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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ljf »

richrichardsson wrote: post #259
a4a4a4a4 wrote: post #249

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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 e…

> because literally the entire rest of the world uses the word differently This assumed cultural hegemony by some US citizens is frustrating as hell; they are incredibly quick to assume (or demand even) the rest of the world knows their cultural references/idioms/etc., yet make zero effort to discover what the rest of the world is doing. Unfortunately they are also loud and so it's easy to come to the false conclusio…

I'm a Brit, I would no think of Joe as a liberal, and I only read this thread as I was so shocked to hear he might be a left leaning commentator. Obviously reading this, he is not.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by nathan_f77 »

Garlef wrote: post #11

Most interesting number to me is the 90$ per hour. Seems like solid money. And since the channel might grow more this might not be the end. But I guess it's hard hard work to grow a channel to this size and also not a guaranteed success.

I think that might be the average hourly rate since they started the channel. I think it would make more sense to calculate it on a monthly basis. It was probably close to $0/hour for the first few years, and it must be much higher now.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by texasbigdata »

jesuscript wrote: post #213
nomilk wrote: post #68

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> (this) information is extremely valuable Estimating earnings based on views/subs is helpful to prospective youtubers, letting them make wise decisions about whether they pursue that path or do something else with their time (it will probably dissuade more than it will encourage, but that's a good thing if in aggregate people are making sounder career decisions).

I immediately noticed a dark dynamic based on the analytics. Lucky for OP, they are making Lego videos. However, if you are in the business of selling your opinion or sexuality, and you start to see that people click on certain hot takes or less-clothes on, you will start to morph to cater to that traffic. I wonder how this destroys a person (the greed). Totally taking the convo in the darker direction, but you can s…

He’s had (guessing, including multi guest, and the mma pieces) close to 2,000 guests, and probably has spoken about trans a maximum of 5 times? Call it 1%. If you assume a 2 hour podcast length and a 2 minute instagram length clip that’s 0.01%ish? That’s probably at (or maybe significant below) main stream medias coverage of the topic but that’s a wild guess.

I’m guessing (but not willing to check although it’s easily empirically proveavle) that the variance in view count per episode more than outweighs any “trans conversation premium” if that even exists. At acquisition Spotify mentioned Joe was the most searched query in their search bar they don’t have.

The value of his podcast is the massive audience of humans who watch his 2 to 3 hour multiple times a week diatribes, it’s probably not the little clips that anger people. If you’re clicking at a trans clip and foaming of the mouth, you’re probably going to be super disappointed to listen to 10 hours of rogan and find no salacious topic included.

Plus I’m biased once but he swung by my ju jitsu gym once and he seemed like one of the most normal humans every and super humble.

It’s probably either: how he speaks, his takes in general, how others view him, how others reamplify him, or something else, but I really doubt he’s beating the drum on transgender rights since he’s he seems to in favor of all socially liberal topics in general.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by richrichardsson »

ljf wrote: post #261
richrichardsson wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> because literally the entire rest of the world uses the word differently This assumed cultural hegemony by some US citizens is frustrating as hell; they are incredibly quick to assume (or demand even) the rest of the world knows their cultural references/idioms/etc., yet make zero effort to discover what the rest of the world is doing. Unfortunately they are also loud and so it's easy to come to the false conclusio…

I'm a Brit, I would no think of Joe as a liberal, and I only read this thread as I was so shocked to hear he might be a left leaning commentator. Obviously reading this, he is not.

I'm also a Brit, and to be honest, the term "liberal" in a political context has lost all meaning for me since everyone seems to have their own definition of what it actually entails.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by dopeboy »

jjude wrote: post #145
swyx wrote: post #143

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yes except here the view counts are dreadfully public reminders that hours of your work can go to get like 10 views if it doesnt please the algorithm… do what makes you happy i guess but i dont get it

Two years back I started a podcast[0]. By all "viral" metrics pov, it is a failure - didn't get thousands of downloads, no first page hits etc. But I became a better conversationalist. Now whenever I interview people in my professional life (I'm a CTO and have to interview people for top level positions), they routinely tell me, they had their best interview. For long, I couldn't trace it back to the podcast. After m…

What a great epiphany. If you are looking for guests and I am a fit for your criteria, I would love to be one.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by a4a4a4a4 »

lynx23 wrote: post #260
a4a4a4a4 wrote: post #236

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"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…

> only restricting that freedom where absolutely necessary I used to believe this as well. I was thaught a lesson... In fact, now I understand that liberals, when given the power, will corrupt into totalitarism in a few months.

Agreed with you on "modern liberalism" devolving into totalitarianism. "Classical liberalism" doesn't allow for that though. In practice, I don't think anyone in the US follows the latter strictly enough for prevent the same decay anyway though.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by nhooyr »

autoexec wrote: post #192
Scoundreller wrote: post #75

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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 pos…

> Why wouldn't you post something just because you won't make a bunch of money off of it?

Why does anyone do anything? There needs to be an incentive.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Gene_Parmesan »

nhooyr wrote: post #267
autoexec wrote: post #192

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> 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 pos…

> Why wouldn't you post something just because you won't make a bunch of money off of it? Why does anyone do anything? There needs to be an incentive.

Guess we should shut down open source then.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by moffkalast »

amelius wrote: post #253
adalacelove wrote: post #229

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> I wonder how much other information exists on the web that is extremely valuable yet unnoticed Basically every scientific progress which gets published on peer reviewed journals (a lot of them open). Some books also are online.

They are not exactly what one would call unnoticed.

They only get noticed by the general public once some media person sees it, misunderstands the point, gives it a clickbaity title and sells it for clicks.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by mdrzn »

alkonaut wrote: post #252

> impressions click-through rate: 5.9% What does this mean? That 5.9% of users who were shown an ad, clicked the ad (and thus left the video to pursue catfood?)

On YouTube impression is whenever the thumbnail is loaded in the user browser, anywhere in the page.

Impressions CTR means 5.9% of the users shown the thumbnail/title/video clicked on it.

With 10.8m views and a CTR of 5.9%, it means that specific video had about 180m impressions.

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