--- title: 'How I Monetized a YouTube Shorts Channel in 8 Days (Copy Me)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=mlNzBgArKco' video_id: 'mlNzBgArKco' date: 2026-07-18 duration_sec: 877 channel: 'Carlosyt' --- # How I Monetized a YouTube Shorts Channel in 8 Days (Copy Me) > Source: [How I Monetized a YouTube Shorts Channel in 8 Days (Copy Me)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mlNzBgArKco) ## Summary This video documents the process of monetizing a YouTube Shorts channel in just 8 days using AI tools and a strategic approach. The creator shares the step-by-step methodology, from niche selection to content production, and reveals the final earnings and challenges faced. ### Key Points - **Challenge Introduction** [00:01] — The creator decided to monetize a YouTube Shorts channel in 8 days using AI, documenting the entire process. - **Strategy Over Luck** [00:28] — Success on YouTube depends on having the right strategy, not luck or effort. - **Niche Selection** [00:41] — Used a tool (Viralit) to find a niche and winning ideas. Found a channel with 71 million views on a video, estimating earnings of $2,000-$7,000. - **Channel Setup** [02:29] — Created channel name and logo using ChatGPT, added keywords, and consumed similar content to avoid being flagged as a bot. - **Content Production** [02:43] — Learned to create videos using AI tools like image generation and Flow (for animation). Used Viralit to find viral gems in English not yet in Spanish. - **First Video Published** [04:03] — Published first short, got 4 views in 4 minutes. Aimed to upload two shorts per day for maximum speed. - **Day 3 Results** [05:31] — Achieved 260,000 views on one video, 435 subscribers with only 6 shorts. Projected to reach 1000 subscribers in 11-12 days. - **Revenue Projections** [07:35] — Shorts RPM is low (0.02-0.06), so 600,000 views might only generate €17. But virality peaks could improve earnings. - **Viral Growth** [08:25] — By day 5-6, channel had 5-6 million views. Three videos surpassed 1 million views. - **Monetization Achieved** [09:48] — Met monetization requirements on day 8, applied and accepted two days later. Channel later abandoned due to low RPM. - **Final Earnings** [10:16] — After a month, channel generated very little revenue (RPM too low). However, the methodology worked and another channel now earns €10,000/month. - **Key Strategy** [11:11] — Focus on what YouTube cares about: retention, idea, thumbnail, and title. Use Viralit to find viral ideas quickly. ### Conclusion The video demonstrates that with the right strategy and tools, a YouTube Shorts channel can be monetized in 8 days, but low RPM may limit earnings. The creator emphasizes focusing on viral ideas and packaging over perfect editing. ## Transcript I monetized a YouTube channel in just 8 days using artificial intelligence. A month ago I decided to take on this challenge and document absolutely everything, since I didn't know if it was going to go well or badly, because the truth YouTube channels, but in my life I had never opened a YouTube Shorts channel. This has the results have surprised me months, years to monetize a YouTube channel, or they never even manage to do it because they give up beforehand. But today it has been shown that achieving results with YouTube does not depend on luck, effort, or the time you dedicate to it, but on having the right strategy. And in this video I show you the entire step-by-step process. So now let's see how everyone's first day went . The first step of all was to find the same niche that I just to be honest, it didn't take me long to find interesting things, since I did it helps you find [music] niches and winning ideas for your channel. I found this channel here, which, as you can see, has quite a few views. n't know what many or few views is , maybe it's few, as you can see 63, 75,000. He has some pretty popular videos. If we go here, okay? As you can see, 2.00 1.7. The thing is, I think this content meaning people in the Spanish market don't know this person that well, so I think it might not work as well. Then I found out, look, that Viralit told me a day ago with 80,000 views, okay? This is this channel here, which as you can see, is uploading quite a few videos and is doing quite well. I do n't know if that's a lot of views, but of course, if we go here we see that it has 600,000 views, which in YouTube Shores is a very small amount of money, it doesn't even reach €50 I think, I mean, I have no idea, but I think it's a very small amount. I've come across 200,000 views, I've come across this channel here which is honestly a bit strange, but [music] look at the most popular videos. It was published 10 days ago, has 71 million views, 34,000 likes, and 11 million likes. I've positioned myself here, okay? And as you can see, it has 200 million went to Chat GPT and asked him how much told me that more or less, making a realistic calculation [of music], it's $2,000, $1,000 or $7,000. Okay, we're going to stick with the middle scenario, so I think it could be a very interesting channel to replicate, given the revenue it's generating. The next step for everyone was to create the . I simply asked Chat GPT for names and it automatically created a logo. I put keywords in the channel and started consuming