Make money with YouTube

How to Make Money with a YouTube Channel for Beginners in 2024

In this ultimate guide, I’ll show you how to make money with a YouTube channel for beginners. And even if you already have a channel, this guide can help you make more money on YouTube.

YouTube is the second most popular website in the world, with over 30 billion visits per month. In other words, much of the whole world is watching YouTube videos. This will allow you to build a following on YouTube and make money with your YouTube channel.

Now, you’re probably here because you might have these kinds of questions:

  • How do people make money with YouTube?
  • I have a channel, so how can I start making money?
  • Why is my YouTube channel not making money?
  • I don’t want to show my face. Can I still make money?
  • How can I make money on YouTube without making videos?

These and many more questions will be answered in this complete YouTube guide on how to make money with a YouTube channel for beginners.

Below is the table of contents, which shows the topics I’ll cover in this guide. You can use it to skip to a particular topic that’s relevant to you. With that, let’s begin.

How to Start a YouTube Channel (If You Haven’t Already)

First things first, you need a YouTube channel. If you already have a channel, you can skip this section. If you haven’t started a channel yet, it’s easy:

On a Browser

  1. Go to YouTube.
  2. If you’re not on a Google account, click “Sign in” to sign in to your Google account.
  3. Click your profile on the top-right and click “Create a channel.”
  4. Pick a name and a handle for your channel.
  5. Make sure you agree to the Terms of Service. Click “Create channel.”

On the YouTube App

  1. Open the YouTube app.
  2. Make sure you’re signed in to your Google account and out of incognito mode.
  3. Tap “You” on the bottom. There, you can create your channel.
  4. Pick a name and a handle for your channel.
  5. Make sure you agree to the Terms of Service, then confirm to create your channel.

How to Set Up Your YouTube Channel

Now that you have a YouTube channel, let’s make sure it’s set up for content. Even beginners like you should have a presentable YouTube channel before you can make money with it.

Setting up your YouTube channel is pretty simple. First, pick a niche for your channel. Second, give it a good name. Third, design your channel’s page.

Select a Niche

Every good YouTube channel falls under a specific niche (or interest). Popular YouTube niches include Internet humor, vlogs, gameplays, education, travel, and more. Microsoft Clipchamp has great niche ideas here.

Pick only one niche that you would like your channel to focus on. It has to be a niche you are passionate about, or at least are interested in. Stick with one niche for now. (Later on, you can add one or two more niches depending on if your audience would be interested.)

Rename Your Channel

It helps to give your channel a name that matches your niche. That way, anyone who looks at your channel name will know what your content is about. For example, if your channel’s niche is gameplay and your name is Mike, a good name would be “Playtime with Mike.”

I recommend picking a name that is also available as a handle. That way, people can easily search for your channel using your handle.

To give your channel a new name and handle, follow these steps:

  • If you’re on a browser, go to your YouTube Studio > Customization > Basic info.
  • If you’re on the YouTube app, go to your channel’s home page, then tap the pencil icon.

Design Your Channel Page

Your channel’s home page should give people an idea of what to expect on your channel. So, it’s important to make it look presentable. Your channel page consists of your channel art, a description, and relevant links.

Channel Art

Let’s start with your channel art, which is your logo and banner. Designing a logo and banner doesn’t have to be difficult. I recommend using Canva’s YouTube logo designer as well as their YouTube banner maker. These tools have pre-built templates to help make designing your channel art a breeze. If you want someone else to do it, you can hire someone on Fiverr to do it instead.

Alternatively, you can use your portrait as your channel logo if you’re okay showing your face. You can also take a picture of something related to your niche and use that for your channel banner.

Once your channel art is ready, you can upload it to your channel page by following these steps:

  • If you’re on a browser, go to your YouTube Studio > Customization > Branding.
  • If you’re on the YouTube app, go to your channel’s home page, then tap the pencil icon.

Description and Links

The About section of your channel page contains a description of what your channel is about and links to related websites and social media pages. To help people better understand who you are and what kind of content you post, write a short but detailed description of your channel.

If you would like to engage with your audience outside YouTube, you can start a website and/or social media pages. Make sure to add links to those pages alongside your description.

Add a description and links by following these steps:

  • If you’re on a browser, go to your YouTube Studio > Customization > Basic info.
  • If you’re on the YouTube app, go to your channel’s home page, then tap the pencil icon to add a channel description. To add links using a mobile device, use the YouTube Studio app.

