How to Make Money on YouTube in Kenya

how to make money on youtube in kenya

This is how to make money on YouTube or with your YouTube channel in Kenya

You need to know the several ways and strategies you can use to make money with your YouTube channel in Kenya,

And in this article, I am going to share with you seven strategies and ideas that I have come across.

Ideas or strategies that you can use to generate an income with your personal or business YouTube channel in Kenya

Basically, you can consider this to be your guide on how YouTube pays you in Kenya

Starting a YouTube channel in Kenya is a very smart way to monetize your knowledge, skills, expertise, hobbies, passions, and life experiences

You can leverage the power of the internet and content marketing to build an income-generating online business in Kenya

As you make money with your YouTube channel in Kenya, you give yourself an opportunity to enjoy financial, time and location freedom, something I know you might really be interested in

Imagine being able to make money on a 24/7 basis from the comfort of wherever you are at, simply by creating videos and uploading them on YouTube?

By the end of this article, you will have learned the various ways or ideas on how to make money on YouTube today in Kenya, and how starting a YouTube channel can help you to make money online in Kenya

And please feel free to share this video with a colleague, friend or relative who might need it to learn how to make money online with a YouTube channel in Kenya today.

How to Make Money on YouTube in Kenya

To generate an income with your YouTube channel in Kenya, you need to find ways to monetize or make money

And there are a number of ways or strategies to make money on YouTube in Kenya

Some of the ways to make money on YouTube in Kenya include;

  1. Display Advertising
  2. Affiliate Marketing
  3. Digital Products
  4. Sponsorship or Brand Deals
  5. Memberships
  6. Consulting or Coaching
  7. Merchandising

When you start and build a YouTube channel in Kenya, you can be able to use any of the above ways or ideas to generate an income for yourself

7 Ways to Make Money on YouTube in Kenya

It is important to think of your YouTube channel as a business in Kenya

And you can turn it into an income-generating online business in Kenya

You should consider the following monetization strategies in Kenya

Display Advertising

Display advertising is one of the ways your YouTube channel can make money, and it is actually a very popular ways.

The reason why many YouTube channel owners like display advertising is because it is more of a plug and play kind of a thing.

You set it up and it runs on it’s own without much work from your end in terms of looking for the advertisers.

The main program when it comes to making money with adverts on your YouTube channel is the Adsense for YouTube, popularly known as the YouTube Partner Program

Joining this programs provides you with an opportunity to earn ad revenue from the adverts placed on your YouTube videos

However, to qualify to join this program, you will need 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours within the last 12 months

To me, this might be one step towards making money with your YouTube channel, but this next strategy might be very interesting to you

Affiliate Marketing

When it comes to making money with your YouTube channel, affiliate marketing is one of the ways you can monetize your videos from day one

In very simple terms, affiliate marketing is a marketing model in which you promote someone else’s goods or services and receive a percentage of the sales or web traffic made as a result.

It is typically considered a key part of modern digital marketing, and a great way to make money with your YouTube channel

The good thing about affiliate marketing is that you can start implementing it from the first day you start a YouTube channel in Kenya

Now, to make this really work, I have realized that it would be best if you have experience with the products or services you are promoting

You do not want to just promote things for the sake of making money – because you will be lying to your audience.

Example – my camera, phone and microphone

A popular place to start with your affiliate marketing is Amazon. It is a global marketplace, and a lot of people trust it.

However, their rates are not necessarily the best, but they compensate for that by being a platform that many buyers trust, so you are guaranteed that you will earn some commission over time

You can also get or join into affiliate programs of specific companies whose products or services your want to promote.

Digital Products

Creating or building digital products is another way you can make money with your YouTube channel

And you might ask; what are digital products?

In very simple terms, digital products are products are exist only in digital format – there is no physical format of the product you are creating

These include e-books, music, digital art, software, online courses, and virtual goods sold inside video games, among others.

They are typically delivered to customers via download or email, and offer businesses a way to provide value without physical inventory.

In fact, I consider this to be one of the best ways to turn your YouTube channel into an income-generating online business.

This is especially true if you are trying to get your time back – you want to have the freedom to enjoy life, while still making money by creating value to your audience

Selling digital products on the internet might be the closest you will get to having a passive income stream

Digital products provide you with an opportunity to monetize your knowledge, skills, expertise, hobbies, passions, or life experiences

And you can create a digital product about anything under the sun.

