It is pretty challenging to make money on YouTube and yes, there is some hustle involved. According to YouTube's community guidelines, you must have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours within the last 12 months to join YouTube's Partner Program. Then you have to generate a lot of views and monitor your cost per view (CPV) to see how much money you make for advertisements. If you don't have millions of views, one great way to monetize your channel is with affiliate marketing. You can review products or perform product tutorials and place affiliate links in your video description. That way, you can earn commissions on every sale and make more money than your advertising CPV. I recommend you start a blog and couple that with your YouTube channel. That way you can promote affiliate links on both your YouTube channel and blog and embed your videos in your blog posts to get more views (and help your SEO).