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5 ways to start earning on YouTube

2025-11-21 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:41 · watch on YouTube

Topic: YouTube, writing online and creators · mode: List of tips or lessons · tags: His own products discussed

Ali lists five ways to earn from a YouTube channel without many followers: affiliate links, selling your own digital products such as coaching calls, brand deals on CreatorGrid, video production as a service, and YouTube's monetisation, which he thinks now starts at 500 subscribers.

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00:00:00 — Five ways to monetise a YouTube channel without many followers

  • ★★ Ali lists five ways to monetise a YouTube channel without many followers: affiliate links, your own digital products, CreatorGrid brand deals, video production as a service, and YouTube monetisation. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Ali suggests signing up to Amazon Associates and putting an affiliate link in the description whenever you mention a product; he did so from about 20 subscribers, earning a few pennies that motivated him. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Even with a small audience, Ali says, you can sell your own digital products, such as a link in the description to book a one-on-one coaching call tutoring people in your skill, ideally your channel's topic. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali suggests joining CreatorGrid, the platform he and his team built, to get flexible brand deals from day one, even with zero followers. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ If you know how to make videos, Ali says, you can offer video production as a service to local or online businesses, since almost every business needs video for social media, YouTube or ads. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Ali says getting monetised on YouTube is easier than ever, the threshold being, he thinks, only 500 subscribers and a certain number of watch hours. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Ali advises focusing on making even one very good video: often one video going even vaguely viral takes a channel through the subscriber and watch-time threshold, after which YouTube AdSense pays. — 00:01:28 · YouTube AdSense

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affiliate marketing · Amazon Associates · CreatorGrid · watch time · YouTube AdSense

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