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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Aeolun » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:31 AM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #59

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 wonder how much other information exists on the web that is extremely valuable yet unnoticed This is pretty common knowledge for monetized or high viewership (sponsored/paid for outside of Google) channels.

It may be common knowledge for people that already have a channel, but I’ve never seen anyone give exact revenue numbers to outsiders before.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Aeolun » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:33 AM UTC

geerlingguy wrote: post #69

Izikiel43 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linus tech tips did a video sharing their YouTube earnings last year

Indeed, Linus just shared the Ad revenue for 3/4 of last year a couple days ago: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094682622194032...

Holy moly, 4M for a bunch of videos. Talk about passive income.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Gigachad » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:53 AM UTC

loveparade wrote: post #72

The most impressive thing to me is the initial period of 2-3 years, maybe more if the graph doesn't show the full history, with very little traction and negligible income. Of course that's expected, but sticking with it for so long without profits is not something most people can do, both emotionally or financially. Even if you love the topic you're making content on, the time and effort that goes into video editing…

> the time and effort that goes into video editing isn't fun

I’ve seen YouTubers comment that they got in to it just because they loved video editing. Not planning to make money, just to share content and work worth the tools to create it.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by petesergeant » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:54 AM UTC

I am interested by the gender split of viewership here, and wonder how heavily the various factors of intrinsic gender differences in interest, societal perceptions of Lego as a boy's toy, and confounding factors ("Dad set up the YouTube account that child Emily is watching from", Mom has less leisure time) contribute to each of these. I also note that the themes of the most popular videos ("BIG vortex", "tank" "car") are often associated more with traditionally masculine than feminine themes, perhaps making it hard to pull any Lego-specific insights from this.

Certainly my nieces are no less interested in Lego than my nephews, and growing up my sisters weren't less interested than my brothers (although there did seem to be a difference in focus in construction vs Sims-like play).

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by winrid » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:55 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #152

geerlingguy wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, Linus just shared the Ad revenue for 3/4 of last year a couple days ago: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094682622194032...

Holy moly, 4M for a bunch of videos. Talk about passive income.

It's not passive. He has many employees.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by chillfox » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:56 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #151

ProAm wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder how much other information exists on the web that is extremely valuable yet unnoticed This is pretty common knowledge for monetized or high viewership (sponsored/paid for outside of Google) channels.

It may be common knowledge for people that already have a channel, but I’ve never seen anyone give exact revenue numbers to outsiders before.

There’s quite a few videos on YouTube sharing that info about their channel. It’s also frequently shared in various YouTube creator/business communities.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jrockway » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:56 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #152

geerlingguy wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, Linus just shared the Ad revenue for 3/4 of last year a couple days ago: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094682622194032...

Holy moly, 4M for a bunch of videos. Talk about passive income.

If you've ever watched LTT, you'll know that his business is anything but passive. They own buildings, have employees, HR departments, R&D, and all that stuff. This sort of approach is probably not too different, except in scale, to huge media companies.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jdkee » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:57 AM UTC

petesergeant wrote: post #154

I am interested by the gender split of viewership here, and wonder how heavily the various factors of intrinsic gender differences in interest, societal perceptions of Lego as a boy's toy, and confounding factors ("Dad set up the YouTube account that child Emily is watching from", Mom has less leisure time) contribute to each of these. I also note that the themes of the most popular videos ("BIG vortex", "tank" "car"…

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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by chillfox » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:59 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #152

geerlingguy wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, Linus just shared the Ad revenue for 3/4 of last year a couple days ago: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094682622194032...

Holy moly, 4M for a bunch of videos. Talk about passive income.

There’s very little passive about running a YouTube channel, and if you stop publishing then traffic to your existing videos will start to drop off over time.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Scoundreller » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:07 AM UTC

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.

Not really, content in violation of YouTube’s (largely vague) rules can be wildly popular.

If they can keep spam out of my inbox, I’m sure they can figure out what’s objectionable to advertisers beyond “unpopularity”.