YouTube subscribers or people with channels

The top creators can (and do) make millions, this article does a good job explaining it.

How Much Do YouTubers Make

You have to have a pretty significant footprint to make that kind of money though. Regular Joes without a following like these guys don't make that without really making themselves stand out.

I've noticed that youtube folks that get successful become targeted for things that normally are reserved for politicians.

I personally chalk it up to legacy media trying to take out the competition.

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I've noticed that youtube folks that get successful become targeted for things that normally are reserved for politicians.

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If you have 1000 subs then you start a Patreon channel and charge $5 a month and hope you get 100 of those people to subscribe. You produce additional content for the Patreon.

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.18 a video view so $18 per 1000

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18 cents per view would be $180 per 1000, but both of those estimates are high. One cent or less per view is more typical.

I follow a lot of reaction channels and have emailed back-and-forth with them before. I’ve asked this question and every one of them says they still have a day job and this is just extra income and not as much as people think it is. Most of the reactors I listen to have between 100 K and 300 K followers.

They also say there is a lot of work that goes into it and that’s why so many of them fail after six months or a year. Most of them do two or three videos a day, and then have to edit not to mention coming up with new material.

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I follow a lot of reaction channels and have emailed back-and-forth with them before. I’ve asked this question and every one of them says they still have a day job and this is just extra income and not as much as people think it is. Most of the reactors I listen to have between 100 K and 300 K followers.

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Yeah, it's really not a lot of money, especially not at first, and the type of content matters too. The ads that are shown depends on your content, and obviously some ads pay better than others.

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They also say there is a lot of work that goes into it and that’s why so many of them fail after six months or a year. Most of them do two or three videos a day, and then have to edit not to mention coming up with new material.

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It really is a lot of work. I'm trying to get into it myself, and you really have to love what you're doing so you'll stick with it. And I'm learning that every little thing matters, and that there are a lot of little things. If you're like me and you've never made video before, it might take a while to figure out what camera angles and focal lengths make a good shot. And you have to figure out lighting which involves brightness, color temp, and positioning. And you have to make sure the audio is good. Then you have to figure out editing which is a whole career.

Then you put in all this work and your videos are still shite. You start noticing the little finishing touches on the popular channels, like how just a few milliseconds adjustment on a cut can make a world of difference, or how still shots are not totally still but might have a slow zoom or pan effect.

Then if you're not comfortable in front of a camera or with public speaking, you start to work on your expressions and your pronunciation and all that shite.

Oh I almost forgot the script. I never realized how many different ways you can say something until I started watching and listening to myself. You try to put yourself in the viewer's shoes, like I know what I meant but would a random person know what I'm talking about? What information do they need before I deliver this new information? When I'm editing this video later, will I include a visual for this bit? Just the visual or edit myself in as well?


A lot of that might just apply to the type of content I'm working on, so some of these "influencers" might not have all these considerations. But for me at least it's very hard work.

Great information

Yes also you can post affiliate links to Amazon etc.

This is one of the biggest money makers besides ad revenue. Amazon also has an influencer program now. If you get accepted you can make $5000-$10,000 easily in a couple months.