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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 amelius »

mattlondon wrote: post #60
amelius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's idiotic about this market is that you can't set your own price.

You could totally set up your own site and charge people to view it, or strike your own advertising deals for your own site's content. But then you'd probably not get any of the benefits of being on the YouTube platform (discoverability, advertisers already on board, targeting etc), so it starts to make more sense when you consider what the platform is giving you for "free".

I mean, you could, but the point is that we're forgetting that ads as a monetization model are taking away our freedom to price our products as we choose.

It would be similarly ridiculous if all apps in the App Store were free and you were paid some small amount per app-invocation that you had no control over.

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

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Post by ipaddr »

Ekaros wrote: post #30
amelius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's idiotic about this market is that you can't set your own price.

How would you set your own price? Just not showing content when there isn't enough adds available surely would drive away watchers. And the advertisers are already bidding. Certain types of content get higher pay.

Not show ads unless price is met

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

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Post by Ekaros »

ipaddr wrote: post #62
Ekaros wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you set your own price? Just not showing content when there isn't enough adds available surely would drive away watchers. And the advertisers are already bidding. Certain types of content get higher pay.

Not show ads unless price is met

Hmm, that could work. And also Youtube as platform could charge you for delivered content. So set high per impression price and if you get more views than add revenue Youtube would send you a bill. Could work, could work.

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

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy »

michaelt wrote: post #37
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you educate me a bit here? If you do it in a single take, what do you do in your hour of editing?

Well, you can't build much in the ~10 minutes of a typical youtube video. So presumably by "one take" hahamrfunnyguy means he: * Stopped recording driving to pick up materials, placing orders where there's a wait for parts to come in, and suchlike. * Stopped recording things speculatively, just in case he decides to make a video later. * Stopped worrying about 'narratives' and 'thumbnails' and 'the algorithm' when wo…

Pretty good summary of all the stuff that goes into a DIY build videos. Now I just show the finished product and talk about some of the design details and problems solved along the way. I think there's a lot of value in this sort of content, but I haven't made enough of them to know if it's something people actually want to watch.

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

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Post by oblio »

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 worried are you about copy cats ruining your business?

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

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Post by oblio »

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)

Black Swan aka long tail.

Most people starve.

It's not a valid career choice, it's a lottery.

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

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Post by jeffwass »

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…

Thanks for this Micael, very helpful info and your channel is pretty cool too!

Regarding the weekly video, are you saying you’d spend about 15-20 hours per week on that one video to get to the status you were at last year?

I’ve heard that regular releases are important for a channel to be picked up properly by “the algorithm”. Is this your experience, and is that a critical to keep up the cadence of one video per week?

I make music videos (basically myself playing keyboards) and have never really gotten a good long-term traction with “the algorithm” yet. Sometimes I get a burst of impressions for a few days with corresponding views and subscribes, but these come and go. I release ever few weeks, though some of my videos are shorts, or just a few mins long for a single song.

I think a weekly release would be a real challenge, but maybe that’s what is needed to get to the next step? For me the real time sink is all the time arranging and practicing to get to a point I’m confident to even film myself playing.

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

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Post by jsnell »

amelius wrote: post #63
paulette449 wrote: post #2

“I have made a total of … ~148 EUR from Youtube ad revenue” From 173,000 views

How much did Google make from those views?

The ad revenue split is reported to be 55% for the creator, 45% for YouTube. (Except for Shorts, where the split is the other way around.)
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