Dec 23 2008
Making Money from YouTube
The New York Times had an interesting article about people who are making six-figure incomes from YouTube. YouTube will share advertising revenue with you if the videos you upload are created by you, and you own the content.
How do you go about earning from YouTube? Simple, you need a video camera, and a computer, and you need to join YouTube’s partner program, which allows you to set up a channel. Once you have uploaded your material, they pay out based on how the advertising set up on your channel does, which in turns depends on how many people are viewing your video. You can upload all sorts of things - chats to the camera, songs you have sung, recitals of poetry, videos you’ve created from scratch, anything at all, as long as it is not pornographic, abusive and you own the content. I definitely recommend YouTube users to read the NYTimes article - it’s an eye-opener as to how much can be earned.
