You don’t have to be a Partner any more to get paid by YouTube

I often get asked how to become a YouTube Partner.  And generally I suggest applicants wait until they have quite a few videos and subscribers before trying to get in the program.  But now you don’t even have to be a Partner to make some moolah from your YouTube videos if you have at least one really viral video.

YouTube has announced that they will now be monitizing individual videos that get a lot of views.  They’ll simply offer the video creator the option to have ads shown with the video and recieve part of the profits from that adversiting.

Although this is a “new” development by YouTube, I actually first noticed it with the David After Dentist video (which now has over 30 million views by the way).  Although the video creator only had one other video with just a few hundred views, and only a few subscribers, the David After Dentist video was monitized quick quickly into it’s success (but in that case, the whole channel did become a Partner channel).

What do you think? Are you excited by the opportunity to cash in on a really successful video, or does the fact that your video would have to be really viral with a ton of views (and the low payout that would likely be associated with having just one monitized video) mean diddly squat to you?

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