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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

esskay wrote: post #186
passion__desire wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)"…

My experience is different. My recommendations are all math and cs related. It is based in your watch history and you can remove things from your history and recommendations will change. If you haven’t watched many videos in your account then just find the type of videos you are interested in and prone the recommendations.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by autoexec »

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’…

> Of course, that means I’m not going to go through the effort of other useful-to-a-few and more-useful-than-entertaining videos that I found no video on...But no, not going to waste my time unless YT cuts me in on the revenue.

Why wouldn't you post something just because you won't make a bunch of money off of it? Was that your entire goal with the video you made about the mic issue you had?

What's the reason you post comments here? Is someone paying you to do that? A lot of my favorite things online were put there by people who were just creating and sharing useful things with others because they were passionate and helpful. A few dollars a month would be a nice bonus, but most people will continue to contribute to the internet without any expectation of getting anything in their bank accounts for their time. Production values might suffer for it, but for most people uploading a video to youtube does not require a huge investment in time money and effort.

I love that people are able to create content and make money on youtube, but the idea that people should/have/will stop sharing with each other unless they're getting paid is strange. It's the people who most concern themselves with how much money they can make on youtube that end up flooding the internet with the worst output. That's how we got things like clickbait, homogenized content, algorithm gaming, the nightmarish videos on Youtube Kids etc.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by pojzon »

system2 wrote: post #42
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…

Another example is probably the Primitive Technology channel. Last week I was reading his interview and he mentions $1M savings from his channel.

He would make a lot more if not ppl blantly copycat’ing him and his work.

Primitive Life, Primitive Tools, Primitive Technology Ideas…

Youtube should take those channels down or force them to change name due to how SOE works.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Aeolun »

chillfox wrote: post #156
Aeolun wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Right, maybe nobody shares it outside of video format.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by nigamanth »

Thanks to people like you - and a network like Hacker News people are coming to know the truth and the future of a career like YouTube. This saves people an invaluable amount of time and expertise to finally know whether this is worth it or not.

This explains a lot about how YouTube gains most of their money, I mean like for the content you're making they get most of the monetization.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Ndymium »

charcircuit wrote: post #92

>I have never done sponsorship, affiliate links, received donations, or anything else. He is leaving a lot of money on the table. Most youtubers make more money from sponsorships that from ad rev.

In the case of donations, soliciting donations in any way is illegal in Finland for private persons and companies. That also makes things like YouTube's sponsor button, GitHub Sponsors, etc. nonstarters.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by VBprogrammer »

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 imagine it's more to do with reducing the administrative burden of processing payments for $3 to thousands of people who have one vaguely useful video.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by alt227 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #4

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…

Lets not forget LTT store sold 60,000 screwdrivers @ $69.99 USD in a few hours on launch day!

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by esskay »

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #191
esskay wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)"…

My experience is different. My recommendations are all math and cs related. It is based in your watch history and you can remove things from your history and recommendations will change. If you haven’t watched many videos in your account then just find the type of videos you are interested in and prone the recommendations.

It's only partially based on history these days. The YouTube subreddit is ram packed with posts about the issue, it looks like 50% of your recommendations are relevent to you, the other half is randomly generated with seemingly nothing in place to at least try and match them up to your known interests.

It started approx 2 years ago and has gradually gotten worse to the point where some users see no recommendations relevent to them at all.

Don't take my word for it: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/search?q=recommendations&re...

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