Earn Money Through Youtube : FAQ's & Suggestions

ongratulations on making a channel on youtube! A career on Youtube sounds very fancy to all of us, doing what we love, talking to the camera and earning a crazy amount of money!

How much youtubers earn is still a very controversial topic, some say they earn a lot, and some say they’re always broke!

Let us look at the numbers!

The Wall Street Journal reported that PewDiePie, a channel with the most numbers of subscribers earned $4 million in 2013 alone.

Following year, a Swedish magazine Expressen reported that it’s a production company, PewDie Productions AB, earned around $7.5 million in 2014, most of their revenue was from their youtube channel.

$7.5 million is approx 50 crore Indian Rupees!! Isn’t it exciting if you can earn just 1% of that by starting your own youtube channel?

Like any other business, this one requires some investment. It depends on how much you need to invest person to person, but the return does come for sure.

There isn’t one but several ways of earning money on youtube. Let’s step by step look at these!

If you’re in the YouTube Partner Program, you may be able to earn money through:

Ads Channel memberships Merch

Super Chat YouTube Premium

Some of these monetization features have different eligibility requirements. This article will tell you how to turn on each of these features if you’re eligible.

Before you start: Make sure you've completed all the steps to turn on monetization for your channel and set up an AdSense account for payments.

Turn on ads

If your video meets our advertiser-friendly content guidelines, you can turn on ads. If you’re not sure your video is eligible, you can self-rate your content. Choosing to turn on ads doesn’t mean that ads will automatically appear on a video. Before any ads appear, the video will go through a standard process including automated or human reviews to see if it meets our guidelines.

By turning on ads for videos on YouTube, you confirm that you have all the necessary rights to the visual and audio elements of those videos.

You’ll also see these terms on your youtube menu:

YouTube Studio beta

Creator Studio Classic

Turn on channel memberships

Turn on memberships for your channel

Turn on the merchandise shelf

The merchandise shelf allows some creators to showcase their official branded merchandise on YouTube. The merch shelf appears on some video pages of eligible channels.

What is Super Chat

Super Chat lets you interact with your fans. When a viewer purchases a Super Chat, their message is highlighted (and sometimes pinned) at the top of a chat stream.

Turn on YouTube Premium revenue

You don’t need to do anything extra to turn on YouTube Premium revenue. If a viewer who is subscribed to YouTube Premium watches your content, you’ll get part of the fee they pay for YouTube Premium. Every video you post (that meets our Community Guidelines) is eligible for YouTube Premium revenue. Learn more about YouTube Premium.

So, those are several ways of earning money as a YouTuber. For more such articles, regularly visit Information section.

How to make money on YouTube

Become a YouTube Partner

The YouTube Partner Program is how regular YouTubers get access to special features on the platform.

You don’t need to be a partner to make money on YouTube (just setting up an AdSense account and getting views is enough to handle that), but being a Partner makes it a lot easier.

YouTube Partners have access to multiple income streams: not just ads, but YouTube Premium subscription fees, and features that tap your fans’ wallets directly like Super Chat, channel memberships and the merchandise shelf (more on these later.)

Step 1. Start a channel

Don’t worry, we have a handy guide for this. It’s called ‘How to create a YouTube channel.’

Step 2. Make your channel successful enough that it meets the YouTube Partner Program requirements

To join the program, you need a minimum of 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months.

Here are some ideas for how to get more of those precious YouTube views.

Step 3. Set up an AdSense account

This is simple. Just follow YouTube’s official guide to AdSense accounts.

Step 4. Explore your new monetization features

Each monetization channel has different eligibility requirements. For instance:

• Ad revenue: to earn ad revenue, you must be at least 18 years old, and you must create content that is advertiser-friendly. Basically, the less controversial your videos, the more YouTube advertisers will be comfortable running ads on them, and the more money you make.
• YouTube Premium revenue: if a YouTube Premium member watches your video, you get a portion of their subscription fee. (This one is automatic, which is nice.)
• Channel memberships: in order to sell channel memberships to your subscribers (i.e., your fans opt in to pay you an extra amount), you need to be at least 18 and have more than 30,000 subscribers.
• Merchandise shelf: in order to sell merch from YouTube’s merchandise shelf, you must be at least 18 years old, and have at least 10,000 subscribers.
• Super Chat payments: if you want your fans to have the ability to pay to have their messages highlighted in your live chats during your live streams, you must be at least 18 (and live in a country where the feature is offered).

Step 5. Submit to ongoing reviews

As a YouTube Partner, your channel will be held to a higher standard, according to YouTube. You have to follow not just the YouTube Partner Program policies, but the Community Guidelines. Not to mention staying on the right side of copyright law.

Sell your own merchandise

Maybe you identify as a content creator first, and entrepreneur second. (Just remember that even Drake sells t-shirts.)

Alternately, you’re an entrepreneur first and video creator second, which means you probably already have a product, and you’re designing your YouTube marketing strategy to sell it.

Either way, merchandise is a viable way to earn money from YouTube.