Invitation to Earn Revenue From Your YouTube Videos?

ByNalts

Did you get an e-mail lately with the subject, “Invitation to earn revenue from your YouTube videos”? What’s it mean?

You’ve been invited to “monetize” your videos. Since my sister hates that word, let’s put it this way. You’ll share in the income that YouTube makes from advertisers.

  • This will amount to maybe $1 per 1,000 views. Could be pennies per 1,000 and it could be a couple bucks per thousand.
  • The $ you get per views should continue to rise. Projections have been as high as 40% growth in 2012 to this report predicting 25% growth in online-video advertising in the next 12 months.
  • You’ll need an Adsense account, which is how YouTube/Google pays publishers who run ads.
  • Do it. No down side unless you abhor ads around your content.
  • It’s not quite the same thing as being a YouTube “Partner” or “Creator,” which provides the channel with advanced branding (a logo on videos, and more flexibility on the channel page that few see). More importantly, advertisers are paying a premium for Partner/Creators and the other ads tend to command less revenue.

Still, my channels are excited. I’ll have to monetize them when I remember the passwords…

Any questions? Comment below or e-mail me at kevin (no space) nalty (a) g/mail

 

Invitation to earn revenue from your YouTube videos

Similar Posts

Free Video “Clipping” Service Via YouTube

ByNalts

Most marketers and public relations agencies have “clipping services,” via which they receive copies of newspaper articles covering topics of interest. Say you’re marketing M&Ms. You probably want to know when the chocolate candy appears in the news. It occured to me that YouTube’s functionality can provide this service to you for free. Google Alerts…

What I Learned About Claymation Yesterday

ByNalts

I spent most of Sunday working on a 1-minute claymation video that included about 1,000 individual pictures, and hours of camera moves, clay squishing, editing and voiceover. Here’s the result, titled “Butter Attack.” This was inspired when yesterday morning, David (WhistlersBrother) sent me his song titled “Binny’s Bop,” which reminds me of the Bobby McFarlin…

| | |

What I Learned from Being Featured on YouTube

ByNalts

I may be on vacation, but I’ve learned a lot in the past 24 hours since I was featured on YouTube (with Viral Video Genius). Let me share these with WillVideoForFood readers… YouTubers think this is a “you’ve made it” move, and I’ve received dozens of really encouraging notes from folks. The people in the…

| | |

Contrived and Stealth “Viral” Campaigns Still Controversial

ByNalts

A few amateurs created a giant lego ball and videotape their friend dressed as Indiana Jones running from it down a San Francisco hill, where it crashes into a car. Of course the pieces stay intact, and the ball appears to be stryofoam dressed with legos. What’s wrong about this video? We think the fake…

8 Comments

  1. Can’t wait to see the New York Times article about how to MONETIZE videos on You Tube. I’m putting my money on, oh, four or five days. Plagiarists, all of them.

  2. I’m able to monetize all of my videos but don’t have the same abilities as my partnered buddies. I sent you a message on facebook about it. Are creators and partners two different things?

    1. Creator is the new word for Partner. Same thing. But this monetization program is different… like a low-budget partner. Still make money but rarely (if at all) prerolls, which are more profitable. Hey it’s money, though, right?

    1. You’re in good shape… as long as you’re not talking Nike or full-size lear jet. Maybe some dollar store sandals and a mini toy jet.

Comments are closed.