In this video, I'm going to show you how you can make money with your podcast right here
on YouTube. Welcome to the Pod Sound School! I'm Studio
Steve. I'm a podcast producer and a podcast coach. I've helped dozens of clients and hundreds
of students to make really cool things happen with their podcast. And I want to do the same
for you. So I get it. Podcasting is so much fun. Big passion, but it takes a lot of time
and effort. And in order for us to justify, continuing
to put the effort and the time into it as a lot of time goes by, we need to know whether
or not we're ever going to be able to make money with our podcast. And when we start
researching this, the results can be pretty discouraging before you can be considered
by many of the advertisers you need to have over 10, 20,000 downloads per episode, many
podcasters will also use crowdfunding platforms like Patrion and.
Many of those podcasters don't even make enough money on Patrion to pay for their podcast
hosting fees. So let me tell you, there is a far easier and more realistic way that you
can make money with your podcast. And that's right here on YouTube. So in this video, I'm
going to show you the five ways that you can make money on YouTube with your podcast.
But before we get into that, let's get real us. In order for you to make money on YouTube,
it will take work and it will take consistency. You're going to constantly need to look for
ways that you can improve your channel. Also, you will need a strategy, but with all those
things in mind, it is far more realistic and a lot easier to make money on YouTube than
it would be with crowdfunding for big advertisement companies.
All right, let's get to it. But before we do, if you haven't yet, It's subscribed here
on our channel. Every week, we post really helpful podcasting videos that will help you
make something big with your podcast. Okay. Number one, the first way that you can make
money on YouTube is with YouTube ads in order to start monetizing, like they say on YouTube,
you will have to have a thousand subscribers. Now this can be tricky and it can really feel
like you're pulling out hair to get those first thousand subscribers. And if you're
brand new to YouTube and you need a little extra help, you need to know some ideas about
how you can really get your podcast into video format. We have a really helpful.
Full freebie that you can download right here. That'll help to get you started. And you'll
find the link to that in the description of this video. But once you have a thousand subscribers,
then you are eligible for AdSense. Now every channel is a little bit different depending
on who your audience is, but after you start getting a lot of views on your videos, Then
you can actually start making money on ad sense.
It really is just pennies at first, but over time it can be a really nice income stream
coming in from AdSense. So using our own channel as an example, we never thought that we would
be able to monetize off our videos. That wasn't something we imagined we'd be able to do,
but showing up consistently having a strategy, employing things like keyword research, right.
Using tools like two buddy and really putting a lot of effort into our YouTube channel.
After a year, we immediately started making money. It wasn't a lot of money at first,
but now it is really a nice, steady income stream that is coming in off of our YouTube
channel. This is so great. And one of the reasons I love YouTube before podcasts.
Because if you can find a way to repurpose your podcast episodes and make little snackable
really helpful, useful, or entertaining videos, little clips from your podcast episode, and
regularly consistently share it on YouTube. If you're making quality videos, YouTube does
all the work for you. YouTube algorithm over time.
It's like real estate. Every video you make is an investment into your future. And if
you're consistent with it, you will start to make money on YouTube. All right, let's
move on to number two. And that is memberships so much like the crowdfunding option of Patrion.
YouTube has a built-in membership right here. On the platform, which is awesome. You don't
see a membership platform built into Apple podcasts or to Spotify. So it's really cool
that right, where people are enjoying your content, you can also in your videos, ask
them to join your membership program. Similar to on a membership page here on YouTube allows
you to ask people to become members and support your channel and in doing so, they get some
bonus content and some extra content that you can make for only.
Your members. This is really cool. And I know a lot of podcasters who've only had a couple
thousand subscribers on YouTube, have some very fun membership programs where they're
actually making some good income stream. It wasn't too long ago that the membership program
you needed to have like 30,000 subscribers or something on YouTube.