Digital products are created once, and you sell them repeatedly or all the time – and since it is online, it works even when you are sleeping or busy with other life activities

Now, let me be the first to tell you this, you already have a digital product inside you that you can create and sell online today. You just need to find what that product is and create it

Sponsorship or Brand Deals

Another ways to make money on YouTube or with your YouTube channel is through getting brand deals or sponsorship

When you start and build your YouTube channel, you will find that there are companies in your niche or industry who would like to partner with you

These are companies who are interested in reaching to the audience you have created with your YouTube channel

And for that, they are willing to pay you money to sponsor your channel or to be associated with your YouTube channel.

You will be surprised by the amount of money companies are willing to pay to be put in front of your audience

If you’re looking to make money on YouTube, brand deals and sponsored videos are one of the best monetization avenues you can experiment with.

As a form of advertising, sponsored videos let you get paid for publishing content on your own channel—and if you’ve built an engaged audience, you can charge a premium rate.

The more viewers you have, the higher the rates you’ll be able to command.

YouTube channels in pretty much any niche can run sponsored videos, but some niches that are a particularly good fit are beauty, fashion, travel, health or fitness, personal finance and parenting, among others.

As part of your YouTube monetization strategies or plan, you need to have sponsorship and brand deals as one of the strategies to use, to continue increasing your revenue streams from your YouTube channel

Sponsorships and brand deals are one of the ways to turn your YouTube channel in Kenya into an income-generating machine or online business today in Kenya

Memberships

Another way to make money with your YouTube channel is to offer memberships

I know you might want to know what really this entails

A membership site is a type of website that hides or protects part (or all) of its content so that only members can see it.

To become a member, you’ll need to sign up for an account.

This typically involves filling out some forms and, in some cases, paying for the privilege

If you try to access some of the news website on the internet today, you will that most of them have a paywall, where to read the article you want, you need to join or pay to become their subscribers

This is a very interesting concept to monetize your YouTube channels and allows you to have some predictable recurring revenues or income

YouTube channel with membership make money by accepting one-off payments or recurring subscriptions (or both) in exchange for access to premium content and services.

There are different types of membership sites, too.

For instance, you’ll find subscription-based forums, online magazines, streaming sites, and more.

As you start or build your YouTube channel, you need to explore whether you have any content that can be placed under a paywall, and that would require someone to become your subscriber for them to access it

From a business model point of you, having a monthly recurring revenue model can be great for your cash flows in your YouTube online business

Consulting or Coaching

Starting or building your YouTube channel can help you to make money through coaching or consulting

It is important to know how this works and how YouTube videos plays a role in increasing your coaching or consulting clients

Now, the content you create, i mean the videos you create and publish will bring organic traffic to your channel

What this means is that people will find you online, when search for information and find your well-created video content

If you help your audience to solve specific problems, it is likely that a percentage of your audience will be interested in working with you

And this is where consulting or coaching comes in

You can offer group coaching or one-on-one consultations

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Merchandising

Merchandising is another way to make money or generate an income with your YouTube channel

This is a sales, marketing and promotional technique you can use with your YouTube channel to generate or boost sales of your products.

A very important aspect of this is where you create and sell branded merchandise, leveraging the power of internet and YouTube video marketing to make sales

As a content creator or a YouTube channel owner, you should ensure that you are selling your own branded merchandise, if it fits your topic or niche, and if your audience or target market

For example, you can create custom t-shirt, a hoody, a notebook, a diary, a cup or mug, and wearables, among other items

In today’s world, merchandising is emerging as a source of revenue for YouTube content creators, and you can also use this strategy to make money with your channel by linking it up with your online business store on such platforms as shopify, teachable, and stan store among other e-commerce platforms

By selling merchandise online on your YouTube channel, you can promote your brand and create a sense of community among your audience, fans and customers.

Importantly, merchandising is going to become another way to make extra money with your YouTube channel, and add to you existing income streams on YouTube

Conclusion

Having a YouTube channel in Kenya is your ticket to creating a job for yourself and turning it into an income-generating online business

Similarly, if you are a professional or you are an entrepreneur, you should start a YouTube channel in Kenya.

You can use YouTube to increase your brand visibility, generate business leads and also make extra money for your online business in Kenya.

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