this is everything you need to know about YouTube monetization I'm going to cover the different ways that you can make money on YouTube itself once you meet the YouTube Partner program requirements now obviously there's other ways you can make money off the back of your YouTube channel as well and I've got links in the description if you want to dive further into that after this video so in this video we're looking at how YouTube itself pays you so in order to get paid by YouTube you do need to be in the YouTube Partner program and
there's actually now two tiers of the program there is a a lower tier and a higher tier so to be eligible for the lower tier you do need to have 500 subscribers you need to have three public video uploads in the last 90 days and you also need to have either 3,000 public watch hours in the past 12 months or 3 million public shorts views in the last 90 days you also need to be in a country or region that supports the YouTube Partner program so once you've reached this level and you've applied to be
in the program you've been accepted this is going to unlock supers for you so super chat super stickers and super thanks and this is really at the core of YouTube fan funding so your fans your followers your viewers have the ability to either donate to you via chat so super chat so while your live viewers of that live stream can send you a promoted or boosted chat message which also includes a tip or a donation for you as well with an amount that they specify on their end very similar to this is super stickers again
again while you're live so you need to be doing a live stream that your viewers can send you a sticker which also has a monetary value associated with it again think a tip or donation from your viewers but it also unlocks super thanks which essentially gives you the ability to have that same capability but not while you're live so you can actually have a thanks button that will appear under your regular YouTube videos that at any time when someone's consuming your content they can click on that they can send you a message as you would
a YouTube comment and they can specify how much money they want to donate or send you at that point and all of these super chats super stickers and super thanks they're all designed to stand out on your content as well so it highlights the viewer their message or their sticker so that they stand out there as well this lower tier of the YouTube Partner program also unlocks YouTube channel memberships think of this like your own patreon or buy me a coffee but built directly into YouTube so the way this works is you as the channel
owner can enable Channel memberships and then you can create different tiers or monetary amounts that people will pay you on a recurring basis to be a channel member and each one of these tiers that you create could be different amounts but also offer different perks as YouTube calls them so a perk could be something like access to exclusive live streams access to exclusive Community posts exclusive content there's also ways to integrate this with external platforms as as well for even sharing course content or deeper dive stuff but this can be a great recurring Revenue model
for you where it makes it easy for your viewers to support you if they like what you're doing and obviously to get access to some of these perks that you offer too that's probably worth noting that while you get access to all of these things at these different levels you definitely don't need to have them all set up and running you get to choose and that's what I love about this is that you can build the business or the revenue streams that you want off this so if YouTube channel memberships sounds like a nightmare for
you to run and to set up all the perks or whatever then you don't need to do it but there's an opportunity there for you now in terms of the fan funding options that we've covered so far with Channel memberships and the supers you as the channel owner get to keep 70% of that Revenue after YouTube takes a 30% cut and the last thing that you unlock on this lower tier YouTube Partner program is YouTube shopping again only if this is actually functional and accessible in your country or region but this is where you'll have
the ability to promote and sell your own products or merchandise directly on YouTube and when you set this up you can actually have your own products and things showing up beneath your videos but also while you're live too now to set this up this is where you will need to be using an approved platform something like Shopify there's other options as well and obviously have your products and everything set up for sale on that and it's going to create a link between the two for you so that's what's available right now in the lower tier
of the YouTube Partner program but if you're in that program and you're progressing through your channel still growing then once you reach the requirements to enable the full tier you don't need to reapply because you're already in just those extra features are going to unlock so to be eligible to join the full YouTube Partner program the top tier this is where you will need to have 1,000 subscribers on your channel you'll need to have 4,000 hours of public watch time in the past 12 months or you'll need to have 10 million valid public short views
in the past 90 days now your channel will also need to be in good standing with YouTube as well meaning that you're compliant with YouTube's monetization policies no Community guidelines strikes that you have an AdSense account set up as well but once you're in there and once you're accepted this is when you can turn on YouTube ad revenue and this is the most popular way that people make money from YouTube It's the biggest way that we make money from YouTube paying us themselves so in this higher tier obviously you get access to all of the
supers the shopping and the memberships from the lower tier as well and you get to enable YouTube ads but this is also where you get extra revenue from things like YouTube premium so for anyone that is consuming your content that does have a YouTube premium account where they're not seeing ads then this is where your content can earn a portion of that subscription fee based on watch time and this is automatically set up and managed by YouTube themselves and you'll be able to view your earnings from ad revenue and from YouTube premium Revenue in your
YouTube analytics now in terms of a revenue split or cut from the ad side of YouTube this is where it's around 55% that the creators get to have whereas the rest the 45 goes to YouTube obviously that's after fees and everything as well YouTube are also currently testing and slowly rolling out YouTube shopping Affiliates for people in the higher partner program as well so with this you don't need to have your own products that you can use with YouTube shopping your own merchandise or whatever this gives the ability to promote and to help sell other
products and things that you don't own that you don't need to have in a warehouse and ship out or any of that stuff you can be an affiliate for these products so if you're mentioning them in your video then they can show up below it where people can buy that product from Amazon or wherever it is and you can earn an affiliate commission from that too I think this is absolutely awesome and I can't wait to get access we don't have access yet I think right now this is only in the US but I really
love the opportunity here for this and with YouTube shopping in general and it sounds like from what I've heard they've got a big push for this coming on the TV side of things too fingers crossed so those are the ways right now that you can make money from YouTube itself but there's other ways that you can make money from your YouTube channel and I've got some videos linked on screen to help you even further with that including affiliate Revenue which is my favorite as always check out the links in the description below for more links
more resources to help you even further and I will see you in the next video cheers
