To answer your question, no you aren’t allowed to monetize videos that you don’t fully own the rights to. In fact, it might not seem that way because EVERYONE’s doing it, but uploading the videos that you upload is actually illegal. You don’t own the rights to display that content, but are simply stealing the content and posting it on Youtube. Youtube doesn’t pay much attention to that unless someone claims copyright infringement, but if you were to add monetization to it, you run a VERY serious risk of compromising your account.

So, I wouldn’t recommend doing it, and personally – I would recommend for you to stop uploading copyrighted media. Just because it doesn’t say copyright doesn’t mean it isn’t

I have a question about putting adsense on my YouTube videos. Most of my videos are from concerts & from performances or interviews I recorded from the TV. Is it ok to put adsense on those videos? I had a YouTube account awhile ago that was terminated by YouTube because of copyright protection from 3 of my videos. If I put adsense on my videos & I end up with another terminated account (which I pray I don’t, if I see it says copyright after I put the video I usually delete the video) could my adsense account get terminated too?

I’ve seen that if your adsense account gets terminated you can never sign up for another one again. Is that true?

Sorry if I wrote a novel. Thanks in advance for your help.

Honestly, I probably wouldn’t start with Adsense until I’m getting maybe 10,000 visits per month, but that’s my personal preference. I’m not a Huge fan of Adsense, so if I’m going to use it, I want to make sure that I’m making some money with it.

Hope that helps!

Glad you found value in the post.

My answer to your question is based on my experience. I’ve never invested 1 cent in advertising. So, how much do you have to invest? Nothing. It all boils down to putting out great content and getting it in front of people.

Then, you need to have a way to monetize that audience. That can be by selling products, or by offering services. That will vary from individual to individual. In terms of getting traffic from Youtube, here’s a podcast episode I recorded on that topic – http://www.becomeablogger.com/3109/018-5-tips-for-getting-a-lot-of-traffic-from-youtube/

Hope that helps!

Anyhow, loved your blog – have shared it on Blog Bods so even more people see it. One thing I would really like to know more about is how you made money from Youtube videos. What I mean is – how much money do you need to invest on advertising (via Adsense or whatever other methods you used) to see a return of $1000 plus per month? I know it’s going to vary for everyone, but say if you’re right at the beginning of your blogging career and only have a small audience of hundreds, what is a realistic amount to invest in a video over the course of a month to see a return?

For my Biology blog, I don’t have as good of a product line, so I give up some of that space to be able to still monetize that blog.

Thanks for your 2 cents. It makes a lot of sense

For me personally, I still like to get the visitors’ details before I redirect them to the website. The main reason I would do that is to grow my list so that I will be able to follow up with them through email.

I feel it will be a good idea too to email them whenever there is a new piece of content on my website as that is the way to get them to visit my website again.

Just my 2 cents