Making money... on Youtube?

@ahgong (10064)
Singapore
June 22, 2009 9:14pm CST
I remember vaguely that one can make money on youtube. But I can never find enough information about how to go about doing that. I wonder, if any mylotters are currently making good money from youtube. If you are, can you share some tips with me? Cos I have opened account with youtube. But have no idea how to go about making money from it. Other than uploading content to it, how are the earnings derived? Where do I go in the account to see how much I have earned? How do I promote my uploads so that I can earn more out of it? Please advise.
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@arkansos (545)
• India
23 Jun 09
You can become a partner. Though frankly, its a pain in the neck becoming one. http://www.youtube.com/partners If you don't mind, you could use metacafe to earn. They have producer's reward kinda thing. Ping me if you want to know more, though its pretty detailed on their site Youtube has requirements like country limitations, and all...Metacafe doesn't have them. You get 5$ per 20k views
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
25 Jun 09
Thanks arkansos! Hmm... metacafe? Tell me more about metacafe!
@arkansos (545)
• India
25 Jun 09
well, it appears i was living in the past. Metacafe has removed producer rewards from June 1. June 30th, it will be completely terminated. Sorry about the misinfo. THere are certain other sites you could consider http://www.plugadplay.com/ and http://www.nelsok.com/
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@arkansos (545)
• India
25 Jun 09
Sorry, Metacafe terminated its producer reward program. There are other sites you could consider http://plugadplay.com sorry again
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@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
23 Jun 09
i think that youtube will contact you to make you a partner. this will only happen if you often get million views. if not then it is impossible for you to be a you tube partner. only few people go about doing that successfully from being unknown to some sort of instant celebrity in youtube. i am one of the followers of those so called you tube celebrities. i love in fact for example of videos of kevjumba. try to see that. and you can see my country man based in hawaii names as nigahiga gets million views in all his videos and his latets ones gets 3 million in less than a week. isn't that awesome. and also try to see the videos of happyslip. enjoy watching it. and learn from them . hope you get to be a youtube partner too soon.
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
25 Jun 09
a million views? Wow, that is a lot of views to have to achieve! And then wait for Youtube to contact you? Ok... at least this is getting somewhere. And I am a little clearer about how youtube earnings can be achieved. Thanks for sharing hotsummer! It is really helpful!
@34momma (13882)
• United States
26 Jun 09
i am not sure how that is done either. the only thing i can think of is this. you have a video that tells people about what it is you do online and step by step instructions on how to do it also. and then have your referral link to what ever it is you are talking about at the end of the video.
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
23 Jun 09
Well, i have heard about ple earning via youtube, but i dunno how it really works.. All i know is that, u might need some subscribers to all your videos, and u be earning from them, whenever they seen and rate your videos?? If not, i dun see any other ways to earn in there, for it's supposed to be a site for viewing of videos.. haha =D But i believe, earnings in there are not that much either.. hehe ^_^
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
25 Jun 09
I too am puzzled about how other people are making money off the web. And I am looking at it to see how it is done. If I can make videos and earn from them, then that would be a good alternative source of revenue to tap into. Heh heh...
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@sonusd (1547)
• India
23 Jun 09
Is it really possible that we can make money by uploading videos in tube? can any body here explain me indetails how to become a earning partner with you tube because after reading this discussion I have sign in you tube and now I have an account with it where I can views movie and video clips but I did not find any place where they mention that upload videos and make money for that so can any body please tell me how to do it?
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
25 Jun 09
So, there is no one standard criteria to see if you qualify to be a partner or not? Hmm... interesting. Thanks for sharing!
• Puerto Rico
23 Jun 09
well, you can become a "partner" on youtube. Get alot of views for your videos, get plenty of subscribers you know stuff like that. Youll be surprized. :P
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
23 Jun 09
hmm... how do I become a partner? What are the criteria to become qualified as a partner?
@Uroborus (908)
• Canada
23 Jun 09
Making money on Yotube is extremely difficult. You would have to upload something that is very competitive with all the other content that's on there. It isn't like Mylot, where you get paid per post. You could end up posting many things on Youtube that give you nothing, unless you spent a lot of time promoting it and getting many views. This isn't so easy, given the competition that's on there.
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@dookie03 (578)
• United States
23 Jun 09
Never knew you could but i'm guessing it'd take some high viewing volume. I mean like thousands and thousands of hits and views to make them consider to even pay you and then let you make more videos that are worthwhile. Mostly it's just funny stuff but i have seen some serious films on there as well. I don't you should try it and let everyone else know as well. Good luck.
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• United States
23 Jun 09
As been stated, you can make money with your videos on YouTube through YouTube's partner program. Unfortunately, it's not something that's easy to get into. I think one of the things you have to have to be able to do it is that your videos must get like thousands of views. At least, I read that somewhere on the site if I'm not mistaken a long time ago. And obviously you can't upload copyrighted material either.
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@vinslounge (1295)
• India
23 Jun 09
That is great and it sounds intresting. I have not heard about making money in You tube and i thank you pretty much for providing me with such a valuable information. It is quite surprsing for me to hear that you can make mony in youtube. Have a great day ahead and enjoy your valuable time in Mylotting. Cheers:)
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• India
25 Jun 09
is it really possible by making money on youtube by uploading the videos in the you tube. I dont hear about that such news. I'm surprisingly to hear this news. thanks for your informations. happy mylotting/...........
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• India
23 Jun 09
hi i wonder do really people make money in youtube i dont have any information about that but if you can please kindly send me some information about that if it really works happy mylotting..........
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@Ammudoll (549)
• India
24 Jun 09
I have also created an account in Youtube but didn't ever tried to know about earning from there. May be if you post a query under help, the admin may let you know the full details with the required information.
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@baz5687 (131)
• United States
23 Jun 09
Wow I did not even know that you can earn on youtube.
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