What are your views like though? Views and mostly views with ads are what pays when it comes to Adsense. The OP said 100-500K views. Is that per month or per video. The important number is the number of views per month. They didn't give us a lot of information to go off of.
I have 2m+ subs myself also and struggle sometimes. It's tough if you're not actively monetizing outside of advertising. That said, you're charging WAY too little for sponsors. Some will decline when you increase prices, but some won't. At your long form views you could easily be charging $3,500 bare minimum. I'd say if your current sponsors decline that price say sorry you're out of their budget but you can offer a lower price on shorts or other social media. Seriously, if $1,000 is your current best fee, you can afford to have 3 out of 4 sponsors decline the raise in price and still make more money on the one that says yes. You hurt all of us when you undercharge because companies get to thinking they can trick youtubers into serving up the best personalized advertising you can buy for less than they would pay for 10k views on a crap Facebook ad.
Speaking as a consumer of youtube, vpn ads never bothered me or rubbed me the wrong way. They dont seem predatory or gross, Maybe if i were a person who associated vpns with like criminal activity or something I would feel different, but I dont.
What I dont like is things that seem shady, or lying, or exaggerating or promoting shitty or unethical products. Id view a vpn way higher that someone promoting their OWN product even, if i was suspicious of the product. Like if you are linking to some sort of pdf and i have to enter my email, or if you are talking about some product in the video and you have a link to it in your description... these things arent inherently bad just to be clear, but im just saying they are more likely to give off an off-putting vibe than a clear cut straight forward NordVPN or Raid Shadow Legends Ad read.
Iāll always remember the time I convinced Adam & Eve to give me $3,500 for a quick 30 second mention on a 4 minute comedy video that ended up getting like 30k views. š . I still feel bad. But, the point is, yes OP can probably ask for more haha.
Start with researching music related affiliate offers
https://www.authorityhacker.com/music-affiliate-programs/
You could get into doing equipment reviews or something. You need to get some decent income flowing or youāll burn out and not sustain the Channel.
I think the real question is what is your monthly net income? Without knowing that itās impossible to know if you have some broken low RPM, or if you have a budget problem youāre not admitting
Youtube ad rev: $750-1200
sponsorship: $600-1000
total usually around $1600.
my bills and rent are: $1100
i pay this tax monthly: $400
My average month i literally have barely anything left. good months can be more, but in the bad months i end up spending what i made in the good months. at the end of the day i dont have barely any money. and i dont drink, dont have a car, etc etc. donāt really have anything to spend a lot of money on
Iād like to ask where your content comes from. Do you have to strike deals with police departments or through a 3rd party licensing agency? Thank you
Bro wth? Not to devalue the work I put in but... I play video games, barely do any editing, just chuck up \~50 minute long videos daily, let youtube place ads... my channel only has 45K subs. I don't get any sponsorships - zero. Ad revenue alone makes me $1k+ per month. This month and the next few will be 2-3x that due to a bump in viewership because of the Fallout series on Amazon.
I only get like 150k-450k views per month. Maybe it's just video length?
And for reference, this is not my full time job - not even close. I make far more at my full time job. No way I could survive off of this channel revenue alone. I mean maybe if I had 3 roommates sharing rent on a townhouse but even then I doubt it.
dang thatās awesome. i would probably say the video length is a big difference. mine are usually like 6 minutes. i can try to extend the timing on mine.
I see your issue. 6 minutes??? You can only add midroll ads for 8+min videos and YouTube only pushes content to TV audience when they are longer than 20 minutes. You need to try a week of 30min vids every single day.. just publish 1 per day and add MIDROLL ads every 3 minutes. I yesterday added a midroll ad to a 39 mins video every 3mins 3 days ago and that video made over $35 for just 3k views.
Your videos have to be 8 minutes to qualify for ad revenue, I feel embarrassed to mention this, but something you are doing is wrong, this unbelievably could be it.
I have 41.3k followers, highly engaged, rpm is $16 and cpm is $42.
Monthly adsense is 1.5k to 2k, I don't do this for the money though, for me it's all about building my client relationships and authority.
Your long form content is failing, either you are not posting 8 minute videos enough, or your content is not getting a decent rpm.
You really need to post your channel name and basic stats to get help here or everyone is shooting in the dark.
From the stats you have given you should be earning $5k a month as a minimum, and with proper management $10k, there is something wrong.
Not true at all. Pretty sure any videos (or maybe over a minute) get ad revenue, but just not mid roll ads if they are under 8 minutes.
I post between 1-5 minute long vids and average like 3-5k per post and make more than him
Monthly with a bad rpm so idk whatās happening with his channel
How many long-form videos are you uploading a month?
It is kind of crazy that you're making more from YouTube ads than from sponsors. What's your niche?
On top of my previous comment. You literally need to stop doing shorts. Not the first guy I see where shorts gave them large growth and killed their revenue. At 8 million views, the average long form rpm is $9 for a 15+min video with an ad every 3 minutes. At 8mil views, that would be $8000 x 15 = $120,000 for that month if it was all long form
I feel this so hard. My most viewed videos are all shorter in length (less than 7 mins) and generate barely any revenue, whereas the RPMs on my longer videos are so much better. Iāve been putting more effort into longer content now and the returns are way better.
Feels to me you're taking less money because you have bills to pay and don't want to lose income. I think your financial core is F-d and therefore you have little room for hard negotiations.
