YouTube is introducing a new way for creators to make money on the platform now as with all new
features it does have some initial requirements and current limitations some of those being you
must be in the YouTube Partner program you have to have 20,000 subscribers you have to currently
be based in the US and artist channels and kids channels aren't currently eligible now YouTube
currently has products available from companies in the beauty apparel and Footwear home and Tech
spaces but they're going to continue to expand the number of Brands and retailers that they'll
be working with in the future now if you do have this feature available to you you might
notice at the very top of the page when you log into YouTube Studio it says you're one of the
first creators invited to the YouTube shopping affiliate program get in early and shape the
future of the program while creating helpful shopping experiences for your fans and earning
more just scroll over to the join now button click on that and a pop-up window will appear
telling you a little bit more about the program there's a screen that'll tell you about joining
the pilot program tagging products how you can start earning making more money the idea here
is YouTube wants us to have the ability to have product links right embedded in the overlays of
our videos things that might be mentioned in our videos that people can click on go check out those
products and if they choose to buy them creators make a percentage of that sale as an affiliate
by clicking I agree it'll bring you to the next screen which is the affiliate program agreement
I'm going to let this scroll through slowly so anyone who hasn't seen this yet can have a
better understanding of what the agreement looks like for any of you who might have done affiliate
marketing before or maybe we're in the Amazon affiliate program it's a very similar type of
situation except the products here will actually show up as clickable links right on the video
screen now I know one of the biggest questions will be what kind of commissions will creators
make and YouTube has said that while commissions will be paid through AdSense every participating
brand and retailer will set their own commission rate and attribution window for each product once
you've read through the affiliate program agreement and you agree with all the terms
and conditions just tick the box that says I hereby agree in consent and then click I agree
this will take you to a new page that allows you to either upload a new video and add a product to
it or take an existing video and add products to those let me show you what that looks like with
an existing video on my channel let me choose edit video it'll show me a selection of some of
my newer videos but I can actually use the search bar up top to find specific videos on my channel
I've got a longer form piece of content where I talked about how to use DaVinci Resolve for
noobs let me see if I can add a product to that video I'll type in a search term that might help
me find that video scroll down and select that video from the options I've got here now you'll
see a very familiar edit page from inside of that video and if you scroll down to the lower right
below you'd usually add your end screen or cards you can add a product click on that and it'll open
up another pop-up window here's where you can tag products that might be related to that video just
use the search bar to find a product that might be available to you let me type in DaVinci Resolve
that's the software I used in this video now I could either just hit enter or I can look at some
of the options from the drop down menu that might be available to me here let me just choose one and
click on it and you'll see it not only opens up that product but similar products that might be
related to that one by clicking on view product it lets me see exactly what that product is now I
can see here that the paid version of blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve studio is available as the dongle
or a plug-in for your computer that allows you to install a licensed version of DaVinci Resolve now
going back I also see there are other products including a similar product that's just an
activation key for anyone who's already downloaded the software now if I want to make any of these
products available to someone who's watching my video all I have to do is left click and hold and
drag those over to the right and it'll add those as tagged products in that video It Doesn't just
have to be one either I can put more than one product here once I'm done all I do is click
save and now if I were to go to that video and open it up as that video plays you'll see in the
lower left corner there is an overlay that says view products for anyone who's watching that video
if they click on that in the upper right it'll allow the viewer to shop for any of the products
that I've mentioned or added into the overlay for that video it's already got a built-in disclaimer
that allows the viewer to understand that it doesn't cost them anymore but it does allow the
Creator to earn a small commission for anything that's purchased through one of these links now
as a Creator from inside of YouTube Studio analytics we can go up to advanced mode and
inside of advanced mode we can add in metrics to see what kind of clicks on those products we've
been getting from our viewers you can also access this information in the upper left from the metric
drop down Windows if you want to learn more about how to grow your channel and make more money on
YouTube click on the video that's on screen now or the one that I'll link down below peace foreign