Now that your YouTube channel is set up, let’s figure out how beginners like you can make money with your YouTube channel.

Ways to Make Money with Your YouTube Channel

You probably already know that people are making money on YouTube. After all, that’s why you’re reading this guide. So, how exactly are these YouTube creators making money?

Most YouTube creators make money by participating in the YouTube Partner Program. Other people have additional techniques to make money on YouTube, including affiliate marketing, selling online courses, hosting a Patreon page, and more. I’ll go into these techniques later on.

What Is the YouTube Partner Program?

The YouTube Partner Program is a program offered by Google for creators on YouTube to earn money. As a member of the Partner Program, you allow Google to provide you with tools allowing you to make money with your channel. In exchange, Google takes a cut of whatever you earn. Here is Google’s explanation of the Partner Program.

Google gives you several moneymaking tools as a member of the Partner Program:

  • Watch Page Ads: advertisements that appear during your videos
  • Shorts Feed Ads: advertisements that appear between YouTube Shorts
  • Commerce Product Module: enables channel memberships and allows people to send Super Chats, Super Stickers, and Super Thanks
  • Shopping: a section where you can sell channel merchandise
  • Premium revenue: lets you earn money for viewers that are subscribed to YouTube Premium

Let’s go over each of these tools in detail:

Watch Page Ads

Watch Page Ads are advertisements that appear while people are watching long-form videos or live-stream replays. These are the ads you often see as you’re watching videos on YouTube. These ads appear before the video begins, during the video, and sometimes at the end of the video. YouTube pays you half of the revenue generated from someone watching an ad on your video.

According to Influencer Marketing Hub, you can earn between $0.01 and $0.03 per view. This can add up depending on the number of views you receive and the amount of viewer engagement. Check out Influencer Marketing Hub’s YouTube Money Calculator to see how much you could earn.

Shorts Feed Ads

Shorts Feed Ads are advertisements that appear between YouTube Shorts videos. You can make money from someone watching a Shorts Feed ad if they also saw your Shorts video in that same session. YouTube uses revenue sharing to determine how much you earn. To learn more, refer to this Google page on YouTube Shorts monetization.

Commerce Product Module

The Commerce Product Module is the tool that enables the following for your YouTube channel:

  • Channel memberships where you offer perks in exchange for monthly donations from your viewers. These perks include chat emoji, exclusive videos, community posts, and more.
  • Super Chats, the ability for viewers to send you money in exchange for a highlighted chat bubble during a live stream.
  • Super Stickers, basically Super Chats that replace a chat message with an animated sticker.
  • Super Thanks, the ability for viewers to send you money in exchange for a highlighted comment on any of your videos.

Shopping

The program adds the option to include a Shopping section on your channel. There, you can connect an online store so you can sell channel merchandise on your channel page to your viewers. You can use a done-for-you website that sells merch with your channel art on your behalf, like Spring (aka Teespring). You can also connect your own self-hosted online store to your channel, such as a Shopify store.

Premium Revenue

You can also earn money for every YouTube Premium subscriber who watches any of your videos. YouTube pays you a percentage of the fee that the subscriber is paying for Premium.

What Other Ways Can You Make Money with YouTube?

There are several other ways you can make money with YouTube, in addition to the Partner Program. Here are the most popular:

  • Running a Patreon page
  • Asking for donations on other sites
  • Hosting a podcast
  • Doing affiliate marketing
  • Selling online courses

Let’s go through each of these as well.

Running a Patreon page

Patreon is an online platform where creators can offer their fans exclusive posts, videos, and other perks in exchange for a monthly donation. You may have come across creators asking for support on Patreon or thanking the people who support them on Patreon with onscreen credits.

As a creator, you can add multiple donation tiers to your Patreon page, each with its own perks. Over time, as your fans become more loyal, they may choose to increase their donation and receive more benefits, which is a win for both you and your fans.

Asking for donations on other sites

Some YouTube creators ask their fans to donate on other websites besides Patreon. Patreon takes a small fraction of donations, so the creator doesn’t receive all the money. By asking people to give on other sites, creators assure fans that 100% of their money is going directly to them. The only downfall is creators cannot give perks to those who donate on these sites.

Websites where you can set up donation pages include PayPal, Ko-fi, and Buy Me a Coffee. You can also set up a page on Cash App if you live in the United States or the United Kingdom.

Hosting a podcast

YouTube creators who make informational videos and lectures can also host their own podcast. Most podcast hosting providers allow podcasters who sign up to make money from their work.

