--- title: 'Which Platform Is Best for Earning Money: Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube?' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqex3oYFhvo' video_id: 'hqex3oYFhvo' date: 2026-07-11 duration_sec: 580 --- # Which Platform Is Best for Earning Money: Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube? > Source: [Which Platform Is Best for Earning Money: Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqex3oYFhvo) ## Summary The video compares three major social media platforms—Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube—for earning money. It explains the monetization criteria, ease of earning, and long-term potential of each platform, concluding that while YouTube is the hardest to start, it offers the most stable and lucrative income over time. ### Key Points - **Three Platforms for Earning** [00:02] — YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram are the three big platforms where you can earn money from social media. - **Instagram Monetization Difficulty** [00:43] — Instagram has no direct monetization rule; earning requires many followers and quality content. Only 2-4% of influencers actually earn money. - **Facebook Monetization Changes** [01:47] — Facebook previously required 5000 followers and 6000 minutes watch time, but now monetization is invite-only. It pays for photos, stories, and videos, but is very strict. - **YouTube as the King** [03:24] — YouTube is the most difficult to earn from initially, but once established, it provides stable monthly payments (every 21st) and better long-term security. - **YouTube Payment and Security** [04:04] — Minimum payout is $100, paid on the 21st of each month. YouTube gives four chances (strikes) before termination, offering more security than other platforms. - **Long-Term Branding on YouTube** [05:25] — YouTube allows creators to build strong personal branding, leading to celebrity status and opportunities like web series and movies. - **Higher Earnings per View on YouTube** [06:37] — A million views on Facebook earns $2-4, while on YouTube it earns $100-500, depending on the niche. - **Cross-Platform Content Strategy** [07:31] — YouTube content can be repurposed for Facebook and Instagram, allowing creators to earn from all three platforms with one effort. - **Skills Required for YouTube** [08:11] — Success on YouTube requires learning SEO, thumbnail design, and video editing, which are less critical on other platforms. ### Conclusion YouTube is the best platform for long-term, stable income and personal branding, despite being the hardest to start. The creator recommends learning YouTube skills through free content or a paid course. ## Transcript that if you want to earn money from social media, then there are three big platforms from where you can earn money. The first is YouTube, the second is Facebook and the third is Instagram. Now friends, there must be a lot of doubt in your mind that which platform which is the easiest to earn money from and from where we will be able to grow quickly and earn money quickly. Because being active on all three platforms is a somewhere in your mind there must be a doubt as to which platform should we focus more on. or do it on Facebook. So you all should watch today's video completely. All your platform will give you more benefits. From where can you people earn money more easily? new to the channel, please subscribe. Let's start today's video. Now friends, out of these three platforms, first of all we will talk about Instagram. make reels, then is it easy to earn money here or how to earn money that there is no monetization rule on Instagram that if you fulfill any criteria like if is no monetization rule on Instagram that if you fulfill any criteria like if Monetization will happen. Then if you upload the reel and the ad comes, you will get money. Nothing like that. There is ad comes, you will get money. Nothing like that. There is When can you earn money from Instagram? When you have more followers and you upload quality content. Like someone increases a lot of followers. Someone is making a video from this and making a funny video or a meme from somewhere and posting it. So are they able to make money? Can't earn. I would like to tell all of you that there are influencers on Instagram, but I feel that only two to four% of them are able to earn money. Everyone else is gaining followers, making reels happening but they are not able to earn money. Only those who have valuable content, face value, branding, quality content and millions of followers are able to earn money on Instagram. So this means that earning money on Instagram is not that easy. Isn't it? It is gain followers and that too with quality content. If you pick up and put anything here and there like mango, tamarind, garlic, you will not be able to earn money. The first one is done. Secondly, you How can you earn money here? Friends, to earn money on Facebook, first of all, there is no criteria here now. Earlier the criteria on Facebook was that you had to have 5000 followers and 60000 watch time. 6000 minutes. Then you could apply monetization to whatever you have. Then it would get monetized. Then you can earn money from there by uploading reels, photos, videos, stories etc. is the only platform where you get money by uploading photos, by uploading stories and also on long videos. On any other platform, you do get paid only for videos. Shorts or longs. You don't get money for photos etc. But on Facebook you also get money on photos. But at present Facebook has become very strict. On which issue ? There are many creators who have millions of followers on Facebook but the page is not monetized. got it because there is no criteria for you to get content monetization that if you will be able to apply. No, You cannot apply on your own. Facebook will provide it to you on its own. Now what happens in this that when will Facebook feel like it? When your page comes to his notice, he will give you the monetization feature. But if you get monetized on Facebook in some way, then you can earn money. It is easy to earn money because you can earn money even by uploading photos. You Look how many dollars are made. $10 becomes $10 per like, which is stories and long videos as well. I page is monetized and I have more than a million followers. So here also I am earning money but not everyone is able