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How I Monetized a YouTube Channel with Just 1 Video (Copy Me)

0h 12m video Published Sep 21, 2025 Transcribed Aug 6, 2026 E Eric Alanis - YouTube
Beginner 5 min read For: Aspiring YouTube creators looking to monetize their channels quickly, with basic knowledge of YouTube and content creation.
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The video presents a strategy for rapidly monetizing a YouTube channel, claiming to achieve 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in as little as 5-18 days. The creator shares techniques for niche selection, content replication, and production using AI tools, while emphasizing the importance of long-form videos and audience retention.

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Monetization Requirements

To monetize, a channel needs 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours (240,000 minutes) of watch time. For a 10-minute video with 50% retention, 48,000 views are needed; for a 20-minute video, only 30,000 views.

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Rapid Algorithm Entry

A channel entered the algorithm quickly with its first video, gaining 124,000 watch hours and 6,300 subscribers in the first 20 days, then views stopped.

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Long Videos Boost Retention

A video over 2 hours long achieved an average retention of 23 minutes, leading to an RPM of €8.13. Longer videos allow more ads, increasing revenue.

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Niche Finding Technique

Use YouTube keyword search (e.g., 'spirituality' in English), then check recommended videos to find reference channels. Validate channels by checking if they are monetized, have low production costs, and high views relative to subscribers.

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Winning Idea Replication

Identify top-performing videos on reference channels and replicate them in a different market (e.g., Spanish). This validates demand and often works, though results may be slightly worse due to market differences.

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Production Delegation and AI Tools

Delegate video editing via Twitter job posts. Use ElevenLabs for realistic AI voiceovers, and ChatGPT for generating thumbnails by providing a reference and clear instructions.

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Account Warm-up

To avoid being flagged as a bot or repetitive content, warm up the YouTube account by watching videos from reference channels before uploading. This helps the algorithm pick up the channel faster.

The key to rapid monetization is creating long, high-retention videos in a validated niche, replicating successful content from other markets, and using AI tools for efficient production. Warming up the account and analyzing reference channels are crucial for algorithm entry.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 05:21 Find a niche by searching keywords on YouTube and analyzing recommended videos to identify reference channels.
2 06:40 Validate reference channels using YouTube Large to check if they are monetized and have high views relative to subscribers.
3 07:20 Identify the best-performing videos on reference channels and replicate the idea in a different market.
4 09:07 Delegate video editing via Twitter job posts and use ElevenLabs for AI voiceover generation.
5 09:47 Create thumbnails using ChatGPT by providing a reference thumbnail and clear instructions.
6 11:05 Warm up the YouTube account by watching videos from reference channels before uploading to avoid being flagged as a bot.

Study Flashcards (8)

What are the YouTube monetization requirements?

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1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours (240,000 minutes) of watch time.

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For a 10-minute video with 50% retention, how many views are needed to reach 4,000 watch hours?

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48,000 views.

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What is the difference between CPM and RPM?

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CPM is what YouTube earns per 1,000 views; RPM is what the creator earns per 1,000 views.

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What are the three requirements for a reference channel?

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It must be monetized, have low production costs, and have many more views relative to subscribers.

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How can you check if a channel is monetized?

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Use YouTube Large to paste the channel URL and search; it will indicate if the channel is monetized.

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What is the strategy for finding winning video ideas?

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Identify the best-performing videos on reference channels and replicate them in a different market.

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Which AI tools are recommended for voiceover and thumbnails?

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ElevenLabs for voiceover and ChatGPT for thumbnails.

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Why is it important to warm up a YouTube account?

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To avoid being flagged as a bot or repetitive content, which prevents the algorithm from recommending the channel.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Monetization Math

Provides concrete numbers for required views based on video length and retention, making the goal tangible.

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Long-Form Strategy

Demonstrates that longer videos significantly increase watch time and RPM, a key insight for creators.

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Market Replication

Explains a low-risk method to validate content ideas by copying successful videos into new markets.

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Account Warm-up

Highlights a common pitfall (being flagged as a bot) and offers a simple preventive measure.

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[00:02] able to monetize a YouTube channel. In contrast, there are others who seem to have hacked the YouTube algorithm and manage to monetize channels in I discovered a strategy that I'm going to tell you about next, which has

[00:14] allowed me to monetize one channel in 18 days, another in 5 days, and a channel with just today. So if you want to know exactly how I did it, stick around because I'm sure only a few will take full advantage of the value

[00:28] in this video, but those who do will be able to build channels that generate €2,000 to €5,000, just like our success stories that are already talk about the fundamentals and what is needed to achieve that goal.

