What can be monetized?

Curious

Curious

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Hello all,

Not been on for a long time. I had a youtube channel where most of the content was disabled for monetization due to it not being family friendly. That sort of took the edge off for me as my content was all about creepy stuff.

I now see that you cannot monetize kids stuff either now. So my question is, what can actually be monetized? What sort of content can you create that is worth doing financially?

Many Thanks.
 
Anything that's not creepy not violent not controversial not dangerous not copyrighted not illegal

Lol hmm so that includes - sports, makeup, asmr, educational, fitness, home makeover, travel, giveaways, drawing, dancing, video reviews without showing to much of the original work, family vlogs, gardening, woodworking, stand up comedy without too many swears, history channels (but even this gets flagged), tech review and product review channels....
 
You can't monetize kids content?I didn't know that, can you tell me where you have read that? I only thought the cpm was very low but I didn't know kids content made no money at all? And yes I agree with the comment above me, that seems to be monetizable
 
You can... its just tricky.
You can't have targeted ads on kids content, at least not in the US, so that makes its very difficult to actually make money since non targeted ads have lower cpm.
Also kids content doesn't show up in recommed because they would need to be tracking info about kids watch pattern to have it show up for them. And kids content can not have comments because that also counts as data tracking from kids.

I don't operate in that space, so take this with a grain of salt, but one idea I had was making a kids channel that very much promotes the parents being engaged with the child in the viewing experience. (Which probably is better for the child and parent anyway) that way any targeted ads or sponsorships will still be targeted towards the parent. You would have to be hyper clear that you are talking to the parents during ads and not to the child.
Maybe that could be done in word choice, using words a kid under 13 most likely wouldn't understand. But also instead of saying you will have fun with this toy you can say your son and you the parent will make great memories with this toy.

You'll probably also have to educate your audience of parents to understand why this sort of viewing environment is better for their nuclear family and why its also better in terms of their child data.

Lastly in terms of comments maybe you could use the pending comments system so that all comments have to be reviewed before they are shown publicly. you would filter and manually delete comments that seem more childish and keep comments that are more from the parent perspective.

I guess at that point it could be argued its a channel for parents raising kids more than a channel for kids... if that makes sense.

That being said... I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. I don't even know if any of my ideas are actually good enough in terms of the current law.
 
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