--- title: 'American YouTube from A to Z: How to Make Money in 2026' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=OjsTpIOzVXs' video_id: 'OjsTpIOzVXs' date: 2026-07-13 duration_sec: 413 --- # American YouTube from A to Z: How to Make Money in 2026 > Source: [American YouTube from A to Z: How to Make Money in 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OjsTpIOzVXs) ## Summary This video explains American YouTube, how to make money from it, and how to set up monetization, especially for creators from Russia facing sanctions. The creator shares insights on high earnings from US/UK views and offers a step-by-step guide to getting started. ### Key Points - **What is American YouTube?** [00:27] — American YouTube is the same platform as regular YouTube, but content is in English and targeted at US/UK audiences, which pay higher ad rates. - **How YouTube pays** [01:18] — YouTube pays for views through monetization, which requires 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours (or 10 million shorts views). - **Monetization for Russians** [02:28] — Russian creators can enable monetization by using foreign Adsense accounts through affiliate networks, which withdraw money to Russian cards or crypto. - **Earnings on American YouTube** [03:23] — US/UK views pay $4-$13 per 1,000 views, compared to pennies in the CIS region. A million views can earn $4,000-$13,000. - **Steps to start** [04:44] — Create a channel, choose a popular niche in English, upload videos, enable monetization (via affiliate network if in Russia), and scale up. - **AI-generated videos** [06:03] — Neural networks can generate videos that monetize similarly to regular videos, making it a goldmine opportunity. ### Conclusion American YouTube offers significantly higher earnings than CIS YouTube, especially with AI-generated content. The creator promotes his Telegram channel for detailed guidance. ## Transcript YouTube is and how to make money from it. I haven't found a specific video where someone explains American YouTube from A to Z to beginners , so I'll be the this video, you'll have a full understanding of American YouTube, how to set up monetization. You can I have a network of YouTube channels with a million subscribers. Let's rush. So, what is American YouTube anyway? This is exactly the same YouTube as you are used to seeing it. So, you're watching my video right now, yes, we're on YouTube now, search bar, we see some video in English, and we'll end up on the foreign side of YouTube. That is, it is a single platform. There is no division here into American YouTube, Russian YouTube, Spanish YouTube, and German YouTube. No, it's all on one platform. It's simple, but videos made in American audience are watched by Americans, so to speak, and therefore it can all be called the American side of YouTube. For example, I'm currently speaking in Russian about a topic that's currently popular in the CIS countries, so we're currently, so to speak, on the CIS YouTube channel. I think we've sorted this out. I hope no one will write to me in the comments about Let's move on to the next point. How do they even make money here? Where does the income come from? As you know, YouTube pays for views. That is, your videos are watched, YouTube shows ads and, in a way, shares the income from these ads with you. This is called monetization. Monetization is activated from 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of viewing. Subscribers, I think it’s clear what this is, but what are viewing hours, roughly speaking, this is the time spent on your channel. That means viewers must spend 4,000 hours on your channel in total. So, let's say you have a video that's 1 hour long and 4,000 people have watched it , so your channel gets 4,000 you make, say, shorts, these short videos, you need to have 1,000 subscribers and 10 million views of these shorts from interested people. It's not that easy to get, of course, but if you make a couple of fly, they can really change the fate of the channel and get those 10 million. That's it, we've sorted that out. Let's move on. Okay, next point. Now people from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and so on are watching me. And speaking to viewers now, specifically from Russia, you have sanctions, which means you can’t probably wondering: "How do you even create channels in Russia? How do you if everything is supposedly banned, everything is under sanctions?" And other viewers there from other countries, please skip ahead now, because this currently only applies to viewers from Russia. How to enable monetization in your country? Look, you just need to fulfill the conditions. And then you need to connect Adsense, but not your own, but a foreign one. There are separate companies, called affiliate networks or media networks, that connect a foreign AS to your account and then withdraw money through it and, minus interest, transfer it to your Russian card or to your crypto account, wherever you choose. That's how it all works, somehow. That is, you simply withdraw this money through other companies and there are no everything is done calmly like this. And here we come to the main feature of American YouTube. As you know, in the Russian-speaking segment they are currently paying literally pennies. After the sanctions, Russian viewing is paid zero. And YouTubers survive purely on views from other countries, such as Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and so on. And they also seem to pay little. And it turns out that with monetization, almost nothing really comes out of it. And they survive by inserting all sorts of different advertising integrations into their very existence. Well, that is to say, as you understand, there is not much money there. But on American YouTube they pay really serious money. Your views come from the USA and the UK. These are some of the highest paid countries. That means paid countries. That means they pay really a lot for viewing from these countries . To give you an idea, they pay an average of $4 per 1,000 views. But there are all sorts of different niches, that is, matics, which are more mature, there is a more mature audience, and there they pay up to $13 per 1,000 views, so that you just understand the scale. For a million views you the scale. For a million views you get from $4,000 to $13,000. Can you even imagine how serious the amounts involved are? This is the main feature of American YouTube. That is, this is a truly very interesting direction, promising for the twenty-sixth year, which will live for a very long time and, most importantly, will be profitable. And let me explain in a few words how this all looks in practice. The first thing you do is create a channel. [music] There are a lot of different myths, like the idea of creating a channel with a VPN, or something like that, for all sorts of foreign numbers, but in fact, it's all "Create Channel" button, create it, and that's it, basically. The next step is to choose Steam Wool, American YouTube, we look at what niches are popular there, what's trending there in America right now, what they watch there, and, of course, in English. Then we film these videos, upload them and gradually gain views. We are enabling monetization. If you're from any other former CIS country, you simply click the "Connect Monetization" button, fill out the required documents, and find all the instructions there. If you're from Russia, you contact some affiliate network and say, monetization." They connect monetization for you, and then they will monetization for you, and then they will withdraw it to you. Well, then the next step is to simply continue publishing videos and earn coins. And that's all, basically. Then you can make even more channels, expand all of this, scale it up and increase the sums, as it were, more, more, more. This is very promising and will live for a very long time. And therefore this is truly the most direction for the twenty-sixth year. Moreover, now is the era of neural networks, and it is not even necessary to film videos. That is, they can be generated through neural networks, and they are just as easily monetized as regular videos. and they pay, in principle, more or less the same. So this is a real gold mine. You need to go to American YouTube. In more detail, which niche to choose, how to film it, which neural networks to use, how to use these neural networks in general, what to enter into them to generate videos, how to set up monetization in a week, how to get All this, this, this has been in my Telegram channel for a long time. The link is in the description and, as it were, in the pinned comment. Feel free to visit if you are interested in learning this information . Oleg Alexandrovich was with you.