Ways to Earn from Facebook Reels!

After the massive popularity of Tik Tok, YouTube introduced a short video sharing option called 'YouTube Shorts' on their platform and Facebook introduced 'Facebook Reels' on their platform. These features have become popular among users in no time, as they go viral easily and faster than large videos Apart from getting views, followers, now it is possible to earn from these features.

We will discuss YouTube shorts in the next post. So, in today's post we will mainly talk about Facebook Reel! Facebook Reels Key, Facebook Reels Monetization, Different Ways to Earn from Facebook Reels; I will know details about etc in this post. Let's begin.

Different ways to earn from Facebook Reels

What are Facebook Reels?

Facebook Reels is a new short video sharing feature from the Facebook/Meta company. It is basically modeled after TikTok and YouTube Short. Using this feature, Facebook users can share vertical [mobile screen size] videos of 1-60 seconds in length. Users can use different options while publishing videos. For example –

• Add audio effects, edit audio, add other songs/music/sound effects.
• Add any text above the video.
• Add graphical filters or effects to videos.
• Added stickers to videos.

The last option is to save the edited reel video to mobile. This allows you to publish Reels videos later rather than immediately. In addition to showing up on friends' timelines/newsfeeds, Facebook Reels videos are automatically shown to a global audience on Facebook's Reels feed. That's why the Facebook reel quickly went viral.

Anyway, now let's find out how to earn from Facebook Reel!

Ways to earn from Facebook Reel

Bonus Program: Until recently, this bonus program was the only way to earn from Facebook Reel. In this bonus program, Facebook paid gifts to creators in exchange for meeting certain milestones of views, engagements, shares, etc. on Reel videos. But the problem was, this bonus program was a 'Facebook Invite Only' feature [similar to the Facebook subscription feature], meaning that Facebook itself invited certain creators to participate in the program.

Now there is no guarantee who Facebook will or will invite. However, having hundreds of thousands of followers, millions of views on reels was the unspoken imperative to get an invite. As a result, common users and small manufacturers are less likely to benefit from this feature and earn income. However, the good news is that Facebook has now brought a professional mood to everyone's ID and has also brought an option to monetize reel videos from Professional IDs and Pages. Now we will know about them.

Monetize Facebook Reels: Since last December [2022], Facebook has introduced the option to monetize Professional ID and Reel videos published on Pages in the same way that larger videos published on Facebook Pages can be monetized. So, this facebook monetization has 2 types of options – 1-Facebook Star 2- Ad Monetization. Now we will know about them!

Facebook Star: The star system that Facebook has, i.e. users/viewers can buy stars from Facebook and donate to content creators, has now been introduced in Facebook Relay. That is, viewers can donate stars to eligible reel creators' reel videos if they wish. However, although this feature has been launched in various countries including India-Pakistan, it has not yet been launched in Bangladesh. That means if you are a Bangladeshi reel creator then you can't earn star. But there is no reason to be so upset! Because Bangladeshi users are used to watching free content, even they watch pirated movies, watch your normal reel videos, they will spend money and give you stars, it's a dream. So, we go into the discussion of the main options.

Ads on Reels: After so long, let's come to the real thing. This Ads On Reels option is a real way for everyone to earn from Facebook Reels. If you meet certain criteria, the monetization option will be enabled on your reel video, so you can earn by showing reel ads like big videos. Relay can basically show 3 types of ads if monetization is available.

Add type:

• Overlay Ads: When a reel is playing, this overlay ad is the ad that is shown in full screen before the video is shown.
• Banner Ads: This ad appears as a small banner below the reel video. Of course, its position can be changed at will.
• Post-Loop Ad: An ad shown after finishing watching one reel, before the start of another reel i.e. between two reels is a post-loop ad.

So, you understand, if you get Facebook Relay Monetization, you can earn by showing these 3 types of ads. Now come to the most important information. What are the criteria for monetization?

Criteria to get Monetization on Reels:

Followers and Viewing Time Requirements: Relay monetization criteria are similar to monetization of in-stream ads for larger videos on the page That is, your Page or Professional Mood ID should have 10000 followers, 5+ active videos on page/profile and 600000 (6 Lakh) minutes of watchtime in the last 2 months / 60 days. Although this criterion may sound difficult, it is actually easier than ever. Because, big videos don't reach properly, but reel videos reach quite well. If you can make a few reels go viral, this criteria will be met within 1 month.

Policy Requirements: Apart from meeting the criteria, you need to follow Facebook's policy to receive Relay monetization. So, I have given the link of policy to be followed here. You will check yourself.

Branded Content: Apart from Facebook stars and in-stream ads, there is another monetization feature called branded content. But it's not working yet in Bangladesh, so I didn't write about this feature in detail. If it becomes active in Bangladesh, we will update about it.

Dear Reader, That was it – How to Earn from Facebook Reel was in detail. Hope everyone understands. In the next post we will know more about earning from YouTube shorts.