AI-Driven Content Monetization

Jaden (0:00)

If you want to get access to this episode and my next 30 episodes all ad free, so there'll be no ads on them, go check out my podcast AI Chat. You can go search for that on Spotify or Apple. It's AI Chat. I'm gonna post all of these news episodes, and I'm also posting interviews, like I just interviewed the CEO of Cohere. They've raised over a billion dollars for their AI model, talking about what they're gonna be spending the money on and the direction of the AI industry, along with all of this new stuff. So if you wanna go check it out with no ads for free, it is AI Chat. Welcome to the podcast today. Jamie and I both have done a lot in the past with creating content and monetizing it. Today, I think there's more opportunities than ever to do a couple things. Number one, use AI to help augment your content creation if you're still doing it yourself. Or number two, to completely do all of the content creation.

We've done it both ways. And so today on the podcast, we wanna talk about some of the money making opportunities related to content Jamie's gonna share what's working with him. He has a really interesting story from his YouTube channel, which, if you guys have followed him, he's got 150,000 subscribers, and he hasn't posted in about a year on his YouTube channel.

Which, I'm gonna, we'll get all of that out of the way in a second, we'll break the ice. Jamie's coming on the podcast for the first time ever to address all of his fans that are begging for more episodes. So he's gonna talk about that. Before we do though, I wanted to say, if you haven't joined the school community already, we would love to have you in there. We have over 1,300 members, these are people that are all building and scaling businesses using AI tools. We put a new episode and a new video in that community, it never gets posted anywhere else, every single week. So you can get access to basically all of the strategies, tools, and techniques that we are doing. Our goal is for you to make $10,000 a month or more on a side hustle or business that uses AI. So that is our goal, that's what we're trying to help everyone do. We have a whole bunch of different strategies, courses, directions, but if that sounds interesting to you, and you wanna do the $10,000 challenge, go join the AI Hustle School Community, there's a link in the description. And yeah, we'll see you over there. Okay, I'm taking this over to Jamie, and you can share your screen, or say whatever you want, Jamie, but it's time to, you gotta let the people know what has happened to the Jamie and Sarah YouTube channel.

Jamie (2:06)

So my wife and I have not posted in almost an entire year, because we kinda got burnt out, and we're making the same types of content over and over, and because of this one video, which I'll show you in particular, and just with young kids running around, we decided to just take a break from it for a while.

Jaden (2:25)

Totally fair.

Jamie (2:26)

But this past month has got me reconsidering that, because we haven't posted in almost a year, and this is our analytics for the past month. We have made almost $1,100 in ad revenue, passively. So I'm gonna explain why, because we had one video that kinda went viral and helped us gain a ton of subscribers and launch our channel, but I guess this is not to brag or anything, just to show you the power of content creation and how sometimes, especially with long-form YouTube video content, if it's evergreen or just really good, you can make money while you're not working, or just, it truly is passive at this point. So I think there's a lot of power in it, and I'm just gonna first show you some of these analytics, and then we'll talk about how AI can help you if you are looking to start. But this is the one video that went absolutely crazy viral.

It has 5.9 million views now. Which is, holy s***. And it just keeps slowly climbing, which is crazy. We got 30,000 subscribers from this one video, almost 31,000, and we've made almost 40,000, or over $40,000 from one video. Which is crazy, but to be honest, like none of our other videos have ever even come close to this many views. But, and so, back to the power of content creation, sometimes people think it's dead, that, you know, it's over for content creation, and that AI slop is taking over. But, I think more than ever, people are really craving authenticity, and real people doing things, doing real things, and telling a story. So, Jaden, why don't you take it from here, and talk about maybe your content creation journey, and how much you're making off of like podcasting, and then we can talk about how they can use some AI tools to help them if they want to get started.