Most of these videos are not original. Video creators just downloads and use other people’s videos, or changes the videos a little bit, then re-uploads them on their own channel, and finally monetizes these videos by placing ads on them.
However, such kind of videos can actually make a lot of money. Amazing? Today, this post will teach you how to make money on YouTube without making videos. Here is the guide:
Step 1: Creating Your YouTube Channel
If you already have a YouTube account, you can ignore this step. If you don’t have one YouTube account, creating a YouTube channel is very easy. You can follow the steps below:
1. Sign into YouTube with your Google account.
2. Go to YouTube, and click your profile in the upper-right corner. Then choose Setting.
3. Tap on Create a new channel.
4. Text the brand name and click Create.
If you want to know more about how to create a YouTube channel, please read: How to Start a YouTube Channel – 4 Useful Tips.
Step 2: Choosing a Niche
The top 7 channels that you can choose as your niche are the psychology channel, cooking channel, niche channels, meditation channels, scary video channels, and luxury channels, and financial channels.
Now, these are all niches that perform very well. Once you choose a niche, you need to make sure that your channel must have a logo on the channel.
Step 3: Getting Content
The first method to get content is You just need to search the videos in your niche on YouTube.
Secondly, you can find the video material you need from the free material website. pixabay.com is a good choice.
Step 4: Optimizing Your Videos
In order to make money, you need to make sure that your video is optimized. The way to do this is to optimize the title, description tags, thumbnails, and subtitles on the video.
What’s more, when you are considering the titles of your videos, you should make sure that if something that people would actually search for. So, it’s a good idea to ask yourself “what I actually searched for this title on YouTube for the description”.
Step 5: Getting Monetized
How to make money on YouTube without making videos at all? You can join YouTube Partner, and monetize directly on YouTube. YouTube will place ads on your videos, and you will receive a certain percentage of your advertising revenue.
The best way is to put an ad at the beginning of the video and put an ad at the end of the video. If your videos are over ten minutes long, you can actually add mid-roll ads on your videos and put multiple ads.
For example, if you have a 10 minutes video, you can put an ad every 2 minutes of the video and also at the beginning and end of the video. In this way, you will have 6 different ads. So, you’ll make up to 6 times the amount of money.