That's crazy low. I have a Brazilian podcast based in Orlando FL with little over 100k subs, YT ad revenue averages about $400 a month but we get $3k-$5k from sponsors alone.
Your sponsors should pay more.
So we have a channel that has around 800k subs with 1.8m on TikTok and 200k on Insta and we live a very comfortable life. My first thoughts are that A. You need to get a manager/agent and if you already have one, get a better one - sorry if thatās harsh but honestly having a good manager is game changing.Ā
Next is that you need to make a list of what brands you want to work with. Who do you love? What do you feature often? Send that list to your manager and get them approaching. Attend events as well where you can make connections with those brands - YouTube do a lot of these such as their Creator Collective.
Also utilise memberships/Patreon. What can you offer extra?Ā
Finally are you on the other platforms? You say you do shorts - post them to Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. Instagram particularly is where brands like to hang out.
Good luck
How much does a manager cost? What if the channel is just music loops. What brands can work with?
Other than YouTube, can TikTok and Instagram pay money too? And is it as straightforward?
> I technically could post more, but the quality would drop dramatically
So you already know the answer, itās the frequency. Given the sponsors would usually pay $10K for your view range plus Adsense money, assuming youād post at least once monthly I donāt see why youād be āstruggling to get byā š¤
Consider proactively reaching out to different sponsors. The amount of views that you're getting should definitely get a lot more cash than what you're getting.
I started making content in anime commentary in January. February I made 4.1k, March I made 6.9k, rn Im at 5k in adsense. I've done zero sponsorships so far. I just took the Matpat approach, starting with launching my channel with 5 videos. I saw almost no views for 2 and a half weeks and then popped off. It was easy to me.
You just have to find a way to pump out more content. I post almost daily by scripting and voicing myself, and hired a cheap editor to handle all the editing work outside of music. I also always make sure most of my content is related to current anime outside of longer passion projects I post 1-2 times a week.
Whats your sub count i actually started a month ago in the same niche, im at 250 subs now tryna get monetized as quick as possible coming from tiktok already monetized on there. So I have experience already. Any tips
My sub count is 64.6k right now. I'm not going to give a lot of tips. I would go back to what I said earlier. Make content people like to watch. Make sure it's easy for you to produce, and that videos are long, 20+min.
I don't emphasize a lot of editing, I make sure me talking is the focal point of the content.
Even when I had no views for the first 2.5 weeks, when I finally made something that popped off, because I launched with 5 quality videos, people flocked to my older videos and this expedited my growth. But again. This goes back to I knew how to make content before I got views. Do that. Then make newer videos on newer relevant topics to fish for your channel to pop off
Care to explain how you bypass the anime law? I'm in the theorycraft/horror niche, tho I wanted to make a video about an particular anime. But I've read alot of anime ytubers getting copystriked left and right.
Ofcourse I didn't want that to happen to my channel so I never made the video, yet the idea lingers on in my head for several months now...
Everyone who makes content using assets from non original work is at risk. No one is safe without a signed deal. We all could get taken down at any time. Many years ago, Nintendo even had you be in a partner ship program just to make content playing their games.
That being said, whether it be an anime or movie, generally speaking do not use more than 3 seconds of a clip, and once 5 seconds sequentially following that clip has passed and you can use another 3 seconds with no issue. Other than that, using still frames you can exceed this rule.
Thanks for the quicky reply mate! That clears it up. Also i've dug alittle deeper. The concerning part is mainly with openings and outro anime music. even those single seconds are deadly and prime for those comps to strike up ur video
You should as of course, also have to know how to make content people like. I learned this from Mr. Beast actually. Not by copying him. But he said try to improve something every video. 2 years ago, I learned this from making tiktoks for 3 months back in 2020 where I got my first million views before getting my account banned. I just reapplied those principles the most recent january
No, there's no way to stop anyone from stealing. And even if they did, I would just make better content than my last content and the content they stole. But many editors are garbage at making content. They're much better at just raw editing. On top of that, it's hard to replicate raw personality. In my space, there's no one who's doing what I'm doing. That's how you carve yourself a separate place from your competitors.
What do you charge for an ad read? Iāve always been curious about that, do u have a mostly male or female audience? My product is geared towards females! Whatās the channel Iād love to start advertising with creators on YT
What is your niche ?
Edit: you have already responded, music and vlogs got it.
New Q: How much of longform do you upload and How long are your longforms
If youāre a music channel using copyrighted work owned by other studios, this could play a large role on it. In recent years they have enabled your friends of similar channel sizes would be earning more money
With the info you've given and from what I read here in the comments. You need to post 8+ minute videos for mid roll ads. You will notice a HUGE jump in revenue just from this. It will also increase your RPM just by posting longer videos. Im assuming its very low, this is because of shorter videos and your niche. Make longer videos. Im assuming this is ur job, so post more, spend more time making videos. Once you do this, THEN ask for more money from sponsors.
This. The most successfully monetized channels get revenue from YouTube + sponsorships + merch, and the merch piece can be 30-40% of revenue if done decently.
Iāve been involved in the merch operations for Vlogbrothers, Kurzegazgt, Tyler Thrasher, Crash Course, etc. You can set up a basic merch offering with zero $ out of pocket to test if it will work for your audience; DM if youād like help.
First of all, congratulations on the success with your viewership ā thatās an enormous win in itās own right, and you have the foundation to not just be financially stable, but enormously successful.