[00:41] The monetization requirements are 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of video views. Therefore, for a video to generate these figures, we need a total of 240,000 minutes. So, for a 10-minute video with

[00:53] a 50% retention rate, we would need 48,000 views to viewing time. Or if it's longer, for example, 20 minutes, we would only need 30,000 views. As you can see, here we have the video.

[01:07] This channel entered the algorithm very quickly with just its first video. Within a few days, it was already getting many, many, many views. And if you look closely, I also got 124,000 hours of views, almost 125,000, and

[01:20] more than 6,000 subscribers, okay? Obviously, because of everything it entails, right? It is true that in those first few days, those first 20 days, we had 6,300 subscribers. Then the video stopped completely and has generated a total of

[01:34] completely and has generated a total of very clear, and I've just censored your channel. I just censored the video for the following reason. Previously on this channel a few years ago, about a year and a half ago

[01:47] the inside of a channel that was generating €100 to €2,000 per month for me. And a few months later, after uploading that video, a lot of people entered dying on me. It's a channel that's currently generating between €2,000 and €3,000

[02:03] net per month, and obviously I don't want that income to drop completely. lying to you. These are the last 28 days, okay? And it has generated €2641. I'm

[02:15] going to recharge it so you can see that it's true, right? So I want you to understand that's why I'm not going to reveal the specific niche to you. I also tell the students in the training to never reveal their niches, since in the end it is

[02:27] to achieve those results and to earn that income. But apart from this reason, the following also occurs . The most valuable thing about this video you 're watching is the lessons I learned from publishing it and

[02:42] all the strategies I used. And if I reveal the channel to you at the end, if you try to create the same content that I'm creating, it won't work for you because you won't do. On the other hand, if you apply strategy and knowledge, you will have

[02:56] the ability to achieve these results consistently. It's like instead of giving you the fish, I give you a fishing rod and teach you how to fish. Do you think it will be better for you in the long run? Now that we've cleared that up, let's continue

[03:08] with the video. In this video I met the monetization requirements so quickly because I made it quite long. If we look at interaction, we see that the average retention time is 23 minutes. This is outrageous, and that's why,

[03:22] if I look at revenue, we see that the RPM, which is revenue per mile, which is what we earn for every 1000 visits, is €8.13. The video I made was longer than 2 hours, and obviously

[03:36] you have to understand that if you lengthen the duration, if you make it high quality, if you make good content, people will stay, they'll stay for 20 or 30% of it, and obviously that 20 or 30% is not the same as watching an 8 or 10 minute video as watching a

[03:51] 2 hour video. Obviously, people spend much more time inside your video, and those viewing hours increase by 2, 3, or even 10 times. You have to keep two things in mind: CPM and RPM. CPM is what

[04:05] YouTube earns for those 1000 views, and RPM is what we, the books, get; that is, what we actually earn. In this video it is €8.13. actually earn. In this video it is €8.13. Because? Because the video is very long, and because the

[04:18] video is very long, YouTube can put many more ads in. That viewer will see more ads, YouTube will make more money, and they'll pay us more money. It's important to make long videos because it allows you to reach

[04:30] those viewing hours and those 1000 subscribers much faster and income, but you have to understand that you ca n't do it in all niches. Obviously, if you take any niche and make a 3-hour video, it's not going to

[04:43] work. You need to do a preliminary analysis, see if those reference channels have done it and it worked for them, and so you can try it out, gradually increasing the duration each time . The audience I have on this channel is the

[04:55] audience that, for the most part, watches videos on television. What does that mean? That a person who puts a video on television, unless the playing while they are cleaning the house or while they are having dinner or

[05:08] anything. Besides, the ads are much longer on television, which means we would be increasing that retention and earning much more money. Now that you've seen this, let's look at the exact step-by-step process

[05:21] achieve the same result. First of all, I'm going to reveal a technique for finding niches that few people know about. We're going to go to YouTube, to the keywords. For example, I'm going to look for spirituality in English. Once that's done

[05:37] , let's go into any of the videos that have appeared here, okay? one that has caught our attention, like this one, which do next, once we've entered this video, is watch videos

[05:50] that are recommended to us, start seeing which channels we can use as a reference and In order to be a good channel, a validated channel, and a reference channel, it must meet these

[06:02] three requirements. The first is that it is monetized, obviously that the channel is already generating income. If it's there, if it has a high volume of visits, it's already generating revenue. Second, that the production is not too high, that is,

[06:15] that the production cost is not very expensive and that it has many more visits in relation to the subscribers that the channel has. If you'd like me to depth how I find potential niches, comment the word "niche"

