wish to have youtube as the best place to provide informative and entertaining videos.
- Creators
As a creator, it becomes a responsible job to create sustainable content and thus generate revenue.
- Advertisers
Advertisers, on the other hand, have to be precisely more cautious on where to put their advertisements so that they can reach the right audience.
- Youtube
The main platform to accomplish the goal of money making.
All the four of these have their own key interest that must be kept in mind. Like
Say, for example, if I can play good guitar and upload a video of the same on youtube, the viewers from around the world can check the videos and get to learn play guitar, they might come for enjoyment or any other purpose they wish for. Here, the advertisers who wish to reach their right audience help fund this experience.
Top 5 things that must be kept in mind while making a video for uploading on youtube:
a) Always be prepared with all the info that you need to deliver in the video. Like if you are making a video for your product, say a mobile phone then be prepared with a script on when, how and where to say all about the descriptions of that phone.
b) If you have the skill on something then you can teach others too by creating videos on the same. But what should be kept in mind is the step by step guidance. Moreover, you can also take the help of google trends of you wish to know the demand of that particular niche.
c) Don’t avoid doing the long tail keyword research.
d) Always keep posting videos with more content on the same niche as it helps in good ranking on youtube and google.
e) Try adopting affiliate marketing as this is a reliable online money making method that allows you to make sales commissions when a viewer buys a product online by your suggestion.
This kind of online video marketing ultimately helps in converting the viewers to buyers for the advertisers, money for the creators, enjoyment, knowledge and valuable products for the viewers. All at one place, i.e., youtube.
But that’s not all, there are many questions that need to be answered and some of them are discussed below:
What is youtube partnership program?
This program is nothing but monetizing the videos uploaded by you to indulge in the revenue sharing program. By participating in this program, Adsense ads will be shown in your videos by google and when any viewer clicks on any of those ads, you will get some percentage of revenue generated via such commercial ads.
The next question that comes up is how to become a youtube partner?
The most important thing that yu keep in mind before becoming a youtube partner is that you own Gmail or google account. Having such an account enables you to sign in each of its product. Post owning an account, you need to sign into youtube account with the help of that account. In the youtube account, you need to create a channel of yours so as to get into the partnership program.
Step by step guidance for creating a youtube channel:
a) After you have successfully signed into the youtube account using your Gmail account, you will find a “My Channel” option on the left side at the top in your account screen.
b) Click on that option.
c) Post clicking on the option you will be asked to enter the name of the channel. It is suggested that you enter a unique name for your channel that relates to the type of your video content.
d) Now, click on the “Create Channel’ option.
e) Clicking on this option, your account will be created.
f) Post creating the account, choose your profile picture, cover and enter a much-needed description for your channel.
g) After you are done with all the above steps, you need to verify your youtube channel.
Verification of your channel:
There are many benefits of verifying your channel after you have created one have logged into your youtube account. The most important feature that you get to enjoy is that after verification you are allowed to upload long videos otherwise you can upload videos not more than 15 minutes. Now, to complete the verification process of your youtube channel, follow the given below steps:
a) Login to your youtube account as discussed earlier in this article.
b) On the account, screen clicks on the Video manager option given on my channel option which is at the top left side of the account screen.
c) Now, on the left side, enter the channel by clicking on the channel option.
d) Post entering, you need to click on the verify option which is given on the right side.
e) After you have clicked on the verify option, a new page will appear where you have to go for the text me and then you will be asked to enter your mobile number.
f) Now on your mobile number, you will receive a verification code.
g) Enter this code in the verification box and hit the submit button.
h) Post submission of the code, your account will be verified.
Enable your youtube channel for monetization:
This is the most important step because, without monetization, you won’t be able to earn anything from the videos uploaded by you. To accomplish the same, follow the given below guidelines-
a) Once you have entered into your channel after signing into your youtube account, click on the monetization option given on the right side.
b) There, click on enable option.
c) Post clicking on the enable option, you will be redirected to a page where you have to click on the “Enable My Account” option.
d) After clicking, a page will appear describing the terms of youtube partner program will appear. Here, click on the “I Accept” button. Your account is now monetized.
After achieving all the above-given steps, associate your Adsense account with your channel so as to get paid. If you don’t have an Adsense account approved in your name, then you can get one approved and try associating the same. Post-association, you will be directed to the youtube+adsense page. On this page, click on the “Sign in” option. Once done with the signing in, start uploading your videos and see dollars rolling in.
You can see your earnings by using the youtube analytics which will reveal the amount earned by you as per the number of visitors you have on the daily basis. Once your earnings reach the mark of 100$, you will be get paid into your account. Therefore, it is necessary that you keep your account details updated in the payment settings of your Adsense account.