- When I saw this, I thought wow, they're making
up to and over a thousand dollars a day
from these super simple videos, that is crazy.
Hey everyone, and welcome back.
So recently I shared in a YouTube Shorts video,
a passive income opportunity that I think is really
easy to do here on YouTube.
And yet, even though it's really easy, amazingly
almost nobody is doing it, which is just baffling to me.
So I'm gonna show you what it is
in case you are interested in it.
So I'm gonna show you step by step how to create
simple little sound clip videos like this one here,
which are earning people hundreds to thousands
to tens of thousands of dollars a month passively
without having to show their face or even talk,
which I think is pretty cool.
And so even though I've already talked
about this in my YouTube shorts video,
whenever I make a video like that
I always get a request for a full length tutorial video.
So this is that video.
And even better, I'm gonna share with you a money trick
that I did not discuss in my shorts video so that you can
earn cash from these easy videos in two different ways.
Because yes, obviously YouTube videos can earn money
through YouTube ads, but using this money trick
you're gonna be able to earn money in additional way
which not only can potentially double your profits,
but it can earn money very fast.
Yep, but first, let's take a look at the channels
that are doing this and earning money right now.
So here's a classic example of a channel doing this.
If you check out their most popular videos,
you'll see quite a wide range.
You've got videos like this one here of a police siren,
and videos like this one here of a guy being out of breath.
And if we check out this channel on Social Blade,
you'll see that it estimates that this channel earns
between 500 dollars to nearly 10,000 dollars a month
from YouTube ads.
And that's actually pretty incredible,
because if we check out their channel,
you'll see that they usually now only upload
one to two times a year.
So they're really now just collecting monthly paychecks
from videos that they uploaded 10 years ago.
And check out this channel here,
it's even bigger with nearly a million subscribers.
And if we come over to Social Blade
you'll see that it estimates that this channel earns
between 2,000 dollars to over 30,000 dollars a month
from YouTube ads.
When I saw this, I thought wow, they're making
up to and over a thousand dollars a day
from these super simple videos, that is crazy.
If we sort by their most popular videos
you'll see a big mix of videos which have done well,
including video game sound effects and music sound effects.
They've also collected a lot of YouTube meme sounds
like this one here, which commonly gets played
as part of a YouTube video parody.
And this sound effect here, which often gets played
if a YouTuber is supposed to be doing something sneaky
in a video.
And something else that I think is also good to note
is that this channel along with the channel
we looked at previously has a verified tick
next to their name, which I also have.
Well, what this means is that an actual human from YouTube
has gone through and audited our YouTube channels
and confirmed that our videos
aren't breaking the community guideline standards,
which means then that their basic sound clip videos
passed this YouTube video audit, yay.
So I really, really wanted to show you
this YouTube channel here.
Now, sadly, because of the fact that it's required
that you be active and this channel hasn't been active
in over four years,
it has lost its verified channel check mark,
but they probably don't mind
because Social Blade estimates that they've made
between 700 dollars to nearly 12,000 dollars last month
in passive income from YouTube on a channel
that they haven't uploaded to in over four years.
And so I'm sure that whenever they see another YouTuber
making a video, saying that passive income doesn't exist,
they just laugh and wipe away their laughter tears
with all of their ads in dollars.
But the real reason why I point out this channel is
because they have done something very smart.
They have made mashup videos.
So for example, instead of just sharing a sound clip
of a dog barking, they've combined multiple
dog barking sounds together to create a mashup video.
By doing this, they have transformed the original purpose
of the sound effects and thus transforms their video
into something new, so I'll show you.
(dogs barking)
Now this is smart for two reasons.
The first reason is that the video is not just now sharing
sound clips, but it has another purpose.
It is showing the contrast between different dog breeds
as they bark, and this is gonna become important shortly.
But secondly, it's smart because it makes the video longer
so you get less comments like the other channels do,
lamenting that somebody had to watch an ad just to watch
a two second video.
So you earn passive income
while providing a better user experience, yay.
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Now I want you to keep that whole mashup thing in mind
as we now find free sound clips that we can copy, download,
and turn into basic sound clip videos, yay,
because I completely understand that not everybody wants to
have to record their own sound clips.
Although if you did want to, it's actually pretty simple.
For example, I saw a basic blender sound clip video
on YouTube that got over 2 million views.
Well, recording something like this yourself is pretty easy.
You just use your phone as a microphone
and turn on your blender, done.
But if you don't feel like doing that,
here are some ways that you can find free sound clips
that you can copy and download online.
The first is to sign into your YouTube account
and go to your admin dashboard area where you'll be able to
access YouTube's audio library
which has a huge range of royalty free sound clips
that you are allowed to use in videos.
The terms of use state that you can't just download
the audio files and then re-upload them to the internet
as is, but as long as it's included inside
of a YouTube video, that is royalty free.
Another website that you can find royalty free sound clips
on is Pixabay.
Here you can come to their sound effects section and then
do a search for whatever sound effect that you like,
and then you can go ahead and download it for free.
