YouTube monetization

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Just wondering if anyone here makes a fair amount of money from YouTube monetization. Not interested in GD-style "I MAKES £2K A WEEK!", just realistic figures on some pretty normal videos. And by fair amount I'd say anything over £100/week.

The whole process is a very interesting business model. I remember when I was much younger (~14) and really into my gaming I started a gaming movie project with a few other people I knew online. Most people laughed at us and we got bored with the idea, but a year or so later Machinima started up and nobody's laughing now.

If you do make a bit of money from YouTube do you do it "full-time" or with the intention of making money? Or was it just a fluke?
 
not many people can make money from youtube to sustain their lifestyle.

If you are an average looking female or better then your odd's of being successful are greatly improved if you review products or talk rubbish whilst staring into the camera like a bunny caught in a cars headlights doing a duckface and making their eyes as wide as alienly as possible.

I'm surprised ocuk don't do product reviews and build guides on youtube like a lot of the big American computer etailers do tbh
 
I don't but on the subject I remember recently there was a documentary on Arab super car drivers in west London - it featured the Arabs, the residents and also... some kids who film the cars and upload the video on youtube.

One of the kids wasn't from London but would travel down during the summer just to film these cars - I think he probably fits into the 'makes a couple of hundred or so' from it category. There must be a fair few people out there doing it part time...
 
There's better ways of making the money on the internet.

Unless you've got big **** and don't mind whoring yourself in front of a camera talking inane **** for teenagers.
 
There are a few vloggers which make quite a bit, get free stuff, free trips, tours, amazing lifestyles
 
It is a LOT of work, and if you go into it because you want to make money then you're going to fail. Do it if it's something you want to do and if it's something you enjoy. You might get something for it, you might not, but if your primary aim isn't to make good content then your content isn't going to be something that anybody wants to watch, and wants to watch regularly.
 
I watch Nerd3 occasionally, he has a very healthy number of subscribers and gets a significant number of views on his videos, definitely a well established youtuber but not a youtube "celebrity". According to him, he spends between 16-18 hours a day making and editing his videos, and is still not making minimum wage. If you want to make reasonable money on youtube you have to be incredibly lucky.
 
I make videos every couple of days, and I get... what, £1 a month from it? That said, I am with a network with extremely low (2500 views a month, low when you look at anyone else) requirements so even with a better number of views you're not going to expect much.

Really, I'm not partnered for the money. I just appreciate the banner on my channel page and shows. You're not going to be making decent money off of it without a lot of effort and a couple of years making high quality videos (I've been going for almost 8 months). There's a major reason why people say to do something you enjoy - because you spend several days doing it in the long run.
 
"TheSyndicateProject" Is one of the very lucky ones. I have no idea how much he makes, but it's enough for him to be designing and building his own house at the age of 22. I believe he started by posting Call of Duty Zombies and then a very popular Minecraft series.

He obviously spends a lot of his time making videos.
 
Bennie-Mac said:
I watch Nerd3 occasionally, he has a very healthy number of subscribers and gets a significant number of views on his videos, definitely a well established youtuber but not a youtube "celebrity". According to him, he spends between 16-18 hours a day making and editing his videos, and is still not making minimum wage. If you want to make reasonable money on youtube you have to be incredibly lucky.
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I agree completely. There is luck and hard work involved. But there is a lot you can do to improve your "chances" of making money. There are plenty of ways to monetize your content on Youtube, unfortunately none of them are "get rich quick" or "easy money" and insider knowledge or 3rd party help is 100% required. But that doesn't go without saying a few hundred a month isn't easily attainable.

There are numerous outfits on the web these days with different approaches (ie. Virool.com, kind of a bad example but the first I thought of) that all work around the Youtube 'ecosystem' helping individuals and brands break ground and make money.

I ain't saying it's possible for your average joe bla bla bla, but I am saying some folks are blind to obvious ways of making money on Youtube. But it requires a lot of ingredients, some of which you'll need help with, which is why it might seem pretty niche right now. But it (Youtube) and other video-content type networks on the web are growing rapidly everyday, there is lot's of money being thrown at this "industry", it's still very new and growing.
 
Lots of effort, very poor rewards unless its for maybe to improve your public speaking or getting used to video editing software for a job etc
 
Well, in stream ads are where you'll make some money if any. Expect to make about £200-£300 a month from about 4k subs and 80k-100k views per month.
 
Biggest money maker on YouTube is Ray William Johnson is it not?

6 Million or so video views twice a week earned him more than $100,000/yr over a year ago, but he has quite a few more channels now.

He earns enough to live well and hire a bunch of staff..
 
krooton said:
How much would epic meal time earn?
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They are the 15th most subscribed channel on YouTube, so quite a lot. There are models which predict earnings, but its difficult to know for sure. I think most of the 'Super Partner' status accounts that belong to YouTube celebrities have a different arrangement on their earnings, plus they probably aren't supposed to talk about them.

I personally make a few quid a month.
 
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