I'm just about to answer it the age-old question once and for all can you actually make money on YouTube by uploading relaxing music videos well let's find out I've heard currently different content creators say that you can literally make unlimited money on YouTube just by uploading relaxing music and stock footage and in today's video we're gonna put that to the test and so the very first thing we need to do is find out how a YouTube channel gets monetized we're talking about the YouTube Partner program and if you want to become eligible for that your channel needs to have at least a thousand subscribers and 40 000 hours of watch time or if you're posting YouTube shorts which is not the case for this method you need 10 million views please note that you don't need both of them you only need one so we're gonna focus on the watch hours but there's something else that most people completely Overlook and don't take into account when trying to monetize a YouTube channel having a thousand subscribers and 4 000 hours of watch time is not enough your content also has to comply with the community guidelines but instead of reading them let me actually summarize raise it for you here is the most important takeaway YouTube does not like it and in fact I would say they absolutely hate it when you steal other people's work that is why if I were to just download one of these clips and repost them on my channel it would be copyrighted I'm most likely gonna get a copyright strike and get my channel demonetized sooner or later and so if you're looking to monetize your YouTube channel you cannot afford that your channel cannot have any active Community guidelines strikes otherwise it's not eligible and that is what most content creators Overlook or just leave out when it comes to this relaxing music videos so let's try to understand exactly what's going on here for that reason I've got a few different case studies lined up the first one of them being Yellow Brick Cinema which is one of the biggest channels in the niche they've been in the game for quite some time they are posting a lot of content and they've generated a total of 2. 4 billion views so far now in case you're wondering whether or not their channel is monetized and they are actually making money we can actually check that without necessarily asking them what you need to do is open the source code of that page how you do that will be different depending on what type of device you are using in my case I'm on a Windows laptop so I just press control plus u what I'm going to do now is search for the word monetization and as you can see the value is true which means that this channel is a part of the YouTube Partner program so they are getting paid in ad Revenue month after month they do make money that is very important let's take a look at another Channel here's a smaller one paradise tonight they still have a couple hundred thousand subscribers which is quite significant but is significantly smaller than Yellow Brick Cinema and so if you're having doubts as to whether or not they are making money you now know how to check it you just gotta press control plus u in order to open the source code of that page and then look up monetization and once again the value is true which means this channel is also making money so up until now it genuinely seems like this method actually works both of these channels are are making money they are just uploading relaxing music for meditation and when it comes to the footage displayed in their videos it is just a picture or a few animations nothing too crazy they are not spending countless hours recording videos or anything like that they are keeping things very very simple and so the bottom line is this so far we've learned that YouTube channels posting relaxing music can be monetized so it is possible to do it but there's something else you gotta keep in mind guys I want you to look at this this is perhaps the most important metric on YouTube If you're looking to make money it is your RPM this is how much money you're making per 1000 views and that is specific to your Niche or to the type of content you are posting now to be a little bit more precise your RPM is determined by the type of people that watch your videos but to keep it simple let's just see that it is specific to your Niche that just makes things crystal clear and so if you're posting movie Recaps for instance you might get an RPM of 40 if you're posting videos about celebrity drama you might get about three four five dollars if you're posting videos about cars then again you may get around five dollars for one thousand views that amount of money depends on the content you're posting and the type of people watching your videos however generally speaking music videos get one of the lowest RPMs on YouTube we're talking about a dollar two dollars at most or perhaps even less than that sometimes and this is the biggest problem when it comes to this relaxing music videos if you're going to post an eight minute video that has relaxing music on it and some sort of stock footage in the background the main problem with that is it's gonna make very little money even if it gets a lot of views just because the RPM is so low so what all of these channels end up doing is actually creating really long videos and I'm pretty sure you've already noticed that 12 hours here over 11 hours 3 hours on this video 24 hours on this one and that is because just by having these longer videos that allows the channels to display a bunch of different advertisements on them and Naturally by having more ads displayed on your videos you will get paid more in ad Revenue I hope that makes sense again it's a very simple concept and so guys here's my personal opinion and here's how I would personally do it if you want to make money on YouTube by posting relaxing music videos you want to find a way to create them at scale in other words you don't want to have to create this music yourself because it's going to take an insanely long amount of time you want to find an automated way to do it something that works without your active involvement so you can save some time because otherwise thinking 12 hours to create a song that's not gonna be very pleasant and again if you genuinely want to make money with this method you need to upload longer videos for the reason I've just explained I do think this is a pretty interesting opportunity if done right so I would give it a try but I would do it like this first off instead of Simply creating meditation music which is a very Broad topic and there's a lot of competition there I would go for a more narrow Niche such as Lo-Fi music Lo-Fi stands for low Fidelity and we're talking about this sort of songs that have imperfect elements let me just play one of these so you can get a better idea you know guys let me show you something really interesting perhaps the biggest channel in this particular Niche is called Lo-Fi girl and they have millions of subscribers 11. 9 to be more precise needless to say they are getting a lot of views 1.
4 billion and they're just creating this long music videos that people can listen to when they are just relaxing studying or perhaps even taking a nap but they have created their own unique style they have created this Persona this Lo-Fi girl character that they have in most of their uploads and then when it comes to the visuals they also have one of these Eerie scenes very mysterious looking with some sort of Animation in the background and here's what's really interesting Bears chill hop right here is a far smaller channel it's only got about 4 000 subscribers but as you can probably tell their modeling what Lo-Fi girl is doing they have also created this character they are all also imitating the style of those videos and they are posting longer music clips as well 24 hours long and as you can see the monetization is enabled which means that it is making money even though it's a smaller Channel and that's precisely where the opportunity lies because that means this concept is replicable and you can do it as well we can literally deconstruct what Lo-Fi girl here is doing and replicate it use that as reference and make it even better now I know that most of you watching this video are not artists so it would be almost impossible for you to create a 24 hour music video like this one if you're still watching this video even at this point you are lucky so what I want you guys to do next is connect to creators. eva.
