 Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Today's video I'm going to be talking about Instagram Reels and the payout process and all things that you maybe want to know about Instagram Reels. I have gotten paid once by Instagram Reels and then I've kind of learned how to get paid and how not to get paid because I did like this trial run, I guess. So if you guys are interested and just keep on watching, if you guys are new here make sure you're subscribed and also follow me on Instagram. I mean this is a Instagram related video. Also sorry for the lighting. I'm currently using my ring light because it is a cold rainy day and right now currently we do not have any Wi-Fi so that's a thing. Starting off so Instagram rolled out this thing called Instagram Reels trying to compete with TikTok and honestly I hate it but I'm gonna be forced to love it because it is a way to make money which you know the root of all evil is money. Let's just be real. Hey no pun intended. Oh my gosh, I make myself laugh every time. My whole feed is just Instagram Reels now and it is so depressing. I hate that. I liked photos. I liked preparing my timeline not my timeline that's editing. I liked preparing my feed so it's like aesthetic and cute and now it's just a bunch of random squares with like I don't know but it's really annoying. It's super sad but there is a benefit because you can make money. So I don't really know how you get monetized. I just got a notification that said hey connect your bank account so you can start earning money from your Reels so I just connected my bank account and that is the bank account that I get the money deposited into. I know that was like a side note but anyway it just has my bank account and what it looks like when you get paid is it says pay out like from Facebook because obviously Facebook owns Instagram. So basically each start of the month when you post a Reel you get this thing or you get a little notification on the first of each month or second and it'll say earn Instagram Reels bonus so you click okay and it resets. So your Instagram Reels for that month have to perform so well. You should be uploading constantly to Reels. I would suggest every day which I'm going to start doing like I know it's going to be like a really annoying and I'll probably end up losing some followers. People like to look at the Reels section not even like the feed section anymore that's kind of what I'm gathering. So you're going to get views from people that like aren't even following you so I mean maybe people want to follow me. So each month it resets which I quickly learned to answer the dying question that I could not find on the internet and I just had to learn the hard way beginning of April. Okay so during the month of March I made around $52 and I don't know how many views I got but I had $52 in the bonus payout but because I didn't reach the goal of $100 because Instagram will only pay you when you hit the threshold of $100 it's kind of like YouTube but if you don't hit that and the view count resets for the next month so you'll just lose that money. It's kind of annoying. I wish it was like YouTube where like if you earn $50 that month you won't get paid but you haven't lost the $50 on Instagram you'll lose that money so it's really not fair but it's the way that Instagram works and it's the way that they're trying to promote people to use the real feature so it's really frustrating but if you get so many views you'll get so much money so you'll see this like little timeline thing. If you reach 50,000 views then you'll get $1,000 or $250 or $300 and if you don't meet that then obviously you don't get paid but yeah I find it very extremely hard to get views on Instagram reels sometimes it's a hit sometimes it's a miss so one video will get like 3,000 views another video will get like five and then I'm like okay I'm gonna share this shit to my story so like someone will view it like come on. I've noticed that if you start sharing your reels to your followers then like that helps. I still haven't really mastered that. If any of you guys know anything more about Instagram reels leave them in the comments down below because I am clueless when it comes to Instagram reels and it's super frustrating because I don't know I think it would be a great way to make a side income to add on to like my YouTube income for the month so I think that would be like really cool but I'm just having a hard time and Instagram gives me zero okay finally we're getting the 200s with the views but that I have like no control over and I don't know what to do I'm like totally lost with that application it's just fun and I just do it for fun which I do this for fun and I also do Instagram for fun but at least I have like some understanding of how to like monetize and like I don't know create some sort of community it's really frustrating but just know I actually just wanted to make this video about like the payout and how it works so just know that each month it resets to zero and if you don't hit the hundred dollar threshold whatever amount of views that you need then you're just not gonna get paid. I also wanted to add that I'm like really upset that my Instagram feed is all reels and I know that I've like already said that but it just takes the fun out of Instagram now because now I'm just like posting my TikToks on reels and I just don't know it's like really annoying it's kind of sad but I guess it's the way things are going. I know this video was kind of short and sweet but I wanted to answer that question um because I know it's not really out there because I had to learn the hard way and just like trial and error there was no just like blatant like statement like hey you're just not gonna get paid even though you've earned this much so um yeah if this if you found this video at all helpful make sure you give it a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys in my next video bye