How Do People Make Money Off of YouTube?

Sign up as a youtube partner. In that way you will earn a small pay pr click. More viewers=more clicks=more money for you. Another way of making money with your youtube videos,is with affiliate marketing. You can sign up on clickbank.com and start promoting products. You get a special unique link for each product you choose to promote. You can put this link in the video descriptionbox. The basic line either way is enough views. Learn youtube-seo. Optimize your videos for the keywords you want to rank for. Start building links. You can also buy high retention views,likes and subs from fiverr.com. These are fake views but views,likes and subs is a big ranking factor in youtube.

You apply for Monetization, basically put if your video is all your own content and you rake in a reasonable amount of viewership you apply for a split of the money that youtube gets via the ads on your videos. I believe that you can apply whenever, but if your videos dont get a lot of views you will probably never see money. Here is a discussion on the matter, users have made 70-600, it depends on viewer count and google adsense resutls