Transcript of every social media platform’s monetization

in this video I'm going to go through the monetization of every single social media platform so you know which platforms you should post to and how you can actually make money from them this is really important information if you're doing a faceless Channel still pretty important information if you're just posting your face because you want to make the most amount of money possible from the videos that you post so if you're going to make videos regardless you may as well make the maximum amount of money possible by posting to every single social media platform that allows you to be monetized which means it's probably good to understand the rules now funny enough I already made a video on this and in my opinion this was much more professionally made it was a 17-minute video going through exactly the best and worst social medias to make money and it has literally everything professional editing super in-depth content but the thing is a lot of people prefer these casual style videos so I'm actually going to be doing that instead on this video but it's going to be a lot of the same information from here so if you want to see this original video you can check it out I'll leave it as the first link in the description let me just copy this link and throw it into the notion so that my editor knows to put this when he posts so let's get right into it so I'm basically going to be reviewing every social media's monetization we're going to look at the requirements to be monetized so how many views followers and does the content actually have to be original then we'll look at the actual pay that the platform has so in other words how much money you make per th000 views or this is also known as your RPM all the different factors that actually contribute to your RPM then we'll look at the stability of the pay and then the wild card so if there's any extra ways to make money from that platform so with that being said let's get right into it okay so the first platform that we have is YouTube shorts now on all my faceless channels YouTube shorts is my main platform and the reason is in my opinion it has the best balance of pay stability and the ability to add editors to your channel so let me explain what that means if I want to let someone post on my Tik Tok account for me I literally need to just let them log in which I definitely don't want to do but with YouTube you can add people as Editor to your channel so I can give someone permission to just post new content without letting them log into it I can also make it so they can upload new videos but not delete old videos so for that reason I think YouTube shorts should be people's main first platform and that way you don't have to let people log in to actually post for you but anyways that's only one good feature that YouTube has that other platforms don't that you can use on top of the actual amount that it pays you and the stability so firstly let's say you want to get monetized on a new YouTube channel well the requirements are as follows you have to have at least 10 million shorts views in the past 90 days you need 1,000 subscribers and then you're content kind of has to be original but more on that in a second firstly 10 million views in the past 90 days this is honestly a pretty high threshold to hit to actually get monetized so it's not the quickest to get monetized on YouTube and if you do hit 10 million views it's extremely unlikely that you won't also hit 1,000 subscribers so the 10 million view threshold is really the hardest thing to hit now what this really means is you need two or three videos with a couple million views each and that's all you need to hit to actually reach the monetization threshold and then in terms of originality you can't just just pure repost other people's Clips without adding anything but you can get away with adding very little and I don't need to go into all of it on this video but I have a full video called what YouTube shorts are versus aren't monetizable on my channel and I'll leave the link to this full video in the description again just going to put that in my notion so my editor knows to add that when he uploads it so once you meet these thresholds then the question is how much do you actually get paid and it can vary a lot but it really all depends on your demographic so in all likelihood you'll get paid 1 cent on the ab absolute lowend to around 30 cents per thousand views on YouTube shorts and with YouTube shorts your Niche doesn't matter or anything the only thing that matters is the location of your demographic so if you go to one of my faceless channels right here called stories told you could see that our RPM on shorts is 20 cents per thousand views and that's primarily because of the fact that when I go to audience you can see here that I have pretty much only English speaking countries as my main viewers so it's United States United Kingdom Canada and then I have have some viewership from India the more First World countries you can Target the more amount of money you'll make per thousand views and if you can get a majority us audience like we do you'll get around 20 cents to 30 cents per thousand views if it happens to be more third world countries like if your audience is entirely from India you're probably looking at somewhere closer to between a 1 cent and a 5cent RPM but just to be clear guys it does not matter what Niche you're in for YouTube shorts specifically that's a pretty common misconception you can even go to YouTube's website on YouTube shorts monetization and