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Viral Youtube video gets over 8400 views per day - Over 1 MILLION since February!

by magentawave
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I have a relative with a Youtube video thats gone viral with well over 1 MILLION VIEWS since last February. I'm going to offer to buy this from them. If they sell it to me, then I'll have a link to a site at the beginning of the videos description.

How would you monetize a Youtube video that gets about 8400 views per day? Would you have a super simple ugly site so visitors click on Adsense or an affiliate link? Or would you have a larger non-ugly content site with articles and affiliate links?

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
    Steve,

    Wouldn't the subject of the video have a large part in the monitization outcome?

    Can you find products that are natural associations to the video, or is the video pure sillyness like most of the viral videos out there?

    In other words, if it's a skateboarding video, as an example, links to skateboarding items may be appropriate, but if it's a guy slipping on butter his roommate smeared on the floor out of spite a link to "Land-O-Lakes" might produce nothing.

    ~Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Yes, I can have a website that would be relevant to the subject matter of the video.

      Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    I don't know if I'd consider 7 thousand views a day viral, but it's certainly a popular video. You could do alright with that, but don't expect to make a fortune out of it. You might be able to turn over 2-3 sales a day at most with that sort of traffic on YT (IMO).

    A viral video, IMO, would be getting 500,000+ views for a day for at least a couple weeks.
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Sorry but I need to keep this quiet for now.

      Originally Posted by alyonafrendo View Post

      What's this video? can you show it to us?



      I get your point, but anything that gets thousands of views a day without the help of backlinks, seo, and/or advertising is pretty dang viral to me. What I like is that the traffic has been consistently growing each month.

      Steve

      Originally Posted by JamesGw View Post

      I don't know if I'd consider 7 thousand views a day viral, but it's certainly a popular video. You could do alright with that, but don't expect to make a fortune out of it. You might be able to turn over 2-3 sales a day at most with that sort of traffic on YT (IMO).

      A viral video, IMO, would be getting 500,000+ views for a day for at least a couple weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael William
    I had few of those a while back and monetized it with a free blackberry CPA offer and made some good money. I loved YT marketing and wish I had more time to do it more.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Daniels
    Sign up with a CPA company and put a email submit there in the annotation.. easy peasy..$30 dollars a day minimum.. so much money lost on the table..
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      When you say "email submit" as an annotation, are you talking about an optin form?

      Steve



      Originally Posted by overnight211 View Post

      Sign up with a CPA company and put a email submit there in the annotation.. easy peasy..$30 dollars a day minimum.. so much money lost on the table..
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr Livingston
    I would put up a nice site with adsense as a test. That's the easiest way to make some cash because it has the least amount of steps for visitors to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    Start testing adsense and get more people to post the video link, and write more article that have the video link in the bio box.

    Use your description to direct to affiliate offers! Just have start thinking creatively.
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  • Profile picture of the author hagendazz07
    I would monetize using a CPA offer, because of the nature of the traffic. What is the video about btw ?
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Well, they don't want to sell me their Youtube channel but they will let me monetize the traffic for a percentage of the revenue so I'm looking at CPA offers right now.

      How much of a percentage do you think would fly for a situation like this? 50/50? They own the channel and the videos and I have the expertise to monetize the traffic. Yes its true they could dump me at anytime and do this stuff themselves (or pay someone else to do it) cuz this ain't rocket science you know, but I'm hoping that since its family they won't do that.

      What do you think? 60/40 with me getting 60%, or 50/50 or??

      Thanks
      Steve
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      • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
        Originally Posted by magentawave View Post

        Well, they don't want to sell me their Youtube channel but they will let me monetize the traffic for a percentage of the revenue so I'm looking at CPA offers right now.

        How much of a percentage do you think would fly for a situation like this? 50/50? They own the channel and the videos and I have the expertise to monetize the traffic. Yes (or pay someone else to do it) cuz this ain't rocket science you know, but I'm hoping that since its family they won't do that.

        What do you think? 60/40 with me getting 60%, or 50/50 or??

        Thanks
        Steve
        Steve,

        Thinking long term regarding the split, two things come to mind...

        The better the deal you create for them the longer the partnership may last. As you stated, "its true they could dump me at anytime and do this stuff themselves".

        The second and more beneficial concept for you is the ability to get one of these under your belt. The first pickle is always the hardest to get out of the jar.

        Once you've gone through the exercise of successfully completing a JV with someone else's video content you can move on to replicate that success. That could become a good source of revenue going forward.