content on the same topic so that YouTube wouldn't think I was a bot. start producing the videos. The truth is that I have no idea how to make this type of content, since I have never used asked my uncle, who does use it, since he uploads content on TikTok and literally asked my uncle, "How [music] can I make these videos, since I have no idea how it can be done," and this is what he replied. artificial intelligences. From what I can see, this video shows that they This whole video could have been better made . Uh, there are many and the best way to get it exactly how you want it is like this image first, and then you add the movement, the sound, and everything else. Like any other dialogue and everything, but only if you want to. So you have to do that with generate the image. There's a study, you'll see there's a lot of stuff, I mean, it's image and then with Flow they'll give you some credits and you'll BO3 tool that will appear directly in the video creation section. Click on image to video, what you want. From this point on, when I knew what I using the same software I had previously used to find this niche. And the truth is that it's super easy to find viral gems like these that had way, way more views than subscribers. So I started saving everything I saw that worked in English and wasn't in Spanish in one of the folders, which producing the videos. We already have here the first short film that we are going to publish with quite strange. I want you to see it before I upload it. Let's take a look at it this way see it before I upload it. Let's take a look at it this way . very, very random. We also need to add the music, which we'll add within YouTube, but well, in the end it's what people also noticed that many channels are uploading about three short videos a day . To gain the maximum possible speed, we will start uploading at least two per day from now on . We just published . We just published the first reel and as you can see , well, I don't know if you've seen it around , I don't know if it's visible, but it has four views. I don't know if it's me. I've only seen it once. Let's see how it goes. I mean, I literally just posted it 4 minutes ago. I'll keep documenting here to see if it goes up or what happens. The truth is that I spent the rest of the day constantly recharging. Okay, let's reload again. He's 31 now. Let's see . Well, only 35, but hey, we're slowly but surely getting there . It literally hasn't even been 5 minutes, dude. And at night we finished the second day with 1000 visits, the first short of all. We are on day 3 of the challenge trying to from scratch. Day 3. These are the results. I honestly think it's pretty good. So, we already have a video with 260,000 views, video with 260,000 views, 57,000, 100,000, 100,000 views, 30,000 long content and for me this is a lot of views. And as you can see, we also have 435 subscribers with only six shorts. We are currently publishing two per day and it is day 3, meaning there are still 30 days left. I think, I monetize it. In other words, it's impossible, it's impossible that we don't monetize it. Come on, I hope they will also accept our monetization proposal. Okay, I just sent you an HG GPT screenshot of the channel where you can see the subscribers, where you can see the six reels, because we're posting two a day, remember. And I asked him how much longer it will take me to reach 1,000 subscribers and how much longer it will take me to monetize the channel. So, here we see that we have half a million visits, well, almost 600,000 visits in just three days. So, at this rate we should reach 1000 subscribers in about 11-12 days, meaning we have about 7 days left to reach 1000 subscribers. That is, if we continue at this pace. If we keep going viral, I imagine we'll get there sooner, or if the streak breaks, it'll take longer. And to monetize the channel we need 10 million views in 90 days. So, at the current rate we're going, theoretically in 30 days we would get 5,700,000 and in 60 days 11,000,000. Therefore, we're not doing well with the visualizations. well, but if we want to monetize it in less than 30 days, which is what I would like to achieve, then we're more or less on a pace of 45-60 days and we would GPT says here, it is also important to keep in mind that there are virality peaks. In other the channel will suddenly drop, that the videos won't work. Well, I don't think that will happen. I mean, no, I don't think it will go down, or at least not that much . So, revenue we would generate, because this is what scares me , because I think this is literally hardly any money, I think with shorts it costs, you need to generate too many millions of views. So, I'm going to say how much revenue these visits would generate with the RPM of the shorts. What this tells us is that the current RPM is roughly tells us is that the current RPM is roughly 0.02 by 0.06. So, we're talking about all these visits being between 0.02 and 0.06. So, in a conservative scenario, these visits we 've generated now are literally worth €17 if we have an RPM of 0.0529 and a high of 46, but I think it's going to be low because the videos are literally low because the videos are literally 3 seconds long, so we're not doing as well as we thought, but hey, it's only been three days, so let's