Making money on Youtube

[Dachsie]

I guess the really really big yt money makers are not going to be the kinds of subjects that many on this forum would be really in to. Certainly not me as one who is trying to be not conformed to this world system, materialism etc, as much as possible.

I find certain yt subject areas interesting and psychologically healthy such as homesteading, off grid living, survival / preparedness and I like traditional Catholic sites that explain traditional Catholic teaching like True Restoration and novus ordo watch channels.

There is a subset of homesteading subjects by those hosts/channels that are part of the
http://www.thehomesteadnetwork.com/channels/

These homesteading/preparendness channels started slow with their channels but then got bigger and bigger subscribes and views and realized they could bring in pretty good yt income from their farm / homestead operations, especially of homesteaders who do not have outside regular job income but rely solely on small fixed income and their homesteading production income -- like from about $300 t0 $1000 a month. But they have to start doing at least one video a day to keep up the income and that takes someone who can spend about two or three hours of each day filming / editing / uploading. So this homesteading topic area is never going to be a huge income stream for them but since it looks to me like making a living off of strictly what you produce on your smallish homestead is impossible, many of these people have started getting more and more into the yt channel / money making game, and they seem to accept click bait titles as legitimate part of the game.

What I have noticed is that the real tangible and important gains they get from doing these channels is that you establish "community" and relationships that translate to real face-to-face, real names, meetings and collaborations and help from nearby rural neighbors that they never would have known about because of yt. Sometimes people call for prayers. Sometimes people need help with animals or watching the farm while they have to be away on emergency etc. Sometimes calls for money donations seem legitimate like poor hardworking homesteaders who have bad storm damage their greenhouse plastic covering or whatever. So all of that seems good to me but it is not cyber kind of good - but connecting real people that you can meet with and help each other in real life.

As for my traditional Catholic teaching channels, well that is not about yt money at all and I would not watch any that ever got in to that.

But since I am an infojunkie and have eye probs so can't read much anymore, like audio video format for my junkie needs.

I find the more a channel owner gets hooked on making yt money, the lower quality the content is for my need to learn facts and truth, not audio/visual eye candy stuff. I think there need to be new platforms for poorer people to somehow get income from their video production efforts but whole yt way is no good.

What is so funny is that the yt channels I like do not seem to realize that we are the kind of audience that is divorcing from PayPal, GoFundMe, Amazon, and Patreon because it requires automatic recurring credit card debits. They need to accept one time donations purchases of items via a snail mail method but most don't catch on to that.

In a way, accepting money from youtube as a channel owner is looking more immoral to me everyday because it is like taking money from Soros.

It is so easy to see how YT is controlling content on certain channels. Just watch certain subjects are religiously not mentioned at all or are dealt with an non-objective agendized manner.

I have heard that number of views on a specific video is where the money is, not subscriptions and likes. I have also heard that ad money income depends on viewing the ENTIRE ad, but not clicking to go to the ad site. Do not know what facts are on that info but yt has changed a lot in last six months and it is clear yt is into destroying First Amendment free speech. Those who want big yt money will have play their game and work their system and sacrifice First Amendment for bucks.

I really do not buy the idea that individual corporate advertisers are squawking about their ads being placed on certain kinds of subject sites. No this yt game is connected to CIA/Corporations THEM kinds of games. Corporations and businesses are no longer going to make much via advertising. It will be more about whether Big Brother deems that their business can still exist - fascism American style.

Desperate need for non-youtube platforms that are impervious from infiltration and takeover by THEM. I see more of a month to month subscription of reasonble amount that does not require automatic recurring debits and credit card charges or several month subscription up front. Somehow asking for donations or selling stuff needs to be kept separate from video production and subscriptions. Red Ice, audio only, seems to do a good job on this for now.