Susan Boyle, Arnel Pineda, James at War and now Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz are only the short list of people who have made it big on YouTube. Some became overnight sensations while the others have gone on with their web-casting careers into stardom. For short some of them are currently making lots and lots of money. But before anyone can be at that level, first you have to ask: How exactly do you make cash with YouTube?
But if you really do want to make money, stick to advertising. That's why some people offer to certain manufacturing and advertising outfits to plug a specific product direct or indirectly in the video. And if they think it's actually good enough, they'll pay you for it and might even offer a contract for you to keep making videos. What makes it so good is that you won't be sued for airing fees even if you mention a brand that's not supposed to be part of the program, plus it's cheaper to pay out amateurs and the air time is free. The fact that it is on the Internet gives it the edge due to its borderless worldwide grasp.
Sometimes local TV networks offer contests for amateur film makers. Usually all they have to do is come up with a video feature that includes some sort of insignia or symbol to plug the network name and post it on YouTube, the best one gets a prize. As you can see, hiring out normal people to post videos on YouTube is by far cheaper than hiring out an orchestra or crew of advertisers. Subsequently it's also cheaper than buying rights to domain names to serve as a proxy for other sites.
There's s also a less popular way to earn on YouTube, which is downloader developing. Since the dawn of the Internet people usually hired programmers to hack out firewalls and infiltrate data processes just for the fun of it. For everyone's information, the year 2000 a programmer out of sheer boredom made the "I love you" virus. So basically the cash comes in when you get hired to develop programs that can download and convert videos in YouTube.
Why not go for the course where you can show everyone your creativity and show the world what you've got on YouTube?