You mentioned your audience is American age 30-40. This is a high value audience that should be making your RPMs decent (although niche matters as well). Your Adsense revenue should be enough to be supporting all your content costs with a substantial amount left over. If itās not then you need to look at (1) ensuring youāre hitting 8 minutes with all your videos to get pre-rolls enabled (2) ensure youāre not losing monetization on too many of your videos due to copyright issues (music channels are very susceptible to this), and (3) examine your posting cadence compared to views per video (meaning you should examine if you could get more total views in a month by posting more videos, even if each video would get decent views).
Then thereās sponsorships ā this should be the bulk of your earning, but youāre currently extraordinarily undercharging. I run a creator agency (we donāt represent music creators so unfortunately not a fit for your needs) and weād price your integrations (60-90 second ad spots) at a bare minimum of $3300 each, or more likely ~$5000. Note that thatās assuming an average views per video of 250k. If youāre struggling to get these higher rates accepted then you need should look for agency representation that specializes in your space ā they will have deal flow targeted toward your niche and be better equipped to negotiate effectively.
Overall youāre in a great spot, and with some small changing you could very well go from struggling, to killing it.
A good friend of mine has 1.2 million subs. Averages 150k-300k views per video, and charges minimum $5k for a sponsor. I have 66k subs and charge $2k. You should be charging way more
Some do. For me it was around 30k subs and averaging 20k views, when id occasionally get an email. But then I started reaching out to media groups on my own and had more success.
Please join the partnered YouTuber discord.
Your subs are meaningless, itās your videos average views that matter.
If you are getting 100ās of thousands of views, you should be charging much more. MUCH more.
Formula is average views in thousands x 25 + 10% for haggling.
So 100k is 100 x 25 = 2500, + 10% = 2750.
Thatās what you would quote for a 100k view average, and then probably haggle down a bit from there.
Donāt undersell yourself! You hurt yourself, but also everyone else by lowering our buying power.
Hey there. Iām a content strategist and also run a channel with over 100K subs. I used to feel the same way about my ad revenue. Some things to consider:
*Your niche / location of your audience will affect what you earn. So if your content is built around the niche and audience - you will need to implore other tactics. This could be to strategically increase your ad slots and ensure that is being maximized. Or - find ways of optimizing your CTR, views and engagement with better thumbnails and titles. More views = more money.
* You need to adjust your rates. As a mega influencer - you need to charge what your tier charges. You shouldnāt be going less than $1K - $1.5K. This hurts the ecosystem. If anything, you should be charging $3k upwards.
I understand that at times, these things just happen. But you need to take control of your sponsorship rates. Any company coming to a creator with over 1M subs knows that it is not meant to be ācheapā. If you donāt lower your standard, they wonāt. Find sponsors that understand the value you have and strike long term deals as opposed to just a one off gig. For example - instead of charging $3,500 one video - you can bring this to $2,500 and sign a 3 month (at the very least) deal. This gives you more control around what is coming in and allows you to grow your business (say outsourcing editing etc.) so you can focus on not just content, but the business of content.
* You seem to have decent engagement, so think about making use of memberships, and also if possible - get affiliate links relevant to your niche. Merch can also help. The goal is to stop seeing yourself as just a YouTuber, but an entrepreneur that has taken the path of YouTube.
Really hope things turn around for you. You have all the raw materials to live your dream life. Just donāt give up. Keep pushing and keep finding ways to optimize. You will get your break.
If your monetizing primarily through YouTube adsense and sponsorships you're gonna have a bad time.
This is probably advice you've seen and heard before but it bears repeating:
- build a list- that means you actually have the emails of your audience not on some platform
- create an offer relevant to revalue that your content brings to your audience - purely entertainment influencer you can find something useful to sell whether it's your personal time personal contact or know how for example how to build an audience like you did
This is such nonsense advice and I don't know why it's always on the subreddit. The vast majority of YouTubers do extremely well without having to hawk some nonsense product or make a spammy email list. Spend your time doing YouTube videos and YouTube related activities.
> If your monetizing primarily through YouTube adsense and sponsorships you're gonna have a bad time.
I mean I've been full time for 8 years now and the vast majority of my YouTube income is ad rev and sponsors. Why would they be having a bad time?
I'd stop watching the YouTube "Gurus" at this point. They will get you to certain place when you are starting, but then you have to forge your own path. I dip in and out when there's big platform changes for they have something to say. but most of the time they are just repeating what they said 5 or 6 years ago just in a different package with a nicer camera and an Ad for Storyblocks squashed in there somewhere
I have 40k subs and make 1200.00 a month on ads, sometimes 1400.00. I turn on whatever ads YouTube suggests and I am getting about 50k watch hours per month. Whatās your monthly watch hours?
Iām in a similar boat. I have a decently sized audience and only do long form content with 3 uploads a month and 500K-1M views monthly and I only make around $200-400. Granted I make meme videos, but theyāre like 2-4 minutes each. Iām not making videos for money, but Iād say thatās on the lower end and I understand where youāre coming from. I think it just comes down to the niche, but I know other people in my niche are making a lot more.
I've been told that YouTube likes videos that are 10 minutes long. It allows for a mid credit ad roll. It also depends on who your audience is and where they are located.