there's a whole video on how it works I don't need to go through it right now but essentially the only thing that matters from the big Creator pool that they pay people out of so all you're paid on is your portion of views from the Creator pool of each country and obviously the countries that have more money will have a bigger Creator pool so that's how much you can expect to make and then one of the reasons I like YouTube shorts is because it's much more stable than other platforms so I'll just go to one of my personal channels to explain this but videos on YouTube short shorts can have a much longer lifespan than pretty much any other social media platform so let's look at my account fly juggler for example and go to the analytics and you can see here almost entirely from shorts views I've still made $33 in the past 28 days without touching this this is because my old YouTube shorts are still getting views on them so it's still making me money however when it comes to the other platforms the same isn't true so even on my fly juggler Tik Tok account I'm making no money from that right now but with my YouTube I'm still making money from old videos that I posted a really long time ago so that's one of the Hidden benefits of YouTube it's a lot more stable and the RPM is pretty stable as well as long as your videos are continuously targeting the same audience you have a much more expected amount that you can make each month rather than Tik Tok which the video will pop off and then instantly die and you won't know from video to video how much the RPM will be on each one and now for the wild card with YouTube shorts they allow you to double Revenue with music royalties so in case you didn't know basically what YouTube shorts allows you to do is make extra money by partnering with a music company and running their songs on your videos this right here is how much we've made with it from November you can see we've made an extra $27,000 and it's pretty much all from adding other people's music to our videos this only works because of how YouTube shorts payout works because they pay musicians separately so then musicians go oh if I get paid more per amount of views I'll just distribute some of that to the people who get the views for me so if you work with companies like this you can make a bunch of extra money from your content and you can see here we've made around 27,00 th000 extra dollar from it recently RPMs have dropped and they're working on raising it right now but essentially right now we're getting around 3 cents per th000 views which really is not great but over a longer time period when RPMs were higher we were making closer to 17 cents per thousand views on average which actually is pretty good and pretty much means we're doubling the amount of money we make from YouTube now we're not sure if RPMs are going to return back to normal yet so we'll see about that but assuming they do this means you'll be able to get an average of 15 extra cents per thousand views just by running music music on your videos and I have to say here RPMs can change very very drastically depending on the account and there's not an exact formula of how music royalties work but essentially it's going to be 1 cent to70 cents per th000 views that you get pretty much and this is when the RPMs were normal now it's around one5 of what these were but if it goes back up this is what you can expect basically it's some combination of the amount of YouTube premium views that you get the demographic of those views the niche that you're in and the video length which makes up what your RPM will be but I don't really have good data on what things have the best typee of RPM I do know that the more premium views you can get the better the more us audience you can get the better and the longer the video length the better but in terms of Niche it's a little hard to say what Niche is actually best in terms of making money so YouTube has that little beneficial wild card right there that other platforms don't have which is the fact that you can add music but that's pretty much how YouTube shorts monetization work now moving on to the next platform okay so the next platform is Tik Tok now again just for some backing here I have multiple Tik Tok accounts along with all my faceless accounts such as fly juggler with 230,000 followers and money mind news pretty much 75,000 followers and I have a lot of experience getting monetized on Tik Tok and actually trying to make money with it so here's the requirements and then how much it actually pays so to get monetized on Tik Tok views is actually pretty low you just need 100,000 views in the past month that's pretty easy most people can hit that by just posting naturally at minimum a video you post can get like 1,000 views even if it's pretty bad which means that h ly if you just post enough times you should be able to hit that threshold but then the harder part is actually getting to 10,000 followers which is the other part of the threshold so with YouTube it's way harder to get enough views but getting enough subscribers is easy enough with Tik Tok it's the reverse getting enough followers is the hard part and getting enough views should be easy enough on top of this to actually get paid you do need to have pretty original content and I do feel like Tik Tok cracks down on this a little bit harder so with YouTube when they tell you that your content is unoriginal and can't be monetized and you have the chance CH to put in a 5minute video Appeal on why you should still be monetized on Tik Tok you don't really get the same