The TRUTH About Starting a Meditation Channel on Youtube (6 Month Experiment)

it would be more interesting is it now true or not, or is there a significant way to check if monetasation for meditation and realxing chanels is really dying?

your chanel design was really shitty (sorry) it is really not difficult to fail based on this

Thank you for taking the time to do this experiment, it definitely made me question things, & further my research into making this type of video. I believe the older channels that make tons of money off of their ambient videos got into the niche first, & used content off different sites to create their videos. Now that those videos exist with those sound effects, music, and images, they can't be reused & monetized over and over. I've heard many times that as long as you use all of your own original content (photographs you've taken, art you've created, sounds you've recorded, music you've composed etc.), you won't have an issue with being demonetized. I've also heard that even if you create all of your own original content, you can still have trouble getting monetized. Unfortunately creating all of your own original content, & attempting to reach the point of monetization is a lot of work to do if you dont end up getting the desired result. I dont think many people would want to risk dedicating all that time & effort into testing it out, just to find out that it wont be monetized. No matter what kind of channel you have/want to have, you're going to have to put time, effort, possibly a little money, and a ton of patience into it. If it's something you're passionate about, do it. If you're hoping to find a get rich quick hack, you'll be sorely disappointed.

To save people copying and pasting a small audio loop hundreds of times to create a 10 hour audio, you can put it once into a DAW grab the right part of the track with the mouse and stretch it to 10 hours.

1. 10 hours video is nuts. All you need is 20-30 mins.
2. If you want a road trip then put a camera on the dash of your car then record a trip.
3. use pay for non-copyright music and or narrate the video.

You know what helps. Research your own stuff. Me as a starting white noise/ soundscape channel is doing pretty good.. Not worries getting monitized anytime soon. But what i really dislike about channel that give advice ( not you ) is they only tell half of the story. It sounds so simple and quick.. it rather time consuming. Anyways love the experiment you did on your own terms.. 🙏🙏

I've got a Ambient space music to space nebula channel going for 6 months now, and I'm worried it will not be monetizable. I've been developing and working on 3D volumetric space nebula for over a year, I needed a powerful and expensive computer to render and comp the Nebula, it's not a side hustle it takes a lot of time. I put them to ambient space music that I personally love and have listened to for years, I'm at almost 1800 watch hours and 156 subscribers, the subs seems like it's going to be the main roadblock, but I would feel pretty bad putting in 2 years of work to have my channel rejected for monetization, do you have any way I can find out if this is even possible?

Thanks for the informative if hard to watch video.

@VEEDCREATORS couldn't resist subscribing to you and your relaxing sounds channel too - thank you for this two-part study - i enjoyed it!!!! I would love to get rich uploading these types of videos, but, more realistically, want to keep me and my autistic kiddo entertained and sleeping soundly at night. I started my silly little channel as a desperate attempt to make meaningful content for a very demanding, very specific special someone that's obsessed with streetlights and ceiling fans.

I started a sound effect channel a month ago, but I've recorded my own sound effects. My first video already has 1.5K views. I don't think there should be a problem getting monetized if you record the sounds yourself.

Is almost like the real business is............making videos about making money off meditation channels, and sell you a course on how to do it.

inb4 "but look at all the money they are making!"

Leaving aside that anyone can photoshop or edit the HTML of the page to show whatever revenue they want is its telling that most of these people make their videos from a dingy apartment and can't even afford proper soundproofing despite making millions a year from all their very successful channels.

The fact so many channels that are original are still not getting monetized makes me think mine will never do.

What about affirmation videos. Can they be monetised

I just hit 168 subscribers and 1,826 watch hours in 2 months, now I am worried if the Royalty free music I am using will even let me monetize even with licenses. It's a grind but my visuals are original and I enjoy doing it.

Thanks for making this experiment. I was actually considering creating a similar channel but make the visuals original from my work of art but now thinking twice and probably not continue it. And if I will, I'll just do it for a hobby instead of for profit.

What if you are an artist and all of the music is music you created from scratch and you have copyrighted your music so no other channel can take your music and do what you're doing? Couldn't that be monetized?

I'm still trying to do this and am seeing mixed results. I've seen 1000+ views on some videos but 3 views on others...
The meditation market is super saturated, so it's difficult to stand out, which is why I make my own original music which has definitely helped.

Thank you for this video. I make videos with my own script. Also affirmation video’s. I wonder if this would be different

As someone who teaches meditation, I would like to argue that it's not technically a meditation channel. It's a relaxing sounds channel. Unless someone comes to the page fully aware of how to meditate on their own, it's not providing any meditation benefits.

you should upload everyday man. not jut 30 videos for a month then stop. you have to make it a fun sidework. upload everyday for 1 year. you even just upload for 30 day and stop and you expect it will grow after 6 months. even you know, you just klick bait people to watch your channels. i dissapointed you stop posting for 1 month and you expect it will grow after 6 months.

Thanks for an honest review! What about guided meditation videos - with original and unique scripts?

Isnt that the truth about tutorials being a trend. It is actually probably becoming or is already just another brilliant niche itself. Great advice to just be wary or mindful of this.

Im making a video on this soon

Excellent material. The videos you create are very entertaining. Keep up the great work!

But haven't got monetize

You saved me a lot of time. Thank you🙂

Who going to meditate 10-hour in my opinion meditation music 1 hour to hour I meditated list twice a day and I never use those long music I would try to make guided meditation music
Thanks for the video anyway it was useful

👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏

In what category do you put meditation and relaxing videos if they have no music?

Thanks for the great sharing! I hope to get monetized one day

very helpful thank you

Thankyou man it helped! Sending love from other side of the world <3

I'm curious to know if doing live videos would impact the outcome of monetisation on these channels.... What do you think?

Hi sir
Is channels like" lovely cat" monetized through adsense

Not monetized

I am on a quest to grow a channel like this. I am only 2 months in, my subs grow very slow, but I already have over 1K of watched hours.. in 2 months ! I am making my own music and my own visuals, so my content is 100% original. I can't unfortunately be uploading every day as I have another business to run, and also another channel (growing that one too, but with absolutely different content, mostly filming my self talking about music production, have enough subs but not enough hours). And making music and visuals take time, but I try at least every 3 days.

I think you hit it on the head bro when you say it is better to make video that interests the creator, rather than just make it to make money! Bullseye bro, thanks for the experiment, so I don't have to!

Thank you!!! For the honest info and the update!

Hi, were you able to monetize your channel?

Air plane noise? I think you should've tried some other noise and new titles

yep. was just told I use 're-used' content even though its not. oh well. back to the drawing board.