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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by stephen_g »

inamberclad wrote: post #36

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.

You can spend US$5 pretty easily on one very good tripod (but something enough for this kind of production $2K would be fine). For a decent mirrorless camera you're looking at $3K body only, so then you have to think about lenses, B cameras, rigging, lighting, etc. which all adds up. Good audio equipment is expensive too, so I think for the size of the channel here, $20K is a pretty moderate spend.

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Post by zapdrive »

jdkee wrote: post #158
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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Post by LordAtlas »

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…

> Would your revenue be higher if those 200 Indian views never happened and your total views was only 800 million instead?

No, that would mathematically make no sense.

His average RPM drops because of views from India but he still makes some money from the extra 200 million views.

I'm Indian. The reason Indian views make less money is simply that the advertisers who advertise to Indian audiences have lower budgets due to PPP. So the amount they pay to YouTube is less than what a US advertiser would pay. In turn, the channel's share of the revenue (supposedly 55% of it) is also less.

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Post by jaimex2 »

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…

Same reason people try and be soccer players and rock stars.

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Post by madduci »

Key information here is

> But don’t think filming Lego will guarantee you high earnings. 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

OP got lucky to get a lot of subscribers and made themselves known in the subject, 10 M views per video in average is a good performance.

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Post by ipv4dhcp »

jdkee wrote: post #158
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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gender is also biological

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Post by Dylan16807 »

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.

Isn't buying your own farm easier then spinning up your own data center? I really don't understand the point you're trying to make.

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Post by lathiat »

walrus01 wrote: post #110
lathiat wrote: post #108

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.

Yes its a small part of the pie. In their 2020 review it was about 20% of their revenue. Their lttstore.com creator warehouse stuff has gone crazy since then - they were talking about having 5-10m tied up just in inventory waiting to sell. So, yes.

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Post by jve »

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’…

> repair my Neato vacuum cleaner

Hey, any chance your robot went from base, turns on, then turns off? Then cycles on/off again... I have mine D75 here which I started to fix by cleaning but no luck.

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