We have been talking a lot about making it on YouTube. We have been talking much about how to succeed and grow your YouTube channel. But now what do you do with this success? You can make money with it. You can use that big channel to make money with it. Hence why to day we are going to talk about How to Make Money with YouTube Shorts. Below are the ways you can make money with your YouTube shorts.
First of all what is the eligibility for YouTube monetization?
You do not become eligible to make money with YouTube immediately when you create your channel. There are certain things you need to achieve to be eligible to make money with your channel. These requirements are:
- 1,000 Subscribers. Your channel must have at least 1,000 subscribers.
- 4,000 Watch Hours. You must have at least 4,000 valid public watch hours in the past 12 months.
- Alternatively for Shorts monetization, 10 million valid public Shorts views in the last 90 days.
- AdSense Account. You must have an approved Google AdSense account linked to your channel.
- No Active Community Guidelines Strikes. Your channel must follow YouTube’s community guidelines.
- 2-Step Verification Enabled. You need to enable 2-step verification on your Google account.
- Follow YouTube’s Monetization Policies. Your content must comply with YouTube’s advertiser-friendly guidelines.
- Live in an Eligible Country. Your country must support the YouTube Partner Program.
#1. YouTube shorts ad revenue sharing.
YouTube is an advertising platform whereby companies place ads and people see them. When the people see these ads, YouTube makes money. When YouTube makes money, they share it with you. This is how you get to make money with your YouTube shorts using YouTube ads. The more views you have the more chances of ads playing on your videos. When the ads are played, you get money. Hence you should always strive to get more views. Do all the things we have talked about in the previous articles.
This is the most common way that YouTubers make money with their shorts. It is also the most convenient as all you need to do is just make good content. Hence you do not have to do other things that cost you time and efforts.
#2. Super Thanks.
Super thanks allows your audience to show you love by sending you financial favors. Your audience can send you money using the super thanks feature direct your account. Hence, in your videos, remember to ask your fans to support your work through the super thanks.
#3. Super Chat.
You can also make money during your live streams. A live stream is whereby you are playing a video to your audience in real time. You are online at the same time as your audience. While this is happening, the fans are chatting on the live chat window. You know, they are messaging and writing their comments. The thing about this is that the comments are constantly auto-scrolling away. Which means if there are many comments coming in, yours might not be seen. Hence why some fans are willing to pay to have their comments to be highlighted. When the comment gets highlighted, more people can see it. This way you make money.
#4. Super Stickers.
Have you read point 3 above? If you have then you understand how live chat works. If you have not read please read. With the live chats, the comments are auto-scrolling away. Thus, many comments are not read because so many people are commenting at the same time. This means that if you want your comment to be seen, you need to make it stick. You know make it not scroll away. YouTube has a feature that allows people to do that. They allow people to pay to have their comment stick on the conversation. Thus as other comments are scrolling away, theirs stick. With this, you make money.
#5. Channel Memberships.
YouTube also has features that allow people to pay for membership. Yes you can pay to be a member of someone’s channel. But i know you are wondering why would anyone pay to be a member of a YouTube channel when YouTube is free? The reason is, YouTube created the membership feature. This feature, allows the content creators to make some of their videos not available to everyone. They can make these videos only available to the premium members. Which means not unless you are a member, you will not be able to access those videos. Hence why some people pay to become members.
#6. Sell merchandise on YouTube.
YouTube these days has a feature that allows you to pull products into your channel and sell them. Lets break this down. YouTube allows you to connect your store with your YouTube channel. With this connection, you can be able to get access to your products from your store. So what you do is you pull your products from your store to your videos. The area for showing the videos is just below the video’s title. With this, when the people are watching your videos, they can be able to just buy the products below.
#7. Affiliate Marketing and Dropshipping.
Away from the YouTube platform, you can make money with things like affiliate marketing. As well as dropshipping. Affiliate marketing is promoting and selling products from other sellers and you earn a commission for it. For this, you just go to affiliate platforms like clickbank and create your account and get your products. Promote these products and once you make sales, you will get paid a commission. Similarly, dropshipping is whereby you sell products without inventory. You get products from other sellers, promote them and sell. When you sell, you earn your markup price and then the sellers ships the product.
#8. Brand sponsorships and deals.
If you have a big channel that gets a lot of views and engagement, you can monetize that. Some brands and companies will pay you to make a video about them and post it on your channel. Others will just provide you with a ready made clip that they need you post it on your channel or add it it to your videos. With this, you provide marketing for them then they pay you for it. You can also make deals with these companies to be their brand ambassador. You live to promote their products and they live to pay you. Such a sweet deal right? Just be careful and make sure that you read the contract of agreement. Some of those brands do not allow you to promote any other product/brand other than theirs.
Conclusion.
Now you know how to Make Money with YouTube Shorts.
