Making money on Youtube

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This might be a lounge discussion. I don't know.

I like to check out car reviews. Not everyday cars. Super cars or hyper cars. There are a few channels I follow that do regular car reviews and obviously when the opportunity presents super cars as well.

I came across a review for something, a McLaren or Ferrari. something like that and it was along the lines of "Why I bought" or "Living with" the car. Anyway video was by a young person mid 20's. I'm thinking right. Rich kid. I watched anyway and while the Tuber was clearly english public school educated they didn't come across as a prat, spoiled brat. I watched a couple other videos they did and the style is friendly and personable.

These are not rich middle eastern kids running amok in London in the summer.

The videos are not always about their cars although a lot are. There are videos on adventures, driving here, joining convoy runs. Jumping in other peoples super cars for quick drives, ride alongs and occasionally casual interview type things. Then I noticed they had a large number of subscribers/followers.

I noticed they also linked to a couple other channels of people around the same age doing the same thing. Now some of them probably came from wealthy families, well spoken in that english way. They all seem reasonably personable. It is only a few minute window in to the highlights of their world though. I think most of them made the money they bought the cars with. Even is a couple may have got a leg up through family. I think in the main they do their own thing.

What intrigued me was the number of people following along and the number of views they get per video. In some cases they are punching out a video per day and when some event is on, car show or road trip the videos are more frequent.

Then I go thinking, are they making real money from YT. In one case, one of these kids has funded all his cars from YT - owning one at a time and upgrading after a year or so.

Then I started looking at other Youtubers and I was floored by how much monety some of these people are making. I did come across a web page that showed daily page view states, how many ads were being watched long enought to generate a comission and other elements adding to the estimated income. Lets face it, estimated could be a long way from reality but some numbers looked pretty solid.

I would say once you get to about 500,000 subscribers and you hit 20%+ views per video e.g. 100,000 views per vid, you are making some money in the few grand per vid. They might pull $50,000 - $100,000 per year.

When you start to look at the real big hitters on YT like Pewdie Pie and Bieber and others who have millions and tens of millions of subscribers and some are getting 40 - 50% of subscriber numbers in views per video they are talking Tens of $1,000 per day. Some are pulling what might be more than $100,000 per week. The numbers are mind boggling.

Pewdie pie does games I think. Never watched. Bieber of course does Emo. Some are doing makeup tips, clothing, technology. Rappers. Stupidity, moronity, Hicock45 does guns. There is even one called What is Inside. It's a Dad and his young son and they cut stuff open to see whats in the guts. Bowling balls, wasp nests. pool balls. Even they would be pulling tens of $1000's per video.

if you then fine tune the adverts playing with your videos you can increase your commish, add some Merch and you could be really pulling in some moola.

Quite an eye opener. Given some of the personalities around here some GSUS thunderdome shit fight YT videos could be a crowd pleaser?