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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by kube-system »

runarberg wrote: post #26
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #16

I could be wrong but I don't think YouTube TOS allows publicizing this kind of information. I would be afraid of my channel being de-monetized. I believe they have a similar policy for AdSense.

I think such policy is illegal in many countries. An employer cannot prohibit workers from discussing salaries. This is often a measure to combat against gender discrimination at a workplace. I’m not sure how this affects contractors, but I would be surprised if these laws wouldn’t cover contractors as well.

The YouTube Partner program doesn’t pay people to do any sort of work, though. It is a revenue sharing program.

Usually a wage or salary is a payment in exchange for doing something. Which this isn’t.

I would imagine most places treat this similarly to the way something like a book publishing agreement works.

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Post by system2 »

makeitdouble wrote: post #25

The most impressive part is the creator gets to have a probably comfortable living from a channel that grew organically and still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm. I follow the channel for years now, anyone not familiar should have a look [0]. It’s not “viral” targeted videos with crazy face thumbnails, borderline clickbaity titles, ABtested through a week, no “I got to stick to the schedule” weekly videos etc. Th…

Another example is probably the Primitive Technology channel. Last week I was reading his interview and he mentions $1M savings from his channel.

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Post by acdha »

I wonder how often “middle-aged males” means an adult LEGO fan, of whom there certainly are many, versus a parent letting their kid watch YouTube. My son has notably shifted my recommendations towards LEGO and/or trains.

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Post by rcme »

Someone1234 wrote: post #4

So 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…

I would expect tax to be substantially lower. There are lots of things you can deduct as business expenses, like part of your house used for filming.

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Post by system2 »

hijackedt wrote: post #3

Super 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. https://stashvine.com/most-profitable-youtube-niches/

I hardly trust any "make money" website statistics.

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Post by tqi »

"successful" Lego channels are an avg of 9 years old is interesting. It shows difficult it is for new creators to break in. This is why social networks seem to have a natural lifecycle - new platforms offer an opportunity for a network reset. This was one of the keys to tiktoks rise (also their distribution is much more engagement based).

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Post by berkut »

inamberclad wrote: post #36

How did he spend $20K on film equipment? A few pro-grade tripods and a solid camera shouldn't be more than a quarter of that.

He has multiple cameras, some of them mini ones for attaching to models and putting them underwater:

https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/2022/09/12/my-c...

He's also in Finland, so the cost of gear might not be as cheap as in the US.

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Post by doodlesdev »

jonas21 wrote: post #33
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #16

I could be wrong but I don't think YouTube TOS allows publicizing this kind of information. I would be afraid of my channel being de-monetized. I believe they have a similar policy for AdSense.

I don't think that's right. A lot of YouTubers make videos detailing their YouTube earnings and post them to YouTube (for example [1]). If it were against the ToS, you'd think YouTube would at least remove those videos. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rm-ElJPDJk

It is against ToS I'm pretty sure, I don't remember YouTube ever doing anything about it ever though since a lot of people really do share this information publicly.
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