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> 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?
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.
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 hour…
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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.
https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094698614949519...
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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 hour…
It's not 65 videos per year. It's 65 videos total, since December 2017. So divide your numbers by five.
I came here to say that, based on my experience, his RPM is really low, but then he points out that he gets lots of views from India. We get around $4, for a niche, but primarily English speaking niche. It makes me see now more why Mr. Beast is getting his content translated....
Based on my understanding, RPM is directly proportional to the amount of money you make.
So, how does a lot of views from India cause a lower RPM?
In the post the author even says this:
> When I see my RPM drop suddenly, it is usually because my videos are being watched a lot in India
Like, say you have a billion views, and 200 million of those views were from India. Would your revenue be higher if those 200 Indian views never happened and your total views was only 800 million instead?
Why does Indian viewers cause this? I mean, they too see ads, right? Or is it because in India it costs less (??) to put up an ad?
Interesting to compare this to SocialBlade, which estimate a range of $55k - $887k per year.
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’…
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Some of the cost might come from buying a computer suitable for video editing, which I can imagine could be a couple of thousand dollars.
I'll post this as a reply to your comment because I think other people will have this concern when it comes to content creation. You do not need a really beefy computer to edit videos especially when you're starting out. A Canva Pro subscription is a couple of hundred dollars and will let you upload all your footage and then edit it within the browser meaning you don't need to have a powerful computer. If you grow yo…