YouTube just announced a brand new
feature that's gonna help you and me as
content creators here on the platform to
make more money here on YouTube and how
are they gonna do this well they're
gonna help you sell merch in a super
powerful way because the merchandise is
actually gonna show up right under your
video so in this video we're gonna cover
everything that you want to know about
the new YouTube merchandise shelf I'm
gonna go give you all the details the
requirements the setup everything and
even my thoughts let's do this hello my
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merchandise is that a new concept for
content creators here on YouTube in fact
YouTube content creators have been
pushing and peddling their merch for a
very long time so some great news for
content creators that really want to use
merch I was at VidCon listening to the
chief product officer that's the CPO and
he was introducing a new way a powerful
way to display your merchandise right
under your video that's right now
content creators here on YouTube are
able to sell their merchandise their
t-shirts their phone cases their pillows
their socks and even leggings leggings
now let's go ahead and I'm going to show
you how to set up the merch shelf for
yourself and I'll also talk about the
requirements and kind of my thoughts a
little bit later in this video
now to set this up all you need to do is
go over to the new YouTube studio beta
like this and what you need to do is
mouse on over to the monetization
section click on that and mouse over to
merchandise and see this little link
here it says see more let's go ahead and
click that now the next thing that we
need to do is make sure that we have a
teespring account now if you don't have
a teespring account you can go ahead and
click on the link in the description
below and what we're gonna do once it's
set up is
gonna actually link your teespring
account to your YouTube channel and how
to do that is basically click get the
teespring ID and it will open up a new
tab on teespring it'll show you a nine
digit number
that's your store ID all you got to do
is copy that we're gonna go ahead and
paste that nine digit store ID into the
creator studio and go ahead and hit
connect now the next thing that you need
to do is design some products on
teespring now I already did that and all
you got to do once the designs are
complete you actually have products on
your store you go ahead and hit the
complete button now there's one last
thing YouTube has some guidelines that
your merch doesn't promote hate and
violence and it fully complies with the
YouTube community guidelines that
consistently change so you make sure
that you hit that Community Guidelines I
put a link in the description below so
you know exactly what you're able to do
and what you're not able to do now a
special note don't freak out if you're
not seeing products immediately because
it's gonna take one to three days for
that product to actually start showing
up underneath your videos so here is
something interesting that's happening
especially with this beta program that
I'm actually kind of shocked by now
YouTube is actually going to give a
referral fee that's right a referral fee
for anyone that's going from YouTube to
teespring
to purchase your products they're gonna
give you as a content creator $1 so if
you bring a million people in that's a
million dollars that YouTube's gonna
give you now that's pretty big because
you know normally they'd take like 30 or
40 percent so I think this is huge now
this promotion for giving you a dollar
is only gonna last for one year now here
are some of the requirements and I know
some of you will be bummed out but you
need to be a little patient because
YouTube this is their standard way of
releasing a beta product first off you
need to live in the United States second
you need to have at least 10,000
subscribers and be in the YouTube
Partner Program and you cannot have any
copyright strikes or any community
strikes now the teams at YouTube
everyone that's working there I believe
that this is a great start and I think
it's a great partnership with teespring
now I've been a customer for teespring
for a very long time actually since they
started
we've utilized this and it's a great way
to not have to deal with inventory and
you know customer issues and you can do
it really quick because they handle all
that and I am elated that you are just
basically paying creators at least for a
year a buck for every product that's
sold that's a pretty big deal now with
all the kudos and Pat's on the bag
YouTube here's the thing for my
suggestions now I hope the product teams
listening and here are some suggestions
you probably thought of but you haven't
necessarily instituted because you want
to get it out a little bit quicker first
off please give the creators the ability
to turn on the merchandise shelf for
selected videos now I want it to be on
all videos if the creator wants to or
you can go into the monetization section
and just do click a checkbox saying hey
I want my merchandise shelf to show up
that would be really cool and number two
please give YouTube creators the ability
to sort their products on the shelf and
let me tell you why there are content
creators they'll probably have 30 40
different products and maybe their best
selling products should be at the
beginning or they need to be sorted in a
certain order let's give that power to
the Creator now this might be a
teespring thing but you guys are
partners now so figure it out it's super
easy let's make this happen but serious
YouTube I think this is a great great
addition to the platform and I think
it's a very powerful way to make more
money here on YouTube now those people
that are listening to this video what is
your thoughts of the new YouTube merch
self is it a win is it a bust
do you agree with me do you disagree
with me put it in the comments below
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