Question: How does YouTube channel host money-making work?

[Dachsie]

I was wondering if a YT channel host makes money just by number of views, and / or by "thumbs up" clicks?

I realize it may only be a penny or two each click.

If so, is this something a channel owner has to take a specific action with YouTube in order to get this income or does this income just automatically accrue to anyone who starts a YT channel?

I watch quite a few of the preparedness, homesteading, off grid video channels and have seen this money making aspect alluded to but do not have the facts.

[boogietillyapuke]

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/tech/tech-news/how-to-make-money-on-youtube

https://www.google.com/search?q=money+from+youtube&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS687US687&oq=money+from+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l3.11849j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

[Dachsie]

This link was much better of the two but there is still some confusion as to the pro-active step you must take to "monetize" your videos.

Seems like at one point they talk about signing up your whole youtube account for monetization but you also have to take a specific action, or mark a box or whatever, for every single video you post with your account. That was a little confusing.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/tech/tech-news/how-to-make-money-on-youtube

I think there are not too many of the content creators / channels I watch that really care about making money through monetization of AdSense or being a partner.

I think most of the homesteading prepper type channels have their own items for sale and their own websites and stores and products and make their money that way, but only a very few of them I think make any substantial income through the YT way.

I get very turned off when a homesteading channel host start promoting branded products and supposedly give their objective reviews after being given the product free by the manufacturer and showing it on a video. That undermines their whole objectivity to me.

One example is that Sun Oven thing that Doug and Stacy promote. That thing may cook a meal over the day but it is NOT AT ALL THE SAME as cooking that same meal in a real oven. The food does not brown or get the oven baked coating on the food. The food gets heated and steamed but not baked as in an oven. I do not want to eat a chicken that is not browned.





P.S. A little off topic ...

Many years ago I got an email that seemed like a "get this sign-up of yourself straight with YouTube right now or you will never be able to comment on a YouTube video ever again." Well, I was having a lot of problems with slow dial-up connection and old computer at the time and I did not even understand how to do what they said I had to do to get rights to comment on videos, or subscribe to a channel or check the thumbs up box so I did not get it right and I have never been able to intereact with any channel or video creator ever since then and that was several years ago. Maybe this is a good thing. I do send emails back and forth with some of the YT channel hosts via their websites if they have one or via their email address on their website. But the channel owners seem only to really want to interact with the people who are fully signed up as commenters on YouTube.

[Glass]

The YT money thing is a bit of a mystery to me. I was never able to get hard data when I posted the thread Making money on YT or Making Money from YT. Can't recall which it was.

I got the impression the amount of $$ varied widely depending on who/which advertizers showed up with your videos. I think that aspect is down to how google Ads works. Companies seem to bid for ad views so some advert types pay more than others. That means to maximize your return you want to attract or correlate with products that are paying the most per ad view.

There also seems to be some minimum threshold before you can monetize. Either the number of videos produced, the length of videos produced and the number of hits you are getting per video. I think the length of video you can put out there is restricted by some criteria based on views subscribers and number of videos you have.

Then I think the amount of money you can make has some kind of exponential trigger based on subscribers and views. It seems when you get to some number above 150,000 subscribers the returns are much better. It could be 200K subscribers. Anyway there does seem to be a magical number where suddenly you are getting enough money to justify putting more effort into YT Productivity.

I've seen a few youtubers shift into high gear or announce going YT full time around that 150 - 200K mark. Their view count at around 40 - 50K per video.

Once you get to 500K subscribers and you can consistently get 200K views I think it starts taking off.

The pewdie pie guy was reputed to be pulling $50K per video minimum producing several per week. I was never able to verify that. One of the supercar guys has 800K subscribers, is buying 4 new supercasrs at around $2million (I think thats pounds), on finance though I think. He has a team of 8 people working to produce his content.

there's the Casey dood in NY, 4 million subs IIRC.... again, don't know numbers but could be several tens of thou $$ per video.

personally I don't like the people who don't declare they got free stuff or such like to review. I think you should be upfront about it. The Casey guy is a bit dodgy like that IMO. But hey, he's making the bucks right? Some YTer's are clearly gits' but again they are making the money so FU All.