Podbean is a great choice for anyone who wants to start a podcast on platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Podbean allows podcasters to make money either through fundraising campaigns or by running ads during the podcast.

Doing affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is advertising a physical or digital product or service that is related to your content. YouTube creators may share affiliate links (also known as referral links) to products or services that their fans might be interested in. For example, many creators join Amazon Associates so they can promote their filming equipment or clothing and accessories that are available on Amazon for their fans to buy.

Most online stores have their own affiliate programs that you, as a creator, can join for free. You can also find referral links on your favorite apps so your fans can sign up for them as well.

Selling online courses

Some creators might choose to sell their expertise through online courses. That way, fans don’t have to look around videos to figure out all the information they need to learn about something. With an online course, you as a creator can break it down into bite-size lessons that make it easy and fun for your fans to learn. Websites where you can sell your online course for free include Udemy, Skillshare, and Domestika.

And that’s it. It’s time for your beginners’ guide on how to make money with your own YouTube channel using each of these ways.

How to Make Money with Your YouTube Channel (for Beginners)

Now, you know all the ways people on YouTube are making money with their channels. Let’s get practical and actually start doing these ways so you too can make money!

Once you have some videos ready to go, I recommend starting with the YouTube Partner Program. After that, you can branch out to other money-making strategies in addition to the program. So, that’s exactly what I’ll help you do.

Steps to Make Money with Your YouTube Channel for Beginners

Here are the steps we will cover in this section:

  1. Create YouTube videos
  2. Join the YouTube Partner Program
  3. Set up Patreon and donation pages
  4. Do affiliate marketing
  5. Host a podcast
  6. Sell online courses

1. Create YouTube Videos (for Free)

Before beginners like you can start making money with your YouTube channel, you need videos. Hopefully, at this point, you already have videos uploaded. But if not, that’s okay. I’ll show you a few tips on how to add some to your channel.

There are many different ways YouTube creators create videos for their channels, including:

  • Filming yourself
  • Putting together a slideshow
  • Using a whiteboard video maker

As you can see, you don’t have to show your face. A slideshow, whiteboard video, or a freelancer can help keep you from having to go on camera. Let’s explore these options.

Film yourself

If you’d like to film yourself, you need a good camera like a GoPro or even just your smartphone. Consider using an external microphone and a studio light for a better watching experience. While filming yourself, don’t use a script. Just speak naturally, as if you are talking to someone.

Once you’re done filming, you can use a video editor to remove unwanted scenes as well as add text to complement the video. Here are some free video editor apps to use.

App namePC/MacAndroidiOS
YouTube StudioOpen on browserDownloadDownload
ClipchampDownload for PCN/ADownload
CapCutDownload for PC/MacDownloadDownload
iMovieDownload for MacN/ADownload
YouCutN/ADownloadDownload
These video editing apps can help you polish your filmed videos before publishing them to YouTube.

Put together a slideshow (without showing your face)

If you don’t want to show your face, you can create a slideshow with photos, videos, and/or text. Remember to use royalty-free photos and videos on sites like Pexels and Pixabay. The apps below can help you with your slideshow for free.

  • Screen recording programs like OBS Studio
  • Presentation apps like Google Slides
  • Video editor apps like the ones mentioned above

Use a whiteboard video maker (without showing your face)

If you are going to educate your viewers, you can make a whiteboard video. A whiteboard video is a video where the viewer sees someone writing and drawing information on a board. This makes the information easy and simple to understand. Animatron and Renderforest are two websites where you can make whiteboard videos for free.

How Do I Add Music to My Video?

Adding music to your YouTube video can help create the right atmosphere for watching. Remember that you should only use no-copyright music to avoid getting a copyright strike from YouTube. Do not include music from well-known artists who hold a copyright to their work.

You can download non-copyrighted music for free using the YouTube Audio Library, NCS Music Library, or Bensound. Then add the music to your video using a video editor.

How Do I Upload My Video?

Once your video is ready to go, make sure it’s in one of these YouTube-accepted video formats. You may need to use your video editor to export it in the proper format.

To upload your video, use YouTube Studio. Make sure to add a catchy title and an informative video description. You can also add chapters and captions as you see fit. Lastly, you can decide whether you want to publish your video immediately or schedule it for a specific date and time.

For more tips on how to create a great video, check out TechSmith’s YouTube video guide.

