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YouTube has become a career to many people, and a lot have asked how one earns money by uploading a video. What these people don’t understand is that there’s more to it than uploading, it’s the content that matters. Nate Woodbury will be discussing this in today’s episode, so tune in to learn more about making money by uploading videos on YouTube!
Okay. So, you’ve got this question about earning money. Do you want to earn money… -Who doesn’t? -…by uploading videos to YouTube. -Ah. -So, we’re going to talk about exactly how to do that. Okay, so when I first saw this question. It’s a question that really gets asked hundreds of times each month. I kind of laughed because I… Taking the question literally. How do you make money by uploading videos to YouTube? So, it’s like you’ve just got a whole bunch of videos and you just want to… You want to upload them and get paid money. -Right. It doesn’t… You can’t. It doesn’t… -Well, yeah. You’re taking the question extremely literally. But it is sort of poorly asked. Because but what it does is it highlights an ignorance and that’s why we’re here to answer this question. -So I mean, I want to try and understand like what is the person who’s asking this question wondering. -Well they’re basically just wondering how do I make money off YouTube, right? But they’re… But it’s someone like my grandmother going, “How do I take a video and upload it and make money?” You know? I mean, like… Yhat doesn’t make sense to us even though that she’s skipping the whole creative content. You know, the business side of it. And just saying can I take home videos and load them up there and money will start shooting out of the monitor? You know what I mean? -That’ll be nice. So actually, I didn’t realize to put the number here. This question gets searched 590 times per month. -Hmm. So… People are interested in making money on YouTube. -Now you know.
So, there’s there’s a whole long list of things that you do to make money on YouTube. Maybe we could, we could list them off here. But you’ve got to film the video and create something that’s entertaining that people want to watch. So you create… -Content. -You create content. You create a valuable, entertaining video or informative video. This one is obviously one of our most informative. -Yeah. And especially like we’re doing here. We’re taking questions that are searched a lot. That are relevant to more people than than less. So, after we film, we hit record, we’ve got audio going up here. My team will then edit the video. And they’ll polish it up. You know, he said a couple swear words a second ago. -Oh yeah. We’re out F bombs. -We’re going to have to clearly edit those out. -Right. -And you know, just other things that we always have to edit. -you look for those bloopers later. And then we’ll mix in, you know, a video logo, add in some music. -Put little words on the screen. Some titles. -So, that’s editing. So, there’s some work there. And then when we’re ready, we then we put it on YouTube and you have to decide what the title is. And you can put in a description. Maybe a little thumbnail image to put to make the video look… -So I guess if people are wondering how do I you know, make money on YouTube from uploading videos. I guess you’ve got to have a YouTube channel. You’ve got to have a channel set up that you can upload to. -And you have to upload a lot of them. You have to have at least a thousand subscribers. -Exactly right. So to make money on YouTube, you have to have a thousand subscribers in order to become a partner. -Which is… I got to tell you, I don’t know how long that takes. But I mean… You know, I’ve had like a hundred and fifty subscribers for like three months. You know? -Even if you were YouTube Partner right now, you maybe make a penny. -Well, right. But I’m just saying, I want to get to the 1000 subscriber threshold. So, I guess it’s just patience, right? So, that’s another thing that you want to make money off YouTube. -It takes patience and it takes consistency. And titling your videos the right way so that they match what people are searching for. So, having having some strategy. So there are a lot of ways. I mean, I make my living on YouTube. And I guess you could say by uploading videos to YouTube. -You’re not going to let it go. See, he’s so far into the whole thing that he’s like kind of YouTube snobby. Because like a normal person might ask that and it took makes perfect sense to them. “How do you make money by uploading videos?” They basically mean, “How do you make money on YouTube?”
-So, I guess this video is just me all about insulting the people. -No, it’s not an insult. You try to separate that part of your brain that is so YouTube, you know, it’s just… -Because I put a note here that’s like, I see the person who asked that question. I said that it’s a get-rich-quick or get rich lazy. It’s like I just want to upload videos and make money. That’s how I see it. -No. and I think you may… But you may be on to something. Because I think some people think that. They don’t recognize the effort, the work, all of the ideas that come. Because they just see a viral video that goes crazy. Like a cat video that went viral. -Yeah. You put a cat video on it. Oh, you’re a millionaire? You know, that’s what people think. -How can i upload cat videos and make, okay…. -Well the question… Alright take it in that direction, yeah. So you’d have to make a good cat video, light it well. You sound, you know. -So, we’ve made… We’ve answered this question in other ways. About how to make money on YouTube. We’ve covered that, you know, a lot of times. So check out those videos. Know that making money on YouTube is very real. And it just goes beyond the upload. -Works for me. So, this was clearly one of the best videos you’ve ever seen. So, subscribe, like, pull out your credit card, email me that information. And I’ll send something good and… -We did leave one possible answer off. -Okay, how do you make money by uploading videos to YouTube? If you’re hired by someone like Nate here… -That is true. -To upload the videos for him, he would pay you. And then you would make money uploading videos to YouTube. -I have one of my team members that’s like the officials designated uploader for our team. And he does get paid for that. -So answer given. That was… Hey, if people if you didn’t… The people who left the video and miss this part… It’s like…. -That’s the pot of gold