[singular_me]

overall I read that one gets $300 per 100K clicks average if the viewer watches some of the advertising.

if I find this link I will post it


but I agree with Glass, aiming for 200K views/per video is a safe bet

ps: I will be starting my utube channel in januray - and not because of $$

[Cebu_4_2]

Couple years ago my kid was clearing $300+ a month just posting random vids of minibike and other crap. Not a lot of views but followers were thae main point back then. Then the responsible child broke his camera and now says youtobe sux since procured since google bought youtube. I think it has a lot to do with lack of effort.

Any video if you want money has to be monitized when you post it, you need at least 10K hits to trigger cash other wise it just sits there and your fan base has to watch BS ads. I demonitized mine cause why promote BS for nothing.

If your mind is up to it, you can make good extra money with a good cam and recording software. But you need to keep adding new vids for anything to bring your videos up in a search. Don't even matter if relivent just need to keep up on it.

[Glass]

i think Cebu's right. Being a consistent poster is important. I'm always poking around for something to watch. I always check in first with the guys who consistently post content. Then I see who they subscribe to or what channels show up as recommended next to them.

I think if you can get advertisers like lending, finance, mortgage you can get higher returns. I also think Google fiddle the stats a lot. Quite a few people have posted about how the stats don't match when they track them independently. Some people say their channel shows less subs than they have, less thumbs up than they get.

Also things like affiliate links for products. If you are linking a product, try and get an affiliate commission. I've noticed some people declare the affiliate commission really well and it makes me more likely to purchase that way. I know they are getting a commission and on more than a few occasions I've been about to grab something when I remembered so and so's YT and I hunt it down. I don't buy a lot of stuff on line but when I do I try and do it through someone who did a good review.

Also, Merch and Loot. Got to have some Merchandise or Loot options lined up. Even if it's just a mug, a sticker or a cap. There are a lot of places geared for that now. I notice a lot of the Motorcycle people do stickers and stitched key tags or fobs. You can find small order suppliers who will batch up 50 at a time or what ever and either they mail them out or you get them and mail them.

And Subscriber mile stone Give aways. 5000k Subs, 10000 subs etc.

Lastly, always ask for a Like, a thumbs up, a subscribe or tell-a-friend.

[singular_me]

as usual, when lies promote $$, they eventually demonetize/choke the Truth. Again the elites using a Natural Law at their advantage...the zero-sum game is inescapable. So if we do not master Natural Laws, we wont get out of the woods just yet. Evil uses the Truth and twists it, it knows the Truth because duality is an electric property embedded in Life
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PepsiCo, Walmart, and Starbucks have joined the international boycott against Google’s YouTube and suspended advertising on the video-sharing service over mounting concerns that their ads may have run next to “appalling” videos.

Some advertisers said they won’t return to YouTube until they are certain Google has the situation under control.

“The content with which we are being associated is appalling and completely against our company values,” Walmart said in a Friday statement.

The company, alongside PepsiCo and several others, said they will also stop buying ads that Google places on more than two million other third-party websites, AP reported.

Verizon and AT&T, along with UK retailer Marks and Spencer and L’Oreal, pulled ads from YouTube earlier this week. AT&T said it is removing the ads from the non-search inventory on Google because its “ads may have appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate,” the company wrote in an email, Reuters reported.’
https://www.rt.com/news/382280-youtube-google-boycott-videos/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

[Glass]

It would be ok if the ads were posted next to "approved" material promoting terrorism and hate such as NBC or CNN or ABC but not privateers......because they promote unapproved terrorism and hate material.

You know it was bound to happen. Everything gets turned back on itself. Fake news creators and broadcasters turned it around and made it into a weapon to silence the truth. That's the way it's always worked.

[Dachsie]

Paul Joseph Watson did a very recent video explaining YouTube's antics of late. YT disappears all the videos and puts them sort of in a separate area where you have to register and sign in to the videos of that channel.

