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How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?

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Re: How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?

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Post by Havoc »

It is the classic & interesting question, but from watching other creators it seems to miss a key variable: Reliability of monetization.

Someone may love making videos, has a reliable core audience and good views from western audience (and thus high pay rate). However if it costs them 1k to make a vid and the algo is hit/miss as to whether it gets demonetized or not then that becomes a show stopper issue. If you make 3 vids a month and are unlucky then you've got a -3k cashflow...so you're not eating that month.

I've seen some move to Twitch as a result since core audience will follow and subs are a bit more predictable (or rather not as all or nothing)

Re: How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?

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Post by fredgrott »

Actually that holds out for all platforms including Medium, but medium seem to actually pay better based on my exp:

1. Monthly hits at 35k 2. Which means that realistically I should be earning $350 to $700. Which in fact happens now!

The key seems to be advertising in sm in the right numbers. When I increase my sm posting to fully daily and multiples using video slide strategy I tend to get the right number of impressions to drive traffic to my medium articles. In my case I need to post 500-1000 postings a month and then I will see my earn per month multiply by 10 to 100.

Impressions will always be the highest but with ads you have it reversed in that you get paid for a distraction which is a different set of metrics. This is good yt creators follow that up with some market product to sell that the yt acts as ad for. In my case my books act as the market piece that my medium articles and yt reels advertise for.

I fully expect to be at 500k in the next 6 months using a modification of GaryVee's content strategy and that is concurrently with my current code and book writing schedule. So yes it is possible even if you have a day job.

And, all while getting my ADHD under control using a modified nootropics approach.

Re: How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy »

I started a YouTube channel at the end of 2017 and published on YouTube on a regular basis for a bit over a year. My best year was about $1,500. I've made $4,600 since I started the channel.

At the channel's peak, I was trying to publish a DIY video where I would build something two or three times a month. I started the channel because I enjoy making stuff and thought I would be able to do more of it and maybe get paid to do it.

As I continued, I worked hard to polish my production style and I realized I was prioritizing the video production over doing what I loved. Making videos taking time away from actually making stuff and making the projects take 10X longer. So I stopped.

I still post videos from time to time, but I try to do everything in a single take and not spent more than an hour editing it. Last year I finished a project I was pretty proud of and spent about 20 hours working on a video and it only got 100 views after the initial posting. For me, it takes a lot of self promotion to get the algorithm to recognize the video as a good video and have it be shown to more people. The self promotion part is something I really dislike doing.

YouTube is great for people that love the process of making videos because it's a win whether someone watches your video or not. Editing can be fun, but for me it gets tedious and I prefer doing a lot of other things.

Re: How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?

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Post by nibbleshifter »

fredgrott wrote: post #6

Actually that holds out for all platforms including Medium, but medium seem to actually pay better based on my exp: 1. Monthly hits at 35k 2. Which means that realistically I should be earning $350 to $700. Which in fact happens now! The key seems to be advertising in sm in the right numbers. When I increase my sm posting to fully daily and multiples using video slide strategy I tend to get the right number of impres…

> getting my ADHD under control using a modified nootropics approach.

I'm interested in reading about this

Re: How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy »

fredgrott wrote: post #6

Actually that holds out for all platforms including Medium, but medium seem to actually pay better based on my exp: 1. Monthly hits at 35k 2. Which means that realistically I should be earning $350 to $700. Which in fact happens now! The key seems to be advertising in sm in the right numbers. When I increase my sm posting to fully daily and multiples using video slide strategy I tend to get the right number of impres…

GaryVee's content strategy is to create pillar content then repurpose it.

How do you find the time to post on social media 15-30 times a day and create the extrapolated content? How do you create quality social media content from based on your main content?

I am working FT on a startup and social media has been a stumbling block for me because it takes a lot of time and I am having trouble balancing building the product and marketing/advertising it.

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