How to Earn Online via YouTube

Have you ever wondered why famous YouTube personalities treat their channels as a full-time job? Well, the answer is simple! It’s because they earn handsome amount of money from their YouTube Channels.

Recently, New York Times did a profile on Olga Kay, a famous YouTuber, and revealed she has been earning $100,000 – $130,000 from her YouTube Channel per year ( thats $8.3k – 10.8k per month) for last three years.

In the same way, many Pakistani social media celebrities (and even media channels) put their videos online on YouTube. Thanks to YouTube monetisation, these YouTubers and TV channels make money when people watch their videos. This serves as a nice revenue stream for them.

Does that not sound intriguing?

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: 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 3: 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 4: 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.

• Video should comply with Terms of Service and Community Guidelines which can be found here.

2) YouTube Advertising Formats

• Once monetised videos are enabled, several ads (see below for more information on type of ads) may appear next to your video.