09 ways to make money from Youtube

YouTube is the largest search engine on the internet, with millions of users, and each day those users watch million hours of video, generating billions of views and subscribing to thousands of channels they like.

The most interesting thing about Youtube is that its videos are generating revenue for lifetime because there's always someone who is watching that one video. If you wanna know more facts about Youtube just google it or visit Youtube's official Youtube for Press site.

There are a lot of ways to make money with Youtube you just have to know them. You will find thousands of Channels on youtube run by kids and making hundreds of bucks just by reviewing different products. Keep reading to find out the streams of income available for Youtubers.

1. Youtube Partner Program (YPP)

This comes on top as this is the most basic way to start making money with Youtube. You just have to create a Channel and start uploading videos on Youtube. There are many 

people who don't even know that there are other ways to multiply their earnings on Youtube as well and thus they follow only this basic opportunity i.e. YPP. There are a lot of people who make thousands of bucks with just YPP Lily Singh an Indian Celebrity who earned over 10 million dollars in 2017. There comes a young school-boy named Ryan who earned 11 million dollars in a year. Even an average or part time YouTuber is making $500 to $1000 per month without any problem. Don't believe me, just google it. Here is a detailed post if you want to learn briefly about earning money with YPP then read this post  how to get started with YPP.

2. Use Youtube to redirect traffic to your website/blog

If you just created your blog/website or perhaps your site is hit by Panda, Penguine and Hummingbird updates by google then this is the best way to get some traffic from Youtube as it is considered as the second largest Search Engine with an average of billion users monthly. This is a great chance for you to direct traffic to you blog or website. If you want to learn how to make money blogging/website then read a detailed post about how to make money blogging. Create a Youtube Channel if you don't have it already. Create some videos and don't forget to ask your viewers in the start or end of your video to visit your site. You can also place the link in your description to let them easily visit your site. This way you can funnel your Youtube viewers to your site or blog and get some more traffic.

3. Affiliate Marketing

You can use your Youtube channel to promote other's products known as Affiliate Marketing. You can make videos promoting their products and earn from your Partner Programs. Now this can be more profitable then Youtube Partner Program (YPP) because in Affiliate 

Marketing you have two sources of money i.e. from Youtube (revenue generated from your monetized videos) and the other is from your Partner Program whose products you are promoting. You can google to find out best Affiliate Programs which you find more suitable for yourself. But don't forget to try out the best program as if you chose the wrong one this would increase your negative rating and comments leading your account to termination or not-user friendly. So do a proper research while selecting an Affiliate Program.

4. Promote your own products or items

If you have a small business. If you’re creating your own products or would like to, YouTube offers unlimited ways for you to promote your products and make sales. Products you can create include ebooks, apps, art, music, short films etc.

You can create your products, and add them to a shopping cart. Then use YouTube to promote them. Add a link to your product in your video’s description, so that viewers can buy. Also, don't forget to ask viewers to give you feedback through comments as it would help you to improve your products.

5. Become a Youtube Star

You can't imagine how much money you could be making with this method. Some of the YouTube stars are making a lot of money. PewDiePie is one of them, despite having lost major advertisement recently with Disney, remains number 1 of the highest-paid YouTube stars with $15 million in 2016. PewDiePie is famous for doing game reviews. You could be the next Youtube Star as well.

6. Start teaching others

If you know something perfectly and think that teaching the same to others is easy then Youtube is the perfect platform for you to start. Nowadays, tutorials are huge on YouTube. You can create tutorials and make money from your videos. Beauty videos are popular these days. Michelle Phan is who is a make-up demonstrator and entrepreneur became notable as a YouTube personality having over 8 million subscribers and 1.1 billion lifetime views, with just 385 uploaded videos. You could start a tutorial guide for others as well and earn just by uploading tutorials which would also make you a lot of fans.

7. Seek Sponsorship

If you are receiving millions of views for your channel then you can cut the middleman out and sign up directly with some sponsors. The best part of sponsorship is that you will receive the full amount without splitting it with YouTube.

Lots of companies nowadays provide sponsorship to YouTube channels for direct advertisement. However, getting sponsors wouldn’t be easy because there is no fixed formula to it. You can check websites like Grapevine, Famebit etc. for finding sponsors. It will totally depend upon the number of subscribers your channel have, type of your audience and budget of the sponsors.

8. Sell your channel

You can assume your Youtube Channel as a website which could be sold at any time. Same is the case with your Youtube Channel. However before you sell your channel for money you need to have large number of subscribers with huge search engine traffic and views on your videos. Furthermore, make sure that the production of the channel isn’t tied to your personality as selling such channel tied with a personality would start getting bad comments and dislikes and could even lead your subscribers to unsubscribe your channel.

9. Monetize with Petreon

You can also use Patreon for monetizing your YouTube channel. It could be a great source of money if you have a great idea for a media project on YouTube. Not only does it generate your initial fund, it also contributes to establish audience and revenue for your project in the future. For example, Corridor Digital is a famous YouTube channel which uses Patreon as a way to fund their videos or movie projects, with return of special perks for these supporters.

Conclusion:

Although all the possible ways of making money on YouTube have been explained but there might be other methods as well that you can be used to make money from Youtube. If you have any other idea or method for the same then let me know so that it be included it in this article as well. As always any feedback or recommendation is welcomed and would be much appreciated. Please share it to others so that other can be benefited as well.