The next time your baby laughs, your dog stumbles or you wash your face in the morning, film it and put it up on YouTube, you could walk away quite a bit richer.
Thousands of people are cashing in on YouTube videos, according to Bing Chen, Head of Youtube's Partner Program, which helps amateur videographers turn their daily life into a pretty penny.
Now, more than ever before, Pilates instructors, make up aficionados, dog trainers, and even spoof movie reviewers are putting their expertise online and making money off of every view.
'We have thousands of people, now, making six-figure incomes,' said Bing Chen, head of YouTube's Partner Program, to ABC. 'It's enough for them to create a sustainable business.'
YouTube partners make money in many different ways, but first their following must attract a certain number of viewers or subscribers and then they must be approved for monitisation.
Monitisation allows YouTube to display advertisements on or around your video and shares a portion of the revenue with the creator through Google's AdSense.
A prime example of the YouTube Partner Program is Michelle Phan, 25, who makes make up tutorials and instructs women how to buy cosmetics.
Miss Phan's bubbly personality and clear tutorials made her an instant hit, and with over 2,119,040
subscribers and 624,610,034 video views, she's certainly making enough money to buy whatever foundation she likes.
MAKING MONEY WITH YOUTUBE
YouTube Partners make money in many different ways, but first their following must attract a certain number of viewers or subscribers.
Once they have accomplished that, they must be approved by YouTube for monitisation.
Monitisation allows YouTube to display advertisements on or around videos and in exchange, shares a portion of the revenue with the creator through Google's AdSense.
Though Miss Phan is still an art student, she's also a 'global brand', as she says, and has been tapped by Lancome as their official 'video makeup artist'.
Eric Letendre, The Amazing Dog Training Man, reveals the secrets to walking an unhappy dog on a leash to cleaning up the shedding hair on a dog, and thousands tune in.
He says he makes between $300 and $500 a month from Google's advertisements, though he says the big boon comes when he releases a new book and several of his 14,757 subscribers pick it up.
Cassey Ho also has launched her own line of products thanks to the popularity of her Pilates YouTube channel, Blogilates.
Her 137,646 subscribers purchase her exercise tops, bottoms, bags and mats, not to mention the revenue she rakes in on her videos.
She told ABC she is 'absolutely' making a six-figure income.
'Sometimes I can't believe it!' she said.
Brother's Raffi and Benny Fine have made profitable YouTube videos an art, thanks to their 'Kids React' series which boasts more than 360 million views.
The video,s which feature children and teens reacting to pop culture and other viral videos, have become so big that they even employ a staff of 10 to keep them coming.
They declined to specify, however, just how much their videos make.
Thousands of people are cashing in on YouTube videos, according to Bing Chen, Head of Youtube's Partner Program, which helps amateur videographers turn their daily life into a pretty penny.
Now, more than ever before, Pilates instructors, make up aficionados, dog trainers, and even spoof movie reviewers are putting their expertise online and making money off of every view.
'We have thousands of people, now, making six-figure incomes,' said Bing Chen, head of YouTube's Partner Program, to ABC. 'It's enough for them to create a sustainable business.'
YouTube partners make money in many different ways, but first their following must attract a certain number of viewers or subscribers and then they must be approved for monitisation.
Monitisation allows YouTube to display advertisements on or around your video and shares a portion of the revenue with the creator through Google's AdSense.
A prime example of the YouTube Partner Program is Michelle Phan, 25, who makes make up tutorials and instructs women how to buy cosmetics.
Miss Phan's bubbly personality and clear tutorials made her an instant hit, and with over 2,119,040
subscribers and 624,610,034 video views, she's certainly making enough money to buy whatever foundation she likes.
MAKING MONEY WITH YOUTUBE
YouTube Partners make money in many different ways, but first their following must attract a certain number of viewers or subscribers.
Once they have accomplished that, they must be approved by YouTube for monitisation.
Monitisation allows YouTube to display advertisements on or around videos and in exchange, shares a portion of the revenue with the creator through Google's AdSense.
Though Miss Phan is still an art student, she's also a 'global brand', as she says, and has been tapped by Lancome as their official 'video makeup artist'.
Eric Letendre, The Amazing Dog Training Man, reveals the secrets to walking an unhappy dog on a leash to cleaning up the shedding hair on a dog, and thousands tune in.
He says he makes between $300 and $500 a month from Google's advertisements, though he says the big boon comes when he releases a new book and several of his 14,757 subscribers pick it up.
Cassey Ho also has launched her own line of products thanks to the popularity of her Pilates YouTube channel, Blogilates.
Her 137,646 subscribers purchase her exercise tops, bottoms, bags and mats, not to mention the revenue she rakes in on her videos.
She told ABC she is 'absolutely' making a six-figure income.
'Sometimes I can't believe it!' she said.
Brother's Raffi and Benny Fine have made profitable YouTube videos an art, thanks to their 'Kids React' series which boasts more than 360 million views.
The video,s which feature children and teens reacting to pop culture and other viral videos, have become so big that they even employ a staff of 10 to keep them coming.
They declined to specify, however, just how much their videos make.
