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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jccalhoun »

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…

On The Wan show (their conversation show they record live on Friday nights) Linus has said the company is close to making more on the LTTStore than from youtube.

He also has a lot of sponsorships and sponsored videos as well. He also has Floatplane but I don't know how much money that makes.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by makeitdouble »

Scoundreller wrote: post #75
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…

I personally dislike the “channelization” of YouTube. The whole point of the internet is that it doesn’t have the restrictions of linear media. Search solves that problem of content discovery. Now YouTube won’t pay you unless you have 1000 subscribers. But a lot of content just isn’t subscribeable and that’s ok . Pre-1000 sub requirement, I put up a video for a niche MacBook Air microphone issue and repair that wasn’…

You have a point, and of course not everything should live and die by its channel. In particular the incentives to have regular uploads and consistent videos should be fought back, it's crushing so much creativity, brings burnout and I'm sure we're missing on otherwise good videos that are nver made because to long to take, or shelved because it doesn't match the channel.

Then I also follow channels from which I want to see every single videos in priority, whatever they are, and it irks me that they don't pop up more prominently (or at all) in my main view.

I kinda want it both ways to be honest.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ramraj07 »

jw1224 wrote: post #94
ramraj07 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. Every auto driver and worker in india ha YouTube on through their entire work shift. I would not be surprised if their ad impression is valued at a thousand times less than an average American moms ad view..

The CPM figures are in the blog post: - USA: $6.98 - India: $0.62

That’s still the average for HIS audience, which within india also likely varies a lot.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ramraj07 »

Scoundreller wrote: post #80
ramraj07 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. Every auto driver and worker in india ha YouTube on through their entire work shift. I would not be surprised if their ad impression is valued at a thousand times less than an average American moms ad view..

> Every auto driver and worker in india ha YouTube on through their entire work shift. Meanwhile in Canada, our wireless telecoms have convinced the government that this level of bandwidth consumption should cost hundreds a month otherwise the cellular network would crash.

It is absolutely a great example of monopolies playing havoc.

India got a massive bandwidth bump precisely because a new player (Jio) came and gave unprecedented bandwidth at literal pennies per GB and changed india forever. Not saying this company or it’s runners are nice people or aren’t corrupt but it helps even if corruption has a level of monopoly protection I suppose!

Re: My Youtube earnings

#105

Post by bookofjoe »

baby wrote: post #52

I find it depressing because I’m in such a niche that I’ll never be able to monetize my channel. I think the path for me is to sell a course online or do a patreon.

I use Ko-fi and receive $1.64/month from one recurrent fan who pays $2. It's been that way for about two years.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by smadge »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #91
coldtea wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would be surprised if any nation classified a person uploading videos on to a platform with the hopes of having a revenue share on ads the 3rd party sells on those videos is in anyway an "employee" of any kind. I would be surprised in some countries dont change their laws at some time to account for this digital sharecropping (from Youtube and iOS App Store to Uber, etc), and set some rules (like with employment)…

Digital sharecropping? Any country or group of people is welcome to spin up their own data centers and content moderations teams to make their own YouTube.

The digital sharecropper analogy is less about the monopoly position of platforms but about the content creator and platform relationship. More platforms wouldn’t change that relationship.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by djmips »

jccalhoun wrote: post #101
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…

On The Wan show (their conversation show they record live on Friday nights) Linus has said the company is close to making more on the LTTStore than from youtube. He also has a lot of sponsorships and sponsored videos as well. He also has Floatplane but I don't know how much money that makes.

I literally forgot that it was a name of a video service... I was hoping he was also a bush pilot. Is it doing OK?

Re: My Youtube earnings

#108

Post by lathiat »

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.

That used to be the case but it changed at some point I think about 2 years ago - couldn't find a quick reference to exactly when it changed but I remember seeing quite a few channels start publishing their earnings once it changed.

This quora post quotes the terms: https://www.quora.com/Am-I-allowed-to-show-my-earnings-to-my...

"HOWEVER, YOU MAY ACCURATELY DISCLOSE THE AMOUNT OF GOOGLE’S GROSS PAYMENTS TO YOU PURSUANT TO THE PROGRAM"

Linus Tech Tips has published their earnings for the past couple of years. One detailed video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt57TWkTF4

Linus also posted his adsense of ~$4.6million for the last 9 months a couple of days ago: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094682622194032...

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jeffwass »

shric wrote: post #9

This 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!

Wow how’s you get such a huge jump in views?

my best video has 8k views, coming in at between 100-1000 per month depending how many impressions the algorithm decides to allot to me.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by walrus01 »

lathiat wrote: post #108
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.

That used to be the case but it changed at some point I think about 2 years ago - couldn't find a quick reference to exactly when it changed but I remember seeing quite a few channels start publishing their earnings once it changed. This quora post quotes the terms: https://www.quora.com/Am-I-allowed-to-show-my-earnings-to-my... "HOWEVER, YOU MAY ACCURATELY DISCLOSE THE AMOUNT OF GOOGLE’S GROSS PAYMENTS TO YOU PURSUA…

Linus Media Group has at least ten full time employees and rents a fairly large office/warehouse/studio space in the Vancouver suburb area of Surrey/Langley BC.

Their payroll and overhead costs probably eat up a significant part of that 4.6m.

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