[00:00] The YouTube Shopping affiliate program lets&nbsp; you easily tag products from a variety of&nbsp;&nbsp; brands and retailers – giving viewers a seamless&nbsp; and trusted shopping experience and letting you&nbsp;&nbsp; earn commission and reach new audiences.&nbsp; Let’s walk through how the program works,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:14] eligibility requirements, how to tag&nbsp; products, and how to track your earnings. When you tag products in your videos, Shorts,&nbsp; or live streams, a shopping tag appears,&nbsp;&nbsp; on all viewer devices. To be eligible for the&nbsp; YouTube Shopping affiliate program, you must:
[00:31] Be in the YouTube Partner Program Not be an official artist or Made for Kids channel&nbsp; Be in an eligible country And follow all community guidelines There are two ways to tag products on&nbsp; your content: automatically and manually.
[00:46] You can save time by letting YouTube help you&nbsp; find, tag and timestamp products automatically&nbsp;&nbsp; using AI and your video information. You can&nbsp; always choose to edit, remove, or add tags to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:58] auto-tagged content in YouTube Studio. To turn on automatic tagging:&nbsp; Choose “channel,” then “Advanced settings” Scroll down to “Automatic Product Tagging”&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:10] and turn the setting on Click save Manual tagging lets you search and&nbsp; select products to tag in your content.&nbsp; You can tag products during the upload&nbsp; flow from mobile or desktop. From mobile,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:22] at the “Add details” step go to “Tag Products”.&nbsp; From desktop, at the “Video Elements” step, go to&nbsp;"Tag Products”. To add tags to existing products, go&nbsp; to the video details page from mobile or desktop.&nbsp;
[01:35] You can search by product name, URL, or&nbsp; filter by a specific seller, then add the&nbsp;&nbsp; products you want to tag. If you frequently tag&nbsp; the same products, save them by tapping the Save&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:47] icon. You can easily find all your saved&nbsp; products again by clicking the Save filter chip.&nbsp; We also recommend using Grouped Products&nbsp; when available, which let you tag one&nbsp;&nbsp; item that encompasses all its variations— like&nbsp; different sizes and colors. This helps you avoid&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:03] "out-of-stock" issues, keeping your tag fresh for&nbsp; longer and giving your audience the flexibility to&nbsp;&nbsp; select the specific version that’s right for them. When tagging from a desktop, you can also add&nbsp;&nbsp; timestamps to ensure your tags show at the&nbsp; right moment, helping increase engagement. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:18] that even though you can only add timestamps on&nbsp; desktop, they’ll show to viewers on all surfaces. You can also tag products in your live streams&nbsp; and feature a tagged product by pinning it to&nbsp;&nbsp; the stream. To tag products for your live&nbsp; stream from a desktop, in Live Control Room&nbsp;
[02:33] Select Stream or Manage Click the Shopping tab&nbsp; To remove a product, click&nbsp; Trash next to the product.&nbsp; To pin a tagged product for your stream,&nbsp; select an item to promote. Click or drag&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:50] it to the “Preview” panel, then click&nbsp; “Pin Product.” For a mobile live stream,&nbsp;&nbsp; you can tap the shopping button, then&nbsp; pin the product you want to feature. Next, here are some things to keep in mind&nbsp; and best practices when tagging products.
[03:03] Only tag products if they’re easily&nbsp; identifiable and featured prominently, or&nbsp;&nbsp; if they’re meaningfully related to your content.&nbsp; And only tag if the products are used as intended,&nbsp;&nbsp; or you’re using the product in a safe way&nbsp; that aligns with the manufacturer’s intent.&nbsp;
[03:16] When making new videos, remember to direct&nbsp; your viewers to your tagged products&nbsp; And consider tagging products&nbsp; in both new and existing&nbsp;&nbsp; videos – especially your most popular ones Fans trust your guidance. Be sure to tag&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:29] products that you actually use and love to give&nbsp; your audience high quality recommendations.&nbsp; Also note that you may still be able to go through&nbsp; the flow of tagging products, even if they won’t&nbsp;&nbsp; show to viewers in cases where your content&nbsp; is made for kids, contains claimed content,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:44] or other restrictions. So be sure to familiarize&nbsp; yourself with these restrictions ahead of time. Here are a few things to keep in&nbsp; mind when it comes to commissions: You’ll earn commission on the entire basket&nbsp; size - so if a viewer clicks on your product&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:58] tag and ends up buying other items, you’ll&nbsp; receive commissions for everything they&nbsp;&nbsp; purchase during that transaction. You’ll receive payment through your&nbsp;&nbsp; AdSense account – typically 60-120 days&nbsp; after purchase to account for returns,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:11] and AdSense payment timelines. If a&nbsp; viewer returns an item they purchased,&nbsp;&nbsp; the commissions you earn will be reversed. Some brands offer different conversion windows.&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, you can earn commissions for up to 30&nbsp; days after a viewer clicks on your tagged product,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:26] as long as that viewer didn’t click on&nbsp; someone else’s affiliate link or product tag.&nbsp; if viewers click from Affiliate&nbsp; products tagged in your content.
[04:38] Finally, let’s walk through how to track your&nbsp; earnings. You can find earnings data by going&nbsp;&nbsp; to YouTube Studio, then the “Earn” tab, then&nbsp; “Shopping.” Here you’ll see an overview of your&nbsp;&nbsp; shopping analytics including revenue, product&nbsp; clicks, number of orders, and total sales.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:55] Hit “View more” to see deeper insights like your&nbsp; top affiliate products and top earning content. For more info on the YouTube Shopping&nbsp; Affiliate Program, check out the links&nbsp;&nbsp; in the description below. Thanks for watching!