$10k Per Month From A Demonetized YouTube Channel

PoliceActivity is a YT channel with 5.9 million subscribers and about 50M views per month 🤯

And get this: all their videos are uploads of public record bodycam footage they don’t own!

Started nearly 8 years ago posting police interactions, the channel has since uploaded 1.9k videos of mostly raw footage with minimal editing.

Unfortunately, at some point they got demonetized, so no ad revenue 😭

Rather than give up, the channel shifted focus to monetizing the audience with Patreon and Amazon affiliate links.

By my math they’re earning around $4K/month from Patreon 🤑

Estimating their Amazon affiliate earnings…

• 50m monthly views
• Click-through-rate of 0.1%
• Conversion rate of 1%
• Average price point of the dashcams the channel suggests (~$300)
• 4% commission

That’s an additional $6000/month 💰

So about $10,000 per month overall, and those are pretty conservative estimates.

Just goes to show there are alternative methods to make money with YouTube.

Some other examples of channels getting lots of views with footage they don’t own 👇

• Daily Dose of Internet – 18.6M subscribers
• ChazNBA – 376K subscribers
• Dashcam Nation – 146K subscribers

What other freely available footage could you compile into a channel on YouTube, TikTok or elsewhere? 🤔

Maybe add your commentary/voiceover to give it something extra.

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