        ~Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    Yall have never heard of the youtube partner program?
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Yes I have heard of it. They aren't using it though and I'm thinking that high paying CPA offers could be more profitable than the Youtube Partner Program. Am I right or wrong about this? Any thoughts?

      Originally Posted by ~kev~ View Post

      Yall have never heard of the youtube partner program?
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  • Profile picture of the author Cool Hand Luke
    CPA > Youtube Partner ANY Day of the week.
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Why do you feel it is the best way to monetize a Youtube channel?

      And how can I make the Youtube Partner thing work if I'm not the owner of the Youtube channel?



      Originally Posted by Cool Hand Luke View Post

      CPA > Youtube Partner ANY Day of the week.
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    • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
      Originally Posted by Cool Hand Luke View Post

      CPA > Youtube Partner ANY Day of the week.
      I doubt it.

      When the video is embedded in dozens/hundres of sites, your running banners on those sites through the video.

      I think your underestimating the power of being a youtube partner.

      By the way Cool Hand Luke, are you a youtube partner?

      Originally Posted by Andrew Maule View Post

      9 times out of 10 anything that goes viral will generate junk traffic. Friend of mine had a site getting well into the millions per month and they weren't even able to monetize it since the demo was so broad. Unless your viral video is focused tightly on one thing then it'll be hard to do.
      Na its not hard to do.

      Once your in the youtube partner program, google tries to run targeted ads. That way you dont have to try and target a certain audience.
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      • Profile picture of the author magentawave
        I see Youtube videos with a horizontal ad on top of them that you can leave there, click the "x" to remove it, or click through the ad to check it out. Is that ad I'm seeing part of the Youtube Partner Program?

        Again, the reason I don't want to push the Youtube Partner Program for them because it pretty much puts me out of the loop since they won't sell me the video channel.

        Steve



        Originally Posted by Andrew Maule View Post

        9 times out of 10 anything that goes viral will generate junk traffic. Friend of mine had a site getting well into the millions per month and they weren't even able to monetize it since the demo was so broad. Unless your viral video is focused tightly on one thing then it'll be hard to do.
        Originally Posted by ~kev~ View Post

        I doubt it.

        When the video is embedded in dozens/hundres of sites, your running banners on those sites through the video.

        I think your underestimating the power of being a youtube partner.

        By the way Cool Hand Luke, are you a youtube partner?



        Na its not hard to do.

        Once your in the youtube partner program, google tries to run targeted ads. That way you dont have to try and target a certain audience.
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        • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
          Originally Posted by magentawave View Post

          I see Youtube videos with a horizontal ad on top of them that you can leave there, click the "x" to remove it, or click through the ad to check it out. Is that ad I'm seeing part of the Youtube Partner Program?
          Yes, the ad in the video, ad to the right of the video, and the banner on the persons profile is part of the partner program.

          If your in doubt about the power of youtube partner program, take a look at these links

          http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...0_Natalie_Tran

          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...dent-acts.html

          Some of those people are bringing in $100,000+ a year just on youtube.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Allard
    Yeah if you're not the owner of the channel that wouldn't work. If you're just purchasing access to the video, I'd make sure you have access for a period of time instead of a 1 time access to change the description.

    That way you can test out different offers, annotation timing, and stuff like that.

    Like others have said, I'd find or craft an offer that's related to the video itself. Then I'd put the link to that offer first thing in the description, and also say "Click the link below to learn how to..." or something like that in an annotation.

    Try out an offer for a week, then try out a different one for another week. Find what works best and stick with that!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Allard
    That's a great point Bill Farnham made. If this deal works out, you can then contact other YouTube members with high-traffic videos and explain how you worked with viral videos before and can make them a win-win deal. That's a great idea. I'm sure there are thousands and thousands of high-traffic videos not being monetized properly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Calizo
    just make sure that it still gets views...
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Money
    9 times out of 10 anything that goes viral will generate junk traffic. Friend of mine had a site getting well into the millions per month and they weren't even able to monetize it since the demo was so broad. Unless your viral video is focused tightly on one thing then it'll be hard to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Gordon
    In my opinion, adsense would work best. Just check how much the keyword(s) of your niche pay. You would just need a simple blog IMO, with adsense all over it.
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  • Profile picture of the author thanhlan
    hi kev! nice articles you linked! had no idea shane dawson has made so much money so far!!
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