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It takes a ton of views to generate meaningful ad income on YouTube. If you're making learning content, consider setting up your own site for monetization with https://teachable.com/

You can put samples from your courses on YouTube to drive in traffic to the full courses on your own site.

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I agree. There's already so much content and trash on Youtube that it will be a huge investment to make it worthwhile, assuming you are lucky. Creating structured, high-quality course content in a field not covered well by existing courses on sites like teachable and udemy will still be hard work, but with a higher chance of success.

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