 In this video, I'm going to be talking about channel monetization on YouTube and what you can expect when you hit that thousand subscriber mark and 4000 watch hours if that sounds interesting stick around Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name is Alec and just at the end of last year It just in the nick of time in fact I hit the level to get monetized on YouTube where I'd reached a thousand subscribers and had Actually already surpassed the four thousand watch hours quite some time ago So it was nice to reach that level. However, I had actually been monetized long before that and in fact Monetized to the level where I could in fact fund a new studio not the actual building itself But just a lot of the kit that went into it And so I'm going to share with you my experience of the actual YouTube monetization process so the different steps that I had to go through but then I'm also going to share with you How I had monetized my channel long before that as well And I'll also tell you how much I made in the six and a half months that it took me to reach the YouTube Monetization level as well So first of all, let's just have a little look at what we're talking about with YouTube monetization and where you can Find details about it. So if you come into your YouTube studio, you have this menu down on the left hand side and One of the options that you've got down here is Monetization now ordinarily if I say ordinarily before you get monetized When you go into this section, you'll see something that looks a little bit like this There are four different criteria that you have to have met in order to become monetized Two of them are basically verification steps So you have to verify your identity and the next one is make sure you've got no community strikes against you So those hopefully should be fairly straightforward But the next two are these two little indicators here Which are a little little dials that creep up as you get closer to the target and as you can see as most people know it's a thousand subscribers and Also four thousand watch hours and this needs to be within a 12 month period so That is basically what you're looking at but then what happens when you actually get monetized Well, first of all, you will get an email notification Notifying you that you have reached the required threshold and then what happens is when you go into this channel monetization section It actually changes it slightly to look at something like this Now here you can see that when I took this snapshot I had actually already completed a couple of these Steps but basically step one is agreeing to the terms and conditions firstly The next one is to get your Google AdSense account set up and then finally it is to actually get reviewed Once you have done all of that and submitted your your request Then you'll get reviewed by YouTube and ultimately get accepted or not. Let's hope you do though So first of all this one obviously step one very simple All you do is read the terms and conditions very detailed Of course as they are and make sure you read all of the small print and don't just click straight through it Like I did And so that is just basically as I say terms and conditions the usual sort of stuff Next one is sign up for Google AdSense Now this can take a little while because once you've signed up for Google AdSense You do have to verify your address and they have to send you a little passcode through Various different things like this. This can take a little while So there's nothing to stop you setting up your Google AdSense account in advance And if you've already got an existing Google AdSense account then you can certainly link it to that So I've got an AdSense account that I've had for Well over a decade 17 years or more And so I just basically added my the YouTube channel into that AdSense account So in that respect this was literally a sort of you know five-minute job something like that You add it in and then it takes a little while to process But not you know not more than a few minutes or so Or maybe an hour max I don't know exactly what the usual processing time is but certainly it's not a big deal Once you've got your AdSense account set up So if you are heading towards the monetization target Definitely get your AdSense account set up while in advance to save yourself this extra little bit of time Then once you get to this point it will say as you can see here Your application is being reviewed And it will be your will email you with a decision. I'm having trouble reading here And it was usually within a month. So I clicked on this expecting to having submitted my AdSense account I expected you know, well, I'll wait. Maybe it'll be a few days. Maybe it'll be a few weeks. Who knows In actual fact for me it took around about four or five hours something like that So it was really very quick. And then I got an email and when I went into my YouTube studio I got this little notification just sitting up at the top in my Dashboard in YouTube studio and look at that just in the nick of time December the 31st 903 p.m So just got it in before the new year, which I was quite pleased about because actually when I set up my channel I did sort of have this idea in my head that I would like to Reach this level by the end of the year I didn't set it as a goal because there's no point setting a goal for something that you are not actually fully in control of Because try it as I might I couldn't force people to subscribe So I didn't have it as a goal, but