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title: 'How I Monetized a YouTube Channel in 5 Days (Copy Me)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=SWqp3IAtDLM'
video_id: 'SWqp3IAtDLM'
date: 2026-07-15
duration_sec: 699
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# How I Monetized a YouTube Channel in 5 Days (Copy Me)

> Source: [How I Monetized a YouTube Channel in 5 Days (Copy Me)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SWqp3IAtDLM)

## Summary

The video details how the creator monetized a YouTube channel in under 5 days by reaching 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours. The key strategies include choosing a profitable niche, analyzing competition, leveraging successful formats from other markets, and focusing on thumbnails and titles.

### Key Points

- **Achievement and Niche Selection** [00:01] — The creator reached 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in less than 5 days. The first step was choosing a niche they knew about, recommending beginners to pick a profitable niche.
- **Analyzing Profitability and Competition** [00:55] — The creator published 2-hour videos expecting high RPM. They analyzed competition and found a pattern in their market that wasn't being replicated, so they adopted that format.
- **Niches to Avoid** [02:17] — Certain niches like compilation, seduction, and relaxing music are not recommended for long-term income, even though they can be monetized.
- **Finding a Niche Takes Time** [02:44] — Finding a good niche can take days or weeks of searching on YouTube. The creator found the literature niche after many hours.
- **Idea Generation and Adaptation** [03:39] — After finding a niche, the creator looked for ideas from English channels that hadn't been done in Spanish, adapting them after verifying no Spanish channel had done them correctly.
- **Step-by-Step Content Creation** [04:20] — The process: define the idea, create thumbnail and title, then produce the video. The idea must stand out among recent videos.
- **Importance of Thumbnails and Titles** [05:36] — Thumbnails and titles are more important than content. Rules: clarity (under 2 seconds), contrast, few elements, eye-catching facial expressions.
- **Leverage What Works in Your Niche** [07:04] — Don't invent new things; use proven strategies. If thumbnails with faces perform better, use them. Outsource thumbnail creation if possible, or use Canva.
- **Script Writing and Delegation** [07:44] — The creator delegates script writing to a screenwriter who uses ChatGPT to extend scripts, but not to create from scratch. The creator provides detailed instructions.
- **Channel Performance and Income** [09:15] — First video published Feb 23, 2025, quickly entered algorithm. Channel generated $257 per day, but monetization delay cost over $600. Current income is $300 per day.
- **Expansion and Academy Promotion** [10:47] — The creator is opening the same niche in other languages. They promote an academy for learning to generate over $2,000 per month.

### Conclusion

The creator achieved rapid monetization by selecting a profitable niche, adapting successful formats, and prioritizing thumbnails and titles. They emphasize that success requires effort and knowledge, and promote their academy for further learning.