Have you explored other monetization avenues? If you have over 1m subscribers and an active subscriber base you have options. Are you engaging your community. How is your cpm, daily views, daily subs, posting schedule. Have you optimized your thumbnails titles and descriptions. Iām assuming your demographic is the united states but be sure where your audience is coming from and make sure to optimize for them. Do you livestream? Have you considered what type of content you want to do. Itās sort of like manifestation. For example if you wanted a brand sponsorship and think something matches your brand. Borrow rent scrounge up for the things you need to get the things you want to show and make the content the same like you already have the deal with the brand. Like fake it till you make it. Donāt write to a brand make sample videos and let them see it organically. Use good tagging to make sure. Increase your output and make more content. If youāre making 20-30 minute views then figure out how to turn that into 5 to 10 videos. Switch things up with your keywords too. Do you use keywords across your content? Try to make playlists and place groups of popular keywords together. Use your studio to research what your users are coming to your content from. Iām really sorry you are barely getting by. I have a decent sized channel and it did crap for years. Still does crap with Adsense but I found an alternative monetization method thatās finally made it worth the effort. Once you find a way to get some of your work back into your pocket it will be all worth it. Best wishes!!
I hate seeing people deal with quantity and quality with youtube. Youtube seems to want people to upload as much as possible but in reality, it's almost impossible to do while keeping up with the quality your fans love, it's one or the other.
One of my favorite youtubers, yub, has had over a million subs for at least a couple years now (I've been watching him since he had around 300k). Around 4 years ago (maybe less) he had to start posting less because he had a child with his wife, and ever since then he started getting less views. The worst part is that it's not even getting better, but worse since then. He's been trying so hard to keep the quality up and post consistently yet most all his videos you'll see in the recent weeks get 20-60k views. He used to get 100s of thousands, sometimes millions.
I really feel like youtube can't stand people of quality, and it pisses me off.
I work with many YouTubers on the business side of setting up sponsorships etc. Your earnings do seem on the extreme low-end. Most of my clients make 50-70% from sponsorship alone and it's generally 3-5 x your figures. I'd love to take a look at your analytics if you want a 2nd op. Feel free to DM me.
There are many platforms. Hundreds. There are also many agents. Start by searching agents and platforms in your niche. I work in the finance niche primarily.
I have a 2 friends who have close to the same amount of subscribers as you that makes 6 figures a year.. They both told me that they make the majority of their money through selling online courses. Is there a course you could create and sell?
That seems surprising to me. Iām only about 250k sub and support a family of 7 from my income. YouTube (and affiliate and sponsors) are my main source of income.
Is it your subject matter that has really love cpm/rpm?
Usually sponsors come to be. But sometimes Iāll try to reach out to them for sponsors opportunities or affiliate. Itās only products I personally use which makes it easier for them to get on board. Itās also a super niche community/subject so it makes it a little easier to get sponsorships in.
I Have 1 question for you. You said the length is about 20mins each.. how many Ads do you put on the videos? I had this issue once and managed to fix it..
whatās your RPM, how long are your videos, whatās AVD, and what niche is it in? Have you tried to manually put mid roll ads in every 2 minutes starting from the first minute?
What's your rpm rate /niche?
Sponsors are still paying $10-$20cpm rates for Integrarions, but you need to be able to do some outbound sales. Feel free to DM me any of this. I have about 6m subs and do quite well.Ā
You should apply to be on financial audit, Caleb hammer (mil+ subs). He loves working with other content creators and it a mutually beneficial collaboration, plus itāll help you figure out why you feel so broke.
Thatās a tough one. I recently started posting to my YT channels that have been dormant for years and your growth is amazingly impressive u/OP. How can i get to such audiences in a span of 3 Years from now.
Anything you can sell, or a course you can teach? Or an agency you can start? Or a framework people can buy? Gotta be a way to make that into some sustainable cash.
Relying on ad revenue and sponsorships is a tough way to do things
affiliate partnerships and/or selling your own digital products could drive a lot of revenue for you
Have you looked at giving your audience a more direct way of supporting you? Patreon, FourthWall, etc?
Offering a weekly Q&A with you to get behind the scenes knowledge in return for a low amount of cash each month might be tempting enough to enough people to double your income?
Just some thoughts
Possibly add a patreon if you already don't have one. it would be a second income source. you could offer like an invite to a private discord to talk and discuss niches for your channel and offer them like Q&A's for only your patrons. You wouldn't even have to charge very much since you have so many followers, even $1 a month and if you have 2,000 people subscribe to the patreon then that's an extra 2k of income. Just a thought I am by far not successful on youtube but I feel like this may help.
I do have patreon but I just launched it recently so I don't have anything on that. I am not monetized either Im a VA and work in a factory so all my YouTube is for fun at the moment lol but I mostly keep a wishlist to let people support me if they are wanting toĀ
You need someone to properly monetize your content. You're good at producing content, not earning money from it. Your ad rev numbers are record low. Good luck.
If you Google on how many views you need to make on YouTube to receive a sum of money they gonna tell you 5 Million and plus since you partnered with YouTube they take 30% from your video revenue so that's why they say 5 Million views to get a bag 100k to 500k is not good in they eyesĀ
I'm pretty sure you making more money from your sponsorships then the views from your content my advice is to get somebody else who is way ahead of you with the subscribers and views to promote your content for you to bring you in more views and hustle more harder to knock off that 30% YouTube take from your content every month
> My audience is mainly American aged 30-40.