2. Join the YouTube Partner Program

As I mentioned earlier, the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) allows you to partner with Google to make money. This lets you show ads, offer memberships, allow donations, and more.

First of all, make sure your country is listed in Google’s YPP country list. If your country is not listed, you’re not eligible to join the program, so skip to the next step.

To be eligible for the YPP, you need to meet two criteria:

  1. Your channel has 1,000 subscribers.
  2. Your channel has either 4,000 public watch hours in the last year OR 10 million public YouTube Shorts views in the previous 90 days.

Google requires you to meet these criteria to ensure your channel provides viewers valuable content. This prevents abuse from spammy and bot-operated YouTube channels.

In June 2023, Google introduced an expanded version of the YouTube Partner Program, with slightly easier criteria to meet. This expanded version allows your channel to serve memberships, a channel store, Super Chats, Super Stickers, and Super Thanks, but it does not include showing ads. Here are the criteria for the expanded YPP:

  1. Your channel has 500 subscribers and 3 public uploads in the last 90 days.
  2. Your channel has either 3,000 public watch hours in the last year OR 3 million public YouTube Shorts views in the previous 90 days.

If you live in one of the countries listed in Google’s expanded YPP country list here, you can join the expanded YPP and get access to ads later when you meet the normal criteria.

In this section, I’ll give you tips on how to meet these criteria. Then, once you’ve met them, I’ll show you how to apply for the program.

Tips to Get More Subscribers

  • Tell people to “Subscribe.” Remind your viewers to subscribe for more related content. Remember, when you say “subscribe,” YouTube lights up the Subscribe button to help encourage your viewers. (However, don’t say “subscribe” too much as that will annoy your viewers.)
  • Be original and unique. Use your natural voice and personality. Some people will want to subscribe because they’d rather hear you than someone else. Also, be creative when you make and edit your video. For example, use a unique editing style, create your own visuals or music, or add a bit of humor.
  • Publish regularly. Try to aim for at least one video a week. The more videos you create, the more likely YouTube will share them with people who might be interested, and the more subscribers you earn.
  • Share on social media. If you have a social media page, share your content with your friends and followers regularly. This will encourage them to subscribe and share your videos with others as well.

Tips to Add Watch Hours

TubeBuddy has a great article on six ways to help you generate 4,000 watch hours.

Tips to Add Shorts Views

  • Clip your current videos to make Shorts. This is the easiest way to make YouTube Shorts. Just recycle your content and re-publish it as a Short.
  • Post interesting topics. The most successful Shorts are fascinating in some way. They may be humorous, bizarre, or unbelievable. Try applying this to whatever niche you are in for a successful Short.
  • Add Shorts regularly. More content means more views for your Shorts.

How to Check Your Progress

You can use YouTube Studio to track your eligibility for the Partner Program. Just look for the monetization section of your YouTube Studio.

  • If you’re on a browser, go to your YouTube Studio > Earn > Eligibility.
  • If you’re on mobile, use the YouTube Studio app.

Once you’ve met all the criteria, make sure you do the following before you apply for the YPP:

  1. Follow the YouTube monetization policies.
  2. Have no active Community Guidelines strikes.
  3. Enable 2-step verification on your Google account.
  4. Verify your channel ownership using your ID or video verification.

How to Apply for the Program

You can use that same monetization section of YouTube Studio to apply for the program (either the normal or expanded YPP). When you’re ready to apply, click “Apply Now” to get started. Whether you are applying for normal or expanded YPP, you will need to accept the terms of the program and then set up an AdSense account if you haven’t already.

Afterwards, your application will be reviewed and, if approved, you will receive an email welcoming you to the program. You can choose which monetization features you want to use to make money with your YouTube channel:

  • Memberships enables channel memberships.
  • Supers enables Super Chats, Super Stickers, and Super Thanks.
  • Shopping enables channel merchandise.
  • Watch Page Ads enables ads for your long-form videos.
  • Shorts Feed Ads enables ads before or after your Shorts videos.

If you enable Shopping, make sure you have an online merch store prepared. That way, you can connect it to your YouTube channel’s Store page.

If you enable Watch Page Ads, you can specify where you would like to place the ads in the middle of videos 8 minutes or longer. For more information, see Google’s article on mid-roll ad breaks.

And that’s it! You now know how to make money on your YouTube channel for beginners using the YouTube Partner Program.

3. Set up Patreon and donation pages

In this section, you will learn how to set up donation pages for your YouTube channel on Patreon and other websites.

