How To Monetize On YouTube Without 4000 Hours & 1000 Subscribers
If your channel hasn’t generated the required watch time hours or subscribers needed to join the YouTube Partner Program, you still have the potential to generate income with your content. In this post, we’ll look at three different ways:
Affiliate Marketing
Digital Products
Sponsorships
#1 Earn Commission as an Affiliate Marketer
What is affiliate marketing? It’s when you get paid a commission to promote someone else’s service or product. This is usually achieved by providing a custom link to the product or service that tracks consumer activity on your affiliate account.
For example, you may create a video around a specific pair of headphones, then provide an Amazon affiliate link in your description directing to that product. If a viewer clicks on your link and buys the headphones, you get a small commission!
Amazon is a great place to start with affiliate marketing because anybody can apply and be accepted. There are some rules around how much you have to sell in a specific time, but for the most part, it’s a pretty easy target for people to hit.
To learn more, read our extensive guide to the Amazon affiliate program for YouTube creators.
Almost every company has an affiliate marketing program – including TubeBuddy! Look around for a product or service you can promote that’s a good fit for you and your audience.
How do you get viewers to actually click your affiliate links? There are a few ways to do that. You can ask them to in the video or add a call to action on screen. However, the most common option is to have your description ready with the affiliate links to share.