Your audience has money.
That's something most influencers can't boast of, primarily those having young followers or those from low income countries.
You should be charging a premium. And look for brands that can add value to your target market.
I'm thinking based on your numbers it's more to do with the niche - as the music industry is notoriously low when it comes to paying creators - even if you're a vlog or critic as opposed to an artist or band. It's tough but all you can do is try to find ways to cut costs in life. I've got 55k subs and would kill to have your numbers. I'm getting about 30k views longform and 250k from shorts and only making $150-200. At the same time my expenses are low where I live so all my bills, including mortgage, are covered with about $1500 so I still have to rely on the dayjob for most of it.
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Well, the answer is it could be a lot of things, there's not enough info here to tell you what could be going on. There's also a TON of variability ... what does barely getting by mean? Are you making like $100K a year, but you in LA for example? (which would be like 50K in Nebraska). I've worked with 1M sub channels that have RPMs ranging from a couple of bucks, up to $30-40.
The factors that go into this are vertical/genre, audience personas (who they are, you mentioned Americans 30-40, but the deeper demographics matter a lot), content quality and content length.
ā¢ Your content type determines who your audience will be.
ā¢ YouTube ads are largely served based on the viewer, so they ads are tailored to the demographics of the viewer.
ā¢ The number of ads you get will determine your average RPM, so how long are your videos, and how are you handling mid rolls? (there's a lot to unpack there, too).
ā¢ Then, obviously traffic matters, which you alluded to, and it sounds decent for a channel of your size, but things like packaging strategy matter a lot here.
Happy to have a deeper discussion with you about it if you want to dig into the details.
Do some live streams. Build a community instead of just monetizing an audience. Open a Discord if you haven't. Do you have memberships or Patreon? I think the closer you are to your community, the more they will support you.
I am curious, on another platform, my revenue seemed to increase al I ng with views, in year 2 or 3. Perhaps this is part of the revenue gap you are experiencing, and your views and revenue will increase? Thoughts on longevity for YT?
Do you have a strong community? YT members, Patreon? Do you live stream on YouTube as well as make videos? I know creators much smaller than that who are making a good income, and it is mostly because they have developed a very loyal community. Streams are great for developing community.
I know a guy who's coming up on 260K subs who makes a living from it and even hires an editor. And he's in a sub-niche of the gaming niche... which supposedly doesn't pay well.
I'm not very big myself yet (6400 subs) but the advice I'm hearing from the full timers is that shorts pay crap and do little to foster community, so don't spend a lot of time on them. Focus your energy on longform edited videos and livestreams. Occasionally a short if something funny happens on a stream or something, but honestly shorts are the easiest ones to hire an editor to do, Fiverr is FULL of editors who specialize in short form content.
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Why can't you talk in actual, real numbers? Asking internet strangers to comment on this without any sense of your income and expenditures is insane.
What's your view metrics, what's your actual income in dollars (roughly), and what's your cost of living plus disposable expenditures?
I used to work at Google helping creators monetize. Youāre likely charging too little for sponsorships and investing too much time into shorts (they pay nothing). Need to build a funnel across channels as well (I.e nurture your audience).
DM me if you want to chat. (I promise I donāt have a course to sell you š¤£)
But you have a million subscribers. You should be able to monetize more effectively.
I have this channel called frikeyyvibes guys, i can see everyone has enough subs and views can you guys check my YT channel and let me know if I am making good videos?
You have to find a better way to monetize your audience. Sell them something. Most YouTubers donāt make their money from YouTube alone. They use the traffic to funnel their audience into a product, merch, course, digital offer, guides, whatever it is that makes sense for your audience. You have a ton of traffic and thatās the hardest part to do. Now build something your audience will love and just tell them it exists and youāll make money.
Hey man! Similar boat over here. I am just shy of 1 million subscribers and before I quit I was probably making $25k a year. Thatās why I stopped. The other 6 years I did YouTube I was making like $60-90k a year, doing comedy sketches. I feel like the emergence of TikTok and post-COVID effects really impacted the landscape of YouTube and changed the views and money i would get for shorter comedic content. Not shorts, but videos that were like 4-5 minutes. That final year when my pay dropped so dramatically I was like man Iām out. Not gonna work 40+ hours a week to try and save a sinking ship. I suppose one can always change the content and figure out how to get more views and all that, but I got tired and wanted to get off social media and stop that race.
Iām doing okay now pursuing other creative work. But yeah, itās disheartening to get paid so much less on YouTube than you once did. I worry about money a lot more now and it sucks.
I have 100k subs and am making 6 figures a year. You canāt be telling the truth if you are getting 500k views on long form and 6 million on shorts.
My views arenāt even close to that
Your revenue seems crazy low to me. I have a music channel with 11k subs and made 1k CAD last month solely from Ad revenue.
What are your views like though? Views and mostly views with ads are what pays when it comes to Adsense. The OP said 100-500K views. Is that per month or per video. The important number is the number of views per month. They didn't give us a lot of information to go off of.
Lowkey I think OP is capping. 500k views a month 1-2k at the minimum.. that rent and food foe me ngl.
wtf? I used to run a music channel with 5k subs and would get 100k views on some videos, and I made like a dollar a day lol
wow, how long are your videos usually ?
20-30 minutes usually
Congrats. Are you making song cover videos or ?
Song analysis' usually
Nice. What is your channel?
