Ever find yourself in a silent and profound contemplation thinking about how to make money online? As the website Viral Monopoly advises, you might as well get yourself on video during that moment, because some people (hopefully around 10,000 at least) might find the video of you picking your nose and scratching yourself funny and voila! You got yourself a viral and potentially money generating YouTube video.
You don’t necessarily have to humiliate, much less hurt yourself, in order for the video to go viral. Although, the fat guy slipping on the banana peel still holds some comical appeal, faking it may be too risky, painful and you might get called out in the process. While there are no exact recipes for a successful viral video, Viral Monopoly have compiled some key factors key factors that most viral videos share:
- Universal appeal
- Humor
- Cuteness (i.e. Videos with babies, baby animals, etc.)
- Poignance (i.e. Touchy feely vids, creative wedding proposals etc.)
- Celebrity endorsement
Some of the viral videos may have some or even all of these key factors mentioned, but the viewership of some viral videos shoots up out of sheer luck or by some other odd reason like in the case of Rebecca Black’s music video Friday. The video appeared to have unwittingly touched the nerve of the cynics and zombified them into watching the video repeatedly. This resulted into creating perhaps the most successful, albeit negatively reviewed music video of all time and launched Rebecca Black into celebrity status.
Now how will your YouTube video make money for you? Earlier in this article, we mentioned 10,000 views for a video. According to research done by Viral Monopoly, the system of YouTube has incorporated an algorithm predicting if a video is set to go viral. Once the views on the videos hits the 10,000 mark in a given span of time from its upload date, the algorithm automatically tags it as a potential viral video. People from YouTube with an offer to become partners will then contact you. Advertisements will then appear with your video and you get more than half of the revenues generated as your share.
The video “David After the Dentist” which currently has over 100,000,000 million views. This number of views allegedly translated to $100,000 dollars for the uploader of the video. So by the simplest math possible, your viral video will earn approximately three zeroes in lesser in dollars in relation to your video’s number of views.
One last and very important reminder before uploading your videos that you hope will help you earn extra cash is this: Don’t forget to enable the content ID feature on YouTube. This will prevent others from making a copy of your video and make money out of a video of yourself picking your nose instead. Now that would be just sad as seen in Viral Monopoly.