And I’d prefer a pet unicorn, but that ain’t gonna happen. Seriously, how do you know it’s worth that much?
I don’t think you do. YouTube’s business model is not that unique. You want them to put their business resources to work for you first and you’re untested.
I also think you are naive if you think you have a video that’s going to make you $200 a month for years much less forever.
A single viral video isn’t going to make you much on its own. Certainly not much more than selling it off for a few hundred bucks to a news company. Viral videos make people money when they follow up on it. You need to build a franchise out of the video. I think you severely overestimate the amount of money you’ll make on one video. Maybe if it’s Gangnam style-level popular.
Since it’s the video that’s going to make you money and not a description of it why don’t you just tell us what it is?
Something about it being verboten in his family.
Bigfoot?
Wrong.
Aaron Aardvark.
Agreed.
Change the name(s) if you have to, although I don’t see what the big deal is. If you have the only video of say, Ryan Seacrest, petting a stray kitten in the park, how is telling us that going to damage your “intellectual property”? I can’t duplicate the video, the time is gone, the moment is gone. The first time you post this on youtube and it is seen, it is exposed, which is what you want in the first place. What’s the big deal?
Unless, of course, you do a lot more lurking in NJ with a video camera than you’ve told your family about.
HAW!
As for youtube, good luck with trying to figure out how to make money by not giving anyone else a cut of your golden video first. Unless you have the cash and time to create the youtube infrastructure, AND make sure people all over the world know about your youtube-like website and post there, AND people remember how to find this video, you might have a winner. And then again, it might be a dud.
Slapping something on youtube doesn’t guarantee anything, either. Do you know how many people are out there with cameras trying to catch lightning in a bottle like you are? And they are putting their videos on youtube hoping to catch another “Charlie bit my finger!”, only to find that the world doesn’t think their video is as great as they thought.
There are a ton of folks trying to make a living off of youtube. And some are succeeding. But you are thinking you have a guaranteed viral video because… Why exactly?
Nobody can define what will go viral, and i can say with as much certainty as anyone can on a subject like this that no video is going to bring anyone income for the rest of your life unless you are Abraham Zapruder and you have JFK’s head in your viewfinder and you capture the pink mist.
This link may help you. Biggest hurdle I see is that you seem to need a sufficient number of followers and views to get into the partner program.
You might want to watch this helpful video that explains in great detail why it is difficult to make money on Youtube:
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
I’d suggest trying Alley Dweller’s plan first - create an account and upload a cat video and try to apply monetization to that. If that works, upload the good one and monetize it - there’s a delay between uploading a video and approval of monetization, but in my experience, it’s normally only a few hours.
If the cat video test won’t monetize - and if there’s no obvious way to switch on those features, then yeah - try selling the video to an existing established YouTuber with content of the same type (not really sure that’s me though).
“Not available in your country.” WTF? I’m in the states!
There is a guaranteed way to ensure that Youtube will not get any of your profits.
- Create a website of your own
- Find advertisers convince them this is worth their money, negotiate contracts
- upload the video and do all the legwork to drive traffic to your site
- Profit.
You’ll notice that the youtube avenue requires a lot less effort, that’s why they get some of the profit.
Credit where due, is all. I’ve wasted much time with your videos and atomic shrimp.
So, any luck with the video yet?
What I said was “What I don’t want is YouTube cashing in while I’m not” and that I didn’t want YouTube “cashing in before me”.
Nowhere in any of my posts did I say that YouTube should not get “any” of the profits. I specifically asked how to get advertisers and ads on YouTube.
Honestly, if you and certain others can’t be bothered to read what I actually wrote and are just riffing off of what certain other people are deliberately misrepresenting my having said … why are you bothering to post? To deliberately not answer my question with sarcastic comments that have nothing to do with my question?
Thank you to the people who offered serious advice after reading what I actually wrote.
That looks bad. By “wasted” I mean enjoyed myself instead of doing whatever I was supposed to be doing.
Instead of YouTube look into other video sharing platforms like Vimeo.
Don’t ask a question if you’re going to get mad when people don’t tell you exactly what you want to hear.
(BTW, I can’t see anyone paying all that much for a video of the Queen twerking, if that’s what your video is like. At least not like you’re talking about.)