--- title: 'Monetization in Russia in 2026: My Story and What Works' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=LN5zEsexbEI' video_id: 'LN5zEsexbEI' date: 2026-07-19 duration_sec: 525 channel: 'Николай GreenMan. Бизнес на минималках. ' --- # Monetization in Russia in 2026: My Story and What Works > Source: [Monetization in Russia in 2026: My Story and What Works](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LN5zEsexbEI) ## Summary The video discusses monetization opportunities in Russia in 2026, focusing on the creator's personal experience with YouTube, TikTok, Zen, and VK, and introduces Yandex Games as a viable alternative for earning money through game publishing. ### Key Points - **Creator's Background** [00:03] — The creator has 350-360k YouTube subscribers, 800k TikTok subscribers, and previously earned from monetization on multiple platforms until it was cut off. - **Current Monetization Method** [01:01] — The creator now makes money on YouTube by withdrawing funds through a friend in Europe, but finds it inconvenient. - **Alternative: Yandex Games** [02:06] — The creator suggests creating and publishing games on Yandex Games as a new monetization method, noting that Yandex pays in rubles and is reliable. - **Game Development Skills** [03:26] — Skills can be acquired quickly (a couple of days) to modify or create games using constructors, similar to learning video editing. - **Yandex Promotion** [04:51] — Yandex promotes new games for a week, giving them visibility. Performance depends on user engagement. - **Game Ideas** [05:34] — Simple games like interactive comics or choose-your-own-adventure stories can be created using AI tools like ChatGPT. - **Support and Earnings** [06:27] — The creator has programmers who help with advertising and moderation. He earned 1 million rubles in 1.5 years from four accounts. - **Niche Opportunity** [07:34] — The niche is not saturated; many people are unaware of this earning method, making it a good opportunity. ### Conclusion Yandex Games offers a promising monetization alternative for Russian creators, with low competition and potential for significant earnings through simple game publishing. ## Transcript video with this hairstyle. I'll tell you how you can make money through monetization in Russia. How I make money from monetization in Russia. Today is January 20th and, accordingly, the year 2026. I have a YouTube channel, I have TikTok, I had Zen. I was making money on monetization everywhere, but you understand, it was cut off. Uh, and I would have to find some options on how to earn money. First, do you know how I did it? Well, I have 350-360,000 subscribers on YouTube, and more than 800,000 subscribers on TikTok, or 800, which is correct. And in Zen there is, well, some kind of Let's dismiss Zen right away, because Zen doesn't pay anything, that's for sure. VK doesn't pay anything either. You don't even have to go there. This is all [ __ ]. And YouTube paid well, really great. TikTok, well, it's so-so, . We're not touching TikTok at all because I'm not making any money from it at the moment. I make money on YouTube and I found out in Russia how to make money through monetization and that they paid me in rubles on my card . That means I have to withdraw funds from YouTube through my classmate who lives in Europe, and that's not very convenient. Here. But who am I filming this video for? Actually, for those people who also had YouTube channels or somehow monetized there, well, DZNY, TikToks, whatever. And if you have lost, uh, such income, then now you can do it back, only in a slightly different way. Why did I even decide to write this down for you? That's all because if you made money from monetization, then you don't care what you do. Were you filming some videos there? There were wide videos, you were filming wide ones, there were some started filming vertical ones at once. You don't care, in principle, yes, what to do, what kind of content to make. Well, as long as, uh, I can make money, right? You need to write an article on Zen, since you are writing an article there or something else. That is, well, like, yes, well, by and large, if we want to earn money while sitting at home. So , uh, why don't you make your own apps? Well, it’s clear that the reason I was afraid that I didn’t know how to do them. But I'm not a programmer, I don't know how to make apps, I don't know how to make games, I don't know how to do anything at all, so it's like, well, where am I going to go, there are millions and all that . So, there is an option that you can create your own applications or your own games and upload them to Yandex, to Yandex Games. The same monetization, only Yandex pays in most important thing is that, well, and, naturally, no one will take this away from us. Here. Moreover, independent games. You can take ready-made games. I took the finished game. Well, naturally, some skills are needed. When you were studying there, I don’t know, to shoot videos, you probably also acquired some skills for the first time, right? How to there or where to attach it, there to the beard, to the nose, to the kitchen, there, whoever criticizes where. Here. Accordingly, you need to acquire some skills, but you’re not one to be timid, right? If you have done this. That is, you could publish a lot and understand that some video of yours might have, I don’t know, 100 views, while another video might get a million views. And that was normal for you. It's the same here. We