To monetize Facebook, turn on Professional Mode for your profile or page, then access the Professional Dashboard to set up tools like In-Stream Ads, Fan Subscriptions, Stars, Branded Content, and Reels Bonuses, meeting specific criteria (followers, watch time, content quality, eligible country) for each to earn money from your videos, live streams, and content.
You can monetize Facebook pages in several ways. Include ads in articles and videos, stream live videos, collaborate with brands, or sell your own print-on-demand merchandise. Go to the Monetization tab in your Meta Business Suite to determine if your page is eligible for any Monetization tools.
Who Is Eligible to Monetize Their Pages on Facebook?
Turn on ads for individual videos
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To make $500 per day on Facebook experienced creators utilize both Facebook monetization tools (Stars, In-Stream display ads, Bonuses) and side solutions like affiliate deals or Smartlink Ads. Just for example, creators make money solely by directing Facebook audiences to a side website or landing page with ads on it.
How many followers on Facebook are needed to get paid? To be eligible for Facebook monetization and getting paid, your page needs to have at least 10,000 followers. Additionally, your page must meet Facebook monetization eligibility criteria, including having 600,000 watch minutes in the past 60 days for video content.
Check monetization eligibility for profiles
Profiles can earn money from their content if they have professional mode turned on, and if they meet Facebook's Partner Monetization Policies. To find out if your profile is eligible, you must have professional mode turned on.
If you want to start earning ad revenue, your channel will need to have generated 4,000 hours of YouTube watch time over the past 12 months and have at least 1,000 subscribers. This goal is very attainable if you consistently publish engaging content and aim to build an engaged subscriber base.
Look for Monetization Status or Earning Summary. If you're monetized, you'll see information on your earnings, views, and engagement. If not, you might see guidelines on how to qualify. Make sure you meet Facebook's monetization policies and guidelines!
What kind of content can I monetize?
To start making money on Facebook, you need to meet certain rules under their new monetisation program. Your page must have at least 10,000 followers and lots of engagement. For in-stream ads, you'll need five videos over a minute and 600,000 minutes of views in 60 days.
To start earning money on Facebook videos, you need at least 1,000 views. For this amount, Facebook pays between $8.75 and $10. This requirement helps ensure that only videos that attract a good number of viewers can make money.
Check video monetization status
6 Common Monetization Strategy Mistakes. Making monetization decisions with only a business view. Treating monetization as a silo from the rest of our growth system. Considering all revenue as good revenue. Looking at monetization just as price.
Eligibility requirements to earn money from Facebook Stars
You must meet Community Standards. You must pass and remain compliant with Facebook's Partner Monetization Policies and Content Monetization Policies. You must have 500 followers for at least 30 consecutive days. You must live in a country eligible for Stars.
Facebook monetization guidelines
To make $2,000 a month on YouTube from ad revenue, you generally need 400,000 to 1 million monthly views, depending heavily on your niche's CPM (cost per mille/thousand views) and RPM (revenue per mille), but many creators report needing 500,000 to 1 million+ views for a comfortable living, with high-value niches like finance potentially reaching it with fewer views and lower-value niches needing significantly more, plus other income streams like sponsorships.
In order to receive payouts of your earnings, you must: Meet our Partner Monetization Policies and Content Monetization Policies. Payouts may be delayed or rejected in cases where suspicious or fraudulent activity is detected. Set up a payout account.
Unified Content Monetization Program (CMP) Becomes Mandatory As of August 31, 2025, Facebook has phased out all prior monetization systems—including In-Stream Ads, Ads on Reels, and Performance Bonuses—in favor of the new Content Monetization Program (CMP) .
With features like In-Stream Ads, Fan Subscriptions, and Facebook Insights, a page is by far the more powerful option when it comes to creating a professional presence and monetizing your content.
10,000 Stars = $100 US Dollars
Viewers can attach a message or question to their Stars, which you should respond to and interact with, helping them see you not just as a face on a screen but as a real individual they're getting to know through the stream.