YouTube is a free video-sharing website where a few people create and upload videos, and youtube being free makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your videos to share with others. Most people use it for entertainment purposes, but it’s also used for important information. In case anyone needs any virtual tutorial or any information, YouTube can be the source of help. Usually, YouTube is present on all smartphones, and it’s easy to access; we just have to create an account on youtube, and it’s ready to use. It is the second-most-viewed website after a Google search, and youtube is owned by Google. In this digital world, people are running behind these kinds of social media platforms, including YouTube being one. Let it be the creators who want to up their game, the viewers who want entertainment, or any kind of informational video connected to social media platforms. Youtube has more than 2.5 billion active users and invests more than one billion hours of videos daily.  This field has so much competition that many people want to stand out. In these cases, the viewers get a lot of options, and most of them tend to follow which has relatable content and where the content is more mesmerizing. Youtube recently launched a lot of new features in the app, and a few of them are youtube shorts and youtube premium package. Youtube premium is an optional paid subscription package where you can watch youtube content without ads. 

People also use this social media platform as their source of income. People upload/post videos on their accounts, and the viewers enjoy the video at their convenience. The people whose source of income is this platform – youtube, tend to monetize their accounts. These people earn revenue in a few ways from the youtube partner program. Before we get into how and in which ways we can monetize our account, I would like to say about ypp – YouTube partner program (YPP) gives creators greater access to YouTube resources and monetization features and access to you tube’s Creator Support teams. It also allows revenue sharing from ads being served on your content. If you’re in ypp, then you can earn money from the ads, channel membership, shopping, super chats, super stickers, super thanks, and youtube premium. When you monetize, you get paid through the above ways.

Now gaining profit from youtube views– is simple. You upload a video, you get YouTube views, and if people like your videos, you gain subscribers; if you have more subscribers and get enough views, you get paid well, and for example, the cost of making that video is 500rs; from the total money you earn, 500 should be subtracted, and then you will have your profited money. 

Well, that’s for a good reason; the more subscribers, the more money you make. In these cases, the channel with many subscribers will be recommended to people and shown in the related videos list. When subscribers watch your videos, they tend to come across ads; the more people watch the ad, the more money you earn; similarly, the engagement will be more in the comments, and the views will also increase, which gives rise to earning more money.

You should know how the payment is made on youtube:

1. Watch page ads: you can earn from ads that show before, after, during, and around the videos on the watch page. 

2. Short feed ads: where accepting the Shorts Monetization Module allows your channel to share revenue from ads viewed between videos in the Shorts Feed.

3. Shopping: people can sell their merge to the viewers, and that can be a source of income too

4. Ads: ads, in general, are the most from which the revenue comes from. In this case, the ads within a person’s videos are the most effective.

5. Super chat and super stickers: this is a super fun way to connect fans and creators, during live streams and premieres mostly. Fans can buy super chat to highlight their message in that live stream.

6. Super thanks: Super Thanks lets creators earn revenue from viewers who want to show extra gratitude for their videos. They can send customizable and fun animated comments where the viewer pays for them.

7. You tube premium revenue: here, you just need to turn on youtube premium, and the premium members can only watch the video, and you will be paid a part of it from youtube.

There are some eligibility criteria for the ways of income. You should be 18 years old for ad revenue, channel memberships, super chats and super stickers, and super thanks. For shopping or the merge launch on youtube, you should have at least 1000 subscribers. For tube premium, the viewer may be subscribed to youtube premium, but nothing much.

Keep in mind that you may be liable to pay taxes to your country of residence on any income earned from your monetized videos on YouTube.

Youtube is a very large and vast area to explore. People nowadays love working on social media, and youtube is one of them. People who create and the viewer both enjoy their jobs. Youtube is shared amongst a huge population, and people thoroughly enjoy it. It affects the population in large quantities. As much as youtube is mesmerizing and helpful, as much as it has its side effects, one should use these kinds of social media carefully.