chance you can put in a short description as an appeal but they won't even accept it most of the time and it's not really a guarantee that you'll actually make money from it so with that being said if you do pass the requirements the pay can vary a lot but sorry there's one more thing that makes Tik Tok annoying the videos have to be 1 minute or longer if your videos are not 1 minute or longer they are not eligible for monetization in Tik tok's program that pays you per the amount of views you get so you you have to make videos that are at least a minute long or you simply won't get paid that is a bit of an annoying threshold but with that being said you can make some good money and I've actually made a lot of money with Tik Tok in the past so this is my earnings from fly juggler last year and it isn't even showing every single month from the start but you can see that's over $88,000 from the creativity program in a year and that's just from 19.9 million qualified views so the pay essentially will be somewhere between 1 cent and $1 per thousand qualified views that's a big range so let me get into that but first what is a qualified view well a qualified view is someone who watches the video from the for you page and watched for at least 5 seconds so if the person didn't watch for at least 5 Seconds The View doesn't qualify and you can't make any money from that person now just so you guys are clear that's usually around half of the people who look at a video actually make it to the 5-second mark from that let's look at how the RPM changes so supposedly according to Tik Tok it really depends on the quality of the video so the more you are actually trying to be like a real authentic person on Tik Tok the higher your rpm should be but we've seen a big variance and it's really unpredictable and that's one thing I really don't like about Tik Tok it's not that stable in terms of how much money you can make from it one thing we did notice when we used to post much more consistently on our Tik Tok accounts for our faceless channels is that the account newness would matter a lot so if you just got a new account and you just monetized it the RPM would get as high as like 60 cents to a dollar per th000 qualified views but as that account got older and older and as the next months of that account started the RPM would start dropping sometimes for us even as low as 1 cent per thousand views which was just awful so again it's really unpredictable with Tik Tok and it's not stable at all in terms of how much money you can actually make with it and there's no real wild cards here so I don't really like referring to Tik Tok for a main platform that you can make money from but it is supplemental income so I do recommend posting to it on top of posting to any other platform and while we're here I did want to show you guys how you can actually post to every single platform at once without having to do it manually and that's what I've been doing for the past year it's basically a website called repurpose doio I'll leave it as the first link in the description but basically what it allows you to do is connect all your different social media accounts into one place and then you can set up automations from one social media platform to all other social media platforms so you can see here with this YouTube channel money mind unfiltered every time I post a YouTube short to it that YouTube short automatically gets reposted to Instagram Facebook Snapchat and to Tik Tok and you can do this with as many platforms as you want so my recommendation is you manually post to YouTube shorts and then you use repurpose doio to automatically repost those videos to Tik Tok which can make extra Revenue but that way you don't have to manually post on it and rely on it as your most stable platform in terms of how much money you make every single month but with that being said Tik Tok can still make you money so I do recommend posting to it and I think using repurpose doio to get it automatically posted there is the easiest way it's literally what I do and it's how I've grown really big on Tik Tok so I highly recommend this and I actually talked to the company and was able to get you guys a discount so you can try it completely for free just to start out and make sure that it works and does everything you need but if you use code money mind 10 you will save 10% off so you're welcome guys anyways now to the next platform and the next platform is Instagram so Instagram honestly I wouldn't bother with cuz it's literally invite only and there's no specifications on how to actually get into Instagram's monetization program now somehow I have no idea how if you go to instagram.com sfly jugler I have 370,000 followers on here my account got into the program somehow I have no idea how and I can show you guys the payments for that so you can see here I had some months where I was making like a couple thousand just from the amount of views I was getting from Instagram but the truth is there's pretty much no way to get into this program unless you have a ton of followers are verified and you consistently have been posting videos with your actual face in it and even then there's no way whether you're going to know whether you get monetized or not it's literally just if you get in you'll just get a notification one day and then you're in the program there's no way to control for it so I really wouldn't worry or focus on it at all it's basically something that no one will really get into and I made around $5,000 off off of far more than 50 million views so you're looking at around