Can You Monetize Sports Highlights on YouTube?

Can you upload sports highlights to YouTube and monetize them? I will aim to answer that question in this video by sharing my experience with running an NBA highlights channel called Ensign Hoops.

[GafurafuraMedia]

Love the information provided in this video as well as your channel. God bless bro!

[freshcookies]

Mad respect for the Jimmer dedication and giving some insight. Subscribed!

[sportspotlight]

Although our channel is not monetized yet there are ways around this. The sports channels are some of the hardest to make videos for but if you are dedicated there is a demand for the videos.

[VideoEditing-kt]

Hi Jacob!
Im actually a video editor and have worked for various NBA related channels, all monetized. There are ways to make this type of content and make money. The thing is that you cant just show highlights. What you do is just keep the clips under 6 secs, add voice overs, texts, etc. The idea is to make something diffrent than the original source, like an analysis or tell a story with those highlights clips.
And, when you post a video, post it privately first, and if you get a copyright claim on a segment, what you do is you take down that video, and trim the part that is copyrighted.
Hope it helps!

[Tedefiodor]

I find it strange as there are channels that use full NBA highlights on a FREE license (fair use) and are still monetized. Therefore it could be a good case for an appeal if the claims came from them not from NBA (as you mentioned).

[BogaDemon]

Thanks for sharing your story. That was really interesting.

[MarcusAureliusDPhilosopherKing]

Man, my hopes of having a monetized YouTube channel got dashed after hearing this, I recently started a youtube channel on NBA highlights like MJ's highlights and all that, I obviously have no subscribers right now but I thought I could make it due to false belief that NBA perhaps doesn't strike a channel with copyright claim, I wonder how channels like, House of Highlights, GD Factory Clips and others pull it off, may be they have understanding with both NBA and YouTube and others have no monetization at all, thanks for sharing your experience on making videos on NBA highlights, thanks

[FANREACTIONSFC]

Man you story is very close to my channel. I upload fan reactions from english premier league games and initially put a less than 5 second clip of the goals to illustrate the reactions. I got monetized and then demonetized twice even though I didn’t get copyrights claims on those videos. Mostly because of the heavy swearing in the videos. Now I also got paranoid about any legal action and decided to trim all the highlights from the videos. I lost 2.5 of my 4 million views because you can’t edit a video that has more than 100k views and had to make those videos private. Now I’m moving forward with posting the videos with no possibility of getting a copyright but also no monetisation. I set as a goal to get 100k subscribers just because I enjoy doing it even though it’s time consuming.

[MUNDOESCABROSO]

Thank you for making us aware. I am so sorry that you had to go through that many inconveniences. Subscribed! God bless!

[tpens]

This is the 2nd time I found your channel and in this time i subscribed because your channel is very beneficial. Thank you ❤

[pabloboiii]

thanks for the video. really enjoyed it. Very chill and informative

[ReekLaurent]

This is a great video very straight forward !

[DavidBatista-tq]

you didn't do any kind of editing on your videos? zooming in on the video or messing with the saturation or something?

[tonyfc]

I'd like to do a voiceover play-by-play over a certain play. Could that get copyright claimed?

[thesurferontheside]

Bro, this video comes quite at a good time. As you dealt with basketball, I deal with surfing. In many of my videos, either I take all the footage from wsl (world surf league) yt channel and do some quick edits, either I take multiple footages of surfers channells and put it in one video, either I take one surfer's video and make it shorter (ie my video my video that did almost 100k two weeks ago). So, my channel uses stuff from other creators and I reuse content. AND IT WORKS !!! (that's the problem). I took a video of 8mn, and made it two minutes. I put a music behind. And easy 100K views. And I have many videos like you that perform well (many of them are around 20k while I take world surf league footage entirely). I am never copyrighted by world surf league. I am only coprighted by the musics I use. I don't knopw what to do.

[abs-besar]

Can I monetize even if I'm just analyzing player games or creating stories about NBA players

[cardplugz]

Hey so I was looking into starting my own sports channel, want to do a combination of Faceless as well as reaction sand sports news/updates. There’s one thing I can’t figure out. Where do you go to get the videos for your sports content?

[revoltin]

I appreciate your sharing... Thanks man

[University_Of_Backbenchers]

Jacob bro ❤ plz come lets start again what we love to do, there are now many channels who are posting videos of nba with many edits and voice over, they dont upload highlights directly, and this is under youtube copyright policy, so lets start again, its will be fun 🎉

[Magic_Prodz]

I have a question, On my recent video the NBA "SUPERHUMAN" Moments do you think if I add more effects and music it could get monetized? Because the NBA shorts that I do, I was told there's no problem monetizing it. Thanks!