Making Money Off You Tube Videos After The ADpocalypse

Making videos for fun used to be something YouTube was all about. Nowadays though, it’s all about the money, the ad revenue and fame. In the past, we upload videos just because it was fun to do and because we were passionate about it. It was like a much better version of Facebook today. Where you could just post any videos without the thought of wanting some kind of rewards for it aside from the likes.

That was back then. Today, we make videos on YouTube because television is dying and it’s a much better idea to be advertising yourself through YouTube. As much as it sucks, You Tube seems to be the internet equivalent of television now.

YouTubers make money by making videos. The big names that you are familiar with (Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye) and even the ones that are looked down on most of the time (the Paul Brothers for instances) are millionaires simply because they create videos in the safety of their rooms. There is no need to go out and be in an office for 8 whole hours because you can just do your work at home.

However, you need to know that being a YouTuber is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

Not only is the scheduling so off because it all depends on you, but the amount of hours and hours you have to spend on recording the videos and then editing them will take about 12 hours AT LEAST. And we haven’t even gone to the point of social media stress and burnout. Then there the whole ADpocalypse back in 2017 where all the advertisers basically pulled themselves away and in turn, the YouTube creators couldn’t get the money that they deserve after grinding.

The point is that it’s a hard job but it DOES bring the cash.

How do they do it?

You can get money from your videos by either affiliate advertising or from sponsored videos.

From how I view it – at least from the more honest YouTubers that I watch all the time — affiliate advertising is basically the usual of you getting ads on your videos. Provided that your video is family-friendly and doesn’t break the rules of YouTube’s ever-changing and vague guidelines. These days, it’s harder. The rules are even more convoluted and don’t even get me started on the copyright strikes that companies do. That is essentially when they see or hear something that belonged to them on a video and then take the money earned from that video, even when the hard work was all on the creator.

Sponsored videos are a little easier to understand. A brand or a company likes you, they contact you, tell you to advertise their product for at LEAST a minute on your video, and you get paid for it. By then, you don’t have to worry about getting demonetised or anything like that.