How do I monetize 15-25k visitors a day?
TLDR;
I automated a software to automatically upload Instagram creator's livestreams directly to YouTube where I make passive income from adsense. I was doing $45-70 a day in profit for 2 months until YouTube demonetized my channel.
At the moment, I'm trying to figure out how to sustainably generate income from this without the use of adsense.
Attached are the analytics of my YouTube channel:
→ 60% female
→ 43% is 18-24 yrs old
→ 29% are from the United States
→ 99% of the views are from YouTube search (searching for a creator's Instagram livestreams) and YouTube suggested videos
What I've gathered from doing this:
- They're watching FOR the creator (without the creator, there would be no video)
- These are archived livestreams, viewers are watching because it's essentially "rare" content that I so happened to record
My thoughts on what I could do:
- Use the top comment feature to direct visitors to another website
1a. From the website stated above, I can sell merch surrounding the creator's brand
What do you think? What would be the best way to monetize 15-25k visitors on videos that surround multiple influencers/creators?
This doesn't directly answer your question. But I'm not sure on the legality of taking other people's content (in this case an Instagram live videos) and publishing it on your own channel to monetize it yourself. Piggy-backing off of someone else's brand and selling merch is likely also not something you should get into. The risk here is more substantial than the reward as far as I can tell.
With YouTube demonetizing the videos they seem to have already hinted that this isn't ok.
Have you considered turning your automation system into a SaaS product for creators to download and publish their Instagram live videos on YouTube themselves? You can already show that that there's demand for it with your channel views.
Another option would be to get permission from the creator(s) to publish these videos. If it's above board they might be keen to allow the monetization on the content and let you keep proceeds. There's other possible avenues for revenue too - maybe affiliate sales of the creator's own merch for example.
In short: Try and work with the creators and help them instead of taking their content.