see how things go next. The truth is that the days went by very quickly and the visits until it created a snowball that was impossible to stop. And all I was really doing was making mashs similar to the ones that were that the monetization requirements took several more days to be updated. Okay guys, we're on day five, no, I think six or be seeing it here on screen. Uh, I've literally just left, well, with my family, I'm away, I don't have a setup, I don't have a camera, so I but well, I want the video to be this direct, this sincere and authentic. Uh, today we've had about 5 or 6 million visits. That's crazy. I mean, I totally believe that I might wake up tomorrow and the channel will be happening, but anyway, we have like three videos that have already surpassed one million views, they're growing a lot. Honestly, I'm honest. I mean, we've been seeing for a few days that the projection was that it would be days that the projection was that it would be monetized in about 30, 45 days, but based on what we've superbly, perfectly, it might be , but I'm really excited, because I think no one has ever uploaded a video before, at least not here in the Spanish market, monetizing a YouTube Shores channel in record time, and on top of that, it's the first one I've ever done, so it's pretty crazy, is n't it? But anyway, let's see, let's see how things go in the next few days and hope that nothing strange happens or stops with the channel. And indeed, the very next day we met the monetization requirements. I applied and two days later they accepted my monetization request. We literally achieved it in 8 days by uploading two shorts every day. And think I'm making a lot of money with this [music], but the reality is not exactly that. Well, it's been over a month since we started this YouTube channel and the truth is I 've abandoned it. The RPM was too low and this is what I've managed to generate after having over 5 monetizing it. Not only that, but the channel has plummeted since the monetization. But I'm also very satisfied because this video has shown that with the right methodology you can achieve great results in a very short time, and yes, maybe this channel has gone down, but with this other one we're generating more than €10,000 a month and many views and several thousand euros every month. [music] That said , I'd like to talk about how we've been able to monetize and make this Not only that, but we also end up doing it with our students or [on music] with them. Even from the very first video, we often managed to go viral and generate revenue in record time. And basically this [music] strategy is about focusing on what YouTube really cares about, the you package the videos. Most people focus on keywords, [music], editing their videos, making the editing perfect, changing thumbnails basically on a bunch of things that don't matter and that aren't going to give you For example, with this channel here I focused a lot on retention, on trying to make the videos perfect, but it really exploded when I focused on making the idea, the thumbnail and [music] the title right. And here I would mention to Viralit, since it is a tool that has helped me a lot [music] to be able to find those viral ideas in seconds, to be able to find to be able to grow on YouTube. I'm literally going to show you a super-fast example. If we put the keyword religion here, for example, let's imagine that we have a [music] channel in the religion niche. In your case, you could put the niche to which your YouTube channel belongs. And from here [music] we look for those viral gems. We adjusted the filters. Let's put the last 12 months. And as you can see right now, I mean, as you can see right now, I mean, on a channel with only 4,000 subscribers. In other words, that channel normally has an average of 300 views and is literally giving us a viral gem. And here we can see another channel with 700 subscribers, a video with 73,000 views. In other words, I find it crazy that they can come up with such winning ideas so quickly. In fact, what we can also do is save all these ideas in a folder. For example, let's put the religion folder in it. We save the videos, and if we go to this folder and analyze it , it will give us viral ideas that this tool extracts from the videos that have worked. So, for example, it gives us very good ideas that we could use, and this also serves to what works. Another feature that is very useful for powerful niches and viral ideas, but do n't really know where to you can see, well, we might have to adjust the filters and it gives us what's trending [music] on YouTube from completely random tracks. So, for example, we can literally see here a video with almost 10 million views. As you can see, look, take a look at this. 140,000 visits, 140,000 subscribers and this video has 6 million views. In other words, it's crazy. [music] Look at all the small channels that give us a large volume of visits that are doing super well in literally a single moment. Look at that, 8,000 subscribers, 40,000 visits. It's truly crazy if you also want to find niches that within YouTube. The truth is that before, to find these ideas, to find these formats that were working and be able to replicate them, it very effective. 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