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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by _tom_ »

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…

> still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm.

That's the scary part. He spends years building a channel and it can be wiped out in a day. He needs to diversify. Sponsorships/ads won't help, they'd die with the channel.

I'm not in this space, but maybe patreon? Does onlyfans do non-porn? Vimeo?

How does one minimize risk to this $150k/year revenue stream?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by rippercushions »

_tom_ wrote: post #178

$90 is not much for all that. As an employee, that's pretty good, but as someone who probably had to invest thousands of hours before he knew if he'd see any revenue, that's a pretty meager return! It would be interesting to see his revenue graphed over time. Pretty sure he didn't make 12k/mo for the first few years. Which means he's making more Than that, now.

His content is quite "evergreen" though, so even if he were to stop making content today, money would keep rolling in for quite some time.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jjeaff »

grogenaut wrote: post #31
tra3 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$90/hour is real nice money, but for some reason i assumed a channel with that many subs would make more money. For every million plus channel, there’s probably a million+ channels with no subs. Basically have a day job before you go all in as a content creator.

Subs on YT don't mean revenue... they're just people who may watch your videos later. It's more a hueristic than anything.

And then even if they do watch your video, your topic of choice will strongly affect your revenue per view. For example, a personal finance channel makes a lot more per view that say, a channel about thrift store finds.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by mattlondon »

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…

Advertisers bid on ad spots, based on the viewer. It's all algorithmic and real-time.

Advertisers can target ads based on various demographic info, e.g. age, gender, location. Cookies etc allow for even more targetting.

So you can imagine an advertising bidding high for ad spots shown to 20-30 males in London (i.e. relatively rich westerners who can afford your product), and bidding low for poorer nations where people do not have as much money to spend (so are not your target customer - e.g. imagine you are trying to sell iPhones etc)

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by esskay »

passion__desire wrote: post #133
tkgally wrote: post #82

Just a personal note of praise for YouTube itself. I’ve watched videos on YouTube since it began, but it’s only in the past few years that I’ve come to appreciate what a great medium it has become. By allowing people to share content on all sorts of niche subjects and potentially make money at it, YouTube has become a fantastic resource for both education and entertainment. For someone like me who grew up with access…

The most important secret sauce is the recommender system. It takes into account transcripts, color historgrams of frames, actions and activities recognized in videos, frame cuts frequency, key personalities and entities recognized and what not. That's my humble guess.

Sadly that secret sauce has become fairly poor. Recommendation issues is the biggest problem with YouTube right now.

I can open YouTube on any given day and will be given recommendations for things I've never shown the slightest bit of interest in.

For example, right now I've got:

- A clip for the big bang theory - Never watched anything on that show on youtube

- "Why does italy have 6000 ghost towns (Hidden Italy)" - Absolutely no idea why it thinks that would interest me, never been to Italy or watched any kind of travel based videos.

- "I hitchhiked Onto A Private Jet To Werever It's Going" - Again, I couldn't give a damn

- "The Legendary World of Spyro Games - Caddicarus" - I have no idea what that is, or why it thinks it interests me.

- "Singapore welcomes 2023 with New Year fireworks at Marina Bay" - Ok, and? Never been there, never watched any content about the place.

- "I called every U.S. Representative in the country. Here were the responses I got." - I'm not American, and give absolutely zero f's about US politics.

- "I've Been Living In A Ghost Town for Almost 3 YEARS!" - Good for you, I don't care.

- "Dark Secrets of the World’s Most Isolated Island" - Nope.

It has improved slightly from the looks of things. Usually I get videos about minecraft, or some twat gorping with their mouth wide open trying to make a mundane and uninteresting topic seem like something I should be interested in whilst remembering to smash the like button and click the bell.

The platform has so many problems.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by quickthrower2 »

hinkley wrote: post #125
kccqzy wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not 65 videos per year. It's 65 videos total, since December 2017. So divide your numbers by five.

Ah, so then it's $150k a year for less than 25 hours a week. Good work if you can get it.

You can earn a similar deal by getting a part time tech job and buying lottery tickets with some of that.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by bagels »

stephen_g wrote: post #146
Gigachad wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

If your channel covers certain taboo topics it can be "demonetized" which means no revenue from Google. Those channels often have other sponsors.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jonp888 »

_tom_ wrote: post #181
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…

> still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm. That's the scary part. He spends years building a channel and it can be wiped out in a day. He needs to diversify. Sponsorships/ads won't help, they'd die with the channel. I'm not in this space, but maybe patreon? Does onlyfans do non-porn? Vimeo? How does one minimize risk to this $150k/year revenue stream?

You can sell stuff directly to your fans:

- branded merchandise

- endorse or develop your own products - write a book

- other platforms(TikTok, Instagram etc.)

Or use your experience and brand value to do things your YouTube fans might not even notice:

- public speaking

- consulting/video production for brands

- presenting work for commercial YouTube channels

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