you can't monetize lyric videos on youtube it's just not possible whatsoever everyone says that you can't do it there's no way to do it well what if i told you that there is a way to make thousands of dollars per month completely and utterly passively just by using something called direct licensing and i'm going to show you everything you need to do to create one of these lyric channels on youtube and make a ton of money just by doing so so i was searching deep within the hustle vault when i found this channel called x
music x and they have over 26 000 subscribers on their channel as you can see they've gotten 14 000 views this month but when i found this channel it gave me a really good idea because i was watching a ton of videos about how to monetize lyric videos and they were all saying oh you can't do this and i was like that's that's crap dude because there's a hundred thousand percent a way to do this so when i found this video it was actually this one that i found which was by nbhd nick and this
is a song called way up and if you guys don't already know nbhd nick is a huge artist on this website called epidemic sound who happens to be the sponsor of this video so what is epidemic sound well epidemic sound is a website that allows you to direct license music and sound effects for your youtube videos or any sort of media or even concert productions if you want and basically if you are looking for any sort of type of music they've got different genres they've got different moods they have different themes and the search functionality
is really good and not to mention this website has pretty much anything that you can possibly think of and the reason that we can use their music from the most popular artists such as nbhd nick on their platform and make money from their views is because of a concept called direct licensing and as you can see here what is the difference between royalty-free and direct licensing well royalty-free music companies typically don't own all the rights themselves they may own the right to some of the music in their catalog but not every track so as a
royalty-free music operator you operate as a middleman and you clear the rights with the right holders so the people who actually own the music and then to license that music to customers you are licensing through them in order to license that music to customers so the customer is responsible for paying public performance royalties which means the customers are not fully protected from being claimed for using the music and content they publish on public platforms well the really cool thing about direct licensing is that companies offer this royalty-free music but they go a step further so
direct licensing companies like epidemic sound link will be down in the description below if you'd like to get a full month full free month trial just to try this thing out so you can see that i'm absolutely right that you won't get pinged for these sort of things direct licensing companies they own all the rights to the music in their catalog and so with that they can actually offer a license that includes all the rights to the video so if you wanted to use the music to have a public performance for instance you don't have
to ask anybody you can use it because you carry this full epidemic sound license and epidemic sounds about 15 bucks a month but if you want to try it out for a month just click that link down in the description below it's an amazing company and that's why i've decided to let them sponsor my youtube channel because i really believe in what they do and i really like the product they offer i use it in all my youtube channels that i have across the platform even the ones you guys don't know about and that's why
i really like epidemic sound so taking this a step further if we look at music's youtube stats here for their channel you could see that they earn between four dollars and 56 dollars per month but this is just a small channel i found i didn't really search for any large channels but i believe if you take all of these really really large producers on a direct licensing platform such as epidemic sound and you post their music instead of just the stuff that isn't too popular or you select a theme such as a house theme like
house music or you select like rock music then you could curate an entire niche of people around you that are actually going to pump this youtube channel all the way to the moon off these passive views and the really cool thing about this is that ad revenue from youtube which requires a thousand subscribers and four thousand hours of watch time which is really easy to get with music content because everybody can listen to music and just play it in the background is really easy to get so you're gonna have ad revenue coming in from these
videos and you can also pump them up with affiliates so if you join some affiliate programs and you find some really good programs you can plug in the description or even start your own music blog where you talk about maybe the story of artists then you can actually double dip on this ad revenue and make even more money so let's talk about how we're actually going to create these videos there's a few different ways to create these videos but for now i'm just going to show you what this nbhd nick video that's monetized by music
actually just has inside of it and it doesn't even have to be a lyric music video you could even add like stock footage as long as you're adding value to the music and you're creating something original that youtube can actually monetize because you do have direct licensing to all of this music to use in any sort of content you want so as you can see just by checking out this video here we could see that it's just some stock footage of someone driving in a car just they're quite literally just speeding up some driving and
driving dangerously that's all it is but if you want to put the lyric videos on the screen you want to create this content super easy you don't even have to do it yourself right all you need to do is find somebody who could actually just create these videos for you for really cheap and i'm going to link down in the description below a link to my discord server which can help you actually interact with people and get ideas in the entrepreneurship and side hustle world but i'm also going to link for you in the description
a discord server filled with a bunch of eager editors that would love to make videos just like this for five to ten dollars a piece and you can completely outsource this yourself just make sure you get that actual license for epidemic sound or a similar platform but i really really really support epidemic sound they're an amazing company so if you want to go about making these videos yourself all you need to do is open up your editing software which in my case is adobe premiere pro 2022 but there's tons of other editing software's out there
that are completely and utterly free and if you're trying to get some stock footage that's completely and utterly free for you to use no matter what you want then you just want to check out this website i'm going to link it in the description below it's called paxils.com so let's say we're looking for cars right we're looking for some cars footage then all we need to do is type in cars and click this videos tab and then you can see we've got all sorts of different footage revolving around cars right and pretty much any video
you can find you can actually link these together in your editing software such as premiere pro and just put these videos together they're super simple they're super short all you need to do is go to epidemic sound choose the song that you want so say i want ringware saga click the download button download the full mix okay and then from here once we have this full mix downloaded then we're actually just going to transfer this over to our video editing program so now that we have that actually over there then we're going to create a
new project and we're going to name this lyric video side hustle okay because that's exactly what this is completely and utterly passive income just off of making lyric videos so then we have that downloaded song we're gonna drag it in here drop it in here it's gonna be a good time put it on our timeline and as you can see you can hear the music as i scrub through it and then we're gonna go and we're gonna get this royalty-free music of cars on the highway just for a quick example and then we're going to
drag that into our video timeline and we're going to put it over our music here and as you can see we'll resize this a little bit so it fits here and you would want to make cuts like when the music beats or like something like that whenever there's like a drop but as you can see we just created a completely and utterly reasonable youtube video in like two seconds all you need to do is fill up the entire timeline sequence of the music and make sure that the music cuts with the video so this is
a completely unexplored untapped niche that i found for you guys to make money because i was like dang you know the raiden videos are a little hard to monetize still very possible to do but these lyric videos they're like an untapped gold mine of potential money making potential so if you guys really liked this video and you got some value out of this video don't forget to smash that like button and consider subscribing to the channel don't forget i've got that free one month trial epidemic sound for you with the link in my description below
and if you want some more tips about how to actually create these videos and really get super involved i highly suggest that you watch part two of my rain video series which i'm gonna have right here right now
