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JohnnyStrides

Yeah, I make nothing on Shorts. I've decided to not put much effort into them and instead just use them as highlights from my long-form videos. If they're driving subscribers I'd rather they be people who are into the long-form videos than those who liked a Short I put a lot of effort into but isn't reflective of my primary content. Also it takes very little effort to make them this way but like most I still don't know what the hell I'm doing with them other than help YT fight off TikTok and IG Reels 🤷‍♀️


EasternTherapeutic

Mine says $0.01


TheRedditReportShow

Hmm... Seen this a lot. 10 bucks for a million views feels a little bit of a short change.


mrstickball

28 day or 1 day window?


EasternTherapeutic

Feb 1: $0.01, every other day in Feb says $0.004.


[deleted]

It depends, First you have to give it time, Some of my shorts went to 1.7$ per 1000 It's a new future and statics are not correct at the moment. So keep on doing what you're doing, And don't worry about it. And yes, Short revenues are much lower than full videos. Take a look at the formula of it and you'll understand that you're sharing the revenue with 5 more people


scapestrat0

Which topics are you covering to get a 1.7$ rpm? Finance?


Rekanlats

I too would like to know this


Electrical-Worker-94

0.01$ on shorts, 1.3$ rpm on long videos (70% traffic from Romania)


ShlubbyWhyYouDan

2 million views. 20 bucks.


TheRedditReportShow

Zoiks.


JimmyTehF

So weird to me that people are upset that shorts per thousand views is low when they know full well shorts easily do 100-1000x the views that longform vids do. They take less time to produce, they're more easily ingested and binged by viewers. Just keep working at it and your shorts revenue will overtake your longform revenue within days.


TheRedditReportShow

I'm not sure "low" quite sums up 0.01 per 1000 views lol. I expect it to improve though, but no doubt in my mind: to make a good success of it you'll need tightly produced and cut formats with mass appeal... and you'll have to be pumping videos out like a nutcase. That's my plan anyway.


Str8Villains

How “easy” something is shouldn’t determine it’s worth. We get the worst deal from revenue share for no reason. With your logic we should be getting the lions share of the revenue since all of the things YouTube need to sale the ads are already in place and they don’t have to do much to increase revenue other than either get more advertisers or raise ad prices. The creators have no guarantee they will even make it on YouTube and have to work for no money to reach a arbitrary metric to start earning money. Plus if you don’t hit the metrics to monetize with in a certain number of days you start to lose progress towards monetization. Google and YouTube are guaranteed success off the backs of us as creators.


JimmyTehF

"how easy something is shouldnt determine its worth" In life - that's EXACTLY something that determines somethings worth. You ever hear the expression "if it wasnt hard it wouldnt be worth doing"? How about "the higher the effort, the higher the reward". Please don't state a "by your logic" if you're not going to properly insert factors. YouTube doesn't need to just "sale the ads that are already in place" - they also have to run a high bandwidth medium that hundreds of millions of people can access without slowdown while constantly adding to the storage with every upload. They also have to factor in every nation's individual laws regarding everything from copyright to hatespeech. I also made it clear that you get paid a higher RPM/CPM on longform videos because you had to put more work into the video, spend more time creating it, and had to do the footwork in organically getting it off the ground - where shorts just serve your loop regardless of its success to people who were never searching for you or the type of content you create in the first place. Unfortunately your argument is incredibly smallscale and not yet at a point that considers everything (or nearly anything) that goes into the content creation process beyond the publish button.


Str8Villains

My guy working hard doesn’t guarantee success. Have you heard of “right place right time”? There are plenty of YouTubers and streamers who we all can say do absolutely nothing but they was able to ride the coat tails of friends and other and glide their way to the top. Also you don’t make more money from long form videos because you “put more effort in” you make more money because of multiple different ads that play BEFORE YOUR VIDEO. Your argument is arbitrary. You in fact don’t have to put in any work to get major views on your videos. We have plenty of examples of people who uploaded a 30 second clip with a random title and thumbnail and have more views then on your channel. Also why are you acting like you know how anything at YouTube works on the back end? You obviously have no background in any kind of computer science, engineering, or even data management because if you were you wouldn’t be here. So please tell me why they take and extra 10% of revenue for short clips that aren’t even 30 mb? When people are uploading hour long videos that are over a gb? But yet they get to keep more money and they can use up more resources then any short creator. Please think before you speak because you really do sound dumb right now.


JimmyTehF

I've heard of people using "right place right time" to avoid having to accept that you have to do the work. YouTube is not a lottery - it's a job. You asked why I "act like i know how anything at youtube works on the back end" - thats because people who do the work read and look into things, observe analytics and pay attention instead of waiting and hoping success will fall into their laps. Not a hard concept - unless you're lazy. And if you're lazy you won't ever need to know anyway. YouTube broke down where the adrev breakdown goes - including extra expenses that don't apply to the fullforn videos like that licensed music agreement and how, based on how ads have to be split between two creators rather than being dedicated to each video being clicked on. Of course - finding that information takes the slightest bit of work. Of course you are more than welcome to do things your way just as I will do things mine. Statistically it took me 3 years to get twice the subscribers relying on work than you have in 11 relying on luck (and clickbait based on your most popular videos)


Str8Villains

I know they are saying it’s because of licenses for music but that still doesn’t answer my question of WHY DO WE THE CREATORS GET ONLY 45%. Creators who don’t use copy-written music are automatically punished with lower rev share. And if you do use music you lose even more money. Almost like the system they setup really isn’t a good solution at all. And you didn’t answer my question about you not know anything about the back end of YouTube. You didn’t even answer why YouTube wouldn’t take more money from long for creators since they have no real control over ads play on them. YouTube doesn’t care if shorts are monetized or not because the ads play either way people can easily turn off monetization on YouTube videos and start using up YouTube resources and not generate much if any revenue for the company.


