How Much Money Can You Make Off YouTube

YouTube offers a Partner Program to help you easily monetize your videos on YouTube. Once you are accepted into the program, upload a video “that you have created” on to YouTube, enable advertising for that video and wait for the money to pour in.

The current split is 55-45 so if Google sells $100 worth of advertising against a YouTube channel, the partner’s share is $55. But how much many can your really make off YouTube?

Mahalo founder @Jason recently shared some raw numbers for XHIT, a popular fitness channel on YouTube with half a million subscribers, and the revenue graph isn’t very encouraging.

The video channel has accumulated over 33 million views in the last 18 months and the total advertising revenue that the channel generated from YouTube in the same period is around $90k. That’s about $2.7 per 1000 views (CPM) which isn’t an impressive deal considering the kind of effort and resources that go into producing videos.

The advertising revenue is almost directly proportional to the eyeballs.

For a majority of YouTube partners, the advertising revenue from videos may help pay the utility bills but only a few can expect to strike it rich. On the positive side, as @Jason says, YouTube does help build your brand on the Internet.

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This story, How Much Money Can You Make Off YouTube, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 07/03/2014 under Google AdSense, YouTube, Internet

Lock Down These Services Now With Two-Factor Authentication

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4 Alternatives To YouTube’s Constantly Changing Interface Mess

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4 Alternatives To YouTube’s Constantly Changing Interface Mess

Love YouTube, but wish it was laid out differently? You’re not alone. Every time YouTube changes its interface millions protest, but YouTube rarely listens. Some people yell about it for a while, then move on. But not everyone. Some build browser extensions that replace the interface. Some build entire websites for browsing YouTube videos. And some use YouTube’s own TV interface on their desktop, avoiding the things they dislike about the site. Here are the best alternative YouTube interfaces out there. Hopefully one of them makes YouTube better for you. Unique YouTube Skin (Userscript) Videos are the reason you use...

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How To Disable Windows+L Shortcut Key In Windows 7/8.1

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Satoshi Nakamoto Unmasking, Spotify Echo, Vine Porn, Cortana Leak [Tech News Digest]

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Where did the time go? You got on your computer and the next thing you know it’s been 3 hours and you’re in some vast part of the Interwebs, or perhaps on one of the many sites notorious for wasting time, neither of which of anything to with why you got online in the first place. Does that scenario seem familiar? I would bet that everyone can relate to it to some degree – I know I can. There are a lot of techniques when it comes to managing your time, such as blocking time-wasting websites. One thing I found...

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Use Professional Photographs from Getty Images for Free

The gorgeous photographs that you see on news websites are licensed from companies like Getty Images and Corbis. Anyone can purchase the rights to use these images but the licensing (usage) fee for professional photographs is often prohibitive for most small websites and blogs.

Getty Images, the world’s largest online collection of news and editorial pictures, have added a new feature that makes their millions of professional images affordable for all. In fact, you can now embed pictures from Getty Images for free on your website. The pictures do not carry any watermark, there are no view limits and you can use any number of available images on your website.

Also see: Can I Use This Image from the Internet

Getty is following the YouTube model. You can embed an image from their website using a line of code and the embedded images, in future, may carry advertising. It’s a win-win situation for both parties.

There are a couple of restrictions though. One, you cannot modify the size of images embedded through Getty Images (see workaround). Getty says that you cannot use their images on commercial sites where the intent is to sell a product (if your blog has AdSense, it should not be an issue). Also, since these images are served inside an IFRAME, they will not be indexed by search engines.

Which Getty Images Can I Embed

Not all images on the Getty website are available for embedding on your website. When you perform a search, hover your mouse over the image thumbnail and look for the embed icon. If the icon is present, that image is embeddable and you can click the icon to get the actual embed code.

Also see: Sell your Instagram & Facebook Photos

Making Getty Image Embeds Responsive

The embed code from Getty has a fixed height and width and it may thus break the layout of your website, especially on mobile devices. As a workaround, we can add a bit of responsiveness to the embed code (remember Google Maps) so that the embedded image will automatically fit the screen of the user.

All you have to do is take Getty’s HTML code and add it inside the .getty-images class in the snippet below. Here’s a working demo.

