Maximizing Revenue with YouTube’s Shopping Affiliate Hub

YouTube has introduced the new Shopping Affiliate program hub, which allows you to earn more money from your Channel.

Affiliate marketing is a lucrative way to earn more commission from the products.

Take inspiration from YouTubers like Cathrin Manning, who earns $60,000 – $80,000 per month solely from affiliate commissions.

Hence, YouTube recently introduced the Affiliate Hub features to increase revenue from channel owners.

YouTube Affiliate Hub

YouTube is a video platform. However, it’s slowly expanding its business to e-commerce to support creators.

YouTube Shopping Affiliate Hub Commissions

Generally, the creators make videos and promote specific products through the affiliate links in the YouTube video description.

Yes, the traditional method of making money through affiliate links in video descriptions is effective. However, the YouTube Affiliate Hub is a whole new ball game, offering unique features and opportunities to maximize your earnings.

How Does it Work?

The YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program allows you to easily tag the products you love to sell on long-form or Short videos.

Product Tagging Affiliate Product on YouTube

It provides the audiences with the best shopping experiences and allows you to earn a decent commission from it.

Firstly, you can tag the affiliate products on the following places on YouTube:

Long Videos
Shorts Videos
Live Stream Videos

The shopping tag button will appear on the videos once you tag the products in any of these places. Refer to the latest image above.

The beauty here is that the audiences can search and browse the products you tagged without leaving the playing video.

Next, when the audience decides to purchase the products, they will be redirected to the products merchant page when they click on it.

The rest of the payment process takes care of them. Once the sales happen, you can get your specified commission.

If you’re new to YouTube affiliates, the Hub lists all the affiliate products, commission rates, deals, etc.

Additionally, you can contact the merchants and ask about the free demo sale of the products.

Eligibility for YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program

However, it’s a lucrative way to earn more money; YouTube has some restrictions to be eligible for the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program.

Note down the below requirements and eligibility criteria:

The Channel must have 10,000 subscribers
The Channel must be eligible for the YouTube Partner Program.
It doesn’t have any community guidelines strike
The Channel must not have any made-for-kids content
Also, Channel should not be related to Music or artist-related channels.
Currently, this program is only available for eligible US creators.

In addition, if the video content is claimed, the affiliate shopping tag will not show.

YouTube has already introduced the monetization requirements for making money from Adsense. Likewise, this is an essential part of the YouTube shopping eligibility criterion.

If you’re eligible for those, then proceed further.

YouTube Affiliate Commissions

Let’s discuss how much commission you can earn from YouTube Affiliate Hub products.

Generally, the commissions are different for each product depending on the commission rates.

Let’s say the product you tagged mentions a 15% commission rate; then you’ll get that whole 15% into your account. (No hidden commission share from YouTube)

Also, what I love is that when the user clicks the affiliate shopping button to purchase a product (10% commission rate) but ends up buying a few more items, you’ll get the commission from the ENTIRE purchase they made during the transaction.

On the other hand, you’ll receive the payment through your Adsense account within 60 to 120 days. YouTube takes this duration for payment processing and any product cancellation or return tracking.

The commission and money will be reversed if the product is purchased through your affiliate link on the Hub and returned.

This is how all affiliate programs and commission models work—nothing new on YouTube.

Best Practices

We have the feature; the only way to earn more is to utilize it properly.

Follow some of the below-mentioned best practices to get the most outcome of the shopping affiliate hub on YouTube.

Relevant Products

Tagging the relevant products in the videos is crucial.

Generally, beginner-level YouTubers make mistakes by choosing high-commission-rate products and then trying to sell them on all their irrelevant videos.

This is a wrong impression of how to approach audiences.

For example, suppose you’re making the food review video but tagging the make-up products as the affiliate shopping list. In that case, the result of sale conversion is ZERO.

I highly recommend you choose the product and tag it into the video based on the content. When you do like these, you will see good sales numbers. Don’t sell the products, by the way, solve the problem by those products (solution).

Use Product

Before promoting the product, please try it on your hands and start reviewing it.

For instance, I promoted affiliate products for different software and tools in this blog. However, I only promoted a product after getting hands-on experience for at least two or three months.

The reason is that I can realize the pros and cons of the product, and I can explain the same to my audiences.

In this way, my brand will gain credibility, and at the same time, I’m getting more sales. So, please start using the product before selling it.

Stop OverDo

Affiliate products are the part of the video, not the entire video.

I can see YouTubers making videos only to sell their products. It’s not a better idea.

When there is a problem, and the product solves it, there will be a good sale.

So, stop pushing your affiliate products to the audiences on every video. Instead, make one whole video review and link that video on YouTube End Screen and Card Templates.

This might be the best solution for growing organically on YouTube and in sales.