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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Most interesting number to me is the 90$ per hour. Seems like solid money. And since the channel might grow more this might not be the end. But I guess it's hard hard work to grow a channel to this size and also not a guaranteed success.

$90/hour is real nice money, but for some reason i assumed a channel with that many subs would make more money. For every million plus channel, there’s probably a million+ channels with no subs. Basically have a day job before you go all in as a content creator.

Subs on YT don't mean revenue... they're just people who may watch your videos later. It's more a hueristic than anything.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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I could be wrong but I don't think YouTube TOS allows publicizing this kind of information. I would be afraid of my channel being de-monetized. I believe they have a similar policy for AdSense.

I think such policy is illegal in many countries. An employer cannot prohibit workers from discussing salaries. This is often a measure to combat against gender discrimination at a workplace. I’m not sure how this affects contractors, but I would be surprised if these laws wouldn’t cover contractors as well.

They're not a contractor?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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I could be wrong but I don't think YouTube TOS allows publicizing this kind of information. I would be afraid of my channel being de-monetized. I believe they have a similar policy for AdSense.

I don't think that's right. A lot of YouTubers make videos detailing their YouTube earnings and post them to YouTube (for example [1]). If it were against the ToS, you'd think YouTube would at least remove those videos.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rm-ElJPDJk

Re: My Youtube earnings

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How did he spend $20K on film equipment? A few pro-grade tripods and a solid camera shouldn't be more than a quarter of that.

Some of the cost might come from buying a computer suitable for video editing, which I can imagine could be a couple of thousand dollars.
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