Youtube is one of the best websites to watch funny and educational videos in 2022, with the emergence of new media, particularly social media, it has never been easier for African youth to earn money online, particularly through YouTube. For instance, Nigerian YouTuber Mark Angel established an empire on her funny comedies. This article brings you the secrets of making money on YouTube.
About Youtube
Youtube is a Google-owned online video-sharing and social networking website that was created in 2005 in the United States. It is available on both desktop and mobile platforms, and users use it to share videos (content) on their personal accounts called channels, which the public (viewers) may see, like, share, and subscribe to.
Quick stats About Youtube
- AS of 2022, thereof 54 million Youtube channels.
- 500 hours of content is uploaded per minute
- 1billion videos are watched every day worldwide
- 2.6 billion users per month
How African Youths Are Making Money From Youtube
As previously stated, creative youths and professionals publish videos on YouTube doing what they do best, and people watch, subscribe, and share these videos. When you watch a video on YouTube, an advertisement appears at the beginning, middle, or end of the video; with those advertisements, YouTubers earn 60% of the cost the advertiser paid for that advertisement.
To make it simple, consider Youtube as a local television station in Nairobi; a particular company submits an advertisement to the station for distribution, the advertisement is broadcast on your television screen, and the firm is compensated for each time the advertisement is presented on your screen. That is the fundamental business concept for YouTube.
Youtube has a partner program where it displays adverts on eligible channels, the money accumulates and its paid on the 21st of every month through Adsense when the account reaches the minimum youtube payout value of 100 dollars.
Content Creators join affiliate marketing platforms like skillshare where they add links to some products and when you make a purchase or follow the link, the creator is paid a small amount of commission.
Brand/Companies give deals to content creators to promote their brands in their videos.
The requirement to Get Started With Youtube
It’s completely free to join Youtube all you need is an email address with Google and the content you are going to share, I made a video on how to create a youtube channel from scratch click here to watch it. For a youtube channel to be allowed into the youtube partner program, it must meet the following requirements
- Your channel must have at least 1000 subscribers
- You must have 4000 public watch hours in the past 365 days
- 0 community guideline strike
When you meet all of these requirements, your YouTube channel is monetised, and you can begin earning money from your YouTube channel.
Donts Of Youtube.
These mistakes are done by youtube and you shouldn’t do them
- Never use copyrighted music
- Avoid reusing other creators’ content
- Using bots for views
- Using bots for subscribers
- Self wacthing of content.
- Hate language and adult content.
- Auto generated Content
Conclusion
Making money online is simple if you have the appropriate direction, and we promise to provide you with alternative methods of making money online, continue to read this site and spread the word about it to your friends. It encourages us to continue to provide you with more. hope you found this post to be of greater benefit to you. Please leave a comment if you require assistance, and we will get back to you as soon as we possibly can.
