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

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Post by dmuso »

mwidell wrote: post #36

I run a channel with 85k subscribers and around 10k views per day. My monthly income breakdown is roughly this: - Youtube ads $900 - Affiliate links $2500 - Brand deals $3000 (equates to one sponsored video per month) - Patreon $350 Took me around 5 years of posting a video a week to get here. Now I finally make a living. Started working full time about a year ago. Before that 15-20h per week for years. I talked to s…

How do you deal with “talking to the void” at the beginning? I speak publicly fairly regular and I get a lot of energy from people in the crowd. I’ve done some YouTube and converted that to podcast format. I can’t seem to get motivated to do it as I can’t see/interact with people. People I know in my niche community will tell me they watched my video or listened to the podcast, I think “oh that’s nice I guess” and I go back home to stare at a camera and I can’t seem to connect making a video with audience interaction. Is this a thing? How do you think I could deal with it?

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

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Post by Mawr »

oblio wrote: post #67
zamnos wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't disagree, but there are some that have managed to crack the code, or maybe just right place, right time, but eg kurzgesagt has a team of 60 to run their channel, and also they get a lot of outside funding for their channel. (they have 20M subscribers, but my question is how they got there, not why are they successful now that they are there)

Black Swan aka long tail. Most people starve. It's not a valid career choice, it's a lottery.

It's not a lottery, there's a direct relationship between the quality of a video and its viewership.

Luck is involved, but to a much lesser degree than in fields like music, acting, or startups.

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

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Post by netsharc »

Matthias Wandel posted this a while ago, he didn't censor the number of views or earnings (apparently YouTube doesn't like people doing that): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYd4aZOhJ0

His main channel is about wood-working: https://www.youtube.com/@Matthiaswandel and he has another one where he tinkers with stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@matthiasrandomstuff2221

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

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Post by chongli »

psanford wrote: post #119
chongli wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making videos taking time away from actually making stuff and making the projects take 10X longer. So I stopped. Check out Kenji Lopez-Alt [1]. He’s an award-winning chef who makes cooking videos by strapping a GoPro to his head and going to work in his home kitchen. He has basically none of the fancy production you see on cooking TV shows. Yet his videos are very popular because he’s a great chef and he tells you th…

Even with Kenji's minimal setup he still said recently he spends on average 6-8 hours per video on editing[0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxOlI6QB0oI

I think he’s been trying to cut that down very recently. His latest video begins with him not even on camera! I think he’s testing the waters and he’ll find that even with the most rough, sloppy edit his videos will do really well.

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

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Post by mwidell »

dmuso wrote: post #131
mwidell wrote: post #36

I run a channel with 85k subscribers and around 10k views per day. My monthly income breakdown is roughly this: - Youtube ads $900 - Affiliate links $2500 - Brand deals $3000 (equates to one sponsored video per month) - Patreon $350 Took me around 5 years of posting a video a week to get here. Now I finally make a living. Started working full time about a year ago. Before that 15-20h per week for years. I talked to s…

How do you deal with “talking to the void” at the beginning? I speak publicly fairly regular and I get a lot of energy from people in the crowd. I’ve done some YouTube and converted that to podcast format. I can’t seem to get motivated to do it as I can’t see/interact with people. People I know in my niche community will tell me they watched my video or listened to the podcast, I think “oh that’s nice I guess” and I…

Yeah in the beginning it definitely felt extremely weird talking to a camera, with no other person in the room. I had trouble talking as naturally as I do to a live audience or even to a friend.

This was actually so hard for me in the beginning, that I avoided talking directly to the camera for a long time. Instead I recorded footage of me doing things and then did a voiceover track to put over that.

But it is mostly a matter of practice and becoming used to, and comfortable with, that situation.

After 1-2 years of weekly videos it didn’t feel weird anymore for me. And nowadays I can talk just as naturally to the camera as to a friend.

But yeah definitely a big hurdle for many people I have talked to as well.

I think what I nowadays do, without thinking about it, is I imagine the camera is a person in my core audience.

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

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Post by Gigachad »

hahamrfunnyguy wrote: post #7

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 pa…

I really want to get in to video editing and posting on YouTube, but I just can’t come up with something to record as all I really know is programming which doesn’t make for great video content.

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

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Post by ianburrell »

realusername wrote: post #22
saaaaaam wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hold the line music is absolutely copyrighted in a way that you can’t post a conversation containing that music to a channel that you are monetising, without compensating the creators of the music.

That sounds absolutely insane, you don't even request that music to be played. It's time for copyright to adapt to the 21st century.

The music is likely fair use since limited time period and not main use.

But fair use is complicated and there is no way it could be determined by algorithm. YouTube can’t trust the uploader. It doesn’t scale to decide by person. Fallback to DMCA process would be too expensive. Plus, fair use is only US. Easier to just deny copyright material.

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

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Post by oska »

zamnos wrote: post #52
CM30 wrote: post #33

As someone who's posted videos for about 10 years, and posted them seriously since 2017, the best period I ever had gave me about £1,500 for a couple of months worth of videos. Usually it's closer to £250 a month or something. This is entirely from YouTube ads, since at the moment I don't use Patreon, sell merch or run sponsorships. And it's for a channel with approximately 33,000 subscribers. So I can definitely bac…

I don't disagree, but there are some that have managed to crack the code, or maybe just right place, right time, but eg kurzgesagt has a team of 60 to run their channel, and also they get a lot of outside funding for their channel. (they have 20M subscribers, but my question is how they got there, not why are they successful now that they are there)

Kurzgesagt has become (or was always?) propagandistic, in my experience, so that may explain where they get some of their funds from.
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