Sup guys, to my surprise 2 of my youtube channels have been invited for monetization yesterday. I have no experience whatsoever with the partnerships and adsense.

Does anybody here have a partnership? How do you make money? Wich contents do you produce? The copyright system flags everything I produce as infringing. I have read something about changing the pitch of the audio.

Help a bro out :)

1. You're not allowed to monetise copyrighted content or even mashups of copyrighted content (even if they would be fair-use legal). The invitation is automatic and may therefore be mistaken

2. Don't expect to see more than a few cents unless you have thousands of views per video. At first it will only be showing those pop-up ads not the pre-video full ads.

3. There are ways around the automatic copyright detection (like changing the audio/video slightly) but they will catch up if you don't keep changing, reuploading and changing account. It is not worth it unless you ARE doing something legal and have thousands of views.

The only people who make money out of Youtube are people who spend hours each day producing substantial, original content with tens of thousands of views per video.

I don't think so, I got 2 invitations and monetized my channels. 1 of them has around 1 million views.

2. No. yesterday I got the pre-video ads on my videos., in-video ads and ads next to my video.

3. Can you tell me more? Mirroring the video and changing the pitch of the audio helps a lot I heard. I just dunno how to begin with it.

Many people like Hassanalhajry are youtube partners who only upload official game trailers without original content.

I think I'll just a buy a PVR and make BF3 commentary videos, I'm quite good in the game, almost in the Top 10,000

I'm pretty certain uploading copyrighted game trailers doesn't qualify for the Partner thing under their own rules. This doesn't stop people doing it of course, and companies won't take down because they want as wide an audience as possible for trailers.

Making commentary and adding it IS fine. I'm familiar with a few Starcraft II commentators who are partners.

What is the nature of your current content? Original or not? If it's being mistakenly flagged you should be able to contact support.

Youtube's method of identification is to compare the video to a database of copyrighted content. So to avoid it you make your video sufficiently different to the database version to avoid a match, but without changing it so a human would notice. Hence audio pitch, mirroring etc. You would need to re-encode your videos, probably with expensive video editing software, and try out these changes until one works. But I can't recommend you do that.

But how much? There's a lot of guys making "Let's play" videos getting cirka 10,000 views per episode (the big guys have 50K but lots of people have 10K per video). How much money do they make? Can they live off of it?

A typical rate for ads run on streaming video is $3 per 1000 views per ~30s ad. So for 10K views and 1 video a day you'd be making a few thousand a year very optimistically. That is assuming an ad is shown every time, and with the economy being what it is that is not true, all ad slots are not filled and some viewers are from regions that never get ads.

I know Totalbiscuit is living on his videos, he gets 50-100k per video and several videos per day.

If you are doing what you love and have a lot of people watching it is worth it but otherwise these people work much harder for their money than someone doing a part time menial job.

You may be able to partner, but you will not make one red cent off of copyright material.  You'll make money for the people you are infringing upon though.

My channel doesn't have as many hits, but I'm the top search listing for an artists song.  I was offered partnership too.  But none of my videos are my own.  Just mash-ups.

I have both original and non original content. I upload sports videos, game trailers and make videos aboout Turkish army.

I will change my vids as much as I can. Many anime episodes on youtube are mirrored, they're able to stay alive that way. Do you happen to know any tutorials or tips on how to do that? I have Sony Vegas so it shouldn't be  a problem.

I have no videos that are copyright infringing. My accounts are good standing, these are clean accounts. These are accounts I didnot use for a long time and suddenly got partnered for. In my newer account, I upploaded a Dragonball episode and it was already blocked in some countries the second after it was uploaded lol, I deleted it immediatly.

This is what I'll do, upload vids with music from lesser known sources from lesser known artists/games, or Turkish sources lol. If necessary I'll change the audio pitch.

No I have no experience with it.