As many of you already know, lots of famous youtubers are making a living from creating YouTube videos, some such as PewDiePie can make millions of dollars per year. So how does one make money on YouTube? To begin with, YouTube will place advertisements around your content and reward you with some of the income. To earn any money, you must become a YouTube partner.

To achieve that you must upload regular high quality content. After you’ve done this you can enable your account for monetization. Once one of your videos has been approved, YouTube will place advertisements around your videos. However, this won’t return any income, until you’ve linked it to an adsense account. Adsense is Google’s way of paying content creators money in exchange for displaying their advertisements. But before you start making money on YouTube, you first need to set-up your channel.

Setting Up Your YouTube Channel to Make Money

Setting up your channel to make money is super easy. Go to your channel settings, hit the monetization tab and then click on “enable my account”. After that read the Terms & Conditions and once you agree, you can start making money off your channel. When you go back and click uploads to put up a new video, there will be a monetization tab that will let you claim your video as your own. Make sure you’re only claiming videos that you made. If you’re uploading something that you didn’t make yourself or video that contains copyrighted music, you can’t claim it as your own. Even worse, claiming videos that you did’nt make yourself can get your channel shut down. But as long as you avoid that, you’re ready to monetize.

How Much Will You Earn?

This is dependent on the type of ad, how much money Google is getting to display it and how many people view their ads. For every thousand ad views, you might get around three to four dollars. This is commonly known as CPM or cost per millennia, which determines how much money you are being returned for your content. Let’s say that your channel has $100 worth of views earned, Google will take roughly 45% leaving you with around 55 dollars. If you are also signed up to a network, then they will usually take an additional 30%. This will leave you with around $38. 50. However, if your views use adblock, this amount is even smaller. Around 25% of the United States use ad blocker and in Europe it’s even higher. This means that your final earnings is only around $28.

How Can This Amount Be Increased?

First of all, stay away from networks. they’ll want to lock you into their contracts in exchange for increased publicity, but don’t provide very much support if you run into problems. secondly, you can ask your viewers to whitelist your channel. Whitelisting is a basic feature in most ad blocking add-ons that will allow you to display advertisements on certain sites that you want to support. This means that advertisements around your content will not be blocked, while advertisements everywhere else will be. Whitelisting can help any youtuber and can be as effective as donating, except without paying any of your own money.

Conclusion.

Hopefully, this article showed some insight on how YouTube money works and you found it useful. If you did, kindly follow these procedures and within few moths or weeks, you’ll start making money with your YuouTube channel.