Hey, how's it going everyone?
This is your noisy, but yet delightful YouTube expert, Derral Eves.
Now I know a lot of you watching this video right now would like to make more money on
your YouTube videos, right?
A little bit more moolah?
Well, now you can.
You can actually have subscribers and fans help support your channel by using a new feature
on YouTube called the tip jar.
Now creators are able to use services like kickstarter, indiegogo, and patrion to raise
some money.
And now YouTube's actually added another option for you where fans is able to contribute one
dollar or as high as five hundred dollars to support your channel at anytime and for
any reason.
Now in this video I'm going to show you how to enable the tip jar on your YouTube account
and I'm going to show you also how powerful it can be to raise that money.
Let's take a look!
Alright, to activate that fan funding tip jar, the first thing that we need to do is
mouse up to the upper right-hand corner, click on the avatar icon and then mouse down to
Creator Studio.
Now this is going to launch your dashboard.
And once your dashboard's launched we want to come over to the left-hand side and click
on channel.
And this is going to give you your features and this is a couple things that you need
checked.
First off, make sure you're Partner Verified, if you're not that will not work.
I do have a video on that, look in the description below.
You also want to make sure you're in good standing from the community guidelines and
also copyright for this to actually work.
Also you need to have monetization set up and there is some others specifications, watch
the end of the video and I'll explain those as well.
But what we're going to do is mouse down to Fan Funding and click the Enable button right
here.
Once that goes from there this brings in the agreement, you actually need to put your full
name and your information from there, so I'm going to go ahead and do that, alright once
that agreement, you've filled that in completely all you've got to do it hit, I Accept and
basically it takes you to this specific account, you'd also need to attach Google Wallet Merchant
Account.
So if you've already done that, you can just basically use the account.
If you don't have that we actually need to create a new one, and to do that all we need
to do is click this blue button here, where it says "Yes, use this account" and once it's
done.
Ok, once you fill in your information all you need to do is scroll down to the bottom
here and agree to the terms of service and click signup.
Ok all we need to do now is fill in the Fan Funding feature here, and to do that what
we want to do is either put the greeting here, this is a little pop-up, it's an annotation
that shows in the video or you can actually add some custom text.
So right now it says "Support this channel and help make great content" or you can add
your own custom fill, just keep in mind that you only have 50 characters to do it.
So you can't really do quite a bit.
I'm going to go ahead and leave it on default.
And then down here for the thank you message you can either do the default text, custom
text, once again it's only 50 characters, or you come down to the custom video.
Now this is what I would do all the time and you can actually reward your fans and be really
creative by adding some really great content for them.
Select the video, we'll pretend this is the video that I'm going to do it and hit save
then it adds that.
You want to make sure that it's actually an unlisted video so people can't find it in
search or what have you.
And then at the very, very end all we need to do is come over here to the right-hand
side and hit save.
Now if you go back to your home page you're able to see over here in the right-hand corner
that there's a new little section here, that says support this channel, you have a little
support button, if they click on that now they can give either $1 or $5 or up to $500
as a tip and they'll hit next and you'll take them the merchant account without even leaving
this page.
Now if we want it on a specific video you can actually do that as well you come up to
the avatar icon, click that, come down to Creator Studio, and what we'll do is come
over here to Video Manager, we're going to select a video that we actually want to do.
I have an unlisted video here, so I'm going to go ahead and hit edit.
And you're going to see that you actually have a new section called Interactivity and
click on that and we can add some new interactivity which gives you fan funding, fundraising,
or merchandise.
So let's go ahead and hit fan funding, we will go ahead and hit publish and once that's
there we'll adjust that so that it actually shows up at :24 and once that's done we can
come back to the video and you're able to see now that this little icon here, this works
on mobile too, and go ahead and click that.
It says hey support Derral Eves so we go ahead and do that, we can either do that $1, $5,
or up to $500.
How cool is that?
You can actually get paid more outside of adsense.
Now remember that you're account needs to be in good standing and have an active adsense
account associated with it before you can enable this fan funding.
Also if you're a member of another MCN your network actually needs to sign an agreement
with YouTube.
Now personally I think this is a great way to raise money from the people that actually
love your videos.
And even if it's small I think every little bit counts.
Now if you're watching this video and you don't see the enable button, feature in your
YouTube section then it's probably still in beta and you actually need to apply to be
a part of the beta program, so I put a link in the description below.
And I also want to know do you think this tip jar is going to be effective for most
content creators on YouTube, or do you think it's only going to be effective for big channels.
I'd love to hear what you think, please put your responses in the comments below and let's
see what you think about this.
Now I really want to make sure that my tip jar is actually working, so if you feel generous
why don't you give it a try out?
And just give me a tip.
I can't wait to see the comments.
Someone's going to actually put "I'll give you a tip, Derral.
Why don't you make better videos, come on!"
hahaha ok guys I'll make better videos just give me a little tip and maybe it will be
worth my while.