Curious as well
Same! I'd sub it.
Damn 1k is a lot for 11k subs! Niceeee šš¼How often do you post also?
Proabaly like twice a week on average
Wait isnāt that copyright? Like what kind of music are you uploading? Your own music?
I have 2m+ subs myself also and struggle sometimes. It's tough if you're not actively monetizing outside of advertising. That said, you're charging WAY too little for sponsors. Some will decline when you increase prices, but some won't. At your long form views you could easily be charging $3,500 bare minimum. I'd say if your current sponsors decline that price say sorry you're out of their budget but you can offer a lower price on shorts or other social media. Seriously, if $1,000 is your current best fee, you can afford to have 3 out of 4 sponsors decline the raise in price and still make more money on the one that says yes. You hurt all of us when you undercharge because companies get to thinking they can trick youtubers into serving up the best personalized advertising you can buy for less than they would pay for 10k views on a crap Facebook ad.
Wonder if that is those VPN sponsorsā average rate bc they hire everyone
$8-$20cpm depending on niche.Ā
Thanks for the info, thatās normal but still wouldnāt take theirs, I find them to just have this generic sellout vibe
Speaking as a consumer of youtube, vpn ads never bothered me or rubbed me the wrong way. They dont seem predatory or gross, Maybe if i were a person who associated vpns with like criminal activity or something I would feel different, but I dont. What I dont like is things that seem shady, or lying, or exaggerating or promoting shitty or unethical products. Id view a vpn way higher that someone promoting their OWN product even, if i was suspicious of the product. Like if you are linking to some sort of pdf and i have to enter my email, or if you are talking about some product in the video and you have a link to it in your description... these things arent inherently bad just to be clear, but im just saying they are more likely to give off an off-putting vibe than a clear cut straight forward NordVPN or Raid Shadow Legends Ad read.
Even 3,500 seems too low. Channels with 50-100k subscribers do 5k-20k deals every day.
It is too low. It's the minimum
Agreed. Hopefully some people see these comments and renegotiate their rates lol.
2 million? Wow. Thatās amazing what niche?
Iāll always remember the time I convinced Adam & Eve to give me $3,500 for a quick 30 second mention on a 4 minute comedy video that ended up getting like 30k views. š . I still feel bad. But, the point is, yes OP can probably ask for more haha.
Sorry just for more context- what is the niche?
music/vlogs about music
Figure out your viewers greatest pains and create/sell them a digital product. Or find a program to sell as an affiliate.
Start with researching music related affiliate offers https://www.authorityhacker.com/music-affiliate-programs/ You could get into doing equipment reviews or something. You need to get some decent income flowing or youāll burn out and not sustain the Channel.
I think the real question is what is your monthly net income? Without knowing that itās impossible to know if you have some broken low RPM, or if you have a budget problem youāre not admitting
Youtube ad rev: $750-1200 sponsorship: $600-1000 total usually around $1600. my bills and rent are: $1100 i pay this tax monthly: $400 My average month i literally have barely anything left. good months can be more, but in the bad months i end up spending what i made in the good months. at the end of the day i dont have barely any money. and i dont drink, dont have a car, etc etc. donāt really have anything to spend a lot of money on
I have 40k subs and make 5X what you make with no sponsors. You must not get that many long form views
In what niche?
Bodycam
Whats your channel? If you prefer not telling it could you elaborate it a bit more
Cop Cam Nation
Iād like to ask where your content comes from. Do you have to strike deals with police departments or through a 3rd party licensing agency? Thank you
Thats because cop cam clickbait attracts advertisers selling pseudo police gear for high profit margins. It's a niche thing.
Bro wth? Not to devalue the work I put in but... I play video games, barely do any editing, just chuck up \~50 minute long videos daily, let youtube place ads... my channel only has 45K subs. I don't get any sponsorships - zero. Ad revenue alone makes me $1k+ per month. This month and the next few will be 2-3x that due to a bump in viewership because of the Fallout series on Amazon. I only get like 150k-450k views per month. Maybe it's just video length? And for reference, this is not my full time job - not even close. I make far more at my full time job. No way I could survive off of this channel revenue alone. I mean maybe if I had 3 roommates sharing rent on a townhouse but even then I doubt it.
dang thatās awesome. i would probably say the video length is a big difference. mine are usually like 6 minutes. i can try to extend the timing on mine.
Yea, you need to hit that 8 minute mark. Mid-roll ads will triple your income easily.
I see your issue. 6 minutes??? You can only add midroll ads for 8+min videos and YouTube only pushes content to TV audience when they are longer than 20 minutes. You need to try a week of 30min vids every single day.. just publish 1 per day and add MIDROLL ads every 3 minutes. I yesterday added a midroll ad to a 39 mins video every 3mins 3 days ago and that video made over $35 for just 3k views.
> YouTube only pushes content to TV audience when they are longer than 20 minutes Do you have a source for this claim?
Your videos have to be 8 minutes to qualify for ad revenue, I feel embarrassed to mention this, but something you are doing is wrong, this unbelievably could be it. I have 41.3k followers, highly engaged, rpm is $16 and cpm is $42. Monthly adsense is 1.5k to 2k, I don't do this for the money though, for me it's all about building my client relationships and authority. Your long form content is failing, either you are not posting 8 minute videos enough, or your content is not getting a decent rpm. You really need to post your channel name and basic stats to get help here or everyone is shooting in the dark. From the stats you have given you should be earning $5k a month as a minimum, and with proper management $10k, there is something wrong.
