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Re: My Youtube earnings

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For "how viewers find my videos", what about people who find the videos from subscription? I can't imagine that being too small.. Is it in "other youtube features"? Edit: I just opened YouTube Studio myself, it looks they're counted as "Browse features":

> Traffic from the homepage/home screen, the subscription feed, and other browsing features.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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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…

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Re: My Youtube earnings

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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.

They are up to ~80 employees if I recall. However the YouTube ad revenue is just one component not including video sponsorships and their merch store.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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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.

Dunno about YouTube, but Adsense used to prohibit that but then reversed that policy. I remember emailing someone that said they “didn’t share how much they made because it’s against TOS” after the policy changed and they still declined. I think it might have been the “I made my Christmas lights controlled by anyone on the internet” guy. It was a long time ago.

That guy is Matt Parker from StandUpMaths

Re: My Youtube earnings

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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.

Can you point to the section of the ToS? In my brief glance just now, I didn’t see anything disallowing sharing this information.

The terms for the partner program aren't the same as for the YouTube website and are not available publicly (at least from my short search). I did read it a few years ago when I was considering monetizing a small channel I had and remember very vividly something along those lines in the terms.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They have other revenue streams. Sponsorships, YouTube Premium, Floatplane, their online store, affiliate links on YouTube and their forums to name some.

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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.

> our wireless telecoms have convinced the government

What's the government got to do with mobile data prices?

Re: My Youtube earnings

#118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They have around 100 employees and rent, I think, (at least) two warehouse spaces. They also seem to do work-for-hire production work, merch, and Floatplane on top of their YouTube content. I'm sure there are other revenue streams that aren't obvious besides those listed in addition to their YouTube AdSense only being a slice of their advertising revenue since they do in-video sponsored spots.

Source on employee count: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094698614949519...

Re: My Youtube earnings

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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…

He claims $90 an hour which sounds good but that ends up being the gross income. His net is 22.5% (150/664), and the hours he's quoting for working on a video are either wrong or insane, because he's claiming to be working for 17.8 hours a day which either means pernicious sleep deprivation or sitting at the computer every waking moment except to pee and eat food that takes no time to prepare. If it's really 100 hours per video 65 videos a year he's making just over $20 an hour which is is just madness.

Re: My Youtube earnings

#120

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.

Perhaps the $20,000 he spent on film equipment helped propel him to 2.9 million subscribers, 705 million video views, and $664,000 total earnings by allowing him to produce a grade of video that is better than other lego videos on YouTube.
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