publish some other people's games, obviously, they've been slightly remade there or something else. Well, obviously, skills, yes, in just a couple of days you understand how to change pictures, publish other people's games or your own games. We are now making our own games, and they are there is a constructor, you don’t need to know these letters or anything else. There is a constructor now. This is really cool, just, well, an incredible thing. So, uh, you publish it and some games might fly, some might not fly. That millions of rubles, and some can bring in 100 rubles. Here. Well, no matter how much it scares you, most likely. Uh, what's the real kick, uh? If you publish on YouTube, it gives you some views there, well, the first one there, I don’t views there, well, the first one there, I don’t know, it gives you 100 views and looks at how your video performed. Uh, there was something like that in Zen too. TikTok is generally fine, yes, it really, well, yes, it gives a lot of views, and if everything is good, it gives even more. Yandex has a similar topic. There is no such topic on VK. Until now, I have been posting videos directly on VK , well, I have posted a lot of videos. For me, , well, I have posted a lot of videos. For me, this is a lot. There, uh, they got shorts, well, those one view and didn’t move forward at all. How many months have passed already, zero at all. And the longest video would have gotten 13 views, the longest one. 13 views, you know, yeah, it's funny. Here. And here, ah, Yandex, your games that you will publish, it will force them in the first week. That is, he promotes them for a whole week, shows them to everyone. And if they perform well, if people play them and click on them, these are simple games. This isn't some kind of Witcher 3, these are just simple games. There's this three in a row, some kind of such nonsense, just a real hoot. People there are clicking and clicking something there. Uh, I'll tell you a secret, now we're going to make a game, well, we're making a top-down racing game now, but now we're going to make a hover game. This is about nothing at all. That is, it’s like, this is a game, mm, well, that’s exactly it, yes, it might work for you. Those who want to, uh, write their own book or some idea in their head, you are most likely a creative person, right? Um, but it's like, you know, what kind of game is it? This is, um, what's it called? When when when there are a lot of pictures, a comic is like this . It could be something like a comic book, just some kind of story where you have to choose answers. For example, a boy and a girl met there, ran somewhere, yes, and there they were, and on the way they came across a big dog. What should I do? Should I throw a girl at a dog or, say, bite off a dog's leg? Well, like, well, you know, right? That is, once something is chosen and the story continues. Again, there are pictures, all this is done in the GTP chat, GPT and all that. Well, there's nothing complicated about it now. If this had to be written before, now it doesn’t matter at all. Therefore, you can make a navelu like this. We are just about to learn how to do it now. We just already have programmers. Nikolai and I have programmers who help us. They set up advertising and help it pass moderation. That is, in principle, the game will 100% be published. It will be 100% done and will be 100% published. This is the most awesome advantage in general. And it will be possible to publish it and see how much it will bring in. Well, here's roughly the option that exists. I've been earning money for 2 years option that exists. I've been earning money for 2 years now from monetization in Yandex. I earned a little. I earned a million rubles in the first year and a half from four accounts. It's clear that, yes, it's not really a lot, but I did same as YouTube, you know, they also throw out a video and you sit there, I don’t know, eating tangerines, and you wait until they bring you something. Well, that is, something like this . There are options to make money now. in Russia. If you're interested, you can take a look there. I'll leave links here and there in the description in the comments. What should I leave you links to? Well, well, in general, I’ll leave it for something, I’ll sign it there. Here you can see how it really cool. And so far the niche is not occupied at all. People don't understand what it is anymore. Those schoolchildren there realized that it was possible to make, oh, such easy, simple games , and that's what they do. And for people who have never been involved with monetization in their lives , naturally, be that you made some game there , it brought you hundreds of thousands of rubles that. Well, damn, well maybe, I also shoot videos. So I posted a video, it got, I don’t know, 16 million views. They paid me very well for it. I have 300,000 rubles there. I got paid for it. What did I do? Damn, I recorded a short video. Well, something like that, you know, right? What's the joke? Here. That is, they pay money, so if you are suddenly interested, uh, well, in the descriptions or there write something about any questions you may have. one's probably watching, so it's all good. Here. done, you can write something about how you're a super ninja and how patient you are. All. Something like this, roughly . So, even if you don't do anything, just study at least this topic. Just do some research seriously cool stuff. That is, you can make money. That's it, let's leave for now.