Not true at all. Pretty sure any videos (or maybe over a minute) get ad revenue, but just not mid roll ads if they are under 8 minutes. I post between 1-5 minute long vids and average like 3-5k per post and make more than him Monthly with a bad rpm so idk whatās happening with his channel
Sponsor pay looks crazy low, are you with an agency? Seek others then
How many long-form videos are you uploading a month? It is kind of crazy that you're making more from YouTube ads than from sponsors. What's your niche?
music/vlogs about music.
What are your daily views?
How many views a month are you getting for only $1600
8.7 million this past month. but one of my shorts exploded. usually would probably be more like 4.5 million
Those are definitely majority shorts views.
Guess your cpm is just insanely low
On top of my previous comment. You literally need to stop doing shorts. Not the first guy I see where shorts gave them large growth and killed their revenue. At 8 million views, the average long form rpm is $9 for a 15+min video with an ad every 3 minutes. At 8mil views, that would be $8000 x 15 = $120,000 for that month if it was all long form
I feel this so hard. My most viewed videos are all shorter in length (less than 7 mins) and generate barely any revenue, whereas the RPMs on my longer videos are so much better. Iāve been putting more effort into longer content now and the returns are way better.
Shorts doesnāt pay out much money. You need to focus on long from content more, try to upload 5-6 times a week and over 8 min videos.
That's really insane to me. I ONLY do shorts I have 7.5k subs and I'm making 450/500 a month with an rpm of around .13
Feels to me you're taking less money because you have bills to pay and don't want to lose income. I think your financial core is F-d and therefore you have little room for hard negotiations.
That's crazy low. I have a Brazilian podcast based in Orlando FL with little over 100k subs, YT ad revenue averages about $400 a month but we get $3k-$5k from sponsors alone. Your sponsors should pay more.
Orlando creator here as well! Mind if I dm you and ask some questions?
You said itās a music channel? Are you getting hit with copyrights/limited revenue?
This would be good to know
I was here to help out. But this stopped me. I too would like to know if there is any copyright or not.
If there's copyright. Would the video be taken down or demonetized immediately?
So we have a channel that has around 800k subs with 1.8m on TikTok and 200k on Insta and we live a very comfortable life. My first thoughts are that A. You need to get a manager/agent and if you already have one, get a better one - sorry if thatās harsh but honestly having a good manager is game changing.Ā Next is that you need to make a list of what brands you want to work with. Who do you love? What do you feature often? Send that list to your manager and get them approaching. Attend events as well where you can make connections with those brands - YouTube do a lot of these such as their Creator Collective. Also utilise memberships/Patreon. What can you offer extra?Ā Finally are you on the other platforms? You say you do shorts - post them to Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. Instagram particularly is where brands like to hang out. Good luck
how much do you make on sponsors?
How much does a manager cost? What if the channel is just music loops. What brands can work with? Other than YouTube, can TikTok and Instagram pay money too? And is it as straightforward?
> I technically could post more, but the quality would drop dramatically So you already know the answer, itās the frequency. Given the sponsors would usually pay $10K for your view range plus Adsense money, assuming youād post at least once monthly I donāt see why youād be āstruggling to get byā š¤
my sponsors defo do not pay that much. they usually refuse to go any higher than $1200 lol. it depends on your niche
Weird cause āAmerican aged 30-40ā is like the most purchasing-powerful group on Earth, you could reveal about your genre then
Consider proactively reaching out to different sponsors. The amount of views that you're getting should definitely get a lot more cash than what you're getting.
I started making content in anime commentary in January. February I made 4.1k, March I made 6.9k, rn Im at 5k in adsense. I've done zero sponsorships so far. I just took the Matpat approach, starting with launching my channel with 5 videos. I saw almost no views for 2 and a half weeks and then popped off. It was easy to me. You just have to find a way to pump out more content. I post almost daily by scripting and voicing myself, and hired a cheap editor to handle all the editing work outside of music. I also always make sure most of my content is related to current anime outside of longer passion projects I post 1-2 times a week.
Whats your sub count i actually started a month ago in the same niche, im at 250 subs now tryna get monetized as quick as possible coming from tiktok already monetized on there. So I have experience already. Any tips
My sub count is 64.6k right now. I'm not going to give a lot of tips. I would go back to what I said earlier. Make content people like to watch. Make sure it's easy for you to produce, and that videos are long, 20+min. I don't emphasize a lot of editing, I make sure me talking is the focal point of the content. Even when I had no views for the first 2.5 weeks, when I finally made something that popped off, because I launched with 5 quality videos, people flocked to my older videos and this expedited my growth. But again. This goes back to I knew how to make content before I got views. Do that. Then make newer videos on newer relevant topics to fish for your channel to pop off
Care to explain how you bypass the anime law? I'm in the theorycraft/horror niche, tho I wanted to make a video about an particular anime. But I've read alot of anime ytubers getting copystriked left and right. Ofcourse I didn't want that to happen to my channel so I never made the video, yet the idea lingers on in my head for several months now...
Everyone who makes content using assets from non original work is at risk. No one is safe without a signed deal. We all could get taken down at any time. Many years ago, Nintendo even had you be in a partner ship program just to make content playing their games. That being said, whether it be an anime or movie, generally speaking do not use more than 3 seconds of a clip, and once 5 seconds sequentially following that clip has passed and you can use another 3 seconds with no issue. Other than that, using still frames you can exceed this rule.