a 10-cent RPM from there but again it's pretty much impossible to get into this unless you're actually a face creator so Instagram for almost everyone you won't be able to make money from but I still would recommend posting to it because a lot of the time these platforms will change how their monetization works and so when they do change you're going to want as many followers as humanly possible so you could take off the second that that platform actually starts up but moving on from Instagram we have Snapchat now this might be one of the most complicated platforms for literally no reason at all they just gatekeep so hard so if you go to Snapchat you can see that if you look up fly juggler I actually have a star next to my name now first of all to even get monetized this is 100% a requirement like you will not get monetized unless you have a snapstar so that's first of all now getting a snapstar is really hard on its own you need to be somewhat of like a public figure and honestly until you post a lot of face videos and you are a public figure you're probably not even going to get a snapstar in the first place if you are there I would recommend watching a video on this where I talked to some guy who explained it um it was this video right here Snapchat creat explains new monetization program and he went into detail how it actually works on trying to get a snapstar but the core thing is that it's really difficult unless you're a public figure of somewhat but then to get monetized it's on their website but you basically need 50,000 followers post at least 25 times per month post to either spotlights or public stories on at least 10 of the last 28 days and then basically achieve one of the following and I think the easiest to achieve out of all of these is 1 million Spotlight views now I'm actually not monetized yet I'm probably going to get monetized really soon because once you hit all these thresholds which I have now hit you still need to get in contact with your representative and they need to approve you but once they approve you then you can start making money now I don't know cuz I haven't gotten it yet but I know there's a lot of people that are making like 10K plus per month with just Snapchat stories which is absurd apparently for spotlights they're looking at either a 1-cent RPM or for Snapchat stories around a 10-cent RPM and Snapchat stories you can get a lot of views on very easily cuz each little slide on the story counts as a view so there is a way to make a lot of money from this but at the same time it is quite difficult but again I'm not really sure yet because I haven't fully tried it out and I'm not even fully monetized yet I just got the snapstar and I'm about to get monetized so I'll have videos updating this as more news on that comes out to keep you guys updated but moving on to the next platform we have Facebook now to be honest I don't really have much information on Facebook since I'm still experimenting but my co-founder on all my faceless channels does have a Facebook and he has been able to make some money with it albeit not really that much now now the core thing about Facebook though that's changing up the game is that you can get paid now for photos so you never used to be able to get paid for photos but now you actually can and that's what we're really trying out right now now we haven't gotten any of these photos to do insanely well yet we've been just posting a lot of these different memes but as we keep posting more we're going to see how they do and how much money we can actually make from it and again just like with Snapchat I'm going to update you guys once we get more information on all of this so this is a platform I don't really use that much but again I really recommend that you just post to all these platforms cuz again with Facebook you can get monetized and with Snapchat we don't know how the rules might ever change of how monetization works so you want to just have posts on here and grow the followings on here so that way if they ever do change you are instantly ready to capitalize on it and in my opinion this is a big part of what entrepreneurship is it's positioning yourself so that when luck strikes you're ready to take advantage of it and capitalize on it and so again you can either just manually post to all of them or if that's a little difficult I would just post to one platform set up all your repurpose doio accounts and have all your accounts automatically reposting from your main social media platform to all your other social media platforms and now moving on to the last platform of today's video we have YouTube long form so for YouTube long form there are pretty strict requirements you need 4,000 long form watch hours which is low-key a lot and then 1,000 subscribers now the thing is if you upload videos that are long enough you can still hit this threshold without even getting that many any views so for example just to show you guys my podcast channel is very close to being monetized and I probably only have on long form like 20,000 total views at most now don't get me wrong that still is a lot like for long form that is not easy at all to get but again you can see 4.4 th000 watch hours but that includes shorts so without the shorts it's probably closer to like 3.6 th000 watch hours which means that with very few videos I'm already pretty close to getting monetized so it is achievable but it is probably the hardest out of all the different options cuz getting views on a long form video and actually getting someone to stick around for a really long time is quite