Yes there are ways to make money online with YouTube with 0 subs and affiliate marketing is the way to go. It is nice to have 1,000 subs and with 1,000 subs you can run ads on your videos but there is a way to make money with 0 subs. You should already have an YouTube channel and if you don’t go ahead and set up your YouTube channel. If you don’t know to start an YouTube channel, I found a blog post showing you how to start one. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1646861?hl=en now that you have your YouTube channel, lets start making money with 0 subs.
Affiliate marketing is the best way to go and if you don’t what affiliate marketing is, pretty much you will be promoting other people products or services and when someone buys from your link, then you make money. I have blog post that goes more in death about affiliate marketing: https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/affiliate-marketing/#what-is-affiliate-marketing but pretty much you will be promoting other people products. So here’s what you will have to do.
The first thing that you have to do is to do a video and it can be based on the product that you are promoting but in the Description box you would put your link in the box so when someone clicks and buys you got paid but I made a video going over how to do this below