How to Make Money on YouTube Without Creating Videos

With the evolution of mobile phones, now everyone is a videographer, and creating videos is just like snapping fingers. Youtube pays you 55 percent of the income generated by the ads on your video. However, in order to earn from youtube, you need to be a good video content creator and digital marketer. Therefore, a lot of content creators try easy methods such as re-publishing videos from the public domain.

Can you actually republish videos on youtube and make money? Well, if you are republishing videos, youtube will not even consider monetizing your channel let alone making money from youtube. Is that so?

Well, not exactly. In order to make money on youtube, you need to create your own videos and publish them on Youtube. You can also republish videos on youtube to make money. However, before you republish videos, you need to consider a couple of things.

How to Make Money on YouTube by Re-uploading Free Videos

Youtube is one of the best platforms to make money online. However, in order to earn from youtube, you need to be a video content creator. If you don’t know how to make videos, you have no chance of making money. Is that so?

Well, that’s not true. You can still make money without actually creating your own videos. All you need to do is download royalty-free videos, do some minor editing, and then upload them on youtube.

However, you need to remember a couple of things, for example, you cannot monetize your youtube channel by reuploading TikTok videos as TikTok videos are watermarked and youtube does not approve watermarked videos. You can find apps that download TikTok videos with watermarks removed, but this is illegal because you are trying to reuse someone else videos without permission.

In order to reuse videos, you need to use royalty-free videos. You need to avoid using public domain videos. There is a difference between public domain and royalty-free.

Where to Find Royalty Free Videos to Re-upload and Make Money?

Do you know you can download and reupload videos on youtube to make money? This is absolutely legal according to Youtube terms provided you do some editing, for instance adding text, adding a caption, etc. Youtube is not the only platform where you can re-upload videos and make money. You can re-upload on Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, or even TikTok and monetize your re-uploaded videos.

Here I will tell you where you can download royalty-free videos.

Pexels.com: This is a website to get royalty-free photos and videos. Videos on Pexels can be commercially reused.

Pixabay.com: This is another popular platform for royalty-free images and videos.

Public domain government videos: You can search for public domain government videos, for instance, videos from NASA, and take a clip or edit the videos to reupload. You can go to images.nasa.gov or pond5.com/public-domain.

Youtube: Well, you can search for creative commons videos on youtube, download these videos, do some editing and reupload them to make money.

Making Money On Youtube Without Making Your Own Videos

Let me be frank if you do not have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and generate millions of views, you cannot earn money on youtube. You might be able to make $10-$20, or even $100 but compared to the kind of work you have to do in order to maintain a youtube channel that is negligible earning. You will have to work for 3-4 hours to create 10 minutes video and you need hundreds of videos to generate traffic and subscribers. You also need to constantly do SEO and digital marketing on your videos to generate views. That's a tremendous amount of work. If you are satisfied with small earnings that's another thing.

Even though they say you can make money on youtube even when you have not enabled youtube monetization (affiliate marketing, sponsorship, subscriptions, etc. are suggested), you have no chance of generating money because in order to do that you need to build a lot of subscribers and a lot of traffic.

Re-uploading royalty-free videos is certainly a great method to grow your youtube channel and the only thing I would like to add here is that you need to be a great video creator to succeed on youtube. Topic selection is not the only method to succeed on youtube, you also need to be good at content creation, you need skills to shoot videos and edit videos, for that purpose you need video marking skills.