Set up your channel and videos for monetization
Being a YouTube partner lets you to monetize videos on your channel and earn money from the revenue. Before you get started, check to see if your channel is eligible and learn how to opt in. Then, learn how to enable elibigle videos to earn money.
Enable your channel for monetization
To check your channel’s eligibility and opt in for monetization:
- In your account’s settings, go to the monetization tab.
- Click Enable My Account. You’ll only see this option if your account is in good standing and hasn’t been disabled for monetization.
- Follow the on-screen steps to accept the YouTube monetization agreement.
If your account isn’t eligible for monetization, you’ll see a different message. You can learn more about why monetization might have been disabled and what you can do.
Monetize your videos
After you’ve opted your channel in for monetization, you can enable eligible videos to earn money from relevant ads.
- Make sure your video meets the video monetization criteria.
- Follow these steps to enable ads on the video you want to monetize. If you have more than one video you want to monetize, follow these steps to monetize multiple videos at once.
- In order to begin receiving the revenue, follow these steps to associate your YouTube and AdSense accounts.
Get paid by linking AdSense to your YouTube account
In order to earn money with your videos and get paid, you need to associate an AdSense account with your YouTube account. You can create a new AdSense account or associate an existing one.
You can start monetizing eligible videos before you associate an AdSense account with your YouTube account. However, you need to associate your YouTube account with an approved AdSense account to see your earnings in YouTube Analytics and to be paid once you reach the payment threshold.
There are four ways to associate an AdSense account with your YouTube account.
- Access the Monetization page in your Channel Settings and go to the section “How will I be paid?”
- From the AdSense Association page, please follow the “next” step to be directed to AdSense.
- Select the option “Yes, proceed to Google account sign in” at the bottom of the page to choose the Google Account you wish to use.
- Enter the password for your Google Account.
- Accept the association and you will then be redirected back to YouTube.
- Once your account is activated, a message to inform you that your AdSense account has been associated will appear in your YouTube account (Please note that it may take up to 48 hours for the association to be fully active). Congratulations!
- Access the Monetization page in your Channel Settings and go to the section “How will I be paid?”
- From the AdSense Association page, please follow the “next” step to be directed to AdSense.
- Select the option at the bottom of the page to choose the Google Account you wish to use.
- Enter the password for your Google Account.
- Accept the Adsense association.
- Provide your contact information and submit your AdSense application.
- You will then be redirected back to YouTube, and a message to inform that your AdSense application has been received will appear.
- Adsense will update you by mail once your AdSense account is approved and your AdSense Id will be updated on the AdSense Association page (Please note that it may take up to 48 hours for the association to be fully active). Congratulations!
- Access the Monetization page in your Channel Settings and go to “Review or change AdSense association”
- From the AdSense Association page, click Change.
- Select the option “Yes, proceed to Google account sign in” at the bottom of the page to choose the Google Account you with to use.
- Accept the association and you will then be redirected back to YouTube.
- Your AdSense Publisher Id will be updated on the AdSense Association page. Congratulations!
To associate an AdSense account with your content owner account:
- Access the Settings Overview page for your YouTube content owner.
- Click the pencil icon in the AdSense section of the page.
- Click Continue to AdSense to be redirected to AdSense.
- Select the Google Account you want to use to sign in to AdSense. If you’re already an AdSense publisher, you must sign in with the Google Account that you use to access your AdSense account.
- Enter the password for your Google Account if prompted.
- Confirm the YouTube channel you’re associating the AdSense account with, and choose the primary language for the channel. Although you select one YouTube channel to complete the AdSense association, YouTube will serve ads on all channels linked to your content owner.
- Click Accept Association and provide your billing information if prompted.
Once you have completed this process, you will be redirected back to YouTube. AdSense may email you an update.
Enable and disable ads on my videos
You can submit your eligible video for monetization and enable ads in two ways from within your YouTube account.
Enable ads on your videos
Upon Upload:
- As your video uploads, click the “Monetization” tab on the upload page and click the “Monetize my video” check box.
- Select which ad formats you want to enable for your video. To learn more about the different options available, click the “?” icons next to each ad format.
- Click the “Save changes” btn.
- Your video will go through a standard review process before ads begin to appear. You may be asked to submit information proving you own all necessary commercial use rights to any or all content in your video. Note that if you enable monetization at the time of upload and your video is set to private or unlisted, it will remain so and without ads until you make it public.
After Upload:
From your channel Video Manager:
- Locate your video.
- Click the “Edit” or “$” btn next to your video.
- On the “Monetization” tab of the video editor, click the “Monetize my video” check box.
- Select which ad formats you want to enable for your video. To learn more about the different options available, click the “?” icons next to each ad format.
- Click the “Save changes” btn.
- Your video will go through a standard review process before ads begin to appear. You may be asked to submit information proving you own all necessary commercial use rights to any or all content in your video. Note that if you enable monetization at the time of upload and your video is set to private or unlisted, it will remain so and without ads until you make it public.
Note that you may also enable monetization for multiple videos at once.
Disable ads on your videos
- Locate your video within the “Monetized Videos” view in your account.
- On the “Monetization” tab of the video editor, uncheck the “Monetize my video” check box.
- Click the “Save changes” btn.
Monetize multiple videos at once
If you are a YouTube Partner, you can submit multiple eligible videos for monetization simultaneously. Here’s how:
- Select videos in your Video Manager. (You may submit up to 100 videos for monetization at one time.)
- On the Actions menu above your videos, click Monetize.
