Your first YouTube video won't hit the 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours needed for ad revenue. Skip chasing YouTube money. Instead, embed promotions for your own products in the video from the start and turn it into a marketing asset.
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The first video that you ever make can be monetized, but not in the way that you think. Whenever people think monetized, they think, oh, YouTube is paying me because there's ads playing on my videos. You have to hit at least 1,000 subscribers and at least 4,000 hours of watch time. And so once you meet, meet this criteria, YouTube will actually pay you and you will get a cut of all of the ad revenue that goes on your videos. The problem with this is many business owners are in business running a business and they don't have time to become a full-time content creator, which is what it takes in order to make any significant money on ad revenue. It's a nice little bonus, especially if you have a couple of videos go viral or pop off. It's a nice bonus, but don't consider it your income. And so what do I mean whenever I say you can actually monetize your first video Well, we can put ads sponsored by your service or your product in your own episodes.