difficult but what about the pay there's four specific Things That Vary the RPM a lot but essentially how much you get paid per thousand long form views all depends on how much an Advertiser is willing to pay to get in front of your video so just think about this for a second let's say you make a video on which private jet should you buy who's going to be watching that video well probably a billionaire in the market for a new private jet so if you're a private jet company and you could get in front of that audience how much would you be willing to pay to get in front of someone who might buy a private jet from you well the answer is a lot of freaking money because if you can just get one sale on your private jet you make upwards of a million dollar profit easily so that's pretty much the main thing that will determine how much money you make it'll be the demographic of your viewers like how much are they willing to pay are they from a first world country how much money do they have are they wealthy or not and the niche that your video is in so if your videos are in a very targeted Niche an Advertiser can pay to get in front of that specific audience so for example if you make videos on guitar someone who wants to sell a course on guitar lessons would be willing to pay a lot to get in front of your video because they know that it's a very targeted audience that they can hit with that from there what really matters is the length of the video so the longer your video is the more mid roll ads that someone watching will actually see so imagine instead of just having an ad at the beginning of your video which pays you per thousand views now you have an ad 3 minutes into the video 5 minutes into the video 10 minutes into the video and every single one of those ads is making you extra money every single time so the longer your video is and the higher watch time your video actually has the higher your RPM will be because your viewers watched more advertisements and lastly it depends on what quarter it is so typically people spend a lot more money in the holiday seasons so in October November and December and so you'll actually make a lot more money in those months from YouTube than any other months and this also goes for YouTube shorts I should have mentioned that earlier but the quarter actually also does matter in terms of how many views you'll get so I'll put that in here and yeah so that's how much you'll make now the average Niche probably makes $2 per th000 views like $2 to $4 per th000 views but it really is highly dependent so I can't say specifically if you're in something like the finance Niche apparently you make closer to $10 per thousand views on my personal channel that you're watching this video on right now I make close to around $3 per thousand views which really is not that high I think it has to do with the fact that a lot of my audience is pretty young but yeah that's how much you can expect to make per thousand views on YouTube but here's the thing you have a really high chance for stability depending on the type of videos that you make so I just want to show you guys one of the videos that I've posted which is getting a lot of views right now it's called how to make money with Snapchat and I went over Snapchat's whole new thing about their new monetization program and this video gets 75% of all of the people who view this come from YouTube search which means that every single day that this video is posted it keeps getting more and more views and if you look at the estimated Revenue like look at this it's just grown every single day so if you have a video like this the amount of money you can make from a video is actually very stable like right now this video is probably just consistently earning me like $3 a day from the day that I've posted it and I'm really not doing anything so that's the beauty of making search based videos you can get a really stable source of income from videos as long as it keeps having the same amount of search traffic and so you really potentially have a lot of stability in terms of how much money you can make to the point where if you have enough search based videos you could stop posting on YouTube and still keep making money from all those videos and then wild cards well obviously you could take on sponsorship deals and that probably is the most lucrative compared to short form platforms but really that's the main way that monetization on YouTube long form actually works and so that pretty much covers all of the main platforms and how much money they actually make based on their ad Revenue program so I hope this video helped you guys out the main mission with my channel is being fully transparent and not gatekeeping and really being a source of just good solid info in the make money online space I feel like that's really lacking especially because the second any other influencer gets views they just instantly sell a course I don't have any paid courses if you want a course from me I'm sorry you won't be able to find one you can go to my Discord and look all of my courses are listed here completely for free they're just YouTube videos so I hope this video helped you guys and if you want to support my mission it would really mean a lot if you subscribe or the best way to go about my mission is by actually practicing transparency yourself so go to my Discord and literally just transparently drop your best Mak money online advice and that's truly the best way to contribute to my mission so as always thank you guys all so much for watching I'll catch you all in the next video and peace