Youtube Revenue - how good is it?

Actual revenue apparently varies wildly, but yeah, if each of your videos is getting millions of views you're making some nice coin.

I think you need to be averaging at least in the hundreds of thousands of views per week to make a living though. I think ad revenue is way down though. Some Youtubers make quite a bit selling merchandise as well.

A few years back I read that 1 millions views pays about $2k and then youtube gets half of that. I never understood why youtube would take half of the 2k.

Here's a calculator I just found:
Socialblade Youtube Calculator

Roughly, a video creator will earn $2,000 for every million views. And then YouTube takes 45 percent

If you look at how many mid-size Youtubes are begging for money on Patreon now, my guess is the revenue is not that great unless you're a channel with a million subscribers or more.

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How did poodiepie or whatever his name is get so rich?

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Daily uploads sometimes multiple daily with 50M+ views. Also sponsorships and merch sales. All adds up quickly.

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You may not see Daniel Middleton walking down a red carpet, but he is a celebrity in a league of his own. With nearly 17 million followers, a world tour that included four sold-out nights at the Sydney Opera House and over 11 billion views on YouTube, gamer DanTDM, as he is known to his fans, ranks as the world’s highest-paid YouTube star of 2017 with $16.5 million—the highest of any YouTube star since Forbes started keeping track in 2015.

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It's all about popularity as said, once you reach certain levels of popularity just like being any kind of celebrity there are revenue streams at every angle. Sponsorships, paid for attending events, YouTube views, etc.

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Some folks I watch who don't curse, don't discuss politics, don't have copyrighted music playing, had their videos demonetized. Their videos could be watched by a 3 year old with no problem. Seems like youtube is using an algorithm to demonetize vids and sometimes it just screws people.

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Youtube is a giant bubble waiting to burst. I almost cannot think of a more unstable ground upon which to build a career.

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ctual revenue apparently varies wildly, but yeah, if each of your videos is getting millions of views you're making some nice coin.

I think you need to be averaging at least in the hundreds of thousands of views per week to make a living though. I think ad revenue is way down though. Some Youtubers make quite a bit selling merchandise as well.

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pretty close here. but there's also brand deals, not just merch sales. if you do a sponsored video, those things can get surprisingly lucrative. on top of the success from youtube as a social media you can also spread that to other social medias like instagram/twitter. although twitter doesn't pay shite, instagram can for sure. thousands for just ONE sponsored pic etc. for some people it could reach up to 10's of thousands for 1 pic.

what's more is that the advertisers are getting their money's worth. kids online have gotten to feel like they know the personalities behind the camera b/c they have followed them so long... the ones on camera are who they are, they're not actors paid to make a character funny/entertaining. the reasons advertisers pay this much is because of the trust the content providers have established with their fans.

it's a really interesting new deal going on.

Can make money on Instagram too. I know of someone that just post stock images of shoes. Once he got up to several thousand follows he was able to get a lower level celebrity to follow him. Once that happen he blew up to 100s of thousands of followers.

Nike and all the retailers now send him shoes for free and he takes pics and post them. Makes six figures a year