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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ilkke »

nibbleshifter wrote: post #149
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.

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

Exactly. My bet is it's simple greed, and that it shuts enough people (and revenue) out to make Google a pretty penny.

Likely it was a decision based on analytics that Google, and no one else, has.

Imagine we are talking a cable TV platform instead, and your analytics show that most people flip through channels most of the time, as opposed to actually watching something specific. You make a rule to only share revenue with channels if the viewer is engaged longer than 120 seconds. People are still watching TV, you are still monetizing, but the channels aren't getting fully paid and only you know the money involved.

Making people feel they need to earn the right that their earnings be shared with them is just icing on the cake.

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Post by premun »

cocacola1 wrote: post #134
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 make lyric music videos with images generated from Midjourney ( https://www.youtube.com/syntopikon ). I do it because its fun and, as I'm working through Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums list, jives well with it. Maybe one day it'll make money (~1,330 subs, but not monetized), but until then, its a relaxing, fun project.

Can you actually monetize this when you don't own the music?

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Post by lukeschwartz »

Is nobody else surprised the amount is so low? If you look at his video catalogue, basically every video is a "hit" even if upload frequency is relatively low. Youtubers making 20 videos a month with <1M views/video make considerably more money, i.e., is better to upload less quality videos and have "moderate" views that to make high quality infrequent videos with a lot of views. You'd think advertisers should pay more per ad on a high quality video than on a trash one. The extreme example of this is Mr. Beast, who makes "high" quality videos (at least in the sense of production) but uploads pretty frequently (specially considering he has multiple channels).

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Post by Uehreka »

a4a4a4a4 wrote: post #236
amake wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He’s a liberal Is he?

"Liberal" in the US used to mean (and still does outside the US) someone with a "live and let live" mentality, where things/actions are generally allowed unless there is a very good reason for restricting them. "Classically liberal" is a better match for the term in modern US English. So things like decriminalizing drugs, allowing gay marriage, being pro-gun/self-defense as a human right, privacy as a human right, et…

Joe Rogan is an American commenting almost exclusively in the American political context. Referring to him as a liberal in this context is misleading, as the term here is almost exclusively understood to mean “center-left relative to American politics” and is almost never used in the economic or philosophical sense in mainstream political commentary.

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Post by fsflover »

jonp888 wrote: post #190
_tom_ wrote: post #181

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> 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

There is also PeerTube.

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

coldtea wrote: post #234
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #210

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the analogy doesn't work here, the videos are owned by their creators so they can monetise that content in other available ways, once an Uber driver has given someone a ride they can't find new ways to profit off of that (at least legally, or unless the passenger was a celebrity)

The farm products were owned by the sharecroppers too, to eat or sell as they see fit. They just had to pay their tax to the landowner and be at their mercy regarding the property and changes in demands.

the farm products when used once are used up, videos, texts, "content" can be reused theoretically infinitely.

furthermore you paid for the right to work the land what the landowner asked, nobody pays a minimum rate to have a YouTube channel that I am aware of.

I understand it is a rhetorically powerful phrase, digital sharecropper, but unfortunately as often happens with analogies it falls apart with all the ways it does not fit.

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Post by quickthrower2 »

all2 wrote: post #202
quickthrower2 wrote: post #187

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

A part time tech job that paid 150k per year seems dreamy. Is this a real thing? If so, where do I look? What if I'm not risk averse, do contracting gigs that net 150k a year exist? Are they attainable to jr devs?

What I meant is: getting success on youtube requires a lot of luck. Instead earn $60k part time and spend half of your take home on lottery tickets to get the same success/probability distribution as youtubing!

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Post by truetraveller »

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #224
blacksmithgu wrote: post #10

$10000/video seems crazy to me, but it makes sense if each video is averaging 10M views for ad-friendly content. It'd be interesting to see how many Youtube channels make it to this size, and if there is anything that differentiates successful channels from obscure ones (beyond quality).

To highlight just how crazy things can get, my highest-earning YouTube video has earned well-over $100,000 in AdSense revenue. But that’s not the end of the craziness. About a year ago, that video was suddenly and inexplicably deemed by YouTube as unsuitable for all advertisers. I appealed, but they stuck with their decision. In the year since, that video has brought in ~$80. While I have found success on YouTube, I…

Very interesting. Link to your video?

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Post by a4a4a4a4 »

Uehreka wrote: post #244
a4a4a4a4 wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Liberal" in the US used to mean (and still does outside the US) someone with a "live and let live" mentality, where things/actions are generally allowed unless there is a very good reason for restricting them. "Classically liberal" is a better match for the term in modern US English. So things like decriminalizing drugs, allowing gay marriage, being pro-gun/self-defense as a human right, privacy as a human right, et…

Joe Rogan is an American commenting almost exclusively in the American political context. Referring to him as a liberal in this context is misleading, as the term here is almost exclusively understood to mean “center-left relative to American politics” and is almost never used in the economic or philosophical sense in mainstream political commentary.

I'm aware of who he is, and the context of "liberal" when referring to him and his views. I'm offering an explanation as to why someone might describe him as "liberal", because if anyone outside the US listened to his viewpoints they would describe him as "liberal". I'd be willing to bet that the original commenter is not American, and that's why they chose "liberal", not to be misleading, but because literally the entire rest of the world uses the word differently.

"USA: the primary use of the term liberal is at some variance with European and worldwide usage. In the United States today, it is most associated with the definition of modern liberalism, which is a combination of social liberalism, public welfare and a mixed economy,[12] which is in contrast to classical liberalism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_parties_by_country#The...

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Post by amelius »

roland35 wrote: post #49
amelius wrote: post #35

How many % does YouTube keep? Is that comparable to Apple's 30% in the App Store?

He states this is the amount that google deposits in his bank account, it is ad revenue not app sales or anything like that

But both are very much comparable since you pay a form of "income tax" to the platform owner.
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