YouTube his undoubtedly the biggest video platform in the world. Almost two decades now, they have created millionaires and billionaires through that platform. They have created jobs with their platform for many people across the globe.
YouTube was established years ago by owners of Google. It is video sharing platform where creators are allowed to post videos on various niches such as beauty, news, music, movies, entertainment, dating, books, motivation, teaching courses, fashion, among others.
YouTube has over the years had a big impact on the careers of musicians across the globe. Musicians have been the biggest beneficiaries of the YouTube platform such that, years ago, majority of people around the world thought the platform was mainly for musicians. Musicians across the world have made millions of dollars so far from YouTube especially those in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and all the western countries.
You should join YouTube and start your own channel because of the following reasons.
Firstly, YouTube can become another source of income source for you if you are already having a job. Take YouTube as your part time job, create videos weekly, and make money every month once you have monetized.
Secondly, YouTube can solve your unemployment situation if you are still looking for a job. As you wait to get employed by a public or private company, turn to YouTube and start creating videos. You can choose any niche to focus on be it sports, entertainment, fashion, finance, beauty,motivation, dating, etc. You can also choose to generalize the channel by talking about everything from every niche at any point in time.
Lastly, you should join YouTube because it can make you a millionaire or billionaire. The YouTube platform has created several millionaires and billionaires over the years. Talk of Logan Paul, Jake Paul, Mr Beast, David Dobrik, Wode Maya, Patricia Bright, Kelly Stamps, Tana Mongeau, Harry Jowsey, PewDiePie, among others. These people did not just become rich and influential through YouTube, they are now considered big time Hollywood celebrities. Logan Paul and his brother, Jake Paul have used their influence to venture into other sectors in the online industry. Logan Paul also has a clothing and drink company.
YouTube has helped many people. In Africa , our creators on YouTube are also becoming rich through the platform. Ghana’s most followed YouTube influencer, Wode Maya, recently bought a million dollar house.
Aside the official YouTube monetization partner program, you can monetize your YouTube channel through sponsorship from companies. You can write proposals to companies to promote their product or service on your platform. You just have to show them your analytics and what they stand to gain by using on your platform. All the rich and famous YouTube influencers you know make about fifty percent of their money from sponsorships. You can use your platform to make more money using YouTube. YouTube influencers sell their courses through their channels.
What are you waiting for?. Sign up for a Gmail account. After signing up for a gmail account, go to YouTube and log in with the Gmail that you just created. Create your channel and fix in the avatar and channel banner. Start creating your videos and wait till you reach the one thousand subscribers and four thousand hours watch time
Do you know monetization with YouTube channels few years ago was very easy. You had access to apply immediately after creating your channel but YouTube made changes to the monetization requirements and since my old channel could not meet the new requirements, which states that you have to get four thousand watch hours time and one thousand subscribers.
These are the steps to follow to get the four thousand watch hours and one thousand subscribers:
Firstly, SEO on YouTube should be your number one priority or strategy in getting more views and subscribers. Search engine optimization has helped many creators to rave on thousands to millions of views and subscribers over the years. YouTube is the second most used search engine after google so it is expedient to capitalize on that. Use the same keywords spoken in your videos on your title, tags, description etc. The most common or used keywords should be utilized when placing the keywords. Make sure to add five hundred to one thousand words in your video description.
Secondly,after publishing your video , share it. Make it a habit of immediately sharing your postsacross all social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, Instagram, among others. Tell your friends to see your videos.
Also, create a playlist. Playlists goes a long way to get you organic views to help in reaching four thousand watch time hours and one thousand subscribers. With a playlist created on your channel, a returning subscriber is likely to check and see your playlist.
Again, target big channels and see what type of videos worked for them and do a similar video around that specific title. When you do this, your video is likely to be recommended after someone has viewed their channel on the next video list.
In addition, to easily reach the new monetization threshold, you should always ask your viewers to subscribe. Making a call to action on your video helps a lot in getting more subscribers and watch time hours.
Also, create searchable videos. In the past, I thought that updates were all about what you like but on a second thought, I realized that creating a post which solves problems people are searching for , is not jus a good idea but a very good strategy in getting the four thousand hours watch time and one thousand subscribers.
Most importantly, make longer videos from five to ten minutes. It is likely for you to reach the threshold soon with a longer video than a short one. A ten minutes video with an average watch time of five minutes can help you reach four thousand hours watch time and one thousand subscribers if you get more than eighty thousand views on that video. So it is always advisable to start with longer videos in order to meet the requirements.
YouTube is one of the most lucrative passive income platforms where you make money as you sleep so far as someone is seeing your video. Use YouTube platform like the rest of the other social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest among others and you will not just be informed, educated or entertained but you can use it to make passive income.
I love YouTube and I believe you do too. Have fun and kingly share this video. Meeting the requirements is not an easy task but just follow the above steps and you will get there. We all winning together.