{"id":19411,"date":"2024-02-09T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webmonkey.com\/how-to-make-money-on-youtube-without-making-videos-5-ideas-to-try\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:43:32","slug":"make-money-on-youtube-without-making-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webmonkey.com\/make-money-on-youtube-without-making-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Money On YouTube Without Making Videos – 5 Ideas To Try"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early 2020, I decided to start my own YouTube channel<\/a> to expand WebMonkey's audience and to try something new.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to give making money on YouTube<\/a> a try, and boy, did things work out alright so far!<\/p>\n

\"New-YouTube-Earnings\"<\/p>\n

Now, don't get me wrong: this has taken a lot <\/em>of work.<\/p>\n

I've published 29 videos so far this year, which took learning how to film, edit, and upload videos (probably over 200 hours of work so far).<\/p>\n

As I mention in my post on blogging versus YouTube<\/a>, I also ended up spending over $1,000 on my YouTube setup<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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This was my first camera, but I've since upgraded to a new camera and microphone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, if you're tight on cash and strapped for time, maybe you think YouTube isn't for you.<\/p>\n

At first glance, you might be right.<\/p>\n

But what if there was a way to make money with YouTube without creating your own videos?<\/p>\n

Well, I've actually seen a lot of people asking how to make money on youtube without making videos, so I thought I'd tackle this topic.<\/p>\n

If you want to harness the full potential of YouTube to make money<\/strong> without creating your own videos, talking, or showing your face, this is the post for you!<\/p>\n

Making Money On Youtube Without Making Videos – The Options<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alright, I'm going to get a bit creative throughout this article, but that's just what we have to do to make YouTube work sometimes!<\/p>\n

If you want to make money with this platform but don't want to record, edit, or really sink a lot of time into being a creator, here are some options you can leverage.<\/p>\n

1. Upload Videos With Creative Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Alright, time to talk about an incredibly <\/em>important aspect of YouTube you need to understand if you want to make money without posting your own videos: the Creative Commons license<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Google, Creative Commons license gives “a standard way for content creators to grant someone else permission to use their work.”<\/p>\n

So, in other words, if you find content that has this license, you can use parts (or all) of that video without the risk of a copyright strike<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This means you can take existing content and easily create montages, best-of videos, top 10s<\/strong>…you get the idea.<\/p>\n

To find videos under the Creative Commons, just search for a topic you want to make a video for and use the filter feature to only show Creative Commons content:<\/p>\n

\"Creative-commons-license\"<\/p>\n

Now, once you find some content, you can download the YouTube videos to a MP4 file and repurpose them into your own videos.<\/p>\n

Yes, this technically requires some editing<\/strong>, but I still consider it a way to make money on YouTube without making videos since all the work is basically done…you just need to spend 5 minutes editing stuff.<\/p>\n

If you're annoyed at me for this loophole, I'm sorry, but this is seriously so <\/em>low effort in comparison to making your own videos that I think it's fair game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Besides, you could do this for video game montages, famous movie scenes, top movie or fail compilations, or any number of ideas:<\/p>\n

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Looks like some people are already doing this! These are videos under the Creative Commons and some of them show advertisements before the video!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, YouTube states “You can monetize royalty-free or Creative Commons content if the license agreement grants you rights to use it commercially. Sometimes rights owners require you to credit the creator of the content or give proof of purchase to use it in your video for commercial purposes.”<\/p>\n

So, this is probably a bit of a grey area, but I have stumbled across montage videos and other complations where ads run before and during the video…so you can make money with this.<\/p>\n

Extra Reading – How To Make Money With Memes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2. Offer YouTube Services On Fiverr<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Alright, if you're still wondering how to make money on YouTube without uploading videos and are annoyed by my first idea, this one is a bit more straightforward.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, there's actually so <\/em>many YouTube-related services on Fiverr<\/a> you can offer to make money online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And no<\/em>, these don't require editing videos.<\/p>\n

\"Fiverr-YouTube-gigs\"<\/p>\n

As you can see, a lot of these YouTube gigs involve:<\/p>\n