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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

phpisthebest wrote: post #54
runarberg wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>> An employer cannot prohibit This is my biggest pet peeve with YouTubers. THEY ARE NOT EMPLOYEES OF YOUTUBE. employment laws do not apply to a youtuber, unless they are employed by some other company, but they do NOT have an employment relationship with YouTube, they are not "employees" of YouTube, and Susan Wojcicki is not "their boss"

That's an odd pet peeve, and while you're probably right in most places, I wouldn't be surprised if some countries define employee differently. Atleast in regards to wether or not certain practices or fine print is legal.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by loveparade »

The most impressive thing to me is the initial period of 2-3 years, maybe more if the graph doesn't show the full history, with very little traction and negligible income. Of course that's expected, but sticking with it for so long without profits is not something most people can do, both emotionally or financially. Even if you love the topic you're making content on, the time and effort that goes into video editing isn't fun.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by cweill »

For reference, most gaming channels in the US have an RPM of $4-$5. I'm guessing their RPM is $1 because the channel owner is based in Europe. I imagine toy channels have higher RPMs in the US.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by phpisthebest »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #71
phpisthebest wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> An employer cannot prohibit This is my biggest pet peeve with YouTubers. THEY ARE NOT EMPLOYEES OF YOUTUBE. employment laws do not apply to a youtuber, unless they are employed by some other company, but they do NOT have an employment relationship with YouTube, they are not "employees" of YouTube, and Susan Wojcicki is not "their boss"

That's an odd pet peeve, and while you're probably right in most places, I wouldn't be surprised if some countries define employee differently. Atleast in regards to wether or not certain practices or fine print is legal.

>>That's an odd pet peeve

Everytime there is a YT Change (like happen recently) there is all these videos where YT often try to compare their experience with employment, how their "boss" Susan did something, or how they are being "Fired" if they get banned, or other such non-sense. That is my peeve.

>>I wouldn't be surprised if some countries define employee differently.

I would be surprised if any nation classified a person uploading videos on to a platform with the hopes of having a revenue share on ads the 3rd party sells on those videos is in anyway an "employee" of any kind.

I would also be surprised if any country has laws where 2 parties could not agree to non-disclosure of the terms of their business contract (which is the basis for this comment thread). that is pretty standard really

I would also be surprised since most of the time when you upload a video you have to agree you will be governed under the Laws of the US, and even more specific the laws of California

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Scoundreller »

makeitdouble wrote: post #25

The most impressive part is the creator gets to have a probably comfortable living from a channel that grew organically and still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm. I follow the channel for years now, anyone not familiar should have a look [0]. It’s not “viral” targeted videos with crazy face thumbnails, borderline clickbaity titles, ABtested through a week, no “I got to stick to the schedule” weekly videos etc. Th…

I personally dislike the “channelization” of YouTube. The whole point of the internet is that it doesn’t have the restrictions of linear media. Search solves that problem of content discovery.

Now YouTube won’t pay you unless you have 1000 subscribers. But a lot of content just isn’t subscribeable and that’s ok.

Pre-1000 sub requirement, I put up a video for a niche MacBook Air microphone issue and repair that wasn’t covered in any video. Made $3-4/month, then cut to zero.

Of course, that means I’m not going to go through the effort of other useful-to-a-few and more-useful-than-entertaining videos that I found no video on.

Like how the same issue and resolution applies on MacBook speakers. Or how I fixed my toilet (it wasn’t the flapper!!!). How I fixed my washing machine (don’t spend $100 replacing the mixing valve, here’s how I cleaned mine out). But no, not going to waste my time unless YT cuts me in on the revenue.

I feel bad for the excellent video I saw last night to repair my Neato vacuum cleaner, but the guy had 45 subs. Or the one and done massively useful video to repair my garage door opener, but few subs.

Meanwhile when I wrote disparate blog articles, I went from $2/month, to $20, to $200 to $2000 through adsense, and it’s because Google search sent you to me. Not because you bookmarked my topics that can be about banking one day, to renewing your passport in my city because the viewership groups don’t overlap.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ramraj07 »

hijackedt wrote: post #3

Super interesting - one thing to keep in mind is advertising CPM rate can be wildly different by audience. A quick google shows a range of $0.03/cpm to $13.00/cpm depending on category. https://stashvine.com/most-profitable-youtube-niches/

Absolutely. Every auto driver and worker in india ha YouTube on through their entire work shift. I would not be surprised if their ad impression is valued at a thousand times less than an average American moms ad view..

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jongjong »

Does anyone know any good tricks to bypass visibility filtering to earn that kind of money? When I start to see traction (exponential) on most platforms, I get VFed before I hit 1000.

Do I need to go as far as dedicated computer and register new account with fake ID/SIM card or is VPN enough?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

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.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by realusername »

Scoundreller wrote: post #75
makeitdouble wrote: post #25

The most impressive part is the creator gets to have a probably comfortable living from a channel that grew organically and still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm. I follow the channel for years now, anyone not familiar should have a look [0]. It’s not “viral” targeted videos with crazy face thumbnails, borderline clickbaity titles, ABtested through a week, no “I got to stick to the schedule” weekly videos etc. Th…

I personally dislike the “channelization” of YouTube. The whole point of the internet is that it doesn’t have the restrictions of linear media. Search solves that problem of content discovery. Now YouTube won’t pay you unless you have 1000 subscribers. But a lot of content just isn’t subscribeable and that’s ok . Pre-1000 sub requirement, I put up a video for a niche MacBook Air microphone issue and repair that wasn’…

> Meanwhile when I wrote disparate blog articles, I went from $2/month, to $20, to $200 to $2000, and it’s because Google search sent you to me. Not because you bookmarked me.

What methods did you use to monetize your blog?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Scoundreller »

ramraj07 wrote: post #76
hijackedt wrote: post #3

Super interesting - one thing to keep in mind is advertising CPM rate can be wildly different by audience. A quick google shows a range of $0.03/cpm to $13.00/cpm depending on category. https://stashvine.com/most-profitable-youtube-niches/

Absolutely. Every auto driver and worker in india ha YouTube on through their entire work shift. I would not be surprised if their ad impression is valued at a thousand times less than an average American moms ad view..

> Every auto driver and worker in india ha YouTube on through their entire work shift.

Meanwhile in Canada, our wireless telecoms have convinced the government that this level of bandwidth consumption should cost hundreds a month otherwise the cellular network would crash.

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