How to Monetize TikTok in 2026: Complete Guide

[00:01] my students earned by monetizing on TikTok, with the creator rewards program, and like him, many other people are monetizing TikTok you want to learn more about this, stay until the end of the video so I can

[00:13] explain how to monetize TikTok in 2026.

[00:26] are already starting to monetize TikTok, even without living in a supported country. Today I want to explain in detail how TikTok's monetization system works, which is currently called the

[00:40] if you are already at the intermediate level, I will leave you some sections below so video. But if you're still at the basics level, haven't even created an account, or don't know if you can monetize in your country, then stay tuned

[00:53] and watch until the end. So, creators, the first thing you need to know, which is basically a requirement for TikTok as well, is in which countries it is currently monetizable. And let me tell you, not much has changed except

[01:06] that now there is also a more acceptable country, which is Mexico, which many more acceptable country, which is Mexico, which many people already know. [music] to list which countries

[01:20] monetize and obviously what policies they have. First, you have France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, which are the countries where I recommend you create your account. You might wonder why. Well, because these countries don't ask for

[01:33] tax information, at least up to a very large amount, so it's easier for you to , let's say, have autonomy over these accounts, okay? Then you also have the United States. The United States is one of the largest countries

[01:46] be, where they would like to distribute their content, because of course, it will pay you much more. What's the problem with creating a US bank account? And I've said that since the first tutorial I made on monetizing on TikTok.

[01:59] n't ask for tax information at the beginning, but they will ask for it when you meet the requirements . And if you don't have anyone there, you simply won't be complicated. And in the end, I've seen many people lose that account, sell it, or

[02:14] give it away because they don't know what to do with it. So, I recommend that have an E-Ling, which is the document they're going to ask for, then it's best not to believe there, acceptable country. Other well-known countries include Japan, Korea, and

[02:30] Brazil, which have been part of the group for some time. As I mentioned, the most recent addition is Mexico, okay? So, nowadays many people who, by the way, are watching me, greetings to you there, to Mexico, uh, have it easier, no, they are

[02:42] monetizing and many of them earn even more than on Facebook, but this will depend on other factors that I will tell you about later. [music] country, for example, Peru, which is where I live, or maybe in Argentina, in

[02:55] Ecuador, in Bolivia, in Venezuela. Okay , I'm going to show you how to create your account, alright? Because here the most efficient way is to have a BPN. A VPN is a program, software, or application that basically helps you

[03:07] change your location. And for example, I have it here that you're seeing on this screen and I'm going to change it. And here you realize that this is my BPN. I use Nord VPN, but honestly, any VPN will do, almost any,

[03:20] little bad, obviously you realize that over time , I'm not going to mention them either, but Nord has worked quite well for me and Shark has also worked well for me, okay? Use the one that seems best to you, the one

[03:33] you have already paid for or purchased previously. So, how does this VPN work? Look, I've already paid for it, I've already installed it, and I've already changed my location to France. Okay. So, inside this computer, inside

[03:46] this laptop, I'm practically in France . And how can I verify that? Very easy. I'll put my location here in my favorite browser, okay? My current location. And what's going to happen? He's going to portray me as if I

[03:58] 'm in Paris, you see? So, that 's an efficient way to find out Now, what is the intention? Like I told you, create a TikTok account, as

[04:10] if you were in France, okay? And let me tell you, if you're near France, it's obviously almost the same. I've also created accounts in France and it doesn't matter , it works the same. So, look, this is the first thing that's going to come up

[04:22] . We'll give it to you on either one . Ready. So when you open videos from Europe, from France, from Germany, wherever the account was located, or nearby countries. Okay? What are we going to do? Let's click where it says log

[04:35] in. Now, being here, and this is another question I'm going to answer, the account you already have isn't going to work . Many people, many creators, influencers want to transfer the account they already have as a creator because they

[04:47] have views, they have their followers there and they simply want to change their Peru, maybe Mexico, or the United States, or France, what happens is that TikTok has certain policies, and I'm going to show you my account here so you can

[05:00] If you wish to change your region, you have to click here in the menu above, okay? And you're going to go to settings and privacy and then you're going to go to your account. Within this, you'll see that if you

[05:14] click on account information, the region will appear, okay? It shows me that I'm in Peru, and if you wanted to change it like many people do, the problem you'll encounter is, for example, I'm going to put France,

[05:26] okay? That's the first thing you'll see, that France, Germany, these countries I've mentioned, are not available. The only one that does allow it is the United States. Okay? But what's going on? When you want to move from your

[05:39] region to the United States, you also have certain requirements that I'm going to show you here. The region cannot be updated . What does he ask of you? It requires you to be in the United States for at least 60 days or 2 months and obviously wait for it to

[05:52] update, which is good, TikTok, the data and everything, and for the program to appear because it would also be by invitation. So, seeing that it's not possible because it takes two months and you have to be there, the easiest and fastest thing to do is to

[06:05] create a new account that you could monetize in as little as a influencer creators, have seen it done; I've seen it monetized in 3 days. They quickly gain views, which are the requirements I'll tell you about later, and with that you

