My Youtube earnings
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My Youtube earnings
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#2(Not my blog/channel.)
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#3Super interesting - one thing to keep in mind is advertising CPM rate can be wildly different by audience.
A quick google shows a range of $0.03/cpm to $13.00/cpm depending on category.
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#4So they make around $150K/year but likely pay more tax, higher overheads, and have to fund their own benefits out of that. Depending on where they live this could either be a very good income or only marginally higher than tech wages with much higher risk/stress. That's on 2M-6M viewers too.
Makes me wonder how YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips are able to seemingly hire around one-hundred full time staff? I have to imagine revenue from their other sources (e.g. their merchandise, sponsors, other?) is the majority of their income if this is what we can expect from YouTube.
Regardless thanks for sharing.
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#5The transparency of this is really amazing; big respect. It's interesting to think that this information was quietly posted to their low-traffic blog with little notice, meanwhile the information contained is actually extremely valuable (and itself would have probably made a highly valuable youtube video itself with 10s of millions of views).
I wonder how much other information exists on the web that is extremely valuable yet unnoticed
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#6Interesting to compare this to SocialBlade, which estimate a range of $55k - $887k per year.
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#7So they make around $150K/year but likely pay more tax, higher overheads, and have to fund their own benefits out of that. Depending on where they live this could either be a very good income or only marginally higher than tech wages with much higher risk/stress. That's on 2M-6M viewers too. Makes me wonder how YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips are able to seemingly hire around one-hundred full time staff? I have…
For the larger channels such as LTT, the YouTube ad revenue is likely approaching rounding error compared to their sponsorship/merch/platform revenue.
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#8> mostly middle-aged males
No, most viewers were 18-44.
"Middle-aged" is 45-65.
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#9This is fantastic information and very sobering for those of us with smaller channels. I had 10-50 views per month until two weeks ago and I got 200k views suddenly thanks to the algorithm, but it's already peaked so I expect I can't make more than a few dollars per month. See what happens though!
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#10$10000/video seems crazy to me, but it makes sense if each video is averaging 10M views for ad-friendly content.
It'd be interesting to see how many Youtube channels make it to this size, and if there is anything that differentiates successful channels from obscure ones (beyond quality).