How to generate passive income with minimal YouTube work

When you think about making money online through YouTube, you probably think about becoming a YouTuber. That tends to have the connotation that you will become an active content creator, shoot a lot of videos, and probably build a large audience / followers for your brand.

This is a great lifestyle that allows you to earn money doing something you love, while enjoying a modicum of genuine fame. It’s a lot of work and requires a lot of skill, but it’s also almost definitely worth it.

But that’s not the only way to make money from YouTube. Actually, YouTube can be set up as a very nice passive income model that will generate income even while you are resting. You can practically automate this money-generating system and find that it is still surprisingly profitable. Read on to learn.

Maximum income, minimum investment

YouTube users can earn money in different ways. They make money from advertising their own products and affiliate products, for example, but they also generate income from PPC ads. These are ads that pay per click, so every time someone clicks on an ad or looks at it from start to finish, they get a small amount of cash.

But while that amount is small, if you can rack up thousands of views a day, then it starts to add up. If you have a YouTube video that ranks first for a very popular search term, then you can potentially make hundreds of dollars a day.

And if that content is timeless, then there’s no reason why that video can’t keep making money for long!

Better yet, when you consider that you can probably make and edit a great video in a few hours, there’s nothing stopping you from repeating the formula over and over again until you’re finally making hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.

Yes, it really is that simple, but here are a couple of tips to help you make sure you use exactly the right strategy.

Quality and brevity

When making your videos, think about equality, not quantity. That is not to say that you should not make a lot of videos, but that they should not be too long. Google actually encourages YouTube creators to keep their videos to around 3 minutes as this will increase the number of full views and thus increase revenue.

What’s more, however, is that shortening your videos means that you can make more videos in a shorter time frame and then have more content to upload that will get you multiple views. That way, you can take a few days off your regular concert, shoot a few short videos, and then upload them all to generate big income.

It sounds easy and it really is as long as you’re making those high-quality videos (you need the right equipment and good editing) and as long as the videos are in a popular niche.