If you haven't heard about Pixabay before,
you could think of it like a big digital library
for content creators such as YouTubers.
It's a big audio library where other very generous
content creators have uploaded their pictures,
their videos, their sound effects, their music,
and given them a royalty free license so that other
content creators like us can use them
for free in our content.
The Pixabay rules are really generous.
You're allowed to use these sound effects
for commercial purposes.
What you're not allowed to do though is just download it
and then re-upload it as is and distribute it
without changing it.
So us combining multiple sound effects with pictures
to create a mashup video would be us transforming them
into something new rather than just uploading them as is.
You can also use Pixabay to find free sound effects
by looking through their free videos,
because some of their videos have audio included.
And so if I wanted to have a sound clip of a bird,
then I could look for bird videos and find ones
that have audio, like this one here.
All I'd need to do is download the video
and then put it into a video editor
and separate the visuals from the audio track,
and then use the section of the audio that has the bit
of the sound that I wanted to include in my mashup.
Pexels is another website very similar to Pixabay.
They don't have a sound effect section
but they do have a big library of free videos.
And just like with Pixabay,
some of them have audio included.
Now, all of these methods to get sound clips should be
absolutely fine legally because we are using sound clips
which explicitly have a royalty free license.
Although I should note something, I am not a lawyer,
so please don't take anything I say
as a replacement for a lawyer or as actual legal advice.
So with that in mind, let me show you another method
that people use and this method is a lot more controversial.
So take this TikTok video of a parrot chirping.
Now, unless it is otherwise stated,
TikTok videos have copyright
and so you're not just allowed to download
and re-upload TikTok videos without permission.
The exception is if you are using copyrighted material
to create something that falls under fair use.
This is when you use copyrighted material to
create something which would meet the legal threshold
of being transformative.
Many people believe that mashup videos meet this definition
because of the fact that you're creating a very
different video from the original.
So what people do is they come to a TikTok video downloader
and put in the URL of the video they want to use
the audio from and then select to save the MP3.
Then they just put it into a video editor,
remove the visuals and edit it to only include
the little sound bites that they wanted from the video.
I'm not a lawyer though, and so I can't weigh in over
the legalities of this more controversial method.
But regardless, once you have your sound clips,
we can create our basic sound clip videos for free, yay.
So for this example tutorial I have used
this free video editing app, Clipchamp.
Clipchamp is free and easy to use with your internet browser
which is why I chose to use it since I know a lot
of people watching this are on a limited budget,
although you could use any video editing software
that you like.
Because mashup videos let you not just share sound clips,
but share them in a way that is transformative
and more interesting for the viewer,
that is why I would choose to focus on these
in these sorts of sound clip channels.
So for this tutorial, I've gone ahead and made
a mashup video showcasing different bird sounds
to contrast how different they are.
For each different bird sound that I used,
I also included a royalty free picture for each bird
that I downloaded from Pixabay to use as the visuals.
Plus I added in a text title into it stating
which breed of bird each sound belongs to.
It was super easy to make.
So let's watch a little bit of it together.
(birds squawking)
(birds chirping)
See, super easy.
So now let's earn fast money from our
easy sound clip videos.
So obviously one way that you can earn money is
you can upload your videos to YouTube
and earn money from YouTube ads.
As we've established, this is earning channels anywhere
from hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars
a month in passive income, which is pretty cool.
The thing though is that to start getting paid for those ads
you need to have at least a thousand subscribers.
There's also a watch time requirement although you usually
easily meet that once you have 8,000 subscribers.
But that all takes time right?
And so if you want to earn free money right now,
without having to wait for YouTube ads,
join the Epidemic Sound Referral Program.
Epidemic Sound is a popular subscription service
for content creators and YouTubers to get royalty free music
and sound effects for their videos.
And so I'm actually a customer and I love it.
Well, referral programs like theirs can be a great way
to potentially double the cash that your videos make.
For example, in the last month, I made nearly
40,000 New Zealand Dollars from my YouTube ads,
which is around 24,000 US Dollars
as of me making this video.
But I also made nearly as much for my affiliate
referral program commissions which effectively
has doubled the money that I've earned.
My method is simple.
In my videos, I recommend apps that I love such as Canva,
and then in my video description I include
the referral link.
Each time that somebody goes and clicks on the referral link
in the video description and then goes and purchases
a Canva account, I get paid a commission.
Well, after you've referred 12 people to Epidemic Sound
you'll then become a part of their free ambassador program
which means they will not only give you a free subscription
to their service, but they will pay you 50 percent
commissions for up to a year
for each customer that you refer to them.
That means that you can earn up to 90 US Dollars
per customer that you refer.
And so when you're making your easy sound clip videos
just add a bit of text onto it telling people
that if they want more free sound effects,
that they can go to your video description
and get a free trial for Epidemic Sound.
And then when people click on your referral link,
get a free trial, absolutely love the service like I do
and then purchase a paid plan,
you will earn free commissions immediately, yay.
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