YouTube is introducing a new way for creators to
make money on the platform now as with all new features it does have some initial requirements
and current limitations some of those being you must be in the YouTube Partner program you have
to have 20,000 subscribers you have to currently be based in the US and artist channels and kids
channels aren't currently eligible now YouTube currently has products available from companies
in the beauty apparel and Footwear home and Tech spaces but they're going to continue to expand
the number of Brands and retailers that they'll be working with in the future now if you do
have this feature available to you you might notice at the very top of the page when you log
into YouTube Studio it says you're one of the first creators invited to the YouTube shopping
affiliate program get in early and shape the future of the program while creating helpful
shopping experiences for your fans and earning more just scroll over to the join now button
click on that and a pop-up window will appear telling you a little bit more about the program
there's a screen that'll tell you about joining the pilot program tagging products how you can
start earning making more money the idea here is YouTube wants us to have the ability to have
product links right embedded in the overlays of our videos things that might be mentioned in our
videos that people can click on go check out those products and if they choose to buy them creators
make a percentage of that sale as an affiliate by clicking I agree it'll bring you to the next
screen which is the affiliate program agreement I'm going to let this scroll through slowly
so anyone who hasn't seen this yet can have a better understanding of what the agreement looks
like for any of you who might have done affiliate marketing before or maybe we're in the Amazon
affiliate program it's a very similar type of situation except the products here will actually
show up as clickable links right on the video screen now I know one of the biggest questions
will be what kind of commissions will creators make and YouTube has said that while commissions
will be paid through AdSense every participating brand and retailer will set their own commission
rate and attribution window for each product once you've read through the affiliate program
agreement and you agree with all the terms and conditions just tick the box that says I
hereby agree in consent and then click I agree this will take you to a new page that allows you
to either upload a new video and add a product to it or take an existing video and add products to
those let me show you what that looks like with an existing video on my channel let me choose
edit video it'll show me a selection of some of my newer videos but I can actually use the search
bar up top to find specific videos on my channel I've got a longer form piece of content where
I talked about how to use DaVinci Resolve for noobs let me see if I can add a product to that
video I'll type in a search term that might help me find that video scroll down and select that
video from the options I've got here now you'll see a very familiar edit page from inside of that
video and if you scroll down to the lower right below you'd usually add your end screen or cards
you can add a product click on that and it'll open up another pop-up window here's where you can tag
products that might be related to that video just use the search bar to find a product that might
be available to you let me type in DaVinci Resolve that's the software I used in this video now I
could either just hit enter or I can look at some of the options from the drop down menu that might
be available to me here let me just choose one and click on it and you'll see it not only opens up
that product but similar products that might be related to that one by clicking on view product
it lets me see exactly what that product is now I can see here that the paid version of blackmagic's
DaVinci Resolve studio is available as the dongle or a plug-in for your computer that allows you to
install a licensed version of DaVinci Resolve now going back I also see there are other products
including a similar product that's just an activation key for anyone who's already downloaded
the software now if I want to make any of these products available to someone who's watching my
video all I have to do is left click and hold and drag those over to the right and it'll add those
as tagged products in that video It Doesn't just have to be one either I can put more than one
product here once I'm done all I do is click save and now if I were to go to that video and
open it up as that video plays you'll see in the lower left corner there is an overlay that says
view products for anyone who's watching that video if they click on that in the upper right it'll
allow the viewer to shop for any of the products that I've mentioned or added into the overlay for
that video it's already got a built-in disclaimer that allows the viewer to understand that it
doesn't cost them anymore but it does allow the Creator to earn a small commission for anything
that's purchased through one of these links now as a Creator from inside of YouTube Studio
analytics we can go up to advanced mode and inside of advanced mode we can add in metrics to
see what kind of clicks on those products we've been getting from our viewers you can also access
this information in the upper left from the metric drop down Windows if you want to learn more about
how to grow your channel and make more money on YouTube click on the video that's on screen now
or the one that I'll link down below peace foreign
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