One of the ways to make money online at no cost is through creating interesting and quality content on YouTube. Established in 2005, YouTube is known as the largest video-sharing platform with active users of 1.9 billion monthly. It enables its users to create short and long videos and get paid for their content.
Content creators on YouTube are called YouTubers. Anyone regardless of age, ethnicity, or location can be a YouTuber.
There are no specific figures to make money as a YouTuber. To earn money, as a Nigerian Youtuber, you need to have at least a thousand subscribers and four thousand watch hours in a year or ten million valid short in 90 days. If you can meet these requirements, you can apply to YouTube programs and monetize your page.
Create Your YouTube Account With 5 Easy Steps!
To get started on YouTube, here are five steps to creating your YouTube account:
- Download the YouTube app on your mobile phone or laptop
- Sign up with a username and password, and link it with your Google account.
- Create a channel with all the required details
- Set your profile picture and privacy options
- Verify your YouTube channel
How To Make Money With Your YouTube Channel!
Have you ever wondered how you can monetize your YouTube Channel? Do not worry! We have got you. Check out some of these ways:
Have a content niche
Having a content theme would determine what your YouTube page would be known for and the kind of audience that will view your page. Entertainment, comedy, lifestyle, sports, talk shows, and movies are types of content for a YouTube channel. Do your research on more content topics and create yours.
Build your audience with engaging content
This is the key factor in making money as a YouTuber. Building an audience requires a lot of hard work and consistency. Posting a video on your page alone does not bring the audience. You need to create awareness about your page and ensure you are adding value to your viewers. Your content should be of good quality and credibility. It is much easier to build an audience on YouTube if you have other social media platforms. Inform them about your page and encourage them to subscribe.
Attract advertisements from brands on your page
Attracting adverts on your channel falls back to your audience capacity. Brands are interested in reaching out to a large no of audience. If you successfully build at least five hundred or one thousand users, you can monetize it through adverts or paid sponsorship for large-scale businesses and grow. Ensure your page is users and advertisers-friendly. Avoid sexual content, violence, sensitive discussion, and inappropriate language.
Get paid with Google AdSense
As a Nigerian Youtuber, you can get paid for different types of ads like:
- Overlay ads: These are small ads at the bottom of your video. You get paid when your viewers click on it and expand to watch it.
- Midroll Ads: These Ads come in between the videos and you get paid when it is being watched for at least 30 seconds.
- Skippable Ads: They appear at the beginning of the video for 5 seconds before they can be skipped. However, you get paid if your viewers watch it beyond 5 seconds to 30 seconds.
- Unskippable Ads: These ads can not be skipped. They appear at the beginning of the video, you get paid if your audience watches it.
- Display Ads: This Ad is the choice of the advertisers. You will be paid if your viewers click on the ads or not.
Get paid through Fan funding
Fan funding allows your viewers to pay monthly in exchange for live videos, and special content. Many Nigerian YouTubers also monetize their page through channel membership.
As a Nigerian Youtuber, a lot of work is needed before you can start making money especially if you are a startup. It is best to have a side hustle and not depend solely on YouTube pending the time you outgrow your audience capacity. Create valuable content, and maintain your consistency. Your hard will pay off someday.