- Confirm or change the ad formats you want to enable for these videos, and specify your videos contain paid product placement.
- Your video will go through a standard review process before ads begin to appear. You may be asked to submit information proving you own all necessary commercial use rights to any or all content in your video.
As a reminder, by monetizing videos on YouTube, you confirm that you have all the necessary rights to the visual and audio elements of those videos.
If you are unable to submit certain videos for monetization after retrying, it may be due to those videos being age-restricted, claimed by a third party, AudioSwapped or settings may be set to unlisted or private. Videos and others that have already been rejected for monetization may not show the “$” icon.
Default ad settings
When you monetize a claimed video, YouTube displays advertisements with the video (when users view it on a monetizable platform). You specify which types of advertisements YouTube displays by selecting the permissible ad formats. YouTube automatically determines which ad format displays for any given viewing based on a variety of contextual factors.
You specify a default set of permissible ad formats for your channel, with the option to override the default for particular videos.
To specify the default set of permissible ad formats for your channel:
- Sign in to YouTube with a user name that is linked to your YouTube content owner.
- Go to the Upload Defaults page (Video Manager > Channel Settings > Defaults).
- In the Ad formats section, select the check box next to each ad format you want to allow for monetized videos that you upload.All of the formats are selected by default. To learn more about the available options, click the ? icon next to each ad format.
- Click the Save btn in the upper right.
To override the set the permissible ad formats for an individual video:
- Locate the video in the Video Manager.
- Click the Edit btn to display the video details.
- On the Monetization tab, make sure the assigned usage policy is Monetize.
- Select which ad formats to enable for the video.To learn more about the available options, click the ? icon next to each ad format.
- Click Save changes at the bottom right.
The video goes through a standard review process before ads begin to appear. You may be asked to submit information proving you own all necessary commercial use rights to any or all content in your video. Note that if you enable monetization at the time of upload and your video is set to private or unlisted, it will remain so and without ads until you make it public.
Note that you may also set the ad formats for multiple videos at once.
Ads on embedded videos
Embedded videos may show In-stream and InVideo overlay ads. Any website that embeds videos, including your own website, may generate revenue for you.
Enable or disable ads on embedded videos
You will automatically be opted into showing ads on embedded videos if you’ve associated your YouTube and AdSense accounts and have enabled your videos for embedding. Note that embedded videos will honor the same ad enablement settings as videos on youtube.com.
If you don’t want to show ads on your embedded videos, there is no way to directly disable ads on just embedded videos, however, you may disable your videos for embedding altogether.
Requirements for ads on embedded videos
Ads appear on brand safe sites: YouTube works diligently so that our advertisers’ brands appear on sites that reflect our respective core values. Our systems closely evaluate websites and their content against a variety of factors when determining whether to enable In-stream ads on YouTube embeds, including a strict set of guidelines on content like adult imagery, violence, inappropriate and hateful language, and sites that promote third party infringement.
Player details: We require that the video player be large enough in order to promote a positive user experience, therefore we recommend a 560×315 pixel or larger player. Also, videos should be embedded using the standard click-to-play embed and not a scripted play.
Revenue sharing for embedded videos
Only YouTube and the video owner will earn revenue from ads on embedded videos; the site owner where the video is embedded will not earn a share. You can track earnings for embedded videos in AdSense, as you would for videos earning revenue on YouTube.com.
Note: At this time we are not serving ads on videos that are enabled as 3D videos.
Allow sensitive ads on my YouTube channel and videos
You can opt your channel in to sensitive AdSense ad categories and enable ads in those categories to appear next to your YouTube videos. Opting in to sensitive categories is voluntary and may help you increase revenue by taking advantage of advertiser demand.
Here’s how to allow ads from sensitive categories:
- Sign in to your AdSense account and visit the Allow & block ads tab.
- In the sidebar, click Content Host.
- Click the Sensitive Categories section at the top of the page.
- Toggle the Blocked/Allowed switch for the opt-in categories at the bottom.
Changes are automatically saved on selection, and should be reflected on your channel within 24 hours.
Learn more about sensitive ad categories.
YouTube third-party ad vendors
The following supported vendors may be used by Youtube clients to serve 3rd-party ads. Note regional differences where appropriate.
Social Casino Games beta program
Around March 2015, AdSense will begin supporting inventory for a new standard sensitive ad category, Social Casino Games, as part of a limited beta program. The beta will be supported in English only.
“Social Casino Games” are defined as simulated gambling games (including, without limitation, poker, slots, bingo, lotteries, sports betting, betting on races, as well as other card games and casino games) where there is no opportunity to win anything of value (such as money or prizes).
Standard sensitive categories are allowed by default. Learn how to opt-out of this sensitive category.
Block ads from appearing on my YouTube channel and videos
As a YouTube partner, you can filter the AdSense ads that appear next to your YouTube videos and channel.
Here’s how to filter ads from general or specific categories, or from specific AdSense advertiser domains:
- Sign in to your AdSense account and visit the Allow & block ads tab.
- In the sidebar, click Content Host.
- To block specific advertiser URLs: click the Advertiser URLs tab in the horizontal bar across the top of the page. Enter URLs in the box provided, then click Block URLs.
- To block ads by general or sensitive categories: click the appropriate tab in the horizontal bar across the top of the page. Use the controls on the page to allow or block categories.
Changes are automatically saved on selection, and should be reflected on your channel within 24 hours.
Your filter list only blocks ads served via AdSense. Filtering specific domains will not prevent ads served via Doubleclick.
Learn more about allowing and blocking ads.
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