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Are you looking for a passive income with YouTube Shorts? Here are the detailed steps to earn money from YouTube shorts in vertical videos in 2022, plus an additional bonus tip for 2023.
Generating money from YouTube Shorts is a difficult task when compared to earning money from regular long videos just in four steps as follows,
- Apply to the YouTube Partnership Program
- Upload the lengthy videos
- Enable monetization for the eligible videos
- Receive money from Google advertising
YouTube Shorts are the way in which you can post videos up to 60 seconds or less, they are not like a regular traditional YouTube monetization program. At present, there are no possible methods in YouTube Shorts by which you can insert the ads in videos like regular lengthy videos and collect money as people started vide your content.
How does a person make money as a Shorts creator?
Below are the detailed steps in which we are going to look over how the YouTube Shorts creator earns money by posting short videos on YouTube.
1. YouTube Shorts Fund
If you are looking to earn money from YouTube Shorts it will come from the YouTube company has allocated the sum of $100 million Shorts Fund.
This is something like the YouTube company announced in 2021, that they have launched the platform YouTube Shorts and reward the best creators on the monthly basis from this allocated revenue in YouTube Short fund. The bonus amount may get vary month on month it is not a stable revenue it all depends on the previous month's YouTube Short video performance.
Looking for an eligibility requirement for YouTube Short video creators, please look below:
- Create original short video content and make it regular for 180 days (it should not be TikTok videos or any other similar videos from another platform)
- You must be completed at least 13 years of age
- Your all videos must follow the latest YouTube Community Guidelines and Monetization policies
- Check for a country's eligibility
If you meet these requirements then you are ready to go with start creating YouTube short videos and receive the bonus from YouTube. You will be notified in the first week of the month if you are selected from the YouTube Short video creator platform to receive a bonus from your YouTube Short videos, and you will start receiving a bonus amount from the same month 25 and it will continue on every 25th of the month. Check out the YouTube creator's page to know more.
So far, it will take more time to create many videos to receive regular passive income (bonus) from YouTube Short videos. You have to be viral to receive hundreds of dollars which is slightly not satisfying. That's why our YouTuber-in-residence Rob Wilson at vidIQ made such a uncomfortable face in the below image,
Yes, still it's good that receive something than nothing at all.
Below are a few top creators who earned money from YouTube Shorts Fund,
- GEVids: $2,300 for 130 million Shorts views
- King Probherbs: $300 for 5 million Shorts views
- TN Craft: $200 for 7 million Shorts views
This is cool, right? Yes instead of getting nothing it's very simple and easy to create a short video about anything and generate bonus revenue from YouTube. Many YouTube Short video creators are getting paid of bonus every month from $100 to $10,000 maximum. So that makes a person interested to start creating YouTube short videos and receiving bonus money.
2. Sponsorships and Brand Deals
So getting YouTube Short video bonus isn't a big deal in the world. Even thousands of creators get a monthly reward not only from YouTube Short video bonuses from their millions of views for their every video, every month.
Do you want to know how they are generating a passive regular income other than YouTube Short video bonus? You don't want to join or apply for any competitive race. There are many ways to monetize your videos and this golden opportunity is given by YouTube as Brand Sponsorship.
When you are a sponsor the advertiser will pay you money to advertise their product or service in your videos to get reach digitally because nowadays when compared to the offline system the online system was very good to reach and popular as well as low cost when compared offline advertisements.
Here is a good example of a sponsor in YouTube Short. In this Short video actress, Eliana Ghen advertises a product Vita a mobile editing app.
Now you are thinking? Why this can't do by you? It was not a big deal but if your content was cool and it was impressed by any advertiser yes you are on the track to generating passive income from Brand Sponsorships.
Here are a few notes that you need to become a Brand Sponsorship:
- There's not required a millions of views and subscribers to get a Brand Sponsorship. It just that good audience and a strong YouTube profile.
- 51% of marketers say that they are in plan to invest more in short video creators as they did in the year 2021.
- Many Brands are ready and excited to invest and make an agreement with many short video creators.
And last don't just fix on what we said even a Sponsorship coach Justin Moore says the same statement.
At the end of the day the sponsors says that they dont want to mingle with only those who creat in mind of long videos, The Brands are looking for those who be creative even in short form videos with different form of content creation.
3. Advertising Revenue from YouTube Shorts (Coming Soon)
At present, YouTube Shorts platform are not added in the regular YouTube monetization program. Only it has been enabled for long videos with the milestone of 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours and there is no way to join as YPP for YouTube Short video creators. And there is no way to collect any single dollar of adverstising revenue for short video pr vertical video creators.
And the YouTube has planned to change their monetization policy in the early 2023 for the creators who has won 1000 subscribers and 10 millions Short video views in over the last 90 days can eligible for apply for the new program which gonna launch by YouTube. But this was the latest update by the YouTube and this was not constant it will be better if you keep one eye on YouTube Short video monetization policy.
By joining this YouTube Partner Program may allows you to generate more advertising revenue and also you will be eligible to gain more monetization tools such as, Ad revenue for long videos, Super Thanks, Super Chats, Memberships and much more.
YouTube Short income is also a revenue-sharing model, the Creator will get an 45% of the advertising revenue which generate of your short video and offcource yes it is slightly low from the long video revenue generate in standard the long video will generate 55% of the advertising revenue more over it is better than earning 0%
Additional Tips
Now you got to know how to create a quality content and now it's time to make it viral around the globe. Yes SEO is the main important tool for any content delivers in digital. Here are the some of the best YouTube SEO tools in which you can access them free of cost.
Conclusion
In overall there are three methods to generate revenue from the YouTube Short videos,
- Bonus from YouTube Shorts Fund
- Brand Deal or Sponsorship
- Ad revenue from YouTube Shorts views like standard long video generate (coming in 2023)
The last method is going to be more viral if it was onboarded in real. Because you are gonna make much more money like standard long video creators and yes it was really very simple and easy to create a short videos than a long videos. Just that make sure you are giving the best standard and stick with the quality of content delivery.
