Introduction:
In this article I am going to guide you step by step how to earn money with YouTube shorts in 2025. Let’s dive in.
1. Account
If you want to earn money with YouTube shorts, then you need a at least 5 months old account. Why an old account?
Well because in some cases if you use a freshly created account and start posting on it, youtube’s algorithm thinks it’s a bot. So your channel doesn’t get reach. use old account or if you want to use a new account then don’t start posting on it immediately. use that account for at least a month, like and comment on videos and watch shorts on that account.
2. Niche
Pick a good niche. If you pick a wrong niche your game is end from the start. If you pick a good niche, you can make a ton of money.
How to find a good niche?
If you have any niche in your mind, then search it on YouTube. Find channels in your niche that are working on YouTube shorts. See if those creator’s shorts getting at least 100k views per short. If you don’t see that then there is no evidence that the niche, you picked is going to get a lot of views.
You need to find out that the niche you’ve picked can be monetized or not. For that search on google YouTube monetize checker. Copy the link of the channel that is posting same type of shorts that you are planning to post and paste that link in that tool. That tool will give you a lot of info about that channel, like monetization etc.
3. Content
The content will depend on your selected niche. But you need to work on somethings to keep the users engage. These steps are important for both faceless shorts and shorts with your face. You will need to use high quality visual elements in your shorts.
You will need to use strong hooks in your shorts, first 3 seconds of your short will decide that the user is going to stay or scroll. There are many types of hooks, but the most important ones are visual hooks, hooks that contains a positive or negative element. If you want to get a lot of views, then work on storytelling and editing as well.
Let’s say your hook is strong, you stop the user from scrolling your short, if the story telling is bad the user will scroll. A good story telling and the combination of all other stuff can make your short viral. When your one short goes viral your previous shorts automatically start getting views.
4. For Those Who Don’t Want To Create Their Own Content
If you don’t want to create your own content, then this step is for you. The niche finding process will remain same. You can’t use videos that a human face in it, because your channel will not get monetized. You need to find transformative videos.
What are transformative videos?
Transformative videos are the videos that don’t have a human face in it. Videos shouldn’t have any type of watermark in it. Now you need to give those videos you own unique touch so they can’t be flagged as repetitive content. For that, do a voiceover on that video and add captions. If you are comfortable with showing your face, then the chances will be a lot higher to monetize your channel.
5. Extra views
Many big YouTube channels are working on this method from ages. This way your videos reach out to more users. In this method we will redirect users from other social media platforms to our main YouTube channel. To do that you need to create accounts on all other social media platforms as soon as you create your channel.
There are some monetizable platforms as well like you can monetize your Facebook page, TikTok is also monetizable and snapchat dropped an update as well to get monetized. So that’s a win win situation for you. It’s like automation, if you have money to get a subscription of a paid automation tool than you are good to go.
You need to set that up only for first time then the automation tool will automatically upload as soon as you upload on one platform. How ever you can do it manually as well. For that, you need the short videos that you created to upload on YouTube. you are going to upload same videos that you are uploading on your YouTube account, on all other platforms as well. And to redirect users you will drop your main channels link in pinned comment. bio or description.
6. Affiliate Marketing
This method is actually based on a niche. You can earn a ton of money because we are combining both affiliate marketing commissions and YouTube ad revenue. You work on shorts or long form videos. If you have a good budget, then you can review products.
If you don’t have budget, then you can pick stock videos of the products and create videos about those products and share your affiliate link. But for this you need to pick products that are in trend.
Digital products give you really good commission compared to physical products. You can join their affiliate programs and promote their products. There are a lot of platforms that sells digital products, but you need to find that on your own according to your niche. By the way you don’t have to spend a penny to promote digital products. You can create your own digital product and promote that by yourself.
Conclusion:
YouTube is giving content creators an opportunity to earn money by posting short content. YouTube is really consistent in long term compared to other platforms. Consistency and creativity are the keys to success in YouTube shorts. Create engaging content and don’t give up. It’s a great time to start, YouTube continuously expanding shorts monetization options so take advantage of this. Start Creating, Start Earning!
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