Youtube VS TikTok For Affiliate Marketing - Everything has changed!

Youtube VS TikTok For Affiliate Marketing - Everything has changed!

TikTok is a really rising platform nowadays with millions of users each month, and YouTube is the iconic platform of content making.


Hardworking affiliates are making millions on both platforms but can you really achieve these results?


It's really hard to tell which platform is suitable for you to start making content and more important to generate income. I don't know why I'm doing this but Here's TikTok vs. YouTube in terms of affiliate marketing.




Youtube VS TikTok For Affiliate Marketing



YouTube side

Hard to make Content that is widely demanded.

Youtube is getting harder and harder each day and their users are careful, they don't watch anyone if your content is not advertising they probably will ignore you and youtube will kill your channel anytime. Don't forget that the preferred video duration on youtube is between 8 minutes and 20 minutes because you need to speed up your channel growth by the average watch time, that's hardly achievable since you're restricted to what the product is about, or more specifically the niche of the product you're promoting. 


The fastest way to go around this, at least for me, was teaching people something that has to be done using the product, so they're obliged to buy it. 


Hard to build an audience on YouTube.

YouTube algorithm is crazy strict right now, if you're video is getting dislikes more than average or the viewers are leaving so fast youtube will not recommend your video to anyone leaving you frozen at your current views count, Also, keep in mind that You need SEO knowledge, youtube is mainly a search engine if you don't optimize your video enough for specific keywords no one will discover you.


Need patience and effort.

Patience is a skill, if you don't have this skill so you'll suffer badly until you get your first sale using affiliate marketing on youtube. 


More diversified way to make money on YouTube.

Content Creators on YouTube have multiple opportunities to make money online since each video has its own links and sometimes different topics, so the viewers have multiple products to choose from and if you keep them attached to you, they will probably pay for many products.



TikTok side

Easy to rank for a specific keyword.

TikTok is easy and their search engine is more tolerant, I've created a new TikTok account and included the target keyword on the account name, I surprisingly managed to rank #2 on the search for profiles, even my profile was created 10 minutes ago.


TikTok loves its creators and they're rewarding them.

TikTok videos nowadays are easily getting 2k to 3k views in a day with no follower base, and a new account. and from 17k to 100k for accounts aged enough to gain authority between TikTok users all of this is without showing your face. a simple animation or a short camera video without showing your face will do.


Instagram equivalent in building an audience

Posting regularly and The Follow for Follow method is enough to gain enough attention, exactly like Instagram, one drawback is you can't post links in the caption and the users are spending more time scrolling than searching, so ranking is pretty much useless until your engagement extends to sharing your video on multiple platforms.


One Link at a time.

Your Bio is The only place on TikTok you're allowed to put a link on it, so one link at a time means most of the time one product. as YouTube is considered to be a more long-term income stream since your links are lifelong on your video description.


TikTok vs. Youtube For affiliate marketing?


Yes, I think I made it harder for you, but let's break this down


YouTube is more long term, and TikTok is a trend based platform, If you're using free traffic methods, like me, I highly recommend using both at the same time with different product picking strategies, for youtube I use the best performing products, on TikTok I pick products that are trendy or related to a trend on the platform so I can compete with others.


YouTube is safer and TikTok is wider, which means your content will reach more users on TikTok than YouTube in the beginning, but YouTube traffic is more targeted, users are searching for your Content and if your video is professional enough, they will surely buy from you. Tiktok on the other hand is a bit random, your short videos will appear everywhere as the users keep scrolling to the bottom, where it's more likely you'll not get any clicks on your link, right? I know there's a thing called hashtags, but who is using them?


Final Thoughts

Use whatever you're comfortable with, keep an eye on your audience, and deliver the best content to them. It's an exchange operation where you make content and your fans will make you rich, 

Nothing stopping you from testing, allocate some time to test both platforms and choose whatever is working for you.



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