--- title: 'YouTube Affiliate Marketing Explained: Complete Beginner to Pro Masterclass (2026)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=q4AGJ3_SC-o' video_id: 'q4AGJ3_SC-o' date: 2026-07-07 duration_sec: 0 --- # YouTube Affiliate Marketing Explained: Complete Beginner to Pro Masterclass (2026) > Source: [YouTube Affiliate Marketing Explained: Complete Beginner to Pro Masterclass (2026)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q4AGJ3_SC-o) ## Summary This video explains how to earn money on YouTube through affiliate marketing, covering both traditional Amazon affiliate methods and newer YouTube Shopping features. The creator demonstrates with a case study of earning ₹64,000 from 300,000 short views, primarily through affiliate commissions rather than ad revenue. ### Key Points - **Revenue breakdown from shorts** [00:15] — Total revenue from 300,000 short views is ₹64,000, with only ₹18.70 from YouTube Premium, ₹151.76 from short feed ads, and ₹64,748.23 from affiliate marketing. - **Affiliate marketing is key** [01:09] — Relying solely on ad revenue, YouTube Premium, or Adsense is a mistake; affiliate marketing is the primary income source. - **What is affiliate marketing** [02:06] — Affiliate marketing means earning commission when viewers buy products through your links from platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa, etc. - **Amazon affiliate method** [02:51] — For products exclusive to Amazon, create an Amazon affiliate account, link products in long video descriptions, and earn commission on sales within 30 days, including other products bought in the same session. - **Third-party affiliate for digital products** [06:09] — For digital products like hosting, domains, or apps, use third-party affiliate programs (e.g., hosting companies) and include affiliate links in descriptions. - **YouTube Shopping affiliate** [07:06] — YouTube's official affiliate program works with Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa, and Purple. You can tag products in both long and short videos, and AI may auto-tag products from old videos. - **AI auto-tagging** [08:47] — AI can automatically tag products in your old videos if they are available on supported platforms, generating additional commission without manual effort. - **Requirements for YouTube Shopping** [10:09] — Your channel must be monetized (500 subscribers, 3000 watch hours for long videos, or 3 million short views in 90 days) to access YouTube Shopping. - **How to tag products** [11:47] — When uploading or editing a video, use the 'Tag products' option to select products from supported platforms. Commission rates vary (e.g., 5%, 0.4%, 3.5%, 2%, 17.2% for microphones). - **Payment for YouTube Shopping** [13:38] — Commission from YouTube Shopping is shown in video revenue and paid monthly along with YouTube earnings. ### Conclusion Affiliate marketing, especially through YouTube Shopping, is a powerful way to monetize YouTube content beyond ad revenue. Tagging relevant products in videos can significantly boost earnings. ## Transcript is 1 minute 10 seconds long. The views it has received are 30,000. Now let me show you its revenue. Here, if I go into the revenue, then the Here, if I go into the revenue, then the total revenue we have made on 3 lakh short views is ₹64000 and if I tell you this in detail, then short. Now let me show you the twist in this. Let's go down and here you can see that only ₹18.70 is made from YouTube Premium. Only ₹151.76 was made from the ads that came in the short feed and the big money that was made, ₹64748.23, was working on YouTube today and depend only on the income you earn from short feed ads, YouTube Premium or Google Adsense, then brother, you are making a big mistake. As of brother, you are making a big mistake. As of cannot be earned through any other method on YouTube. I have been using the affiliate program on YouTube for the last 8-9 years and I earn money every month through affiliate from every video. However, the methods of affiliate marketing on YouTube have gradually changed. So, I am going to If you want to earn money from YouTube through affiliate marketing, then today 's master class is for you. If you like it then like it and also subscribe to the channel because I always keep making such videos for you. See, there are currently two ways to do affiliate marketing on YouTube. There is an old method, I am earning money from that and I am still earning money from it. The video I uploaded 5 years ago is still making money. And there is a completely new way through which a lot of people are making money. I will talk about both methods. Before that, let us understand what affiliate marketing is and how you earn from it. If you are a beginner YouTuber and you don't know then let me tell you from the beginning. Look, there is a simple funda. Affiliate marketing means that through your video, any of your audience buys a product. Whether he does it through Amazon, whether he does it through Flipkart, whether he does it through MNTRa, whether he does it through Perpl , whether he does it through NYKA. You get commission for that. The commission varies according to the product category commission varies according to the product category and it also keeps changing day by day and month by month in different sessions. First of all, we will and it also keeps changing day by day and month by month in different sessions. First of all, we will strong method, Amazon Affiliate. How does this work? Let's talk about