How to Monetize Your YouTube Videos in 2024 - 3 Easy Steps

in this video I'm going to be going over how to monetize your YouTube videos step by step and the first thing we need to do is make sure that we hit the requirements for monetization and in order to do that we can jump on the computer right here and I can show you exactly what to do all you need to do is go to your YouTube channel by clicking your profile picture clicking view your channel and then go down here to manage videos from here we're going to want to go to our analytics so if

we go to the left hand side we just click our analytics tab right there and then from here we want to select the last 365 days to see the stats for the past year on your channel and what we're looking for specifically is watch time we need 4,000 hours of watch time in the past 365 days in order to get in the YouTube Partner program and monetize our Channel and as you can see this channel right here has 8,000 hours of watch time in the past year so it hits our requirement number one but now

we need to make sure that we hit requirement number two which is having 1,000 subscribers on your channel and that is very easy to check just go to your YouTube channel see how many subscribers the channel has for example this one has 5,000 so we are all set and ready to monetize now in order to actually get your channel within the YouTube Partner program and monetized you need to go to the leftand side of your creator studio and then go down here and select this earn button right here and as you can see now the

apply button is ready to be clicked so we just click apply now and from here it's going to bring us to the steps to actually sign up to earn money from YouTube now all you have to do first and foremost is review the base terms and you can click Start to begin that process and they require that you actually scroll through and read all of these terms right here and upon doing that then you can click I accept base terms and click accept terms and then scroll down to step number two which is to sign

up for Google AdSense and if you don't already have an AdSense account that's totally fine AdSense is how you're going to actually get paid from YouTube when you make your money it's going to be deposited into an AdSense account which is a company owned by Google and then that money will will be sent to you on a monthly basis depending on how much money you make and I'll get into that in just a second but let's begin this process of connecting an AdSense account to our Channel by clicking start and if you don't already have

an existing account just click no I don't have an account and then on the next screen it will prompt you to create your AdSense account you can use the same exact Gmail that you made for your YouTube channel it's totally fine now I already have an AdSense account since I run over a dozen different YouTube channels and I've been making money from YouTube back since I was a teenager so I'm going to click yes I have an existing account and all I had to do is select the Google account associated with my AdSense account and

then from here once you have that set up you can scroll down and then click accept Association and then you'll be brought back to your YouTube Studio where you can start the next step so now that you have an AdSense account as you can see it says this step is done now it's time for step number three which is to get reviewed and get within the monetization program and as you can see down here it says that we'll email you a decision usually within a month I found that it usually takes much faster than this

literally only a couple days in order to get into the YouTube Partner program so this channel should be set and monetized very soon so what I'm going to do right now is log into one of my channels that is already monetized and making money which is my main personal Channel make money Matt right here as you can see this channel makes a lot of money every single month just from the YouTube Partner program and being monetized but our next step to do is to enable ads on all of your videos once you're accepted in the

monetization program so you'll get an email notifying you that you've been accepted then our next step is to go to your videos manager within your YouTube creators studio and then you'll see a brand new tab added to your YouTube Studio where it says if monetization is on on individual videos on your channel now in order to make this faster so you don't have to go video by video you might have a 100 videos on your channel to monetize you can just go to the left hand side click this select all button right there and then

click edit and then go to monetization and then select on right there and then click update videos now in order to make as much money as you possibly can from YouTube there's a few crucial settings that I recommend enabling which I'm going to show you right now so once you monetize your videos boom you're making money now from your YouTube videos every single time somebody views them and sees an ad on your video but in order to make the most amount of money you need to go into individual videos and edit a few settings what

I recommend doing is sorting your videos by the highest view to the lowest so that you're doing the videos that are getting the most amount of views first especially if you have a lot of videos on your channel so this doesn't take too long then just select your videos one by one and then go go edit these settings go to the left- hand side and then go down to the monetization tab and make sure that you have all ad types selected so make sure you have before video pre-roll ads during video mid rolls and after

video post rolls and select all types of ads so you can make as much money as you possibly can and then for your videos that are longer than 8 minutes you can make even more money from them by putting what are called mid roll ads throughout your video and in order to do that go down here and click manage mid rules and what I recommend doing is placing ads about every 2 minutes throughout your video tapering them off towards the end of the video so as you can see this 11 minute video right here has

1 2 3 4 five ads throughout the video that'll help you make a lot more money in fact multiple times in many circumstances then your videos that are shorter than 8 minutes so go do that with all of your most viewed videos then the next setting I recommend doing to make sure you make as much money as possible is go to the left hand side right here and go down and click this gear icon that says settings from here then go on up to upload defaults and then select monetization and from here you can select

all ad types make sure all of these boxes are checked and that will enable all of your new videos that you're uploading to be fully monetized to their maximum potential so you don't have to remember to do that every time you upload a YouTube video and there's something I wanted to mention about Google AdSense now once you're monetized which is that there is a $100 threshold before you get paid out your earnings so in most circumstances you'll get paid out every sing single month from your Google AdSense account to your bank account and you'll connect

your bank account to Google AdSense during that sign up process and they will require some information for example verifying your address in many cases totally normal I had to do the same exact thing when I was setting this all up myself but once you do that and you start making money from your channel then that money will be stored in your AdSense account and if we jump on my computer right here and go into my AdSense account as you can see it might sometimes be confusing because you might log into AdSense right here and see

that it says 0 you might say wait I've made a lot of money on my channel if I go into my analytics right here it's saying that I'm making all this money but where is it in my AdSense account so this is very important so you don't get too confused make sure when you're clicking payments account that you click this dropdown and select YouTube and that's because AdSense on websites where you put ads on websites in order to make money is a separate branch of AdSense so you want to make sure that you specify YouTube

and now as you can see your last payment was issued right here for this much money and it says paid monthly if the total is at least $100 AKA your payout threshold so you do need to build up $100 but don't worry that money will be stored for you and it's your money as soon as you hit that threshold you'll start getting paid that amount monthly now I've made millions of dollars from YouTube at a very young age and at this point you're probably wondering how many views do I realistically need in order to make

$100 from YouTube or how much money can I make on YouTube in general even just from 1,000 views I'd love to invite you to check out this video next to me right here which answers that question in a very short time frame within 3 minutes you'll know exactly how much money you'll make from YouTube from 1,000 views and how much money you'll realistically be making from your channel once you're monetized check that out next to me right there and I'll hopefully see you there my name is Matt par see you there