Making money with Youtube’s partner program
Youtube’s partner program has made some musicians realise that being active on Youtube can bring some real income. Here’s how it works and what you need to do to make money with it:
There are two types of partnership, the first one is for those who consistently upload great videos to Youtube, and the second one is called individual video partnership, those who have a single popular video can apply for this one.
Once one becomes a Youtube partner, you can start making money by either enabling ads to be displayed with your videos, or by making them available for viewers to rent. Some successful partners even made a career out of it.
Of course there are some criteria to meet in order to become a Youtube partner. You must own the content, both visual and audio, and the guidelines can be found at the copyright centre; and you need to upload regularly; moreover, you need to be over 18.
This partner program is currently available in 14 different countries, and the list of countries can be found here.
A lot of artists benefit from this program, however, some complained that they can’t upload covers anymore, which often get more views than original material. Also, even for original content, without proof of copyright one wouldn’t be accepted as a partner, while it takes time to copyright a song or an album.
Next we will post on how to make money on Yotube specifically with licensing your music.
Tags: licensing, money, partnership, video, YouTube
February 16th, 2012 at 11:15 am
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April 4th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Can you make a post sometime about copyrighting? Is it necessary to copyright albums besides the above mentioned Youtube partnership program? Are there any other benefits? I also wanted to ask about trademarking stage names? Is that necessary or is the process fairly simple? Thanks!
April 5th, 2012 at 6:33 am
That’s a great idea, we will table copyright and trademark for a future blog soon. Thanks!
April 5th, 2012 at 6:37 am
That’s a great idea, we’ll table it for a future blog post soon, thanks