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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 tough »

amelius wrote: post #39
zamnos wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adobe Premiere, along with special purpose apps are already here. take the raw video, chop it up into pieces, grab the algorithimically determined "interesting" ones, stick a recent audio track behind it. volia! not as good as if you had a team helping you create content, but a whole helluva lot easier.

Thinking a bit more about it, I guess you could have an algorithm that detects the start of a fragment based on speech (e.g. you say "fragment start!") and you could rank the fragments at the end, e.g. "fragment stop score 8!" I suppose you could do that with open source speech-to-text tools. And use ffmpeg to cut and stitch everything together.

This exist, there's a software that will trim any non-talking parts of your video with AI as a smart video editor

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

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Post by red_trumpet »

AviationAtom wrote: post #76
tzs wrote: post #73

There's a section about YouTube in this video [1] by Samuri Guitarist called "How Much Money Guitarists Actually Make Might Surprise You". The YouTube money is covered in the "The Content Creator" section. Overall the video lives up to its title. I was in fact surprised by how much guitarists actually make. The surprise worked both ways--some of the ways guitarists might make money paid much worse than I expected, an…

I think this data is subject to change quickly. I think content creation has enjoyed it's "Dot-com Bubble" era. I think it's already starting to change, but will likely very rapidly change if a recession sets in soon, as many prominent economists are expecting. Content creation payments are fueled by advertising dollars and it's easy to see that the advertising market has started to contract, as evidenced by many of…

> as evidenced by many of the modern news outlets folding

Which time frame are you talking about here? I had the impression news outlets folded during the last 20 years because ads went online?

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

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Post by bemmu »

IdontKnowRust wrote: post #54

I really like your channel, I'm a developer who wants to learn more of the *Ops world in general. But for me these platforms like YouTube have a big problem, they force content creators to accept that everything in life have a trade off, which in this case is quality x quantity. YouTube values quantity in the end, while it's users values quality in a strange way. Because of this, niche channels like yours, gets less…

Suppose today you go on YouTube and see 10 recommended videos.

There are thousands of videos it could put in these slots, so they'll be ranked and only the very best (based on metrics and your interests) will make the cut.

Video #11 might have been great, but wouldn't get suggested to you merely because it had a few seconds lower average watch time. Because of this I'd expect a 10% better video (like %, watch time) would improve its views by some huge nonlinear factor (maybe double?).

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

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Post by bookofjoe »

nicksiscoe wrote: post #44

This is entirely anecdotal, but reading the comments here it feels like compensation for the bottom 50% of creators has gone down in the last 5-ish years I ran a Minecraft YouTube channel in high school in 2014 (I thought I was too late to get big on YouTube and shut it down in 2016!) and made $500 a month with 2,500 subscribers. I happened to have one video that got a few hundred thousand views, which helped

How often did you post a video, and how long were they, roughly? I'm asking because my YouTube channel has about 2,500 subscribers but I've yet to see a penny.

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

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Post by naavis »

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…

I went to check out your channel just to realize I was already subscribed. Well played!

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

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Post by SkyPuncher »

chongli wrote: post #78
hahamrfunnyguy wrote: post #7

I started a YouTube channel at the end of 2017 and published on YouTube on a regular basis for a bit over a year. My best year was about $1,500. I've made $4,600 since I started the channel. At the channel's peak, I was trying to publish a DIY video where I would build something two or three times a month. I started the channel because I enjoy making stuff and thought I would be able to do more of it and maybe get pa…

Making videos taking time away from actually making stuff and making the projects take 10X longer. So I stopped. Check out Kenji Lopez-Alt [1]. He’s an award-winning chef who makes cooking videos by strapping a GoPro to his head and going to work in his home kitchen. He has basically none of the fancy production you see on cooking TV shows. Yet his videos are very popular because he’s a great chef and he tells you th…

Kenji isn't really representative of the path most people can take.

His reputation is almost exclusively from his superb cooking articles (and recipes). The Youtube channel is a side dish, not the main course.

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

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Post by SkyPuncher »

_davebennett wrote: post #50
hahamrfunnyguy wrote: post #7

I started a YouTube channel at the end of 2017 and published on YouTube on a regular basis for a bit over a year. My best year was about $1,500. I've made $4,600 since I started the channel. At the channel's peak, I was trying to publish a DIY video where I would build something two or three times a month. I started the channel because I enjoy making stuff and thought I would be able to do more of it and maybe get pa…

I think DIY content is so hard to make. For me, it usually involves building stuff that I find interesting, but that is usually super niche and doesn’t appeal to a mainstream audience. Thus, less views which makes the whole time spent on making the video feel wasted compared to other projects I could be doing. On the other hand, I could try to build projects that might be more mainstream for the better views, but the…

People who are interested in DIY are interested in the process far more than the average person. They want to learn techniques on how to build the things they want.

You can't build a Youtube channel by highlighting what you've built. You have to explain how and why it's built the way it was. The end result is maybe 5% of the value.

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