How To Earn Money By Watching Movies & TV-Shows

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Did you know you can make money watching movies and tv-shows? Well, you can, and before AI, this was my main source of income.

I am a captioner or subtitler, and a translator. I create subtitles, transcribe videos, and translate the subtitles into my own mother tongue. I took a course years back, and I got my first jobs through the course creators. After that, I went on to work for many agencies and individuals. Unfortunately, many agencies have moved on to rely on technology for these things, and the result is appalling. Still, many businesses can’t see past the money they save by not hiring humans to do the work.

Nevertheless, for beginners, there are quite a few ways to earn money by watching movies and tv-shows.

1. You can transcribe videos for YouTubers or other social media content creators.

2. You can create voiceovers for various video creators.

3. You can create subtitles or adjust their timing and placement.

4. You can translate subtitles.

5. You can create CC or SDH-subtitles.

6. You can review videos, movies and tv-shows and earn money off of ads.

7. You can create a channel and review movies, tv-shows and videos, and earn money off of the views.

8. You can watch movies and write the description that goes up in the online video stores and streaming services.

9. You can edit videos for video creators.

10. You can create trailers for movies, tv-shows and video content by content creators.

11. Streaming services and video stores such as Apple store need people to watch movies and organise them in their shop. That’s another potential income source.

12. You can design and arrange the texts at the end of the movie.

13. You can become QC-er, which means you do quality control on subtitles.

Here are links to a few sites that could come in handy:

Proz.com

Fiverr

Upwork

Amberscript

Just be careful! There are a lot of scammers out there, and even more have emerged since the pandemic. If a job offer sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. So be wary. I have worked in linguistic professions for seven years and nearly all of the scams I’ve been exposed to have happened in the last two years. Several of them through LinkedIn.

Good luck!