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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Nemrod67 »

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…

You touch upon an important point, Luck is a major part of success.

You can do everything right and still lose, if you're not lucky.

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Post by webmobdev »

lynx23 wrote: post #260
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…

> 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.

Can you give some examples of that because I didn't get your point?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by rjmunro »

fsflover wrote: post #245
jonp888 wrote: post #190

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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.

How do you monetise that?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by thatguy0900 »

texasbigdata wrote: post #263
jesuscript wrote: post #213

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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 easil…

I went to one of his stand-up shows last year. Both him and the guys he had opening all had maybe 30% trans jokes. He's definetely catering to an antitrans crowd these days

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by wefarrell »

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…

Recently I was considering auditing a class from a masters in public health program because I’m starting a niche population health management company and I need to better understand the economics. To my amazement the professor of the course that I wanted to take put all of her lectures on YouTube and I was able to watch them for free.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by wongarsu »

Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #268
nhooyr wrote: post #267

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> 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.

Lots of open source is either people doing it as part of their job, or people doing it as part of building up a portfolio to get a certain job.

But of course there are more intrinsic motivations like wanting to give back to the community, practising their hobby, etc. Those would be equally valid reasons to make youtube videos.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by 6510 »

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.

Which is rather weird in how it tries to feed us one channel per topic. I'm not into lego but it seems informal productions if done well can be just as entertaining as professional production.

The weirdest to me are the channels that have tons of reasonably good videos with a tiny number of views. Those exist in popular topics too. The algo isn't even trying?

I've been thinking about that after I ran into a channel where I was pretty much the only viewer. Some kid around 15 build a news studio in his parents basement, put on his dads way to large suit and covered the news from a reasonable number of sources. The format was truly hilarious. He pushed the mainstream narrative in such a completely unconvincing way I must have died laughing a thousand times. Hold his ear piece and looked to the side to ask: "why are we in Afghanistan? uhh never mind that! On to the next subject!" The show was densely packed official mainstream nonsense. I think he kept up the act for 3 months. I send the links around and the response was that it was completely hilarious.

The algo just didn't experiment with it.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by chakkepolja »

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.

Doesn't comr up in Google search when I need it, so.
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