Setup your channel and videos for Monetization.
With growing numbers and popularity of vlogging community, it has become mandatory to have a youtube account at hand. And how excited will you be when I tell you that you can make a serious money out of your unique videos. Yes you can capture yourself in a camera doing what you love to do. Show your passions to the world and you will be rewarded with cash in your bank account.
Youtube partner program allows you to make money on the videos you create and upload to your youtube channel. This is achieved through ads that run on the videos when they are been watched.
I have no ads running on my videos?
First of all you have to setup your youtube account, create a channel, enable monetization and accept your Youtube Partner Program policies and then you are ready to kick in this career point.
What are all the requirements?
For you to get started you need to have the following things ready.
- A Google mail account: Step by step method to create a google account.
- Google Adsense Account: Adsense account is required to run ads on the videos you create, upload and want to earn from. Google have laid strict policies to sign up and approve for an adsense account. For India and some other countries it may take 6 months before your account gets approve. But I have found the quickest way to get your adsense approved within 48 hours.
That's it, Now lets get started.
Step - 1:
Visit www.youtube.com and at the top right corner of the page click the "Sign In" button.
Step - 2:
Youtube will ask for your google email and password. Youtube is a google product and google uses a single email and password to sign in to all its products and services. That means your youtube account was created automatically when you create your google email account. Now click the icon at the top right corner and chose "Creator Studio".
Step - 3:
A page will appear asking you to create a channel for your account. Just click on "Create a channel" written in blue and proceed to the next part where you can name your channel. The fields are auto-filled by default. But you can change the name of your channel. Chose a name which best describes the content you are going to upload and click "Create Channel" button.
Step - 4:
You will be at the video manager page. Now on the left sidebar menu click on "Channel". Your channel Status and features page will appear that shows all the features currently enabled in your account. The green dots will show the enabled features. You can also manually enable other features. Go ahead and click the enable button in front of the monetization feature.
Step - 5:
Click "Enable My Account". Youtube partner program terms will appear in a pop up window. Make sure you read all the terms before you tick all the three mandatory fields. Now hit "I accept" button.
Step - 6:
Congratulations !! Your channel is now enabled to monetize your videos and a $ sign will now appear next to your videos whenever you upload them. Toggle switch it on to start running ads on your videos.
However there is one more step before you start cashing out. That is, you have to link your adsense account to the newly advertisement enabled channel. I have written that article on a separate post here.
Good Luck !!
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