Now you only need to have that. Thousand subscribers. So this is all stuff you can do on your YouTube
channel, which is the same place that you're sharing the content of your podcasts. The
other thing you can do right on your channel is to sell merch and you could sell merchandise
with something like Teespring or other companies to actually allow you to create the designs
of t-shirts and mugs and things like that. And they don't actually print it. The t-shirt
or make the product and tell somebody orders it, and they do the shipping and everything
for you. And you get a percentage of the sale. Now you also have a page where you can sell
your merchandise directly to the people who are consuming your content. Okay.
Let's move on to number three, affiliate marketing. This is really cool, and people are able to
start monetizing sometimes. Even before they hit the thousand subscribers. But once you
start to get to the 5,000, 10,000 subscribers, you will actually find yourself being approached
by people, asking you, if you would be interested in being an affiliate for their company or
their product. If you happen to be talking about a product
or a book or something that you can purchase on Amazon, you can easily become an Amazon
associate and you can leave your own associate link in your YouTube videos. Ask people to
go down there. If you're interested in this book, I left the link to this book in my description.
You'll just want to make sure in your description that you make a disclaimer, that you are an
Amazon associate and you might make a small commission. If they make a purchase from your
link, this is really cool. And it would blow your mind to know how much money people can
make off of affiliate marketing. So once again, You're building real estate
here on YouTube with your channels. So now you have a video that can run ads on it. You
can sell merchandise so you can have a membership program and you can take advantage of affiliate
relationships and get a commission by helping to sell other people's products.
All right. And the fourth way you can make money on YouTube. And this might be after
you find yourself in the 5,000, 10,000 subscriber range, but that's to make brand deals or paid
promotional ads that you make for companies to advertise their services, because your
podcast is super niched down. You have an audience that is very interested in a select
type of services. So it's really cool to start thinking about
what kind of products, what kind of services do my listeners to my podcast or my audience
here on YouTube? What do they buy? You know, and you could actually approach brands as
well. Hey, I have a small YouTube channel, 5,000, 10,000 subscribers. Would you be interested
in having a relationship or I would love to make a video all about your product.
This is how much I charge. You could start by charging a thousand dollars a video, and
the more influence you get it's. Crazy how much money people will pay you to actually
make a product review or something for their company. And then number five. And I think
this one might be my favorite one is you can sell your own products or your own services,
many people, depending on what field of work they're in, we'll actually use YouTube as
a way to generate leads and generate clients. And authority in their field. So this is a
really cool thing, especially if you have the dream of eventually turning your podcast
into a full-time gig, you want now to start thinking about services that you can offer.
If you haven't thought about it yet, maybe haven't thought about it because for you,
podcasting is just fun. It's just a way to talk and communicate with
your friends and share fun ideas and messages. But actually you do have a niche and whether
you realize it or not, all the networking that you're doing, you're building authority
in your field. Surrounding the topic of your podcast. And you could use that authority
to offer services and all sorts of things for people and YouTube can help you to generate
those leads. Yeah. And this may sound far off to you say,
well, I only have 20 subscribers on my YouTube channel or how can I ever get a thousand subscribers?
Believe me, it's so much easier than you think all it takes is consistency and showing up
as yourself and trying to make videos. That you think would be of help to people would
be quality would really be enjoyable for people to consume YouTube will take care of the rest.
Yes. So just make sure moving forward that you consider each one of your YouTube videos
that you're posting a little piece of real estate and make sure to attach some type of
call to action to it. Whether it's a lead magnet where you're trying to get people's
emails. Or you're sending them to more videos. Like I also have a video about this, so make
sure and go watch that that will help your channel growth. Just something that you are
future placing yourself. You're thinking about where you're going to be in the future, because
you are going to go to some crazy places with your podcasts. And the important thing is
just not to give up, not to say, you know, I can't do this anymore because I'm not making
money. No, you can make money with your podcast.
You just got to get on YouTube and start doing it. All right. Pod doggies. And remember if
you're looking for inspiration about how you can transform the audio of your podcasts into
videos. For YouTube, we have a really helpful freebie, make sure to check the description
for the download link. Also, we'd love to hear more about your project,
your podcast, your video ideas, leave some comments here. I will personally respond,
or you can come say hi anywhere on social media at pod sound school. And until next
time happy casting and happy video. We got some good energy. I got my script and I got
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