<style>
  .getty-images {
    position: relative;
    padding-bottom: 80%; 
    height: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
  }
  .getty-images iframe {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100% !important;
    height: 100% !important;
  }
</style>

<div class="getty-images">
  <!-- Getty Images Embed Code Goes Here -->
</div>

[*] The value of padding-bottom in line #4 is basically the aspect ratio of the image and you may have to modify this number based on the dimensions of the image provided by Getty.

Related: Buying Tips for Stock Photos

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This story, Use Professional Photographs from Getty Images for Free, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 06/03/2014 under Embed, Images, Internet

3 Fantastic Free Extensions to Improve Wikipedia on Google Chrome

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3 Fantastic Free Extensions to Improve Wikipedia on Google Chrome

As an avid Wikipedia user, there are two tools I have found quite helpful in my research, and another one which I believe makes Wikipedia far more beautiful to browse through. Want to know what these are? It’s been a while since Saikat rounded up 10 fun and useful Wikipedia extensions for Chrome, and since then, there have been a few great new tools released that you should be using if you use Google’s browser to access the world’s largest encyclopaedia. WikiTube For a digital encyclopaedia, I’m surprised that Wikipedia does not have much video content, if any at all,...

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Can You Get An iOS 7 Device To Work Well With Linux?

Android devices play nice with Linux, but the same can’t always be said for iOS devices. Support for them on Linux is still far from perfect, but here’s what you can do to get it working as best as possible. libimobiledevice There’s a piece of software available for Linux called libimobiledevice. This library – as the name implies – tells the computer how to communicate with iOS devices, like the iPhone and iPad. If you’re running the most recent release of your favorite Linux distribution then libimobiledevice is most likely already installed. If you’re unsure whether you do actually have...

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Download Pushbullet For Windows Now

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Pushbullet, a popular Android app (recently released for iPhone too!) that lets you quickly push files, messages, and links from your smart phone to PC and vice versa using the Chrome extension on your PC, can now be used on your PC without having to install the Chrome extension. Yes, the team behind Pushbullet has […]

Upgrade From Windows XP To A Modern OS In 7 Simple Steps

If you’re still using Windows XP on your computer, stop it — right now. Windows XP has become so ancient and outdated that even Microsoft is pulling its extended support for it in a little over a month. In order to stay safe and get the most out of your computer, it’s important to upgrade to a newer operating system. If you’re unsure how to do this, just follow these steps. Why Should You Upgrade From Windows XP? Windows XP has been out for over a decade. Meanwhile, the Windows operating system has undergone many iterations. Maintaining old versions forever...

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Bored With Programming Books? Try 3 Fun Ways To Level Up Your Coding Skills

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Yahoo User Logins, Bitcoin Regulation, Project Spark, Windows XP Pop-Ups [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Yahoo rejects third-party logins, Japan plans Bitcoin regulation, Project Spark comes to Xbox One, Twitter talks “impressions,” Steve Ballmer talks retirement, Microsoft nags Windows XP diehards to move on, and Arduboy brings Tetris to the business card. Yahoo Forcing User Logins I was greatly confused when Yahoo started allowing G and FB logins. Unclear though, if they can sustain their own ID effort. People moved on — Romit Mehta (@TheRomit) March 5, 2014 Those of you accessing Yahoo services will soon have to log in with a Yahoo username, as opposed to signing in with...

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Make HD Video Calls From Outlook.Com Website

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Up until now, Skype for Outlook.com was available to select number of users and only limited number of users had the privilege to make video calls from their Outlook.com account without having to install Skype app or the desktop client. Today, Microsoft announced that it has rolled out Skype for Outlook.com feature worldwide, meaning that […]

You Wish You Owned Google [We Ask You Results]

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3 Browsers With Cool Touch Features For Windows 8

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It’s The End Of Days For Windows XP – Microsoft Will Send Pop-up Reminders

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Create The Perfect PHP Development Environment In Android

It turns out you can actually code on Android productively. For the longest time, it has been accepted that whilst computers are for productivity and creativity, Tablets exist purely to allow the passive consumption of content. I believed that as well. I’m a software developer by trade, and I use a 13″ Macbook Pro to write all my code. I wouldn’t have it any other way. OS X comes with everything I need to be productive as a developer, and I’ve built my workflow around that. Android on the other hand? I’ve never really thought about writing code on Android....

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