[06:19] 're practically monetizing overnight . So, we're back to this part where we're going to register. Let's click the register button. We'll choose phone or email. And notice that at the top it

[06:33] says "France phone number" and the country code for France. Since we don't have any numbers, we don't have any devices, we're not in France, we're not going to complete this. We're going to do it with email, which is still

[06:46] possible these days, but it's important that in the date of birth, which is the are of legal age. I'm going to put my month, my day, and my year, and we'll continue with the email. Ready? So, now I've filled in my details, my date of

[06:59] birth, and that I'm of legal age. The second thing is the email, I already put one in and finally a password and there it asks you for the requirements that your password must have. Excellent. Now we're going to send a code because it's going to ask you for a code,

[07:12] uh, to your email address that you're putting in. Important note: if your email already has TikTok, it won't allow you to. In this case, for example, this email doesn't have one; it's a new email. So I'm going to check my email and enter the

[07:24] we enter the code in this part. Let's mark next here. And with that, you'll see that a monetizable account on TikTok has already been created. It's that simple. And don't forget, obviously,

[07:37] a username. So I'm going to use this username, use this username, monetizer2026, and I'm going to register. OK? Okay, I'm logged in, I 'm on TikTok. Notice that I'm also going to

[07:50] get this warning; it's normal for you to get it . I understand, and here's comes the second question that I always get asked . Once you've created your account, what's next? Many people don't know what to upload, whether they need to

[08:05] log in, whether they need to log in with a VPN, with an emulator, or what to do at this right guidelines. First of all, you should know that a TikTok account, since it is created in another region, what is recommended, mind you, is not

[08:19] mandatory. You'll see opinions from many people, and I think several of them are right. But in my opinion, mind you, this is my experience, and because I'm already monetizing it, it's recommended to use a

[08:32] TikTok account. Look, for example, I just opened it and the first thing I'm going to do is follow some accounts. I'm going to review some videos, maybe I'll share save it. Why would I do this?

[08:45] because of what you think, not because you have to heat it up to make it go viral, to make it work, to make it monetize. No, no, that's not my case at least. If I want to build an account, which I also do on YouTube and

[08:59] Facebook, it's to find out the niche I'm going to publish in, okay? Because there are many niches nowadays, and I'm going to explain some of them right now, but this helps me to be able to follow other

[09:11] pages, to be able to follow other channels, other accounts, and know more or less what I'm going to do, so that TikTok directs me to a similar audience and so I can publish content faster, okay? I'm not going to copy

[09:24] serve as inspiration for me, this will help me to find out about trends, to find out about niches. So, I keep track of what content is formats, and that way I already have a

[09:39] you didn't understand this, I'm going to show you four formats that are trends. And listen, I want you to understand something. These formats I'm of them use artificial intelligence, but you should know something. The

[09:56] formats often change. You'll notice that right now, as I tomorrow, or next week, or next month, this kind of content will always be abundant on TikTok. So I recommend that you use

[10:11] this format, of course, but for a niche, okay? A niche is completely different. For example, this format you see of skeletons, human anatomy, skulls, whatever you want to call it, doesn't necessarily have to

[10:23] be about medicine; it can be about interesting facts. So, the point here is that you need to identify a niche, either on your Facebook page or your mistake of thinking that just because this format is viral, you have to make all your

[10:38] content like that. It doesn't matter if it's about medicine, curiosities, health, I don't that content. It will obviously go viral while the trend lasts, views will simply drop. That's why it's very important that you

[10:54] some of which, for example, I already who are monetizing with them. So, by creating super-short videos like this in CapCut, less than a minute long, you can start growing your account.

[11:07] "Okay, but if I create content in Spanish, wouldn't they change my location? Would n't they position me only in my own country?" Okay, here's my answer. in Spanish, they're not going to change your location, don't worry. You don't need to use a

[11:22] VPN either because that doesn't make a difference. While it's true that it sometimes helps you get noticed let me tell you that the most important thing here is the content. For example, lives in the United States, but his content still went to Mexico.

[11:38] So if you create highly segmented content, it won't help you much. , try talking about interesting facts about the United States, things like that, and you'll see how much more you become known and obviously your earnings increase.

[11:52] Perfect. What's the next step? The next step is the content transition. How much content should I upload and at what times? Note that this is highly recommend that you

[12:06] night to help you grow much faster. If you can do it in the afternoon, that would be spectacular too. So, look, you're going to be obviously you can do everything from your phone, there's no problem at all, and you where can I see the monetization? You have n't shown it to me yet?"

[12:21] Okay, calm down. Look, in order for you to see the monetization, you have to go to a button at the bottom, it says TikTok Studio. I'm going to click on it and it will take you to this section where you just have to scroll down to where it says monetization and open

[12:36] what says creator rewards program . Notice that in this section that I've put there on the side it says what the requirements are. It says, "You're very close to joining the creator rewards program, and

[12:49] the requirements are listed below. Being over 18 is already met. This is done using the account creation date, which we set up at the beginning. The very close now, less than 4,000 followers, and I'm already monetizing. And

[13:03] obviously, having 100,000 video views in the last 30 days. many people ask me about the 100,000 views. If I go over

[13:15] 30 days, I won't qualify, and the views will drop significantly. Well, let me tell you that this depends on the last 30 days. For example, if one day goes by and you had a lot of virality on day one, obviously, the views will decrease. But for me,

[13:30] this wouldn't be a problem because as long as you keep uploading content, you'll see that the views will stay high. I, for example, have been doing this for over a month because I always have good virality. Even if I don't post for a month

[13:42] and then start posting again, it goes up quickly. So basically, these are my recommendations. Notice that I have this account; I'm not uploading with a have this account; I'm not uploading with a VPN or emulator, nothing. Okay.