it was a kind of like target in the back of my head That I would like to a nice to have sort of thing. So I was quite pleased to have reached that level So then when you click learn more, it will take you through to this page Congratulations on getting monetized and get started And so from there you click on that button And then it will take you to this page where there is a bit more information about the how to monetize your videos And a bit more about the the program And from here you can click on this turn on ads And then from there it will basically give you some options as to which type of ads you want Now I basically just left all of these checked because I thought well, maybe it's going to Maybe I get to choose a little bit later exactly where I want them and so on So I did just leave them all checked and I didn't want to leave anything off And then there is this next page So once you click on next it will take you to this one where it's a little bit more information another little video Which videos do you want to monetize? All of my existing videos was my answer And then click on monetize all Now what that did is basically Turned on all of those ad types for all of my videos Not necessarily exactly what I wanted actually because I don't want to bombard people with ads at every single juncture And you know all different ad types and so on but that is what it is done as a default to start with And so I will be going back and sort of removing some of them because I don't want to be too aggressive I don't want it to be an annoyance that people are watching ads on my videos So I've got to figure out how to how's the best way to do that and which are the best ads to leave But what I thought I would do was actually just leave them running like that for a week Because you do get some stats in terms of Where the the monetization is coming from which ads are performing and so on so I thought well if I leave it for a week, then it will be a nice little experiment So apologies if it is a bit annoying for the next week But I will share with you all of the details of how it's all going In fact, I can show you right now the sort of difference That it is made with the youtube studio. So if I go back into my this is my regular account now And what you can see here is if I go down to the monetization tab Which is where you'd expect to find the monetization information This is actually now just sort of information about monetization And then if I go into memberships So it does allow me to add memberships to my channel So if I want to have If people want to join on a monthly basis and have a monthly payment going through Then they can do that there I haven't set anything up for that yet because I'm not really sure At the moment about how I would want to do that or the sort of content I would want to create So I'm leaving that alone for the moment However, you also do have super chats So I was very fortunate to have two lovely people give me a super chat on my first official live stream Having passed this mark. So Thank you, Paul. Thank you, Rob. Much appreciated. It was quite a nice little thing. I've just got to now figure out a Way using probably stream elements to have a nice little notification that pops up on screen when people do that during my live streams But you can find all the information about super chats and so on in in this section But for the monetization of the ad revenue then actually where you want to go is to the analytics section So if I come into analytics Then previously we had all of these different figures here Overview reach engagement audience Well, now we've got a little revenue feel as well And it also appears in this chart. So before this chart just simply had the views I beg your pardon had the views the watch time and the number of subscribers In that period. Um, but then now we've also got the ad revenue here as well And then to dig in deeper into this all we need to do is either click on the graph So that will just obviously plot this out over time But also if we go into this menu at the top, then it will give us Excuse me a breakdown of of the revenue Uh, this is literally what day we are now 5th of January. So it's literally only sort of five days worth um, but you can see here the the the sort of Progress of the revenue it does combine the super chats with the ad revenue. So hence the sort of spike Once again, thank you very much rob and paul Um, and so that is how how this works. You can see also the top earnings by video So it does sort of rank them in order So this is the one where I got the super chat incidentally the the super chats that come in obviously The amount that is shown on screen is the amount that has been Pledged donated given by the the lovely people that make these super chats But then obviously youtube take their cut out of that before it it reaches you And so the the amount that's shown here is the amount that's actually reaching you So we'll come to a bit of a better breakdown of that Shortly, but basically that's why this video has the much higher revenue on it But then if you look at all of these others So this is my sort of top performing video so far $1.20 And then 78 cents 70 cents and 55 cents and again, this is after basically I suppose four days because it will be delayed slightly as you know, I'm in the future here So it's still working on us time. I think anyway, it does sort of it's not a a live figure It sort of updates daily. This one seems to so What you can also see here though is the Let