What's the deal with merch being advertised and sold on people's YouTube channels?

Does anyone here know the answer to this?

I have never been to Guam. Additionally, I have never done merchandise postings on YouTube. Come to think of it, I've never posted anything on YouTube other than an occasional comment when I've liked a video.

There are perhaps many reasons why it is done. Contact a few of the persons who do this and ask them.

Never been to Alaska, either. Although I did make a random phone call to Ketchikan once on a Saturday afternoon. I asked for a randomly named person and to my surprise, there was a person there with such a name. I had to wait until they located him and he came to the phone. This was in the 1980s when I would drink too much and do strange things.


I have however been to Arkansas during the summer. One timet I was there on July 4th (Independence Day). Just past midnight (at which point it was July 5), the temperature was a roasty 100° along with high quality humidity. Why is this important? Because it is.

Now, aren't you glad I gave you this exciting tale?

Admit it. It took your mind off of other things which are stressing you.

What I asked, sir, was business-related and doesn't answer my question.

In my defense, I advised you to try contacting the individuals directly. They are the ones who know why they do what they do.


Remember to drink plenty of water on the hot summer days ahead.

I was serious when I posted the topic question and I was hoping to get at least one serious answer to it.

Maybe I'll get better answers to the topic question on Yahoo! Answers.

I have a granddaughter named Alaska. She was born just as we all went into lockdown so I've been able to see her twice very briefly.

Hello Cherrie how are you? Do you know anything about YouTube?

Ask a stupid question and you’ll get a stupid answer.

Why would anybody like to make more money?

How could that possibly be?

It’s a bloody mystery.

Reread my initial post and read it carefully.

Are people selling merch on their channels because they aren't making enough through monetization? Selling merch to make up for lost money- money that they should be earning through monetization but aren't because of the changes made to YouTube?

I hope this is clear now. This isn't a stupid question.

It is a stupid question. People are trying to make more money, motivation for that is individual. Only they can tell you why they need to do it, it can be all manner of reasons for saving up for a loved one’s medical procedure to greed and everything in between.

I don't know anything about YouTube but people sell stuff to make money. Full stop.

Good grief. Of course, it's to supplement their income stream. It's also a source to increase their visibility in their target (potential) audience.

What other bloody reason would there be?!

It is. Ask the management/creators of this obvious question.


LITERALLY NO ONE HERE HAS A POPULAR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

If you do ask the producers to these channels, they're not going to answer these obviously intrusive questions. It's none of your business what parts of their income stream come from where and by how much and how it evolved or not.

Once again, you're putting the cart before the horse. You have to have an active channel before you can start worrying about selling any merchandise. You kind of need a ton of capital to start the production process unless you're completely going to make the merchandise yourself (which will likely kill your video creation side of the channel due to neglect).

Congratulations on your new family member! May she have a long healthy and happy life.

...And may this pandemic end so you can share more time and huge with each other.

It's not stupid because I don't too much about YouTube's video monetization policy or the changes that were made to it.

I've never uploaded and monetized any videos on YouTube or on any video sharing site.

As Sturg suggested I'll ask people on YouTube why they sell merch on their channels.

The irony (something you will NEVER learn) is that no one here has a professional YouTube channel. Can you do us a favor and let us know (for curiosity's sake) which YouTube channel answers this intrusive question?

But I bet its safe to say that video monetization and merchandising don't depend on each other. They're just two different methods of making income for a creator. It should be a moot question.

You don't have any money to produce and create content for YouTube. Understandable. If that's the case, you definitely do not have enough money to start creating merchandise for sale, let alone the infrastructure to produce, market, and sell said merchandise. Making this thread doubly pointless.

I know no one here has any professional YouTube channels.

I'm wondering if people were selling merch on their channels before YouTube made all the changes they made to their video monetization policy. If so I never noticed.

Yes. There are several channels I still follow that sold their merchandise way before they even qualified for monetization (let alone were effected by the monetization system change).

Thank you.

Hopefully it will all end soon and I'll be able to see all my grandchildren again.