[13:54] requirements. What's the next step? Look, I'll show you here. You'll see a button that says "Join," okay? All you have to do is click it. Why? Because first you're going to send the application for

[14:07] TikTok to approve you. TikTok is going to review all the content you've published to requirements, if you don't violate the rules, if your content is original or at least semi-original. Look, for example, we've already sent the application; it's under review,

[14:21] but don't worry, I have an account that was also just approved, Look, for example, this account I 'm showing you is already monetized. What do I see? I see this information that I have to

[14:33] fill out the form so I can get paid. So far, I don't have any videos the requirements, which are very important. For you to monetize your videos, they have to be at least one minute long so they'll

[14:47] rank higher, and you'll monetize them for two things, as you can see here. The first is the standard reward. This reward basically pays you for okay? I'll tell you what those are. And if not, you'll

[15:01] also see the requirements in this video's description—the things TikTok asks for to make your videos valid. But that's not all. Notice that further down it says " additional reward," and this is what I was showing you

[15:15] at the beginning of the video. Nowadays, TikTok pays much more for the additional reward, which is basically for your content to be similar and have a lot of interaction, for your content to go viral to the point that TikTok

[15:27] pays you this reward, and sometimes it's double the standard reward. Okay? But look, It's important that we fulfill these requirements. It says, identity verification. Here's something I'm always asked about, right?

[15:40] When you start monetizing, it's what document to fill out. Notice that this account is from Germany. I'm not from Germany, I'm from Peru. So, what am I going to do in the region field? I'm going to put my country because I don't have a

[15:54] German ID. I'm going to click next, and now it's going to I'm going to click next, and now it's going to ask for my ID card, right? I mean, your national ID, your national identity card, [music] any document that 's your national ID in your country,

[16:08] . I'm going to click here on " consent," right? Because a little camera icon will appear. I'll click next. I'm going to click " allow," and right now, here's my ID card. I'm going to take a picture of my ID card. Okay? It has to

[16:22] be in light. I recommend that it's fully visible. We'll click "confirm." And now document as well, okay? That it See the whole thing. And there it is. Now we're going to send this,

[16:36] confirm it, and update it. Let's go. They'll test you in a few minutes, sometimes it can take up to 3 days. And that's it , I'm verified. It didn't take long at all . Let's click "OK" here. Let's update

[16:49] TikTok right now, or we'll just close it. If it doesn't update, let's go back in and return here to TikTok Studio. Let's go to the rewards program. And notice that my identity isn't showing up anymore because we've already completed it.

[17:01] Now, what's left? To complete the payment method. Okay, here's something very click on it, and in this section, it will ask us for the payment method. In this case, PayPal because PayPal is international, wherever you are. And right now,

[17:17] since we're setting up a payment method, okay? It's important that you enter it. I'm going to Put it in right now and we'll continue. Okay, that's all we need. We already have what we

[17:32] need; they practically didn't ask us for anything . So, what's next? Obviously, uploading videos. Here's the important part. If you don't live in a supported country, as I mentioned, or you want to position yourself in the United States,

[17:45] there are two methods that are quite popular these days. One is a VPN, which I'll show you here, and the other is an emulator. Okay? Both are good, both work for me, but you have to know how to use them because this is mainly

[17:59] a kind of support for directing the content. However, as I was saying earlier , if your content doesn't work, if people do n't see it anymore, it's not worth it, because little by little it will be distributed to other countries that pay little, and in the end, you'll be

[18:14] left with a minimal profit. But the good thing is that at least you'll monetize, and let me tell you, TikTok has many benefits. For example, I've seen quite a few people from Facebook these days monetizing with TikTok, the same with

[18:27] people from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and to certain countries that can't monetize with other social media platforms. So, in my opinion, it's not a bad idea. You might not earn as much as you thought, but it covers a bit more than the minimum wage in

[18:40] Latin American countries. Now, for those of you who already have enough, I recommend you read this article, which is from TikTok itself and is as up-to- date as possible. It basically

[18:52] deals with the additional rewards and how TikTok calculates them so you can earn more. I also recommend reading this entire in the description, as I mentioned. And if you want to learn more about TikTok and read this entire

[19:06] simply maximize your earnings, you can join the program that many people are currently taking advantage of to monetize their benefits of this program in the link

[19:18] below. So, creators, now you know how to monetize TikTok this year. And if any questions, let me know below. Remember to like this video and subscribe if you like it. If you want more information like this, I'll

[19:32] you have any personal questions or simply want to contact me so I can help you. See you in the next