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Hey, just wanted to update the YouTube video I made last month. This video has made $54 in the last month and gotten me 15 sales with 1200 views.
The most shocking thing to me is the amount of clicks it's getting me to Amazon. As of now it's getting me nearly 70 clicks to Amazon a day and the video took me a day to make. My site which I worked on for 6 months is getting me 200 clicks a day to Amazon (the conversion rate is higher with my Google traffic at 4.5% at the moment and my YouTube traffic is 2.5%).
At this point making YouTube videos is a must for 2019. Keep in mind this video is winter oriented and the traffic peaks in November to March. I'm expecting this video to get between 15k to 20k views. If it keeps pace that's over $800 for a days work.
Even if I get 25% of that, that's still $200 for one days work!
These results are much better than I thought they'd be and I'm going to devote time daily to making YouTube videos now.
If you're curious my YouTube videos are very similar to these one:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCswqv-OXePrufGSxIbE9_Jg/vid...
In terms of quality I think these videos are a step above mine (I'd take my keyword research skills though)
It's not hard to make these videos, either. You need a decent mic for $50 to $100 and a video recording software. Camtasia is great for $259 I believe. That's all you need. Your face does not need to be on camera - mine isn't.
The video page above has 21 million views in total. Let's say they make $25 in affiliate sales per 1000 views (half of what my video is getting), That's $525,000!!!
Even if you're only making $10 per 1000 views you're still getting around $210,000.
$5 per 1000 views gets you $105,000.
$2.5 per 1000 views get you $52,500
That's not even including ad revenue which would give you an additional $42,000.
This page has only been around since mid 2016.
Also, when you use Camtasia you can save your videos and edit portions of them whenever you want. This means when the new year rolls around you won't have to remake your entire video and just edit small portions of it. Then reupload it with the new year.
So I'm officially of the belief that YouTube videos are now a must. Don't let the fear of making videos stop you. It's easier to make a best of video than a best of text post. The competition on Youtube is a fraction of the competition on Google. The videos rank immiedeitly too (sometimes within the hour).
Get ahead of the trend and start making videos.
Thanks and I hope you make some videos for 2019!
EDIT: Just to be clear my videos are much more basic than the videos I linked to. I only have pictures and no product video footage.
Thanks for mentioning my channel. I want to say that your ‘estimate’ numbers about our earnings are way off. Not every video earns the same amount and not every video converts. You can’t come up with something based on 1 video (I have over 1000 across different channels).
As for the links, they are allowed AS LONG AS YOU OWN THE CHANNEL, meaning you can’t spam the comment section of other videos.
Youtube is not as easy as it was when i started. I’ve tried making new channels but couldn’t replicate the success.
Edit: I also want to mention that our channel is ran by a team of 6 people, so doing it alone is pretty hard unless you plan to never sleep :)
If you guys have any questions i can answer them ;)
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Glad to see your a member her now, though. That's pretty cool.
But there is a lot of money to be made too. I often make animated videos for YouTube channels as a freelancer and the budgets can be upwards of £2000 for each one. They take time to make mind and trust me the day rate can work out rubbish! (hence I'm making my own business).
There is time involved too. I would spend upwards of two weeks making one animated video and thats working at speed. So for me to make a successful channel on my own is not feasible. I'd have to make simple videos instead.
I have a question for you @10bestones - how many videos do you upload per week?
Lucy
We can't wait to start making YouTube videos and we are not camera shy. We recently purchased a product to help us and we have our microphone and we will be ready to go shortly.
Your post here today has validated what we already believe.
WE WILL DO IT!
Colette and Philip
Does your channel have 1000 followers that enables you to directly insert links into the video using annotations, or are you simply inserting them into the video description?
If in the description, are you putting them at the top or down at the bottom?
I'm struggling to get subscribers in general haha. I actually get a couple of hundred views a week, just no subscribers. I need to improve my sales pitch at the end of my videos I guess.
1) Playlists can increase watch time. A big ranking factor for videos is watch time.
2) Playlists are good for video SEO, that's because playlists can rank for keywords that poeple are searching for
3) And finally, having playlists makes it easy to curate your content into different categories.
Cheers
Though I am thinking of messaging a buddy of mine who's a vlogger and maybe ask him if he'd like to work with me, before I try YT on my own.
Congrats, and thanks for sharing!!
Kinda scary starting something new, but you convinced me it's worth a shot.
I have experimented with a couple videos here in the platform. I just haven't been able to do a review one as my niche of course is MMO.
I have bookmarked this for future use when I do get the nerve up to create a review video.
Congrats and thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Wishing you the best in all you do
Lee Ann
Even though I've made 30 videos since starting my site, I only added my first Amazon link in my last video that I posted on the 1st of this month (Nov). In the first 4 days the video has gotten 14k views and has driven $30 in affiliate commissions (apart from the +/-$30 in ad revenue).
I feel silly for not doing it sooner because my best performing video is running close to 300k views with my channel almost at 1.5m.
The reason I didn't do it sooner is because I wanted to know exactly what YouTube rules were regarding affiliate links. Especially after so many channels lost there monetization recently.
I guess my point is, yes, I agree with you 100%. Videos are an important addition to the Affiliate marketing gig and with the Amazon influencer program it's even gotten to be a bit easier.
Cheers
Jean
It kind of worked but took a bit of extra work. Was worth it in the end because it allowed me to add merch to my brand and so start generating a third revenue from my own sales.
Where do you get the videos and images from?
In one of the videos from you link, they have just opied the video from Amazon. Is that allowed?
But in another, I noticed they had a shot which was not on Amazon, or on the manufacturer's web site.
Would appreciate some advice on this.
Thanks you,
Ian
Do you use the pics and videos on Amazon?
Care to show yours.
Thanks you got me interested.
Thanks for the post.
I have Filmora and it's sitting in my house, too worried to do what I have to do. So I like not showing my face and showing how I do things.
Great Information.
Would you start doing these review videos even if you don`t own the product?
I know that best approach is to be to buy the product and then do the review about it.
But currently with not income, one has to rely on customer reviews, and research, right.
Anyways, thank you for valuable info
Cheers
Mike