this first. Look what happens now is that there are a lot of products that products that are only available on Amazon. They are not available on Flipkart, MNTRa and NY's Purple. That means it is available only on Amazon. That's where the audience can buy it. So if you make a video about such a product. Here I am talking about long videos. This does not work in case of short. So in the case of long videos, if you make any such video in which you talk about that product or show the product. For example, this is one of my water bottles. If I talk about it in this video and show it in the video. Like right now I am saying that brother this is my 3 litre bottle. I finish two bottles. If it is summer then I drink 6 litres of water daily. This bottle is quite nice. There is measurement here. You can see how much water you have drunk. That's all I want to say. Now suppose this bottle is available only on Amazon. Not available on other platforms. So what will you do? First of all you have to create an affiliate account on Amazon. To create affiliate on Amazon, you must have a YouTube channel. Or you exist on some other social media platform. Only then Only then your account will be approved there. OK clear? What do you do now? If you also want to learn how to create an affiliate account on Amazon ? I have already made a proper video on that and uploaded it on my channel. You will find its link in the description. Go and see that first and Go and see that first and that I talked about this bottle and it is only available on Amazon. So I will go to Amazon and it is only available on Amazon. So I will go to Amazon and and I will put this link in my long video, that is, like this video, in this video also you will get the link of this bottle, I will put that affiliate. I put that in. So now if any audience goes to the description, they will click on that link and buy the product. If you buy this bottle, I will get commission for it. There are some more things in this which I will explain to you in detail. Suppose the audience clicked on the bottle link and went to Amazon and liked some other bottle there. He did not say goodbye to this one. If you buy that other one, buy that other one, I will get commission for that too. You should keep this in mind. Even if, suppose, they add this bottle to their ad cart and buy it anytime within the next 30 days, I will still get commission for it. Apart from this, if he buys four more products, I will also get commission. There is a small catch in this 30 days, let me tell you that. For example, if someone clicks on my link and then clicks on the link of some other social media influencer and reaches Amazon again, then he will get it. That means only the last one gets it. Keep this in mind. But I did it hand to hand. If you this in mind. But I did it hand to hand. If you buy some product, then you get commission for all the products and the money you get, you get it in the Amazon Affiliate account that you have created, you enter your bank account there, you enter your PAN card, this commission of yours comes in that bank account, every month Amazon makes the payment [music]. This is an old method which is still valid and is still in use and people still earn money from it. Now let's talk about the new method which is even more powerful. Before that, let's talk about one more method. Let's say you're an Uber that only talks about digital products. You do only talks about digital products. You do talk about digital products. Like let's talk about an app. Let's talk about a website. Let's talk about a hosting domain. So they also I bought hosting from here. I bought the domain from here and this is how I created the website. If you want to create a website then you will have to buy hosting and domain. That link in the link description is an affiliate link and if someone buys a domain or hosting by clicking on it, then the money comes into our affiliate account and then it comes into the bank. So this is third party affiliate. Now let us talk about the official affiliate of YouTube from which I just showed you the earning of Rs 64,000 in the case of short. Now see, as of today, the official YouTube affiliates are basically linked to four platforms. is available on Flipkart, MNTRa, NYKA and PerP, then you marketing. Let me explain this also from the beginning. There are a lot of things in this case. Works on long videos too. It also works on short videos. AI will also help you in this and it has some policies and some guidelines. You will have to follow that too. First of all, let us talk about long videos and then let us talk about short ones. So look, whether you are making a long video or a short video. It doesn't matter. Just the product should be available on Flipkart, MNTR, Nykaa and PerP. For example, if I talk about this comb and say that brother, this comb is a very good comb. You can take this with you while travelling. It is quite light weight. You can groom your hair very well with this. It doesn't talk that much. Just talked for a second or did not even show this product. I just showed its photo and said that this is my favourite comb. If it is available on Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa and PerP then you can directly tag it as a product through YouTube Shopping. You can do it in long videos as well as short videos. And if the Apart from this, if some other products are also bought along with this, then you get commission for that also. Same as I told you on Amazon. I will also explain