[06:28] on Instagram, which you'll find below in the description, and I'll send you that video where you can learn how to find potential niches. Okay, with that said , to see if those channels are monetized or not, I recommend you

[06:40] go to this page called YouTube Large, okay? Copy the first one, the one that we found quite striking. We see that it has quite a few visits, so we have to paste it here like this. We're going to click

[06:54] search and it will tell us whether the channel is monetized or not. If you look closely, it tells us that this channel is monetized. Obviously it was already evident because it has more than 1000 subscribers, obviously, and with all the visits that this channel has generated, well, it

[07:07] already achieved the time, well, the viewing hours 100%. Okay, let's imagine that we already have that profitable niche, that potential niche. What's the next step? Finding a winning idea, finding those ideas

[07:20] to publish within our channels. But I'm sure you're those winning ideas. Well, to make sure you understand , I'm going to explain talking about at the beginning. First of all, what I did was find those

[07:34] reference channels and see what the best videos were that had generally worked for all those channels. I identified a pattern: that video had worked on all channels, and all I had to do

[07:48] was copy that video, make a new video, and do it in a different market. That way I validated that there was a great demand for people to know about his video. So, all I did was copy it in another market, in

[08:00] this case the Spanish market. And it worked quite well for me too. You have to keep in mind that whenever you copy, in quotes, those reference channels, they're always going to do a little

[08:12] worse because the markets are quite different. I'm also going to show you this channel, which is the first channel I monetized and the one that scales to more than €2,000 per month. And if you look, here with just the third video I got 88,000

[08:25] monetization requirements, those 1000 subscribers and those 4,000 hours of viewing. And I did exactly the same as in the video I mentioned earlier. I analyzed ideas that were working in other markets and brought them

[08:39] to the Spanish market. Look, this is the idea that inspired me. If you look closely, uh, well, uh, the wives of Formula 1 drivers, 350,000 views. Girlfriends of Formula 1 drivers or women of Formula 1 drivers and it also

[08:54] worked pretty cool for me. Now we move on to the production part, where we will delegate the task to a video editor. I, for example, use Twitter to look for that team and what I do is launch a job proposal asking

[09:07] what exactly I want and how much I am going to pay for it. For the voice is currently the best artificial intelligence for cloning voices and generating voices that sound the most realistic. It is true that Level Apps is

[09:21] paid software, but you can always start with your free trial. Even though it's a paid service, I recommend it 100%. And to generate that speech you have to go here to text to speech, copy the script you have

[09:33] previously written and click here to generate to speech. Let's take a look at some of the voices so you can see for yourself. Okay, we see that this is typical. In the end, we have to play around with that voice a little bit depending on the niche we're targeting and

[09:47] Today, we can create miniatures using artificial intelligence. In fact, Chat GPT has an option to generate very good thumbnails, and I am currently doing that myself, creating those thumbnails with

[10:00] artificial intelligence. To make a good thumbnail with Chat GPT, you need to one give it a very good reference thumbnail and two ask it clearly what exactly you want. Now that you know how to generate the video, there is a

[10:12] very important factor for that first video or those first videos to work and for you to quickly enter the algorithm. Today there is a very big problem, and that is that some channels enter the algorithm very slowly

[10:24] and others do it super fast, and it has nothing to do with whether they or incorrectly. There are many people who do it correctly, and yet those channels don't get picked up by the algorithm. That's because YouTube detects that you're either

[10:38] a bot or that you create repetitive content, and that's why it doesn't want to show and recommend a channel that I recently tried to make and if you look closely it got some views, but it never really took

[10:52] correctly as I have done and am doing in all the other channels. showed at the beginning of the video, it quickly entered the algorithm and already achieved those viewing areas and those subscribers.

[11:05] To prevent that from happening and to help the channels enter do is go to YouTube and start warming up that account, starting to watch videos from those reference channels. If you do that correctly, I'm

[11:18] sure you can monetize your channel in record time and start generating the income you want. However, if you're not just a consumer, but someone who business model to have more

[11:31] freedom, to work from wherever you want without schedules or bosses, then let me introduce you to Uno de 10, the academy where we help people make the path to achieving those goals much easier. Because

[11:43] consuming content is one thing, but having mentors and being able to make calls with them—people who have already gone through exactly what you're going through right now—is another . at that moment, and have those people tell you exactly what you need to

[11:57] do in the situation you are in. People like Iván, Pau, Shil, Aida, Adrián are already generating between €2000 and €6000 per month and are already you want to be next, I recommend you watch the video in the first line

[12:13] of the description and schedule a call with us. If you resemble our success stories before achieving success, then we will work together.

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