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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by thatguy0900 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:21 PM UTC

pcblues wrote: post #380

thatguy0900 wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to one of his stand-up shows last year. Both him and the guys he had opening all had maybe 30% trans jokes. He's definetely catering to an antitrans crowd these days

I wonder how many in the crowd are reacting to being labelled antitrans and transphobic unfairly. It's definitely what I see the comedians reacting to.

Definitely some of that. I think a person should have the right to do whatever they want with themselves, and it's not mine or the states business. I'm sure others in the crowd felt the same way. I can see why people would have issues with the routine he put on though, it was certainly not a kind one, and saying he just has a few instances of bringing up trans issues seems like a outright lie.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:34 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #330

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…

One data point from a successful YouTuber is interesting but I'm not sure about the extremely valuable part. If anything, it probably leads to a lot of people thinking they can make >$100K/year making YouTube videos and they almost certainly won't.

It's valuable in the sense of giving some sort of feedback. The way many streaming services compensate people lacks any transparency and is basically making them compete to generate product blindly.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by kakoni » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:35 PM UTC

Any estimates how much is yt/Google generating revenue per bec videos watched?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jpk2f2 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:49 PM UTC

s0rr0wskill wrote: post #337

The author stated that he doesn't do sponsorships or anything. From what I've read here, are sponsorships that lucrative?

They can be, and they're certainly more reliable than the variance of views, ad rev, and hoping your video doesn't get demonetized in some way.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by misterpigs » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:57 PM UTC

Wow this channel was the first lego experiment videos I watched. I thought this channel was the same (no clickbait, straight to the content, no voiceovers) https://www.youtube.com/@BrickTechnology but I was mistaken!

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by CarbonCycles » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:58 PM UTC

I enjoyed this blog...not so much about the topic regarding legos or even YouTube. I appreciated the way the owner used analytics to quickly better understand his demographics and did some very high-level marketing/product analytics.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by truetraveller » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #375

truetraveller wrote: post #248

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Very interesting. Link to your video?

Unfortunately, I’m not comfortable sharing that. To whatever extent it still is, I prefer to keep my HN identity anonymous.

Makes sense!

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by tpmx » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 7:10 PM UTC

pnathan wrote: post #377

BEC is one of the best YouTube channels. Not per se because of the legos, but in how the videos assess and iterate. Also, as another HN commentator pointed out, its not "baity", (s?)he doesn't do any of the stupid BS to hype him(her?)self. Yes, I'm in the target audience: middle age male in US. I think this is the perfect example of a niche area with an whale/long-tail distribution. It demonstrates the futility - to…

Yes. The cleverness applied in the iterations is unsurpassed. The channel has many clones, but they're not nearly as clever.

Sadly, I keep getting recommended clips from these mindless "let's build a big lego technic thing to do something, without much cleverness applied at all" videos. It wouldn't surprise me if they earn much more than this clever channel.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by mywittyname » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 7:42 PM UTC

carlmcqueen wrote: post #311

Really interesting point but I know I've gotten older when he said 'my audience is middle-aged' but the way I read the chart from google is that most of his audience is between 21-34 with a tail of older than that and a steep drop off after the age of 40. That is older millennials for sure, but is that 'middle aged'? Middle aged traditionally is 40-60.

With the average life expectancy of a male in the USA being ~75, it makes intuitive sense to call "middle age" 37 +/- some years.

The fact that middle aged is defined as 40-60 is weird in the same way that the "mid-western" United States being almost entirely east of Mississippi river is.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by kccqzy » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

esskay wrote: post #200

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience is different. My recommendations are all math and cs related. It is based in your watch history and you can remove things from your history and recommendations will change. If you haven’t watched many videos in your account then just find the type of videos you are interested in and prone the recommendations.

It's only partially based on history these days. The YouTube subreddit is ram packed with posts about the issue, it looks like 50% of your recommendations are relevent to you, the other half is randomly generated with seemingly nothing in place to at least try and match them up to your known interests. It started approx 2 years ago and has gradually gotten worse to the point where some users see no recommendations re…

Sounds like it's working as intended. They don't want any more echo chambers.