Believe it or not, some people earn six figures a year with YouTube. All they have to do is post funny videos on YouTube, producing a bomb from time to time. For example, Cory Williams, a famous YouTube comedian, claims to earn about $20,000 a month producing videos on YouTube, not to mention the money he earns from various sponsors. Video makers like him are creative and dare to the bone when they created the videos, but they are now living quite easy.

Does YouTube help the ordinary marketer make money?
It’s hard to say. One might think that an “O.K. to watch” video is all it takes, but it’s not. You have to put in many market practices to compete in YouTube. SEO for keywords and tags, NLP for explicit marketing, you name it. It’s extraordinary to see a marketer gain a short term YouTube success, because putting videos on YouTube as well as collecting a large number of subscribers is quite of a hassle. If your niche is popular, you may try to put up an amateur video, this will drive visitors to your site, at least I did.

Are you curious about the numbers? A while ago, there was a video that focused on a game that was recently released. The site gave the public what the public wants – exploits to the maps the game had, shown on uploaded videos, along with other unfair methods that were considered ‘player griefing’. The four videos got viewed about 5,000 times and about 500 hundred came to visit from each. That day, the CPM at the site the users were redirected to was at $3.21, so the earnings were at about $4-5 from the four videos uploaded on the same day. It takes about 40 minutes to make the video, and they are really a long-term investment. Keep in mind that the video wasn’t promoted in any way.

So what does this all tell you? Well, for one, it is possible to earn money directly through YouTube. It is also possible to just get plain traffic from YouTube, or convert sales with advertising videos. The golden age of YouTube won’t be gone that fast – there are 20 hours of new video uploaded at the popular video sharing website each minute. Furthermore, the team of YouTube is constantly thinking about new marketing methods and improvements that can be more appealing to the producers of videos.