YouTube Vs Blogging: Which One You Can Make More Money?

A comparison and sharing my experience being a blogger and a video creator on YouTube.

I have over 4-years of experience writing on my blog and over 3 years of experience being on YouTube. I think this makes me eligible to answer this question. YouTube and Blogging are completely different things and have a business model that is very similar. Most people believe that Blogging is dead and video is going to take its future which is not true, unless and until there is one person searching for something on the Internet, blogging isn’t dead.

My YouTube channel has over 4.5K subscribers and is monetized in the 2nd month of 2020, it made me over $500, but making money through YouTube isn’t the only perk, but you get benefits in terms of promoting your brand and can get sponsored deals. YouTube is also the second most famous search engine so you get the advantage of that thing too.

Blogging, Making Money, And Writing:

A blog or website is where you write content or articles and publish them — upon publishing it is ready to available to thousands of people. You can optimize it for the search engine and get evergreen traffic.

How you make money from a blog? It is easy, you make money in a variety of ways but running pay-per-click (PPC) ads and affiliate marketing is the two most used methods by bloggers to make money through their blog.

Blogging takes time. The age of your blog and the backlinks matters a lot to getting ranked in search engines. Even though blogging is a long-game, still it is worth playing. Writing itself is lucrative. When you write about something, you get a better idea, the ideas in your mind transform into a shape. Your ideas get more clear. This is why writing online is a privilege. You can also make money writing in a range of different ways.

You don’t need a blog to make money writing: There are a lot of sites where you don’t need to pay anything but just to write great stories, one of the site is Medium, you can make money writing on Medium by just writing about your favorite subject and join Medium Partner program, Medium pay you for Medium-member read time, it takes $5/month of investment to be the part of the Medium Membership and portion of your $5 will goes to those writers who you read the content of.

Blogging changed a lot in recent times. The evolution of free-blogging platform is one of its bright side.

I have made over $15K as a student blogging on my blog. I am living in a third-world country and this amount of money is way enough to live a good life, and even you could buy nice gifts for your girlfriend.

Following are some of the pros of blogging:

• You can transform your thoughts into a shape. You get more knowledge by sharing it.
• You can build a community based on the topic you are writing.
• You can make money. There are over hundreds of ways through which you can make money through your blog.
• Every blog post you write is a mini-product, that product generates money and influence for years.
• Your blog is like your book, it takes time to publish over 200,000 words about the topic of your interest.

For my blog, the CPM usually ranges from $4 to $7 depending upon the season of the year.

Being a YouTube Creator, The future, Making money and the scope of being a YouTube creator

YouTube Vs Blogging for me gets more cleared when I started being a YouTube creator. It takes time to build your audience on YouTube especially if you are a new YouTuber.

YouTube is a great platform, it’s free. It has a built-in audience like all other platforms, video advertising is on the rise and companies are paying a high CPM on video ads which in-term means more money.

Pre-2017, you just have to make a YouTube channel, and right away, your channel started making money but now, you need over 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers in order to be eligible for YouTube monetization. On YouTube, you get the opportunity to make your face a brand. People start recognizing you because of that, you get invitations for events and get sponsored deals.

A single view is matters too. Yes, that one viewer could be your subscriber who will watch your content for years. It is like building a community. I have mentioned the word “Community” in Blogging as well as on YouTube. A community is what matters a lot.

Almost every social media website has a “Community” feature. Facebook has Facebook Groups, Instagram has Instagram Groups, Quora has Quora Spaces, Twitter has the Twitter list, Medium has Medium Publications, and so on… This is why you need to build a community.

Some pros of being a video creator on YouTube:

• Good for branding. For branding purposes, being a video creator is > then a blogger on a blog or a platform like Medium or Quora.
• Make Money: One of the side-effects of getting famous on YouTube is that you make money in different ways.
• Built-in traffic: YouTube is the world's second-most search engine and has over 2-billion userbase. You can reach millions of people by making videos on YouTube.

For my YouTube videos, the CPM ranges from $10 to $14 which means that YouTube is paying me more compared to a blog even though AdSense is running ads on YouTube as well as a blog but because of the types of ads, YouTube gives me a better CPM.

I hope this helps.

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