me have a little look. In fact, it is updating based on the us time because look at that This is showing December revenue whereas for me, it was actually new year's day that I did my live stream But that has come in on December the 31st. So It is working on on on youtube time not a future time So also what you can see here though is the the ad types that the revenue has come from so The skippable video ads is the primary source and those are definitely the sort of ads that I want to be showing on my channel if at all because Uh, yeah, we don't want to be forcing people to sit through adverts or at least I don't Then you can see non skippable video ads is 2.4 percent Um bumper ads and display ads So those are the ones that sort of lay over the top of the the video And those are even even lower sort of percentage of revenue So I'm probably going to be just reverting or I'll say reverting I'm probably going to be changing so that all ads are just skippable And then having a little look at where those fit in so that I don't want to make you sit through ads if you're not interested in them Um, and so if I come down here, we've also Over on this side, uh, do you know what? This is the first time my uh, my pro mouse isn't working Just bear with me one second while I get this so I can uh Show you what's going on not quite sure why that's happened one second Let me put that on there we go. That's a bit better We can see now. Um, so down at the bottom here you can see in fact, let me just zoom in this a little bit Uh, down at the bottom you can see, uh, the different revenue sources and this is basically splitting out between The transactional revenue. So that is things like super chats And then the estimated ad revenue for the period And that is from ads, obviously But then you can see this one down here, which is for youtube premium revenue So people are on youtube premium and watching your videos, uh the creator in this case me does get a cut of that Of that subscription. So when you are paying the 25 dollars, whatever it is for youtube premium That is going to basically pay for the the creators as well. So It's good to know that it's not all going in youtube's pockets So that is a nice little sort of breakdown of the the different sources And then here, yes, you can see the difference between super stickers and super chats So that's sort of broken down into those two there as well You can also see on a uh video level. So if we Were to go into whoops a daisy wrong button If I go into my content And then pick any one of these videos I'll just take the top one In the the analytics section here, uh, not the editor One second, where's it gone? Clicking in the wrong things here We want to go into the uh the analytics there we go And here you can see the the revenue again And so this is now down to the video level You can see where all of the the revenue has come from at the video level There is also the monetization section And this is where you're going to choose actually which ads run In the in the particular video So I'm going to be digging into this in a lot more detail And I will share with you my findings I would love to get any feedback on any experiences you've had on my channel with ads up to date Up to now in the first sort of four or five days of the year Let me know if any of them have been exceptionally annoying in Inopportune places and things like that Because as I say I am going to sort of go and clear it all out in the next After next week after my next live stream basically So that is where I'm up to with monetization on the channel as far as youtube is concerned But I do want to just share with you the ways that I have already been monetizing my channel because you certainly don't have to wait Until youtube starts starts sending you cash because as you can see it's not really that much anyway I mean it's only cents and dollars at the moment a few dollars on the the videos So obviously as my channel grows and as my number of subscribers grows then those figures will grow But for the time being it's certainly Certainly not necessarily Covering all of the the costs and things like that. But as I mentioned at the beginning I have actually managed to you know completely Renovate this studio space with the revenue that I've had so far from the channel activities And the first way that I monetize the channel was through buy me a coffee. Yes before I even made my first video I'd already set up my buy me a coffee page I'll leave a link for you to set up your buy me a coffee page in the description And you can also just go and check out my page. So it is buy me a coffee com Slash take one tech and over here basically people can go and just buy a single coffee You can call this what you want by the way If you were if you are a wine drinker you could change it to buy me a wine The url is still the same But you could change this here to be whatever you want And it's basically just in multiples of five So one coffee three coffees five coffees or you can go and specify however many you want there And yet that is just a way that people can support the channel on a one-off basis So if there's anything that you found particularly interesting on the channel or useful Then that's a great way to show support You can also sign up to a membership level where basically I've set two levels as the creator you can actually set multiple different levels of whatever values you want So I've just got two levels a five dollar a month or ten dollar a month So that's a great