Facebook Just Added a Trio of New Ways to Make Money With Video Content
A new article on Search Engine Journal reports that Facebook is rolling out even more ways for content creators to monetize videos and to earn revenue from making them and displaying them on the platform.
That's right, Facebook is launching three brand new updates that are primarily aimed at helping creators of video content to make more money from their video offerings on the social network. There are several ways that can happen, as follows:
To earn revenue from videos published to Facebook, you'll need to meet a certain set of criteria:
In-Stream Ad Eligibility
Live Stream Ad Eligibility
In addition to meeting the criteria in the section above, Pages will have to meet another requirement to run ads while going live: 60,000 live minutes viewed in the last 60 days.
When Pages are eligible to run ads in live streams they'll also be able to earn money with Stars.
Facebook says it will review all applications and gradually start accepting more Pages that meet its new criteria.
That's right, Facebook is launching three brand new updates that are primarily aimed at helping creators of video content to make more money from their video offerings on the social network. There are several ways that can happen, as follows:
- Earning revenue from short-form video.
- Expanding eligibility to more content creators.
- Making it easier for creators to earn money from viewer contributions.
To earn revenue from videos published to Facebook, you'll need to meet a certain set of criteria:
In-Stream Ad Eligibility
- 600,000 total minutes viewed from any combination of video uploads in the past 60 days. This can include regular video uploads, live streams, and recordings of live streams.
- Five or more active video uploads or previously Live videos. Videos must be published, not deleted, and compliant with our Facebook's Content Monetization Policies.
- In-stream ads continue to be available to Pages with at least 10,000 followers. They are not available to personal profiles.
- Mid-roll ads can now be shown after 45 seconds into the video, which is a slight update from the previous checkpoint of 1 minute.
Live Stream Ad Eligibility
In addition to meeting the criteria in the section above, Pages will have to meet another requirement to run ads while going live: 60,000 live minutes viewed in the last 60 days.
When Pages are eligible to run ads in live streams they'll also be able to earn money with Stars.
Facebook says it will review all applications and gradually start accepting more Pages that meet its new criteria.
