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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by majani »

a4a4a4a4 wrote: post #236
amake wrote: post #222

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> He’s a liberal Is he?

"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…

Liberal = social freedoms + economic restrictions

Republican = social restrictions + economic freedoms

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ZhadruOmjar »

swyx wrote: post #130
ZhadruOmjar wrote: post #85

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I'll post this as a reply to your comment because I think other people will have this concern when it comes to content creation. You do not need a really beefy computer to edit videos especially when you're starting out. A Canva Pro subscription is a couple of hundred dollars and will let you upload all your footage and then edit it within the browser meaning you don't need to have a powerful computer. If you grow yo…

i had no idea that canva did video as well as images. would you call it having all the basics or are there noticeable features missing compared to say Screenflow?

I’ve never used screenflow so I can’t talk about that but in terms of features Canva has everything I want as a very amateur creator. The elements, animations and transitions are all easy to use and work really well out of the box. The preset elements and designs can help speed up videos too since you don’t need to find stock footage or gifs elsewhere, just search in Canva.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by bambax » 

     subscribers: 2.9 million
     video views: 705 million
     uploads: 65
     total earnings: 664 000 USD
Dollars per 1000 views a little under 1 USD.

Average number of views per video: 10 millions (!)

Views per subscriber: 200-250 (also a lot!)

It's a super successful channel, and it's not easy to emulate those numbers...

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by dalbasal »

warent wrote: post #5

The transparency of this is really amazing; big respect. It's interesting to think that this information was quietly posted to their low-traffic blog with little notice, meanwhile the information contained is actually extremely valuable (and itself would have probably made a highly valuable youtube video itself with 10s of millions of views). I wonder how much other information exists on the web that is extremely val…

RE: valuable yet unnoticed

This issue, in this case, is information dispersal. This sort of information is highly analyzed, almost certainly, by google/youtube. They have all the data, so there's a lot more you can get out of analyzing it.

If ever channel's youtube data was released to the public like this, there would be a lot more notice.

Transparency doesn't just need to overcome secrecy, they need to overcome obscurity.

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Post by wincy »

djmips wrote: post #107
jccalhoun wrote: post #101

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On The Wan show (their conversation show they record live on Friday nights) Linus has said the company is close to making more on the LTTStore than from youtube. He also has a lot of sponsorships and sponsored videos as well. He also has Floatplane but I don't know how much money that makes.

I literally forgot that it was a name of a video service... I was hoping he was also a bush pilot. Is it doing OK?

I mean based on their podcast it sounds like Linus’ friend/employee (seems like the line here is pretty blurry) and some remote dev who was originally just a fan criticizing their proposed infrastructure work on it full time and that’s about it, so it’s probably not as expensive overhead as you might assume.

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Post by bambax »

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…

Agree on both points. It's become fashionable to speak ill of youtube, but it's one of the very few major things that has truly changed the world for the better; not just entertainment but all fields related to education or life-long learning, or science vulgarization, etc.

And yes, YT should have worthy competitors, and it's surprising that it doesn't. YT is obviously very profitable; why don't other big competitors don't give it a try, with a similar angle? TikTok is wildly different, and so is Twitch; but a version of Twitch that would directly compete with YT doesn't seem that hard to implement if you're Amazon?

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Post by wincy »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #78
Someone1234 wrote: post #4

So they make around $150K/year but likely pay more tax, higher overheads, and have to fund their own benefits out of that. Depending on where they live this could either be a very good income or only marginally higher than tech wages with much higher risk/stress. That's on 2M-6M viewers too. Makes me wonder how YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips are able to seemingly hire around one-hundred full time staff? I have…

Linus recently mentioned on the WAN show that he expects merch sales to become the biggest revenue stream this year.

Pewdiepie mentioned how annoying British VAT tax estimate prepayments were because based on his career category and income it expects him to have a bunch of employees that’d pay substantially more tax. So he’d prepay a ton of taxes as he was legally obligated to do then get a huge refund every year.

It makes sense that the tax code hasn’t yet caught up with “YouTube personality” as a career.

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Post by jccalhoun »

djmips wrote: post #107
jccalhoun wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On The Wan show (their conversation show they record live on Friday nights) Linus has said the company is close to making more on the LTTStore than from youtube. He also has a lot of sponsorships and sponsored videos as well. He also has Floatplane but I don't know how much money that makes.

I literally forgot that it was a name of a video service... I was hoping he was also a bush pilot. Is it doing OK?

They have been putting extended cuts and behind the scenes videos on there so I would guess that would drive some subs. It looks like they have a couple dozen creators on there. I would guess it pays for itself if nothing else.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by johannes1234321 »

Nevermark wrote: post #286
ffmpegy wrote: post #238

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Performing artists have for centuries had to balance catering for popular opinion and tastes versus a more faithful realisation of their vision in order to make a living. I don't see a difference with this at all.

For online creators, I think the high speed and frequency of material creation, release, consumption and feedback, coupled with vast potential audiences, global competition for the nichiest of niches, the ease of copying ideas, and the extremely high rewards and margins for the winners, … is unlike anything that ever came before. These are many large quantitative changes, that are going to have qualitative implicatio…

Especially as due to lower cycles you typically created larger units of work: Not just a song, but an album. Not just a poem but a book. So you could do the popular part and also the thing you care about and somehow tie them together.
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