How to Make Money On YouTube Without Adsense: 4 Best Ways

Are you planning to start a new YouTube channel and make money? Or Did you already have started a channel and are looking for ways to make money?

Then this blog is for you.

Many beginners who plan to start or have already started a YouTube channel might think that making money from YouTube is easy.

But trust me, it’s not.

Many beginners also think that they can enable Adsense with their YouTube channel immediately once they start a channel and might assume that ads will start showing up.

But trust me, it’s not that easy to activate Adsense with your videos, for ads to show up.

Here are some facts you need to know about Adsense (to activate with your channel):

1. Adsense can be activated with your channel only when you get the prescribed number of subscribers and prescribed number of watch hours, as determined by Adsense
2. Adsense will not pay you money for the number of views you get to a particular video. It depends on how much advertisers are paying for a particular ad to be shown.
3. The amount of money you make also depends on the niche you target. 

Now do not get disappointed by reading this and do not give up your idea of creating a YouTube channel to make money.

But if you are wondering how to make money on YouTube without Adsense, I am here to highlight some of the best ways which can help you do so.

Let’s dive into them:

1. Affiliate Marketing

This is the best and my favorite way. You can earn money with the help of affiliate marketing. 

You just have to register yourself with the affiliate product which you are willing to promote (it’s good if it falls under your niche), get the affiliate link, promote that particular product in the video you make, give the affiliate link in the description and then encourage users to click on that link to purchase. Boom….you are done.

For every purchase done from your affiliate link, you will earn a commission.

But here are some points to be noted:

1. Do not promote the product just because it is paying you more commission
2. It is recommended to promote products which you have personally used
3. Provide a genuine review. Highlight both pros and cons of the product
4. I would recommend you disclosing to viewers that you are using affiliate links

2. Look for Sponsorships

This is another way which can help you make money without Adsense. This is also a kind of promotion that you will be doing for a particular product or brand.

But this is different when compared to affiliate links.

For brand sponsorships companies will pay you for just promoting their brand in your video. But this again is not easy and you should look for such kinds of sponsorships, especially from your niche.

Please note that sometimes few products/brands will not pay you money but might offer you their product for free.

3. Drive Visitors to Your Website

Another way to make money from YouTube is by driving viewers to your website or blog. If you have a website where you offer or sell something, then you can encourage your viewers to visit your website to buy the products or services you are offering.

For bloggers like you and me, we can sell:

1. Various courses, which you have expertise on
2. e-Books
3. Affiliate Products in your blog
4. Services, which you have expertise on

4. Offer Valuable Content and Ask for Donations

This is the last option I would recommend. If you do not want to promote any affiliate products or if you have no sponsors or if you do not have any products/services to offer then you ask your subscribers for the donation.

If you have built a good number of loyal audiences who like the way you put your content in videos, the way you teach them new things and the way you do not encourage them with any affiliate products – then will be ready to pay a small amount to keep your channel running.

But this method is used only when you are looking not to earn too much money and feel like you need some money just to keep your channel running.

But again, this is not something I do not recommend unless you feel like you are offering a very high value content.

Conclusion

So to conclude, if you are someone who is interested to start a YouTube channel and make some money, but are having concerns with the Adsense rules, then you can make use of the above recommended ways to make money.

All the best.

If you are already making use of other ways to make money from your YouTube videos, which I did not mention about it here in this blog, then I would recommend mentioning about it in the comments section so that other users can get benefited from it.

Happy Blogging 🙂