6 Tips to Help You Make More Money from Your Music on Youtube

YouTube can be a great place to generate revenue for your music during the Holidays or any other time of the year.  Here are six tips that can help you make more money with your music on YouTube

1) Sign up your entire catalog for CD Baby’s YouTube Monetization 

You’ll make money whenever your music is streamed via YouTube Music Key or used in YouTube videos.  Even if your music is just playing in the background, you’ll still earn income.

2) Encourage your fans to use your music when creating their own content

Your song may be the perfect soundtrack for someone’s Christmas video, school project, wedding video or any other event that is a good fit for your music. Encourage fans to use your music in their videoes and you can earn additional income.

3) Add your important links at the top of your video description

You’ll want your main link easily viewable by viewers.  Many won’t bother searching for your link so make it highly visible.

4)  Create and upload videos for ALL of your songs

Make it easy for all to to hear your music.  The more videos you have uploaded, the more opportunities to get views and earn additional revenue.

5)  Record a holiday video

If you’re not prepared to shoot a live performance, you can create a video greeting your fans and if you choose, you can offer them a holiday promotion to buy your music at a discount for a limited time (and provide a unique code in your video thats needed to claim the offer).

6)  Make sure your video has a strong call to action

YouTube offers many ways for you to engage your viewers, like annotations. Regardless of the method you choose to use, it is critical that you have a strong call to action so your viewers know what action you want them to take e.g. Click Here Now to Purchase Your Song