Quick summary
Adding affiliate links to a YouTube video requires generating a tracking link from your affiliate dashboard and pasting it into your video's description on YouTube Studio, along with a required disclosure statement. Both YouTube's policies and FTC guidelines mandate a verbal disclosure in the video as well as a written one in the description.
Steps
- Log in to your affiliate dashboard and generate a tracking link for the product or service you want to promote.
- Go to studio.youtube.com, click Content, then Videos, and open the video where you want to add the affiliate link.
- Paste the affiliate link into the Description field with a clear, descriptive label.
- Add a disclosure statement above the affiliate links in the description.
- Click Save to apply your changes, and verbally disclose the affiliate relationship in the video itself to comply with YouTube's policies and FTC guidelines.