way to support the channel Or if you want to go to a completely different level then there is one that is just for people who are really serious About getting better in their tech life and want to have regular calls and things like that But all the details are on my buy me a coffee page I have done a whole video all about buy me a coffee So I won't just go over that all But I did just want to mention it here because it is Something that is has been instrumental in monetizing the channel also on here people can book a call with me If they want to have any help with any of their Tech issues with any of the sort of stuff that I cover on the channel or anything else that they think that I may be able to help them with based on my My background and things that I've been talking about So you can book a call here and if you are a 10 dollar a month member You can also get a discount on those calls as well So as I say this has been sort of instrumental in me Monetizing the channel now another way that I've monetized the channel is through as you may have Heard me mentioning before is things like my icon packs and downloads So if I go over to my website take one tech.io Then you can go over to the store here And then from the store you can basically go and have a look at some of my icon packs at the moment It's all basically stream deck or also loop deck icon packs. So these work just as well for both of those Although with the stream deck I have actually set it up for most of them so that you get the actual icons themselves as images But then also you get the download for the stream deck profiles that you can just load them straight in and I've got a few in there I've got one which is for youtube player So basically you can control youtube while it's running in the background On your on your desktop. So let's say for example, you're watching a youtube tutorial I don't know which kind of youtube tutorials you may be watching perhaps this channel And you're also working on the application that say i'm talking about And you want to be able to pause and play and stop and skip the the youtube video that's kind of playing in the browser in the background This icon pack would allow you to do that. So it works between This and keyboard maestro to basically control the youtube player in the browser in the background So there's that one. There's also my ecamm live pack that I use So this is all the icons that I use for making these streams actually and these videos I've got another one for um keynote So when i'm doing building overlays and graphics and things like that in keynote Then these are all the shortcuts to allow me to do that a lot more efficiently I've also got one for zoom. Of course, I have with my zoom masterclass coming up I'd be remiss not to mention that zoom masterclass.com To sign up for my early bird offer it was supposed to launch on the first of january But to be honest with you christmas got in the way a little bit funny how that happens So it's been delayed by 10 days So but in any case this zoom pack allows you to control zoom from the the stream deck And just help your meetings run a lot smoother. So Usually with these packs as well when you do click on them I'll link through to the video where I explain all about how to how to use them and how to install them I've got another one for my pro mouse, which is the thing that i'm using right now to demonstrate this this screen share And then i've got another general one with loads of icons in there just 3000 general icons In fact, let me be clear. It is 150 icons in 20 different colors I do make that clear on the the purchasing page though, but Yeah, it's just a selection of Random icons that you may wish to use and then finally i've got my stream deck calculator Now I have been selling quite a few of these icon packs So they vary between two dollars for these small packs here And then these more specific ones are ten dollars a pack So, uh, yeah, I have been able to sell quite a few of those that has helped me to monetize the channel as well Finally, I should also mention affiliates because obviously I do have affiliate links One of the affiliates links I have is of course tube buddy. So tube buddy is what I use to Basically manage my youtube channel and it really helps with Certainly in the very beginning it really helped me just figure out exactly what I needed to do But now it's kind of like acts as my sort of coach and checklist as i'm going through uploading videos making sure i've done all of the right things but then also the advanced features that you get with the The higher level of the tube buddy membership allows you to do things like find and replace so going in adding in lots More information into my descriptions and so on was one thing that I was able to do with it And so yeah, I do find it really useful. So to get your free trial head over to take one tech.io slash tube buddy And in doing so not only will you be helping your channel? But you'll also be helping me out because this is one of the affiliate programs that I signed up for And is one of the ways that I monetize my youtube channel I'll also just mention the other ones since we are here Don't forget of course that I make all of my videos with ecamm live the only real Live production environment for the mac that are worth considering. There are others. I've tried them But they've got nothing on ecamm live. So head over to take one tech to io slash ecamm for your free trial of that And whilst we're talking about monetization