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How to make money off a YouTube video:

First, it needs to be YOUR video —every part of it. For that reason I advise against the inclusion of any “borrowed” music in any vid you make, it can send you down a bad pathway. Just thought I’d start there.

Start making your vids, and get some hits. If you make just one blockbuster, or a series of vids that each get more than....oh...5,000 hits or so, they’ll start to keep track of you.

Pretty soon after that they invite you to join the, “YouTube Partnership Program”.

The short story is that depending on your viewer profile, you’ll....prooooobably make about $2.50 per every 1,000 people who simply click on your video(s).

Lessay your typical viewer is a 10-year-old African —that number might be as low was .25 cents per 1,000 hits.

But lessay instead that American and Swiss 40 males love ya —then I’ve heard crazy stories of people making even $6 per 1,000 hits. BUT THAT IS SUPER RARE.

But lessay you get maybe $2 per 1,000 hits. Why stop there? You should also in your vids make mention of your T-shirts, your stickers, mouse-pads, etc. —you can do that. Could be a million things.

Why not start 5 channels, not just 1? You can. It’s free. And also consider featuring a company’s product(s) —wear their hat or shoes and watch them offer to pay you.

Remember that catchy video last year of the funny effeminate black guy from the Alabama housing project, warning of a rapist? Antoine Dodson?

That’s the highest hit count I’ve seen and it got 79 million hits —it *probably* got over $250,000 just for that one video.

Shane Dawson started with a $100 camera. JennaMarbles was the same —now they’re huge.