Before i start talking about how can you promote your channel to make a lot of money, I'm going to talk about how Youtube pays money to creators, because it might be unclear to several people.
How does Youtube pay it's creators?
Youtube pays it's creators by displaying ads on the creators' videos, called "Monetization".
The CPM ( Cost Per Mile ) depends on where are your audience from, In average countries, The creator will have a CPM of 1-1.5$. in "Premium" countries, It can go up to 8$ CPM.
It depends on how long is the video as well. If the video is longer than 10 minutes, the creator can put as many rollout ads (Video ads) as he wants. Which makes the creator earn much more.
The creator needs to connect his/her Google Adsense ( you can connect it here - https://www.youtube.com/account_monetization?action_adsense_connection=1 )
Creators nowadays have a lot of problem with monetization, because Youtube disables monetization for videos without any reason, because something really big that happened with Youtube advertisers in 2017. + Creators can monetize their content only after they reach 10,000 total channel views. ( I might do a whole post about it if you'll want ).
Tips for opening a successful Youtube Channel :
Do research on what works the best
Choose the right Niche for you
**Upload every day *
Find trends and take advantage of it
Use a smart keywords
Use SocialBlade/other useful statistics related extensions
Don't be afraid to upload, What you think is a bad content, can be good for someone else
How to promote your Youtube Channel to A LOT of people :
You went through everything, You opened a channel, You thought about the niche, You have a nice trend you want to use. How do you get to people? It's easy but it costs an investment, Nothing is free. But trust me, It will worth it.
Let's say you opened a channel about a trending game, PUBG for example, You can make a Gleam Giveaway ( Gleam is a really smart giveaway system, and it's free - Gleam.io ) for 50$ worth of crates from the game. People who play the game will not think twice and join it, and one of the things that's good with Gleam is, You can give them tasks in order to join the giveaway. For example - Subscribe to a channel.
Now, How will people know you have an amazing Giveaway going?
You have chosen a trend, which means - You did a research about it, so you know who are the Yotubers who upload on that niche. which means you know who to talk to. You want to talk to the creators and offer them payment for promoting your giveaway in the start of their video ( 15-30 seconds of talking about it ) it won't cost you a lot, it depends on the creator's views and subscribers as well.
Now all you gotta do is sending the creators a mail, which you can find on the "About" section -
You need to click on "View Email Address" and then to solve a captcha. It's made to prevent spam.
I promise you that someone will be interested in promoting your giveaway for a Payment.
After getting the promotion you paid for, You'll see your subscribers rising like crazy.
You can follow your Subscribers count live on https://livecounts.net/
If anyone's asking, Yes, I did it, and it generated me a lot of profit. a friend of mine did it as well, with the same trend as me, and got even more profit than me.
And we still have the Youtube Channels that worth alot of money, way more than we spent to promote it.
If you want to see an example of the Youtube ads revenue and CPM in Israel , check out my post - https://steemit.com/money/@yairdd/how-much-money-i-make-on-youtube-26k-subscribers-full-analytics-shown
If you have any question regarding this guide, don't hesitate, comment down below and i'll answer you as soon as possible.