to earn it right now. Now comes friends, the biggest king of social media, which is called the king, whose name is YouTube. Earning money on YouTube is not easy. It is not easy. Not easy at all. YouTube is the most difficult to earn money from. But friends, what happens here is that once you build your channel , the foundation becomes strong, somehow by working hard and sweating blood, if you somehow gain subscribers and get fixed payment here. That too with fixed time which is not available on any other platform. You get payment here every 21st, the minimum amount should be $100. If you earn $100 through ads, then the money which we get on salary basis, it seems as if brother is doing a government job, within two to three days the money comes to the bank account, you do one thing here is security, privacy is the thing we are talking about, what happens on other platforms, what happens on Facebook etc., that strike etc., the video gets removed, first of all do you Disables monetization. This is a big problem here. What happens on Instagram? If you upload a wrong video or reel, the reel will be removed and the reach of the page will go down. All this stuff doesn't happen on YouTube. On YouTube, you you make the first mistake, you will get a warning. The second you do the After getting three strikes in the fourth, get a chance. YouTube gives you the opportunity to directly community guidelines, then it is possible that many people's channels are getting terminated. At present, it also happens directly without any strike, but that happens very rarely, it does not happen with everyone. So friends, these are the facilities on YouTube. One special thing about YouTube is that here you have to work hard and you cannot earn money easily, but if you sustain here for a long term, then you will be able to earn money for a long time. The you can do it best on YouTube only. Let me give you an example. He was come into the category of celebrity. Bhavan Bam whose name is Bibi's brother. At one time he used to now he is not active on YouTube. Why do you know that the web series is coming now? Whether it is on Amazon Prime or comes on Hotstar or they make their own web series. The movie is also about to release. You will see it coming very soon. So think about it, a YouTuber, his future is so bright that you can even become a celebrity by being a YouTuber. You will get the status that a celebrity gets. Because brother, people call YouTuber as YouTuber only. is such a creator whom people call a hero today, you people do not know him by the name of YouTuber. from YouTube. Similarly, there are many creators who have created their branding on YouTube which you cannot create on any other platform. Like who has created his branding to such a high level. There extinct. You may have 5 million followers on Instagram but that branding cannot be yours. If you you will have a different value in the market. The special thing here is that promotions are also create a good personal branding, you will get so many brand promotions from which you people are earning money on YouTube in many ways. You can earn through affiliate , you can earn through sponsor, you can earn through ads. So if you compare YouTube with other platforms, you will see that it is most difficult to earn money on YouTube. But when you start earning brother, you will not be able to keep the money. This is the thing. Because the money that YouTube Friends, when you get millions of views on Facebook, only then you can earn $2 to $4. But if you get a million views on YouTube, you will easily earn a minimum of $100 to $50. If there is an earning category, then brother, making a video related to the stock market, making a video related to the share market. So it is difficult on YouTube but it is also the best. There is security and You will be able to create personal branding. There are many things that keep your future bright. Will be able to do a lot. If one channel grows, you can create two channels. If it becomes two then make it four. At present I am running four channels of my own. Manoj De Manoj De 2.0 Manoj De ? From a channel. Currently there are four channels. Dollars come from all four channels. Dollars come every month. Promotions come on all channels. Isn't it ? And it is because of YouTube that my Facebook is also running. This is also a benefit on YouTube. If you become a YouTuber , if you become a successful YouTuber, then all your other platforms can earn money from all three platforms. And one more thing, if you create videos and content on YouTube , then you are long videos on YouTube, make them short and upload them. Make a long video on YouTube and post it on Facebook. Meaning you can use one content everywhere. very difficult to make money on all platforms by creating a reel. So these are the benefits. Rest of the friends, it is difficult to earn money on YouTube. Why? Because here you have to learn three things. First SEO. YouTube SEO Search Engine Optimization. You will have to learn how to upload the video properly put description, how to do SEO. Second, you need to learn how to make thumbnails. You will have to If you don't have money then you cannot get it made from an editor. If you want to make it yourself then you will have to learn video editing. It doesn't matter that much on other platforms. saying something. Even if you upload it without editing, it will work. It will work on Facebook too. But it will not work on YouTube. You will have to edit YouTube properly. You have to do perfect. Only then can you get views. Now friends, this is the problem. Here you have to first learn YouTube properly. Only then can you become a successful YouTuber. videos available on the platform. You can watch it from my channel. There is a lot of free content on YouTube. However, if you need a personal guide to learn YouTube well, Whose name is Creators Launchpad, I have a YouTube course whose price is only ₹199. If you make one time payment here. You also get customer support. You will get A to Z learning about YouTube. All videos are Plus you get customer support. If you face any problem, you can directly contact my team, can check it by going to my link. There YouTube Academy application, by going there and downloading it, you can buy the course directly from there. learn for free then follow my channel. 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