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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by DwnVoteHoneyPot »

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…

> What does one become when you effectively sell out to the analytics?

We know what happens... you get Mr. Beast. He's known for hyper optimizing the metrics. Watch one of his interviews. His Joe Rogan interview was an eye opener.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by chillfox »

grecy wrote: post #333
chillfox wrote: post #156

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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.

Do you have links to the communities you mention? Thanks

They are all private forums/Facebook groups for various YouTube analytics tools or production/business courses. So you would have to spend money to get access to them.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by [deleted] »

joshmlewis wrote: post #352
lefstathiou wrote: post #351

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The data makes sense to me but not the interpretation. My 2.5yo son loves watching Lego assembly videos on Youtube during his TV time, which is of course tied to my account, which therefore means I contribute to his middle aged male statistic. Perhaps I am having a tough time empathizing but I find it hard to believe droves of men my age are watching Lego assembly videos in the background.

I was thinking exactly this. How many of that demographic are actually playing it for kids using their account? But I also know it is a very popular hobby for some people. My brother started a lego city group on Facebook and it exploded totally organically to tens of thousands of members. He was shocked!

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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by overrun11 »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #320
majani wrote: post #314

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For example outright confiscation of wealth above $100m is quite a popular sentiment amongst liberals right now

The original claim was: > liberals, when given the power, will corrupt into totalitarism in a few months. Is your complaint an actual example of that? I've never actually heard the argument - I've heard "billionaires should not exist", but never "we should have a 100% tax on those making more than $100m", so I don't know if the claim you're making is as popular as you're making it out to be, nor do I believe is it an…

> nor do I believe is it an example of totalitarianism

These conversations never go anywhere. The battlelines are already drawn. It just becomes a semantic debate around loosely defined terms like totalitarianism.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by philippejara »

lefstathiou wrote: post #351
philippejara wrote: post #332

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I'd say its the opposite, you're talking about a channel that gets 10M views average per video while being kid friendly and targeting probably the audience with the most spending power(middle aged males in the US), you'd think they'd make far more than 100k/year.

The data makes sense to me but not the interpretation. My 2.5yo son loves watching Lego assembly videos on Youtube during his TV time, which is of course tied to my account, which therefore means I contribute to his middle aged male statistic. Perhaps I am having a tough time empathizing but I find it hard to believe droves of men my age are watching Lego assembly videos in the background.

You'd be surprised, I myself know several and I have no interest in the hobby to be adjacent to their circles. Anecdotally it seems like MLP all over again, but even more skewed to the adult demographic, which does make a lot more sense to me than MLP at least.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by tpmx »

Ndymium wrote: post #197
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.

It's illegal without a permit or a written notification to a police department, it seems:

https://poliisi.fi/en/money-collections

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by vnkatesh »

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…

Something doesn't add up. They said they worked 6500 hours (100 hour per video). Is that just the one person? There are only 8760 hours in a whole year!

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by runarberg »

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.

So if people insist YouTube does not employ the creators of the products that make them money, then at best YouTube is their land lords. I don’t know if that is any better, particularly if this land lord is not asking for rent, but rather, is asking their creators to work for them.

No, this is an even further stretch.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by nluken »

vnkatesh wrote: post #367
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…

Something doesn't add up. They said they worked 6500 hours (100 hour per video). Is that just the one person? There are only 8760 hours in a whole year!

It's 6500 hours since the start of the channel in 2017, not just in a single year.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by runarberg »

coldtea wrote: post #233
midasuni wrote: post #225

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Does YouTube stop people from uploading the videos to other platforms? Do they require a set commitment of work? There are various tests that apply to contractors in the U.K. to work out if you’re an employee or a Lego mate contracting company, as it makes a difference to how taxes and benefits are calculated. Fro my understanding YouTube nowhere near meets that criteria of employee/employer. Companies like Uber and…

> There are various tests that apply to contractors in the U.K. As there are in most of the world. Most of them were made for the factory and office era, and despite "updates" still within the old spirit, are antiquated in 2023 when it comes to addressing many new work scenarios...

I actually wonder if they are really that antiquated, but rather that these schemes to bypass labor laws used to be called out and stopped, either by the unions in the 1890s or 1920s, or by the government in the 1950s.

That is, I wonder if the the deregulation era of the 1980s also deregulated labor practices to the extent that companies can now jump through these hoops in order to avoid labor laws.

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