## Transcript

YouTube channel in less than 5 days. That means I reached 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time on my videos in less than a week. So you can do it too, since the channel is generating
very good income. The first and most important thing I did was choose the niche. I personally focused on a niche I already knew about. What I recommend is that you do the same, or start in a
niche you like or have knowledge of. These days, I'm not opening channels I like, but when I started in this business model, I did. this is your first channel, I recommend that before opening it, I looked at its
profitability. That is, I thought about whether the channel would be profitable or not. Thousands of people start YouTube channels, but at the end of the month, they spend more on content production than on the income the channel generates.
In my own case, with the channel I opened within the...  In my niche, I was publishing 2-hour videos, and today I had a feeling the RPM was going to be high, meaning YouTube was going to pay me Remember, CPM is what advertisers pay YouTube, and RPM is the
net money we receive. Once I had that confirmed and saw that this channel could generate income, I started analyzing the competition. This is one of the most important points, since
realizing that there are other channels already doing what they're going to do. those kinds of channels and having a bit more competition, but you'll only get a piece of the pie, and I don't like that. I like to get the whole
pie and try to reach the largest possible audience. In this case, in the channel I opened, I saw that in my market—that is, in the language I was going to upload the videos in—a pattern was working, but they weren't replicating it. So what I
did was select that format and start another channel only making that video format, and that's what I did.  Because I saw there was a huge demand specifically for a particular format. So when I saw that pattern, I alerted the
whole team and we started producing videos. I want to warn you that if you're at the point where you're going to open your first channel, there are certain niches that I do n't recommend opening because you won't be able to monetize them. I'll
give you examples like compilation niches, seduction niches, and relaxing music niches. All those channels do have the possibility of monetizing, but that's not what we're looking for. We're looking for something
safe and something that will give us long-term income. Once we know that, let's move on to the niche I chose. I was very desperate looking for niches that were were working, until suddenly I hit the right note. It's important that
to finding potential niches, you're overnight. That is, to find a good potential niche, you're going to spend days, even weeks, looking for it. In my own case, I spent several days searching on the
YouTube platform because that's what I'm telling you. To find these spending hours and hours on the YouTube platform. I also want to emphasize that there's no secret trick, no magic trick people are
hiding. It's simply a matter of spending time on the platform and seeing which recommend is using private browsing, as the YouTube algorithm show you what's currently trending. This particular niche is
literature, and as I said, finding it took me several days and many hours. Keep in mind that you won't find a niche overnight. After finding this
potential niche, I got to work finding potential ideas for my You can have a great niche, but if you don't do a thorough search for ideas, those videos won't work. I personally saw channels in
the English market uploading videos that hadn't been done here in Spanish— had done—and what I did was leverage all those ideas from those channels.  in English and bring them into the Spanish market. Obviously, before
doing that, I thoroughly analyzed whether any Spanish channel had done it, and had tried, but they weren't doing it correctly. That's where I found a very good
format option. I've mentioned that ideas are very important, but I haven't explained the step-by-step process. First, I defined the idea, as I explained earlier. That is, I drew inspiration from channels that were
doing something that was working for them and that no one had done in the Spanish market. Once that was done, I created the thumbnail and the title. When that was ready, everything moved to the production stage, meaning the creation of the
video. You have to keep in mind that a potential idea is one that stands out among all the other videos that the channel has and that has been recently published. What I recommend is that once you've selected that idea and
assure you is very eye-catching, both the thumbnail and the title are very important. I personally focused a lot on creating a very attractive format that would make the entire audience want to watch my video before
moving on.  On the next point about what I did, I want to tell you something: I don't want you to copy exactly. I just want you to be inspired and aim that when you're brainstorming
ideas, don't just look for one, but for several. For example, 10 content. It's better to spend a few days finding these potential ideas then have the team run out of content. Once you understand everything I've
explained previously, let's move on to the point about thumbnails and titles, since they're more important than the content itself. Initially, if you can't get people to click on your video, it doesn't matter how good the video is, how well it's edited,
the voiceover, or the script. If you can't get them to watch your video, they'll never see it. So, I'm going to explain the rules I followed to make effective thumbnails. The first point is Clarity. You have to
understand that the message should be understood in less than 2 seconds, meaning that the viewer sees the thumbnail and already understands what it's about.  1. Video Two: Contrast and eye-catching colors. Use eye-catching colors to grab the
audience that falls into the YouTube fit. 2. Few elements. Don't overload the thumbnail with too much text or images. What I personally did was make sure the message was very clear
without having to add many elements. 3. Eye-catching facial expressions. Personally, on this channel, no face appeared in the thumbnail, but I'm thumbnail from one of my channels so you can see that I always use faces with
expressions, since what it does is attract the viewer's attention much more. If you notice, Mr. Beast, the biggest channel, in all the videos appears with angry faces, etc. I want you to look at these two examples that I'm going to show you
on the screen. If you notice, it's the same idea, the same title, but the thumbnail is very different, and I want you to see the results of one thumbnail versus the these steps, you have to keep something in mind: you have to do what
works within your niche; that is, don't try to invent things.  Don't try new things, but leverage the experiences of all those people who have tried things and had success. You also have to keep this in mind: if you've uploaded four videos and two have faces in the
two don't, and the thumbnails without faces have performed much better, identify that and publish all the videos with 'm talking about throughout this video is outsource the thumbnail creation.
But if you can't do that, I recommend Cana's tool, since I've used it myself. I've see, I've also obtained very good results without having to outsource.
Now let's talk about scripts. I want to emphasize that I don't have time to write scripts myself these days, but I also started by writing 're at a point where you can't delegate that, don't worry, it's a matter of
process. I delegate this script creation process to a screenwriter, who is the person in charge of writing everything.  It's important to references, otherwise they won't create a good script for your video. In the case
of this channel, the scriptwriter has relied heavily on the ChatGPT tool to extend my videos because, as I mentioned, I'm uploading videos over two hours long. I also want to emphasize that you shouldn't
create scripts from scratch with ChatGPT; they simply use the tool to improve those scripts. To delegate the scriptwriting process to this channel, I met personally with the scriptwriter and
explained how to proceed step by step, when to retain the calls to action. By calls to action, I mean knowing when to tell the audience that they subscribed to my channel
to reach 1,000 subscribers more quickly. When you start scriptwriter; you have to be on top of that person. What I personally did on this channel was understand which scripts needed to be... Do it exactly and then
communicate it to that person because even if that person is the expert, if you do n't know how to do it, you'll never know how to delegate it correctly. And now that you understand how I created this whole channel, it's time to
reveal how the first videos were and the income I'm generating. In such a short time, as you can see, on February 23rd of this year, 2025, I published the first video, and within the first few days, it quickly entered the
algorithm. What I mean by that is that YouTube detected which audience it should recommend these videos to. I mean that this process isn't so fast because I've opened many channels, and each channel is a new world.
That is to say, each channel takes its own time to enter the algorithm; the average is this channel, it's a channel I opened recently. A week ago, on March 12th, I published the first video, and I haven't gotten many views. Since I
started it, if you look, on the first day I got three views, the second seven, three, six, and compared to that, I went from 2 to 352. 376 to 16600, but as I said, this
isn't normal. Now let's see how much this channel is generating for me. As you know, YouTube takes time to approve channel monetization, and with this channel, it took two days to approve it. Just because of this minor issue, I already
lost more than 600, since the channel would have made more than 300 per day in the first few days. These are the channel's graphs. As you can see, 257 per day. To show you that these are dollars and not some
strange currency, I'm going to go to settings here so you can see that the currency is set to dollars. I have it set to dollars because, since I pay the team in dollars, it's easier for me to compare what I earn with what I pay in the exact currency I use for transactions. As of
today, the channel is generating 00 per day, and what I'm doing is opening this same channel, this same niche, in other languages ​​to further expand my network of automated channels. To be honest, very few people achieve what I've just
We've achieved this not by luck, but by having the right knowledge. Like him, who month in less than 90 days and is now generating over $6,000 a month, like
Nicole, who reached $5,000 a month in just under 3 months. These people have achieved these results thanks to two things: first, by putting in the effort and working hard every day, and second, by being part of the
academy, one of the top 10. So, if you'd also like to learn the skill of generating over $2,000 a month, go to the first link in the description, and there we can see how we can help you. See you in the next
video, and remember, the sky's the limit!