Thread by @AliAbdaal

My YouTube channel makes over $130k each month from Adsense and sponsorships.

Our overall business revenue which includes courses, affiliate deals and products is over $350k per month.

It’s bloody ridiculous.

Here’s how you can monetise your passion too 👇

There are loads of ways to start making money on YouTube, but I found that these 6 are the best:

🎬 The YouTube Partner Program (YPP)
👯 Sponsorships
🔥 Affiliates
⭕️ Community Earnings
💻 Online Courses
👕 Merchandise

Let's break them down 👇🏼

🎬 1. The YouTube Partner Program (YPP)

There are 2 requirements you have to meet before qualifying for the program:

- 4,000 public watch hours in the last 12 months
- At least 1000 subscribers

Sounds easy but YouTube is hard.

How much can you expect to make from AdSense? 🤔

It depends.

YouTube pays about £1-2 ($2) per 1000 views

This number varies hugely based on:

- ⌚ Watch time
- 📏 Length of the video
- 🤳 Type of content produced

This isn't a get-rich-quick scheme.

I made 77 videos before I could turn monetisation on.

And in 10 months I’d made an admittedly pathetic total of £1.96 ($2.70).

But the wait was totally worth it.

In 2021, I made over £330,000 ($440,000) from AdSense 💸

👯 2. Sponsorships

This is where brands pay creators a lump sum in exchange for a mention or product placement in a video.

They can also offer a bonus or reward for additional video engagement or sales.

But landing a brand deal can take time 👇

My first sponsored video came one year after starting on YouTube.

At the time, I'd created nearly 150 videos and had around 50,000 subscribers.

So to say it's tough at the start is an understatement.

How much can you expect to make through sponsorships? 🤔

There’s no simple answer to this.

But I'll try my best:

If you want to land a brand deal, you should charge £15-20 ($20-30) CPM.

In other words, per 1000 video views you can expect to make between £15 and £20.

👇🏼

So if you normally get 100,000 views on a video, you should be charging £1500-2000 ($2000-$3000).

But this isn't a hard and fast rule.

The biggest YouTubers make well over £70,000 ($100,000) per video.

That's pretty insane.

🔥 3. Affiliates

This is something that we can start earning relatively soon once you've built an audience who knows, likes and trusts YOU.

The idea is that companies provide a small commission for driving sales of their product or service.

The more sales you drive, the more money you’ll ultimately make in return.

My tip → start small.

Try opting for a few affiliate programs like the Amazon one.

As your audience grows (and more people know, like and trust you), so will your earnings 🏦

Once you build your audience and reputation, you can reach out to bigger brands offering larger commissions.

In 2020 my affiliate income from my top 5 affiliate partnerships was bigger than the money I made from AdSense (£130,000 vs. £100,000).

How much can we expect to make from affiliates? 🤔

The average affiliate commission rate sits around 5-25%.

👉 Earnings = commission earned per sale x number of expected sales

⭕️ 4. Community Earnings

Once you build a sizeable audience, it's possible to make money creating a community space for them to engage and interact with exclusive content.

I’ve not done this (yet 👀) but one of the most popular methods of doing this is using Patreon.

How much can we expect to earn from our community? 🤔

Take Patreon as an example:

If 1-5% of fans become members paying an average of £5 ($7), you could estimate this:

30,000 followers = somewhere between £200 and £1000 ($300-1500) per month.

💻 5. Online Courses

As creators, you can capitalise on sharing your knowledge.

I've found there are 3 great ways to do this:

- Skillshare classes
- Self-hosted online courses
- Live cohort-based courses

How much can you expect to earn from online courses? 🤔

It depends on:

- How much you charge
- The size of your audience
- The conversion rate

Revenue = Number of your Audience x Conversion Rate x Price of the Course

Lastly, we have swag.

With an audience who like, know and trust you, they’ll also be down to buy some merch in some type of form to show that they’re a part of your community.

We’ve recently launched Essentiali which is my stationary brand and there’s so much potential for other items to sell too.

Check out @MKBHD’s amazing store 👇

@MKBHD There are so many ways you can monetise your YouTube channel once you’ve established what you create videos about and you have a system to show up consistently over time.

Learn the secret to 100,000+ subscribers in my Part-Time YouTuber Academy 👇

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