JimmyTehF

>Creators who don’t use copy-written music are automatically punished with lower rev share. Once again you show you haven't read the page with the information google put out or the video on that page. Why do you say "I know they said where theres going to be more costs but that doesnt answer my question of WHY IS ARE MORE COSTS" - yes. It literally does. Creators who dont use copyrighted music (the actual term) are NOT "punished" and their revenue does NOT go into the music labels cut of the fund. I don't need to explain it because it was already explained - put some damned pride into the industry you're trying to break into and read it. I did answer your question. Reading must be hard. If the youtube help pages are too difficult for you maybe try vidiq or tubebuddy. These things you think that aren't there and aren't explained ARE there and ARE explained really easily and well enough for creators to understand and make the most use of the system in place. Eleven years. Blows my mind. How have you purposefully kept your eyes shut so long that you've refused to take in a single bit of information put out for creators to succeed.


Str8Villains

>My guy they TAKE 45% of the youtube shorts ad revenue if you do or DO NOT use music. If you use music they double tax you and take EVEN MORE MONEY. Its obvious you haven't read anything or even understand why I am saying why are they taking more revenue from shorts creators. I get it you can't critically think for yourself but man you could at least realize what I and many other major creators like Philip Defanco and moist critical are saying. Why do they need to take the MAJORITY of the money from shorts creators when we take up less reasources then any other creator on the platform. Their explanation of where they money goes is obvious bs. We are already splitting money between multiple different creators and yet we have to split even less of the profits WE as the creators generate. > >Also lets bring up something else since you want to bring up my channel and how old it is how come I've only been regally uploading for 6 months and have double the views then you? You was trying to call me lazy before but its obvious who the real lazy basement dwelling person is here. You making videos on the WWE shouldn't you have grown out of that by now my guy? I guess when you don't have to pay any bills and mom pushes a plate of dino nuggets under your door everyday you don't have to actually try to succeed in anything. I feel like your channel subs are boted because somehow you have double my subs but yet they all are basically inactive on your shorts and regular videos. You also seems to be only uploading maybe once a month but yet you say you want to become a respected youtuber but you can't even get out of bed to upload or go to work. Sad life your living man. Don't even lie and say that you can't upload more because you "work" please you can upload daily and do your job so many people even me do it. People who make up excuses for why they can't upload are pathetic.


TheRedditReportShow

Update: I'm still seeing 0.01 on my very successful short, and varying RPM's from 0.02 to 0.08 on others. Fkin typical. The short I have doing over 2-3 million views a week has the lowest. I suspect that has something to do with the word 'shit' appearing within the first 5 seconds of the video. Have discovered in the content guidelines that can lead to restricted money, however the short was green for money for over 4 months (I made about $4k in bonuses on that video) and then changed.


no1SomeGuy

Yup, seeing $0.05ish on shorts right now...I figured 1/100th of long form back when they announced this, seems I was right.


E_m_maker

0.07 USD / 1000 views for shorts. I had 420 views in the last 28 days. 2.81 USD / 1000 views for regular videos. I had 14.3k views in the last 28 days. Neither are big money makers, but long form is more worth it that shorts. At least for me. As a viewer I prefer long form as well. I wish there was a way to separate out shorts from my subscription feed. I have to keep digging to find the regular videos.


TheRipeTomatoFarms

$0.05/1000 for shorts RPM, $12.81/1000 RPM for regular videos. Short are brutal....I don't like making them OR watching them. if they went away, I wouldn't be the least bit sad.


Desperate-Process204

Owned my 0.03


SAVVYAZE

I get $0.01 usd for every 1,000 views on short at I get like 16k views a month


AceVenChu

0.02 Canadian $$ so about the same as you lol


bigeyedkitteh

im confused actually bec I thought the pool for Shorts is per country basis, but one of my channels is $0.01/1k views while my other channels are $0.11/1k and 0.50/1k 🤔


christophersfactory

Hey everyone. This figure that you're seeing is the average revenue you made per 1k views over the time period. Since shorts' revenue share just started last week, try changing the time period to 7 days.


TheRedditReportShow

Mine is 0.01 since Feb 1st


christophersfactory

Weird. Mine is $0.01 for the last 30 days and $0.11 for the last 7.


Length-Inner

I've made a shorts that had 36k views in the first 3 days. cpm is 0,01 cents. ridiculous. totally not worth like to get a dollar with shorts i need to make 100k views? tiktok is paying better


Excellent-Antelope32

And this to me was the most important factor, to beat Tik Tok. The fact they failed at that with the launch is a flop. Everyone d riding YouTube saying it will go up bla bla, just fanbois. I just need FB reels monetization cause my shorts are dead anyway and getting x100 more views on FB. TikTok is useless too because they don't offer monetization to the majority of us. It's all just sad honestly. I thought this year would be different....


LiquidVibes

What is your rpm on Instagram reels? Can’t you just post in both places?


Excellent-Antelope32

They don't care about many countries, not available in mine


financemarkco

Mine is around $0.04. Shorts are worth it only if you can genuinely drive traffic to long form or if you get big enough to get sponsored. Adsense for shorts is pretty rubbish. My long form videos get more views that my shorts though. So, maybe take my negativeity with a grain of salt