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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by sumedh »

jeffwass wrote: post #109
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.

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

It happens when your video reaches the frontpage of Youtube.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by sumedh »

2143 wrote: post #126
tedmcory77 wrote: post #66

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....

I'm not a youtuber, but I'm trying to understand the RPM. 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…

> Why does Indian viewers cause this?

Not a lot of Indians are going to buy your product even if they the cost of the product will probably be lower for Indians so the advertiser makes less money

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by swyx »

sumedh wrote: post #138
swyx wrote: post #131

> There are many, many creators who release Lego videos continuously and have no subs and get no views. Too many. Hundreds, maybe thousands of such creators. It is kind of heartbreaking to see people put so much time and effort for (supposedly) nothing. this is the saddest part. he is in the top 0.1% of his genre and making $90 an hour, but 99.9% of them make nothing. i dont know what drives people to want to make vi…

> i dont know what drives people to want to make videos when the odds are like that I used to write tech How To articles on my site around 15 years back, just to help other people. Then adsense came along and I made some money but the primary motivation was to learn and share my knowledge with others.

yes except here the view counts are dreadfully public reminders that hours of your work can go to get like 10 views if it doesnt please the algorithm… do what makes you happy i guess but i dont get it

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by sumedh »

swyx wrote: post #143
sumedh wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> i dont know what drives people to want to make videos when the odds are like that I used to write tech How To articles on my site around 15 years back, just to help other people. Then adsense came along and I made some money but the primary motivation was to learn and share my knowledge with others.

yes except here the view counts are dreadfully public reminders that hours of your work can go to get like 10 views if it doesnt please the algorithm… do what makes you happy i guess but i dont get it

It was the same 15 years, write a good article and then pray (or use SEO) so that Google ranks your link at the top of the user's search page. Some pages get lot of views because Google decides to show that link to their search engine users, some pages get no views because Google didnt like it.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jjude »

swyx wrote: post #143
sumedh wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> i dont know what drives people to want to make videos when the odds are like that I used to write tech How To articles on my site around 15 years back, just to help other people. Then adsense came along and I made some money but the primary motivation was to learn and share my knowledge with others.

yes except here the view counts are dreadfully public reminders that hours of your work can go to get like 10 views if it doesnt please the algorithm… do what makes you happy i guess but i dont get it

Two years back I started a podcast[0]. By all "viral" metrics pov, it is a failure - didn't get thousands of downloads, no first page hits etc. But I became a better conversationalist.

Now whenever I interview people in my professional life (I'm a CTO and have to interview people for top level positions), they routinely tell me, they had their best interview. For long, I couldn't trace it back to the podcast. After many people compliment me, I asked one what made it a better interview. He said, you let me explain my project and you listened. That is when it clicked. Those are the skills I learned as a podcast host.

I paused the podcast last year, because I got covid and for other personal reasons. With this feedback, I'm going to restart the podcast.

Not all creative projects have to make money directly. There could be 2nd order benefits, which we may not see immediately.

[0]: https://jjude.com/podcast

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by stephen_g »

Gigachad wrote: post #129
Scoundreller wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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’…

It’s probably because advertisers demand that their ads are not placed on “bad” content. By limiting ads to 1000+ subscriber channels, it’s much more likely the content isn’t in violation of the YouTube rules.

I think YouTube now puts ads on basically everything though... (I don't know for sure, I have had Premium for a little more than a year now, and before that uBlock Origin took care of things).

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by burnished »

swyx wrote: post #131

> There are many, many creators who release Lego videos continuously and have no subs and get no views. Too many. Hundreds, maybe thousands of such creators. It is kind of heartbreaking to see people put so much time and effort for (supposedly) nothing. this is the saddest part. he is in the top 0.1% of his genre and making $90 an hour, but 99.9% of them make nothing. i dont know what drives people to want to make vi…

Whats the competition? If you are otherwise looking at a service industry job, or other forms of low wage kind of shit employment then I guess this sort of thing becomes increasingly desirable.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by runarberg »

coldtea wrote: post #81
phpisthebest wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>That's an odd pet peeve Everytime there is a YT Change (like happen recently) there is all these videos where YT often try to compare their experience with employment, how their "boss" Susan did something, or how they are being "Fired" if they get banned, or other such non-sense. That is my peeve. >>I wouldn't be surprised if some countries define employee differently. I would be surprised if any nation classified…

> 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

This has to stop. People are making products which one company uses to profit. This company is buying their labor—albeit in a really roundabout way. We’ve heard this gaslighting from e.g. Uber, where their workers weren’t employees but “gig workers”, or some other thing.

The only reason companies do this is to get their labor for cheaper. No, these are YouTube workers, their labor is bought by YouTube, and YouTube should obey all labor laws when they buy their labor and profit from their work.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by nibbleshifter »

Gigachad wrote: post #129
Scoundreller wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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’…

It’s probably because advertisers demand that their ads are not placed on “bad” content. By limiting ads to 1000+ subscriber channels, it’s much more likely the content isn’t in violation of the YouTube rules.

All content is advertised on by YT, they just don't start sharing revenue with you until you have 1k subs.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by doc_gunthrop »

Decabytes wrote: post #17
warent wrote: post #5

The 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 val…

I don't think YouTube allows you to make videos showing your revenue, but I could be wrong

A YouTuber who goes by the handle kofuzi just released a video that goes into the fine details and analysis of his channel's metrics with full transparency. He's easily among the top 3 video content makers who focus on running, running shoes, and running events. Despite putting out high-quality videos, his channel isn't nearly as popular as OP (probably due to his focus being more niche).
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