YT is a very bad joke.

[Glass]

Paul Joseph Watson did a very recent video explaining YouTube's antics of late. YT disappears all the videos and puts them sort of in a separate area where you have to register and sign in to the videos of that channel.

YT is a very bad joke.

They do the same with comments as well. I've been ghosted from the start of my account. If the channel content creator marks me as ok my comments show up BUT they have to find my comment first, then tag it. I think it's happened twice. Once it was only for the 1 comment and future comments still ghosted. 2nd time on another channel it seemed future posts showed up but it didn't change my ghosting everywhere else. I gave up posting comments.

We need a new alternative to YT. I just don't know how it would be possible to host all the content. I don't know how YT does it. It literally must cost a fortune. I know they cache popular stuff close to the end user so it doesn't have to be repeatedly downloaded internationally or transnational. Keeping data costs down.

I thought Kim Dot Coms idea was good. To use Peer2Peer technology and every one contribute X Gigabytes of their own drive space and X Mbytes of their own bandwidth allowance. Grabbing different parts of the videos/files from different locations should help with speed and keep the load on participating individuals to a reasonable level.

The platforms are already there in GNU or GPL licensing to do that. The Torrent system uses the same methodology. And the Government via SETI and other projects has been using peoples bandwidth, processing power and disk space for close to 2 decades now.

There are a couple new startups out there for YT and facespacemybook alternatives so I guess we shall see if they can make it. I've heard the name Gab a few times, which I think is a twitter alt.

[Dachsie]

"We need a new alternative to YT. I just don't know how it would be possible to host all the content. I don't know how YT does it. It literally must cost a fortune."

Agree there needs to by an alternative to YT.

Some of the YT corporate advertisers won't let their ads be on shows that cover "alternative" ideas and theories. Do not know if YT really needs the advertisers anymore because Google / YT is one and the same as Deep State and I do not think they really need to bring in money. They are more about using it for control of the people. The content creators / hosts of the channels do need to make money for their time and effort and I have noticed they are being less and less free in expressing their ideas as they do not want their video to get taken down by YT.

All and all, I find the good alternative ideas and news and good information on various subjects to be increasingly tainted by Big Brother's influence. Click bait titles are necessary for content creators to make money and at the same time makes viewers trust their content less and less. We feel scammed and disgusted when the title has nothing to do with the content other than being catchy enough to get you to click on it. And when the subject matter is pedogate and Pizzagate, channel hosts are just having to be too too crytic in the way they express things. Everything is unnamed sources or pseudonyms.

We have to search harder and harder for real people with real integrity and real investigative and journalistic skills because the whole YouTube experience is just not to be relied upon. I was blocked from subscribing and commenting years ago and it is really a blessing in disguise. Not sure what I did to deserve that as I never broke any rules or used profanity or whatever.

I would not mind paying a monthly amount to watch a good yt substitute but I would not want it to make money for people the way it currently is at YouTube.

I notice that AT&T yahoo webmail is now making Google their default search engine whereas before it was Yahoo search engine. Sure do not like that but does show the whole Internet is consolidating and become more like Big Brother every minute.

[Glass]

I agree click bait is a thing that is very annoying. Unfortunately scruples are very lacking these days and alls fair in the pursuit of money.

There are some notorious click baiters out there and while I concluded some people vote with their mouse and don't go back, new fresh meat shows up or some people just like the click bait. I guess it's like a tabloid news paper like the Daily Mirror or the New York Post. Aliens made me pregnant Or Check out Kims Huge Ass while she frollicks at the Bahamas gets them coming back for more.

Titilation = clicks = $$$.

Personally I'd like some of those $$ but don't really want to be part of the problem. The world needs less drivel if people are to focus more on whats important right now.

[Harveydent]

https://incomeboy.com/how-to-earn-money-from-youtube/

[SockPuppet]

https://incomeboy.com/how-to-earn-money-from-youtube/

Very good info in regards!

[Dachsie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSQuI0m63o