Riding the YouTube Money Train

I’ve recently noticed there seems to be a new way of making money on YouTube that is perhaps a bit simpler to reproduce than some of the traditional ways.  Of course, we’d all love to become some sort of YouTube trend setter with an army of millions of followers hanging on our every move.  If you do manage to get to this point it’s pretty difficult not to make money unless you do something stupid and get kicked off the Partner programme like Logan Paul did.

The problem is that it’s not that easy to achieve if you’re a middle aged, camera shy ordinary bloke who thinks all these superstar vloggers are irritating pr##ks.   So if you’ve come to terms to the fact that your force of personality isn’t going to create an internet empire what’s your options?

Well for the technical among us there’s another option, just game the system slightly and it seems many people are doing just this.  I recently found a video explaining some vague technical computing concept on YouTube.  It had a modest amount of views but the interesting thing was that it seemed that it was created almost entirely by software.  From the structure to the voice (one of those crap robotic voices) the whole thing looked like it was churned out of some video factory.  Frankly it wasn’t very good.

On even further investigation, I noticed the channel had over 45,000 different videos and millions of views.  Basically the channels was simply created on volume, by churning out video after video they were probably generating a serious amount of advertising revenue.

Now this intrigued me, although the videos I saw weren’t very good – the concept of volume is definitely one I can relate too.  I have had mixed results with YouTube videos, some I spend ages on and only produce a few views.  Others I dash off in minutes and go on to be very successful – the key is definitely keep churning them out.

That’s of course easier said than done, but there’s loads of software out these now that makes this possible.  One of the best is something called Content Samurai which you can see in this video – Create Videos Quickly  . It’s software that lets you input some text and then turn it into a video very quickly with the minimum of input.

The results are very good, but the important part is that you can literally create a decent looking video in a few minutes and upload it to YouTube.  So some will be successful, some will flop and others will just ride along picking up a decent amount of traffic, but the key is that every video you produce should slowly add exposure for your product, website or offer.

Further Reading: Find an Australian Proxy, John Summers.