Set Up Patreon

  1. If you’re not part of Patreon, go to patreon.com/create. Sign up by using your email or your Google, Apple, or Facebook account.
  2. If you’re already part of Patreon but don’t have a page, sign in to your account. Click on your profile on the bottom left and click Create on Patreon.
  3. Enter a name for your Patreon page. I recommend using your YouTube channel name.
  4. Once that’s done, you should now have a Patreon page. You can now add your channel icon and art, add membership tiers and perks, and set prices for your tiers. You can also add a waitlist so your fans can be notified as soon as you launch your page. Patreon has more info on how to get started here.

Set Up PayPal Donation Page

  1. If you’re not part of PayPal, go to paypal.com/signup and create an account.
  2. Once you’re signed in, go to paypal.com/donate/buttons.
  3. Click Get a link on the screen.
  4. Enter the name of your channel. You can also add a quick description. Click Continue.
  5. Set your currency. Then, choose whether you would like to receive any or an exact amount. Finally, decide if you would like to allow monthly recurring donations. Click Finish.
  6. Once you see a success page, click Get link. When the link appears, click Copy.
  7. Paste the link into the Social links section of your YouTube channel description. You’ll also get a copy of the link via email. Unless you have a PayPal business account, you cannot get the link back. If you lose the link or want to make changes to your page, you’ll need to repeat steps 2-6.

Alternatively, you could set up a donation page by sharing your PayPal.me link. The problem is your first and last name will be displayed. So, for privacy reasons, I don’t recommend this option unless your personal name is also your channel’s name.

Other Donation Pages

Here are some articles to help you set up donation pages on other websites:

4. Do affiliate marketing

If you’d like to do affiliate marketing and promote products or services your viewers might like, then follow these steps, which I’ll cover in this section:

  1. Find a website that sells your product or service.
  2. Join their affiliate program.
  3. Find your product or service and copy your affiliate link.
  4. Create a video promoting the product or service.
  5. Upload the video to YouTube and paste your affiliate link(s) in your video’s description.
  6. Publish your video and wait for sales.

First, find a website that sells your product or service. If you’re promoting a physical product, such as gadgets, electronics, books, or clothing, it’s most likely on Amazon. Some physical or digital products may also have their own websites where you can become an affiliate.

Second, join their affiliate program.

  • If your product is on Amazon, sign up for Amazon Associates.
  • If your product or service has its own website, go to their website and scroll to the bottom of the page. Look for a link to an affiliate page such as “Affiliates” or “Affiliate Program.” If there isn’t one, they probably don’t have an affiliate program.

Third, find your product or service on the website you are an affiliate for. Once you find it, follow the steps you need to take to obtain an affiliate link. This is the link your viewers will click to buy what you are offering so you can earn money from it. Copy the link to your computer.

Fourth, create a video promoting your product or service. Make sure the product or service you’re promoting is related to the topic of your video. You could also make a review video of the product where you share your thoughts on it.

Fifth, upload the video to YouTube. In the description of your video, include the affiliate link to the product you’re promoting.

Finally, publish your video and just wait for sales to come in.

If you’d like to learn how to do affiliate marketing the right way, check out my complete affiliate marketing guide. You’ll learn everything you need to know about doing affiliate marketing.

5. Host a podcast

In this section, I’ll show you how to start your own podcast. This way, you can release the content you post on your YouTube channel as a podcast episode people can listen to.

The best way to start a podcast is through Podbean, which allows you to distribute your podcast to multiple platforms, like Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Sign up for Podbean. You can also use your Google or Apple account to sign up. Afterwards, pick a name for your Podbean account. I suggest naming it after your YouTube channel for branding purposes.

Once you’re logged in, follow Podbean’s Quick Start Guide to help you create a podcast.

  1. Sign up for Podbean. You can use your Google or Apple account to sign up as well.
  2. Pick a name for your Podbean account. I suggest naming it after your YouTube channel.
  3. Follow Podbean’s Quick Start Guide to help you create a podcast.
  4. To extract the audio from your video, you can use Biteable.
  5. Upload your audio file as an episode for your podcast.
  6. When you’re ready to make money with your podcast, follow Podbean’s monetization guide. You’ll learn how to run ads for your podcast that allow you to earn money.

6. Sell online courses

If your YouTube channel is intended to be educational and informative, you can also sell your knowledge in the form of an online course. In this section, I’ll show you how to start selling one.

