YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. It was launched in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is the second most visited website, with more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day.
Nowadays, almost everyone has a mobile phone and everyone uses the internet and knows about YouTube. Many people are making money from YouTube.
In the same way, many Pakistani social media celebrities (and even media channels) put their videos online on YouTube. These YouTubers and TV channels make money when people watch their videos. This serves as a nice revenue stream for them.
How You Earn From Youtube
In fact, even you can too earn money online by uploading videos on YouTube and bringing traffic to your YouTube channel. And here’s a guide to get you started.
How to Earn Online via YouTube
Here are simple rules:
• Make a YouTube Channel
• Make videos and upload to YouTube that will gather attention (read: viewers)
• You are going to make money (some pennies) for each video view (on average a dollar or two per 1,000 video views).
• YouTube provides opportunity for content producers to make money and to do that all you have to do is appeal to the viewers.
Below are few steps you need to make to start earning money from YouTube.
Step 1: Create a YouTube Channel
• Sign into your YouTube Account (your Google account can be used for that) • Create a channel
Step 2: Make your own Original content Videos
Step 3: Complete Watch time & Subscribers
Watch time required for Monetisation is 4000 hours & Subscribers Need 1000. After Complete Watch time & Subscribers You Enable Monetisation & Earn Money.
Step 4: Enable Your Channel for Monetisation
• Sign into your YouTube account.
• Select your account information from top right and select Creator Studio.
• From left menu, select Channel > Status and features.
• Enable Monetisation (Note: The option won’t be available if the account is disable for monetisation).
• Accept the agreement.
Step 5: Connect Your Channel To AdSense
After enabling monetisation for your YouTube Channel, you need to associate an approved AdSense account with your YouTube account.
YouTube Analytics is used to keep track of the earning, which will only be paid if you comply with the YouTube payment threshold.
Step 6: Review Video Criteria and Ad Formats
For you to get paid, it is an absolute necessity to meet two criteria:
1) Video Monetisation Criteria
• Videos should be user friendly.
• The content should be your own to be promoted commercially.
• Copyrighted videos, or those that you copy from internet won’t work here.
• You are able to provide documentation for the video and audio content used in videos.
Step 7: Monetise Videos with Ads
You are fully set up for the monetised videos with your AdSense account. You can now enable eligible videos to earn money from relevant ads.
Types of Videos you can Make:
As mentioned above, your videos have to be interesting. And they must grab attention of your viewers. Here are some type of videos that you can experiment with:
• Images with voice over: Interesting facts, commentary on news items, opinions, or anything voiced over related images can make a good video.
• Lists: Lists of anything, such as “10 best catches of all times”, “10 dangerous roads turns in the world” and so on. These videos could be voiced over or text-over images.
• Tutorials: How to do’s of various things.
• Reviews: Reviews of things that we use in daily life, such as review of Uber, Review of Zong 4G, Review of PIA Lahore to Karachi flight and so on.
• Time lapse videos: They are loved by everyone.
So essentially, if you got video making skills, shot anything that could grab views and upload it to YouTube and that’s it.
Not to mention, it may take some time — up to few months — to get your first dollar. However, once you have good fan following, you can potentially make few thousand dollars a month.
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