to you how to tag this product. Before that, let me tell you that AI also helps you in this. Many times it is also happening that suppose you had uploaded a video a year ago and talked about a product in it and that product is available on all these four platforms, on Flipkart, on mnta, on nkaa and on purple, then AI will see that this product has been talked about in this video, then AI will automatically tag the product there, you will not even know and your earning will also start, recently I saw that friend, I suddenly earned very well on some of my old videos, so I saw that I went and saw that AI had tagged the products there and those products were getting sold and my earning started there also. In case of short, you tag the product. In the case of shorts, it is believed that 35 to 40% of the people who want to buy the product, we talk about short, suppose I am talking about comb and I have tagged this comb. So somewhere in the ss it appears as a sticker as you are seeing right now and by clicking there the audience can buy it. I am also going to explain to you how much commission you get on this. Before that, let us understand Before that, let us understand tagging products in this direct YouTube shopping. For this, it is a simple thing that your channel should be monetized. There simple thing that your channel should be monetized. There shopping, it will work. You need 500 rubles to monetize half. Whether you do it through shorts or long videos. If you watch long videos, it will take you 3000 hours of watch time. And if you do it through SSH then there should be 3 million short views on your channel in the last 90 days. Only then your channel gets half monetized and your YouTube shopping starts. Once YouTube Shopping is started, you can add products directly to your shots and longs. Even AI will tag automatically. You get commission if you get tagged in both ways. This is the policy. Understand its policy first. The policy is that suppose there is a product about which you neither talked in your video nor showed that product, your video has nothing to do with that product, then showed that product, your video has nothing to do with that product, then product will be tagged but you may face risk in it, this feature of yours of appelate can be taken away, the channel can be demonetized, about which you are talking in the video or showing any product or that product should be relevant to your video. You can tag only that product in YouTube Shopping through affiliate. The video that I showed you in the beginning was of a mattress. I had made a video of a flow mattress I had made a video of a flow mattress and in that I had tagged only flow matrices. But when I look at the earnings, I see what sales have been made. So the Flo mattresses that I tagged were sold. Apart from that, many other things of different categories have been sold and I have received commission for all of them. Now let's talk about how we can tag the product. Look at the side, I am explaining in shorts. Whether you are uploading a long video or a short video, you can tag it in that too. And YouTube Shopping Monetize your channel is half. It's a simple thing. This option will appear whenever you upload a new video and you will also get this option in old videos. You just have to go to edit. As soon as you click on Edit, when you option comes up and now when I am editing it, this type of option comes up. This includes suggested tag products. You click on this. Whatever you click on this, the product will appear here. You will also get commission here that also get commission here that you will get 5% commission on this. You will get 0.4 on this. You will get 3.5% commission on this. You will get 3.5 on this. You will get 3.5 on this. You will also see 2% commission written here on this. Now suppose I want to tag any product of my choice here. For example, let's say I write Mike here. I can have any mic from any company. I can also write the name of that brand. So like now this one is Mike. Here you will get 17.2% commission on this mic. If then I will just click on plus and click on done. And look, this product of mine has been tagged and as soon as I save it here, this product will be tagged because now I have not shown this product in this video, so deleting it in front of you, the rest I have taught you how you can tag the product. So, whatever videos you upload, whatever product you talk about, tag the product and brother, you will earn a good amount and let us and brother, you will earn a good amount and let us I told you that your bank account is charged on Amazon. Whatever commission is earned there comes into your bank every month. If you talk about any digital product, any website, hosting, domain, then there also you have an affiliate account on the same site and you get commission there also. But in case of YouTube Shopping, whatever commission you earn will be shown in the revenue of the video. As I showed you in the beginning, when this revenue comes into your bank along with the YouTube earnings, it is sent to your bank every month just like the YouTube revenue is sent. So in today's time, if you want to earn more money from YouTube then definitely tag the product. If you have any doubt regarding this then write it in the comment section. I think in this master class I have told you everything related to appet on YouTube, policies etc. Still, if you have any doubt, please write it down. See you in the next video with a new topic. Till then, Jai Hind.