One year after YouTube invited members to become ‘partners’ and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning more than $20,000 (Rs.10 lakh) a month from the website!

Some like Cory Williams, 27, gave up their full-time jobs to focus on the crating amateur video channels for the site and has today more than 180,000 subscribers.

While it’s all free and takes very little money to film your own amateur video – it take a whole lot more to create content that is of interest to others and then get it going viral.

But there’s a whole industry that’s cropped with books, articles and of course, videos that can help you along the way.