The YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program is a great way to earn money on YouTube by recommending the
products you love and it creates a seamless experience for your viewers. When you tag
products in your videos, shorts, or live streams, a shopping button will appear directly on your
content. Viewers can then browse the products you featured without even leaving the watch
page. When viewers click on a product, they'll be directed to the merchant site to make their
payment and you'll receive a commission from their purchase. In this video, you'll learn about the
eligibility requirements to join the YouTube shopping affiliate program, how to join, the
participating brands and retailers, how to tag products in your videos, how to receive payments
and earn commissions, and how to track your earnings in YouTube analytics. Here's how to join
the YouTube shopping affiliate program. If you're on your computer, click on the earn link
in YouTube studio, then click on shopping. Here you'll see Recommended for you, Earn More with
the YouTube shopping affiliate program. Click Get Started. The YouTube shopping affiliate program
helps viewers shop and earn money by accessing products and promotions from popular brands and
find the best commission rate for you. Get paid when viewers buy tagged products from your videos
and shorts. Manage affiliate products and get insights all in one place. Click continue. Read
through the YouTube affiliate program terms of service. After you've read the terms of service,
click I hereby agree. Consent to the affiliate program agreement terms, then click Join program.
It says you're in. You can now start tagging your products. Later. I'll show you how to tag products
in your videos, so stay tuned. If you're on your phone, tap the YouTube studio app. Tap the earn
icon at the bottom right, and you should see at the top. You're a YouTube partner. Scroll down.
Under shopping tap Get started. Tap join affiliate program. Then tap turn on. Review the terms and
conditions. Check the box that says I accept the terms and conditions, then tap Join program.
Here's a growing list of participating brands and retailers so you can start
selling products that you want to recommend to your viewers.
How to tag products in your videos and shorts. When you tag products in your content,
a "View Products" button will appear in the corner of your video. I'll show you
how it works by choosing an existing product review video from my channel.
Click on the content tab in YouTube studio, then select a video where you wish to tag a product.
I'm going to select this product review video of the smallest, lightest, wireless, Bluetooth
microphone. Click on details, scroll down to where it says products. Click on products.
Enter your product name, SmartMike Microphone. Tap "Return" on your keyboard. Here's the Sabenatech
SmartMike+ True Wireless stereo microphone from Adorama selling for $139, and I receive a 4.5%
commission. I'm going to tag that product by clicking on the plus sign, and it shows here,
over here on the right. If I want to remove it, I can just click the trash icon to delete it.
It also shows related products in this list. If I want, I can tag up to 30 different products.
I'm just going to stick with this one product. Click save. Now it shows one tagged product.
Let's play the video. As you can see, I've now got the View Products button on my video. If a viewer
clicks on that, they'll see the product under the video, which says, Drost Video earns commission
on tagged products. If they click view, it takes them to the merchant site where they can buy the
product. If you're shopping from your phone, just tap the View Product button on top of the
video and you'll immediately be presented with a product. This sure beats redirecting viewers
to a link in the description because they can shop directly from your video. Keep in mind,
you can also tag products in your live streams and also feature a tagged product by pinning it
to the stream. Viewers will be able to see the tagged products by tapping on the Shop
icon and be able to shop without leaving the stream Eligibility Requirements. To be
invited into the program, you must meet these minimum eligibility requirements.
Your channel must be in the YouTube partner program. Your channel must have more than
20,000 subscribers. Your channel must be based in the United States. Your channel audience is
not set as made for kids, and you don't have any channel strikes. Let's talk about how you
can earn commissions. The beauty about promoting affiliate products on YouTube is that you don't
have to even own the product to earn a commission. For example, if you're promoting a product that
costs $190 and you earn 50% commission, you receive $95. Wow, that's not bad. You'll also
receive commissions on the entire basket size, so if someone purchases multiple products,
you receive multiple commissions. So how do you receive payments from your commissions? You
receive payments to your AdSense account 60 to 120 days after a viewer has purchased a product.
If a viewer returns an item they've purchased, the commissions you earn will be reversed.
Keep in mind, you'll only be paid commissions from the YouTube affiliate program, if viewers click
from affiliate products tagged in your content. Here's how to track your earnings data by going to
YouTube analytics. Click on Analytics in YouTube Studio. Then under the revenue tab, click on
Affiliate program. You'll be able to see estimated revenue, total sales, orders, and product clicks.
You'll also be able to see your top affiliate products as well as top earning content. As you
can see, the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program is a great way to earn more money on YouTube by
recommending the products you love, and you don't even have to create the products. For
viewers. It's a seamless experience because they can browse the products directly on your video
without leaving the watch page. All they have to do is click on View products to make a purchase
directly from your video. If you're not already a member of the YouTube partner program, because you
don't have 500 subscribers, watch the video on the screen right now on how to get your
first 500 subscribers on YouTube so you can get your channel monetized. You'll be glad you did.