Monetizing videos on YouTube: Experience/Comments

Are you looking to solely make money off ad's? If you have some expertise to offer, another way is to just use your youtube channel along with your other advertising channels, FB etc as lead ins to your paid program or lesson. Many use youtube just as an another advertising method to sell their product. I don't make money off youtube or facebook directly but to get new customers.

Thanks Snowman9000. Don't expect to get rich, but could make a few extra bucks. I can understand having to swing open so many doors to fit into their room. Don't want to work in a position where I am working below minimum wage. The idea behind gathering information from those who have walked down this road is to be in a better position to make a good decision. THANKS!!!!!

Mike,
Go to youtube, search for youtube partner, start watching the how-to videos.

I've made several hundred dollars over the course of a few years from a simple how to video that has over 200,000 views. Guys like Hickok 45 (gun reviews) or Mark Crossfield (golf club reviews) must make a REAL good amount of money.

Monetizing is the correct word, as used by Google. Navigating their account setup is horrible IMO. In fact, I haven't seen a payment for a few months, so I need to go through the maze and see if I'm getting close or what. They pay when the balance gets to $100.

I have no control over ads. Google does whatever they do.

Mike, the bottom line is, make a video that people want to view. Sign up with Google and sign up for monetizing it. If enough people view it, eventually you get paid.

I just lucked into mine. Someone on a forum asked a question. I made a 47 second video to show them how I did what they were asking. Over time it got viewed a lot. I am no pro, but I would say, most youtubers talk WAY too much. Organize your thoughts, spend a little time editing if need be, and keep it short!

Edit: Looks like earnings are down, I think Youtube lowered the scale IIRC. For the past 365 days, I've accrued $90. Better than a kick in the head, but it's half or less of what I used to earn.

I had included a link to my video, but I notice in reading up on this at Youtube that linking to my video in social media violates their terms of service.

If you have multiple videos, then you can setup a Paid Channels account.

Yes, I was thinking of making money with videos that I make from material that I own world wide copyright to. Am looking for anyone with experience in this venue. The connection between the three is the learning curve involved. If you have made money with YouTube videos, chime in: the good, the bad and the ugly! THANKS for all input!

There are some "rental" movies on YouTube
That you pay too stream
I think PBS and NATURE and first run movies

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2671973?hl=en

I wonder if that is what the OP wants too do

As for ads, you'll need to have a lot of YouTube viewers to make any type of return. For instance, it takes a million views to return a few thousand dollars on average.

Lots of people responding with, fairly obvious, no knowledge of actually being a "youtube publisher".

I have a bunch of vids I have loaded, since mine are almost all recreational I didn't bother with monetizing.

I have a friend that used to make and sell DVDs of him demonstrating various technical things. When sales fell off he looked into monetizing his videos on Youtube. Due to all the hoops he had to jump through he decided to just upload them and use the publicity to help him get teaching gigs

Is he talking about ads in the vids?