YouTube Monetization Methods

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I have been researching everything there is to know about YouTube and I thought I would share a list of monetization methods. I hope you find some which you haven't come across before. Also, this list has given me courage many times to continue the long and tiring YouTube Journey, since I take comfort in knowing that there are many other approaches to channels I can take using any one of the monetization methods listed below:

Whitehat (Legal Methods of Monetization):
  • Affiliate Marketing
  • YouTube Partner Program (Google AdSense)
  • Ecommerce/ Dropshipping
  • Brand Deals/ Sponsored Content
  • Create an Online Course
  • Consulting/ Coaching Services (also you can do a Mastermind/ Workshop Group)
  • YouTube Channel or YouTube Shorts growth service
  • YouTube Monetization/Branding Service
  • Dropservicing/SMMA
  • Make YouTube content about blogs/websites/businesses
  • Premium Content (Patreon)
  • Email List
  • Create a Website (Could be informational, membership or forum)
  • Start a Podcast
  • Make sponsored videos
  • Create a phone app
  • Create and grow a channel and sell it
  • Onlyfans
  • Merchandise Shelf
  • Community Tab
  • Shittier Methods (these pay significantly less)
    • Channel Membership
    • Super chat and super stickies
Blackhat (Illegal Methods of Monetization):
  • CPA and Content Locking
  • YouTube Comment Advertisement Method
  • Content Claim Method
 
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Most people think only about YouTube partner program. Your thread is eye opener for them.
 
Whitehat (Legal Methods of Monetization):

Affiliate Marketing
It could work by having VERY good influence or if your channel is about shopping or technology

YouTube Partner Program (Google AdSense)
Yes

Ecommerce/ Dropshipping
It could work if you focus the channel on it from the beginning.

Brand Deals/ Sponsored Content
Yes, if you have influence

Create an Online Course
Yes, but a very limited niche

Consulting/ Coaching Services (also you can do a Mastermind/ Workshop Group)
Very limited niche

YouTube Channel or YouTube Shorts growth service
Yes, but you won't have growth

YouTube Monetization/Branding Service
Yes

Make YouTube content about blogs/websites/businesses
Yes

Premium Content (Patreon)
Yes, if you are an artist or if you have unique skills

Email List
No

Create a Website (Could be informational, membership or forum)
More no than yes

Start a Podcast
Forget about it

Make sponsored videos
Yes, if you have influence

Create a phone app
And for that you need a channel? Either you are a creator of apps or youtuber, the little that works is a blog about the development of your video game.

Create and grow a channel and sell it
A bit meh

Onlyfans
I'm sure you're not a girl

Merchandise Shelf
NO

Community Tab
It may be

Shittier Methods (these pay significantly less)
With black hat can be

Channel Membership
No

Super chat and super stickies
No


In general, unless from the beginning you have a clear idea of how to monetize a channel, in the end it is probably not profitable to spend your time on everything else unless you have some good knowledge of something and have something to offer.
 
soulburger said:
What's this one:
  • YouTube Comment Advertisement Method
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This is the Youtube Comment Method. This involves commenting on videos uploaded by big YouTubers and pumping your comment with likes to get it to top comment. For example, I have seen someone create an outstanding sob story of how they lost weight on the comments of popular weight loss channels in YouTube and tbh even I almost fell for it, until I realised he was advertising his website.

Also, in the Mr Beast videos there is an impersonator who advertises to viewers that they have won something and i'm guessing he makes them sign up to CPA offer.
 
Could you please elaborate on why CPA is illegal? I never did the CPA thing; thank you for your time. :)
 
from my minimal experience and from what I heard, smm services can work a tad bit
 
Radvis said:
Could you please elaborate on why CPA is illegal? I never did the CPA thing; thank you for your time. :)
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I worded it wrong, its against YouTube Community Guidelines meaning that you will get your account banned or may even get your IP blacklisted.
 
NobodySpecia1 said:
I worded it wrong, its against YouTube Community Guidelines meaning that you will get your account banned or may even get your IP blacklisted.
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Where are you pulling this info from? I can't find it in YT policies.
 
John Konev said:
Can you elaborate further on this? Thanks for the post :)
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Yeah sure, I have seen it on a few BHW and not bothered to research it further since it is not something that I am interested in. It involves claiming unreleased songs on a music distribution platform such as DistroKid. Then the song enters the YT Content ID System and once you upload your video with the song in it, then you get paid for the Ads that are shown on the video. This has much lower payout than YPP. Also, it is blackhat since you don't actually own the song and you try and claim it as yours and many people have been banned by Distrokid and not been paid.

Here are a few links for you to read:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/t...t-claim-system-blackhat-method.1289184/page-7
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/copy-claim-method-works-but-pays-badly-any-alternatives.1346071/
 
NobodySpecia1 said:
Yeah sure, I have seen it on a few BHW and not bothered to research it further since it is not something that I am interested in. It involves claiming unreleased songs on a music distribution platform such as DistroKid. Then the song enters the YT Content ID System and once you upload your video with the song in it, then you get paid for the Ads that are shown on the video. This has much lower payout than YPP. Also, it is blackhat since you don't actually own the song and you try and claim it as yours and many people have been banned by Distrokid and not been paid.

Here are a few links for you to read:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/t...t-claim-system-blackhat-method.1289184/page-7
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/copy-claim-method-works-but-pays-badly-any-alternatives.1346071/
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Thank you, OP.
 
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