There are many websites that allow you to host an online course and sell it to others, including Teachable. Teachable has a ton of features to help you out and what’s awesome is that you can get started for free to see if it works for you. Once you’re ready to dive further into Teachable, you can get their basic plan for $39 per month.

But if you’d rather create a course for free, just know that your course may not look as appealing or professional. You can use free websites like Udemy, Skillshare, and Domestika to do that.

Once you pick your platform, follow these steps:

  1. Decide what topic you would like to focus on.
  2. Go to your online course platform and make videos, quizzes, or articles that talk about different aspects of your chosen topic.
  3. Preview your course and imagine you’re a student. Does everything make sense?
  4. Pick a fair price to sell your course. You can ask people close to you to help you evaluate your course.
  5. In your next YouTube video, advertise your course. Give your viewers reasons to sign up.
  6. Copy the link to your course’s sales page and paste it in the description of your video.

If you need help using Teachable, Udemy, or Skillshare, here are their help articles:

Can I Make Money on YouTube Without Making Videos?

Up to this point, you learned how to make money with your YouTube channel by making a video. But what if you don’t want to make any videos at all? Can you still make money?

The answer is: yes, you can make money on YouTube without making videos, but you have limited options.

These are the best ways you can make money on YouTube without actually making videos:

  • Use artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Hire a freelancer
  • Watch YouTube videos

Use artificial intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence has quickly gained mainstream acceptance since ChatGPT was released in 2022. It’s pretty obvious why many people take advantage of AI to help speed up their content creation. There are many free AI video generators such as Canva, DeepBrain, and FlexClip.

But, while you can use AI to help you make videos, you still need to accept some responsibilities:

  1. You need to label your video as altered content.
  2. You may lose some trust with some people.
  3. You should prevent misinformation.

First of all, YouTube requires you to label your video as “altered content” if it was created mostly using an AI tool. This acts as a warning to the viewer, saying that it may contain unprofessional visuals or inaccurate information. You can learn more about this here.

Second, using AI may diminish your trust with some (not all) people. There are many people skeptical of AI and its potential impact to the way people think. If you would like to use AI, just understand your channel growth may end up slow.

Third, AI has the potential to provide misinformation. Make sure to fact-check the information your AI generates. If there are any factual errors, correct them and redo the AI narration. If you get a comment pointing out an error, accept the correction, correct it, and reupload the video.

Hire a freelancer

Alternatively, you can hire a freelancer to make a video for you so you don’t have to do it. Freelancers can do voice narration, video editing, filming and photography, music, and more. These freelancers can be found on websites such as Fiverr, Upwork, and People Per Hour.

Just tell them what topic you would like them to make a video on. Be sure to send them a script to narrate from and a video outline to give them an idea of how they should make your video.

How to Make Money Watching YouTube Videos

You can also make a little bit of money watching YouTube videos. You certainly won’t get rich from it and it won’t replace your job, but it can give you some side income if you prefer to just watch YouTube.

There aren’t a lot of apps or websites that pay you for watching YouTube. But there is one good app, and that is Honeygain. This app lets you make money passively using the bandwidth from your Internet connection. Just access the Internet and watch YouTube like you normally do, and the app pays you. According to Honeygain, you can earn around $30 per month.

Honeygain is available for Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux computers. You can learn more about Honeygain here.

YouTube FAQ

Here are a few questions you might be asking about YouTube to make money.

How much money can I make with my YouTube channel?

It depends on how you’re making money. Running ads on YouTube pay you $0.01 to $0.03 per view. You can use this YouTube Money Calculator to help you calculate how much you can earn with your videos. If you have Patreon supporters or YouTube membership, you can earn an average of $1,000 to $2,000 a month.

Why am I not making money on YouTube?

If you tried any of these steps and you’re still not making money, you may need to be patient. It can take a long time to accumulate views and subscribers. Just create more content and wait for your fanbase to grow. It will be well worth the wait.
If you don’t have a lot of members on Patreon or YouTube, remind your viewers to join and thank those who are already supporting you. Try adding more perks to give people a bigger incentive to support you.
If you’re trying to sell on YouTube, try improving your marketing skills. Be more friendly and give people exciting reasons to buy.

How long before I start making money on YouTube?

Making money on YouTube can take several months because you need regular viewers and subscribers. The good news is you can speed it up. The more videos you create and the more you advertise your videos on social media, the quicker it will be to make money.