Standing naked in front of an audience: Amanda Palmer and a new way to make art If you're going to make videos and post them on YouTube or anywhere else, you should keep this in mind.
The question of "business models for the arts" is a weird and contradictory one. For one thing, the arts are a "non-market activity" - people make art for intrinsic reasons, starting from earliest childhood, and even the people who set out to earn a living in the arts are not engaged in any kind of rational economic calculus because virtually everyone who's done this has lost money. Of those who made money, most made very little; and of those who made a substantial sum, most had their careers quickly crater and never earned another penny from their work. Being a "professional artist" is about as realistic as being a "professional lottery winner" - there are lots of people who've tried, and though a few have succeeded, it's a statistical improbability on the order of, well, winning the lotto.
Unless you're an expert at something and can provide a valuable service by educating people about something which is not common knowledge and have a knack for explaining things, you really shouldn't expect to make money by making videos.
LINK:
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/11/standing-naked-front-audience-amanda-palmer-and-new-way-make-art