Epidemic sound is where I get all of my sound from my Music and sound effects for my channel not that many sound effects. Actually, maybe I need to work on that But this is another affiliate program as well that you can sign up for with take one tech io slash epidemic You can go and try it out for yourself and then sign up for their affiliate program so that you can get referral commission as well and The last one I promise this isn't supposed to be a video full of ads But the last one is set up because there are loads of great apps for live streamers specifically in set up so things like trip mode for example to shut down all external Bandwidth hogs that may be running while you're doing your live stream If you want to have the activity monitor to be able to see what's going on Then you can have iStat menus as well running in your menu bar to make sure that nothing is Taking up too much of your processing power And these are available with set up and set up is basically a collection of 200 plus apps that are really great little utility apps for the mac And you can try it out for yourself at take one tech io slash set up And it's basically like a little mini app store that sits on your computer And you can download or offload any of these apps as and when you feel like it And it's just 9 99 a month And the way that the affiliate program works is if you use to take the free trial using my link And then you go on to sign up you will get a free month and I will get a free month too So it's win-win. Yeah, and so although I don't actually get any sort of Actual cash value from that in terms of you know a payout I do consider it still obviously part of the way that I've monetized the channel because Every month that I get free is a month that I've saved so that is saving me basically $10 every time somebody else signs up So those are basically the the core affiliate programs that I had and other ways that I've I've monetized the channel and then obviously there has been also From the the calls that I've had with people where I've been Helping them with various different things then there has been some work that has come out of that as well So if you want to know in total The amounts that has been made before monetization by youtube in six and a half months was very neatly Six and a half thousand dollars. So that does work out. Obviously. I don't need to do the maths. Hopefully for you But that does average out at a thousand dollars a month on average now Obviously at the beginning when it was just me streaming to myself and nobody listening There wasn't much coming in then and so the majority of that has been towards the back end of that six and a half months And if I was to look at the time that I've spent it's certainly not necessarily a great wage From the amount of time and effort I've put in and also obviously Those those things that I've done in terms of having calls with people that has been an actual real extra cost of of time and so on So there is that to bear in mind But I just wanted to let you know that because what it has meant is that I have been able to achieve my goal of being essentially totally cost-neutral taking my time out of the equation Being totally cost-neutral with the channel. It's enabled me to upgrade several things It would have enabled me to upgrade my camera But I've still not been able to get my hands on a zv e10 I kind of slept on it for a little bit and then they sort of pulled the the production of it So I'm trying to figure a way around that and I think I might have found a solution But certainly you can see that you know the amount of things that I could have purchased for the studio With that money it it certainly goes a long way And I was doing everything on a bit of a shoestring to begin with Because I just didn't want to invest a whole load into the channel And I did want to have this process of showing that you can start with Whatever you've got and then just sort of build it up as you go along So I am still on my 10 year old canon eos 60d camera The lights I've got are not the most expensive by any stretch They were I think about $50 for two of them just basic softboxes I'm going to be doing a proper full studio tour once I've got everything set up I've done a few already on my channel over vlogmas So you could have seen what I've built out But yes once I've got everything in place you'll be able to see How far the the funds that have come before monetization have been able to stretch into improving the look of the of the studio space basically so So that's all for this video really I just wanted to show you what you can expect with monetization But also really sort of drive home this point of you don't have to wait for the youtube monetization And you can probably make a lot more than the youtube monetization in the beginning in any case If you've got something of value to offer and you've got some other ways outside of youtube to monetize So just something to bear in mind I would be remiss then obviously to not say If you have found this useful Then don't forget to Hit the like and subscribe button and also if you found it extra useful Then there is always my buy me a coffee page because that is one of the sources of monetization for the channel as well But until the next time You don't need to go anywhere because I'm coming right up again with more great content Over on the right hand side. So I'll leave some other videos about some of the other stuff that I do over there So until then have a great day You