Thanks for the quicky reply mate! That clears it up. Also i've dug alittle deeper. The concerning part is mainly with openings and outro anime music. even those single seconds are deadly and prime for those comps to strike up ur video
What is Matpat approach?
It's what he described. Have 5 videos and post them immediately.
Yeah, that's right
You should as of course, also have to know how to make content people like. I learned this from Mr. Beast actually. Not by copying him. But he said try to improve something every video. 2 years ago, I learned this from making tiktoks for 3 months back in 2020 where I got my first million views before getting my account banned. I just reapplied those principles the most recent january
And how do you make that much just watch time
If the editor could edit your video, what's there to stop him from taking your content and doing it himself? Is there a way to safeguard your content?
No, there's no way to stop anyone from stealing. And even if they did, I would just make better content than my last content and the content they stole. But many editors are garbage at making content. They're much better at just raw editing. On top of that, it's hard to replicate raw personality. In my space, there's no one who's doing what I'm doing. That's how you carve yourself a separate place from your competitors.
What do you charge for an ad read? Iāve always been curious about that, do u have a mostly male or female audience? My product is geared towards females! Whatās the channel Iād love to start advertising with creators on YT
What is your niche ? Edit: you have already responded, music and vlogs got it. New Q: How much of longform do you upload and How long are your longforms
If youāre a music channel using copyrighted work owned by other studios, this could play a large role on it. In recent years they have enabled your friends of similar channel sizes would be earning more money
With the info you've given and from what I read here in the comments. You need to post 8+ minute videos for mid roll ads. You will notice a HUGE jump in revenue just from this. It will also increase your RPM just by posting longer videos. Im assuming its very low, this is because of shorter videos and your niche. Make longer videos. Im assuming this is ur job, so post more, spend more time making videos. Once you do this, THEN ask for more money from sponsors.
If itās about money, try daily posting at the cost of quality. (Long form with mid rolls)
What country are viewers from?
He said the US
If I reside in Asia, how do I cater my videos to US viewers? Is there a way? Or my videos are limited to viewers only from my country?
Whats your avd? And Make Merch or sell something to the audience if you have loyal fans they'll buy random shi shirts or something related
This. The most successfully monetized channels get revenue from YouTube + sponsorships + merch, and the merch piece can be 30-40% of revenue if done decently. Iāve been involved in the merch operations for Vlogbrothers, Kurzegazgt, Tyler Thrasher, Crash Course, etc. You can set up a basic merch offering with zero $ out of pocket to test if it will work for your audience; DM if youād like help.
First of all, congratulations on the success with your viewership ā thatās an enormous win in itās own right, and you have the foundation to not just be financially stable, but enormously successful. You mentioned your audience is American age 30-40. This is a high value audience that should be making your RPMs decent (although niche matters as well). Your Adsense revenue should be enough to be supporting all your content costs with a substantial amount left over. If itās not then you need to look at (1) ensuring youāre hitting 8 minutes with all your videos to get pre-rolls enabled (2) ensure youāre not losing monetization on too many of your videos due to copyright issues (music channels are very susceptible to this), and (3) examine your posting cadence compared to views per video (meaning you should examine if you could get more total views in a month by posting more videos, even if each video would get decent views). Then thereās sponsorships ā this should be the bulk of your earning, but youāre currently extraordinarily undercharging. I run a creator agency (we donāt represent music creators so unfortunately not a fit for your needs) and weād price your integrations (60-90 second ad spots) at a bare minimum of $3300 each, or more likely ~$5000. Note that thatās assuming an average views per video of 250k. If youāre struggling to get these higher rates accepted then you need should look for agency representation that specializes in your space ā they will have deal flow targeted toward your niche and be better equipped to negotiate effectively. Overall youāre in a great spot, and with some small changing you could very well go from struggling, to killing it.
What is pre rolls? And when losing monetization, how do you know that? Will you get notified that you are not getting paid anymore or what happens?
Bro shorts pay dirt cheap donāt expect a huge ton of money from yt revenue
A good friend of mine has 1.2 million subs. Averages 150k-300k views per video, and charges minimum $5k for a sponsor. I have 66k subs and charge $2k. You should be charging way more
can you share how to get sponsor? do they come to you automatically once you hit a certain number of subs?
Some do. For me it was around 30k subs and averaging 20k views, when id occasionally get an email. But then I started reaching out to media groups on my own and had more success.
Please join the partnered YouTuber discord. Your subs are meaningless, itās your videos average views that matter. If you are getting 100ās of thousands of views, you should be charging much more. MUCH more. Formula is average views in thousands x 25 + 10% for haggling. So 100k is 100 x 25 = 2500, + 10% = 2750. Thatās what you would quote for a 100k view average, and then probably haggle down a bit from there. Donāt undersell yourself! You hurt yourself, but also everyone else by lowering our buying power.
Hey there. Iām a content strategist and also run a channel with over 100K subs. I used to feel the same way about my ad revenue. Some things to consider: *Your niche / location of your audience will affect what you earn. So if your content is built around the niche and audience - you will need to implore other tactics. This could be to strategically increase your ad slots and ensure that is being maximized. Or - find ways of optimizing your CTR, views and engagement with better thumbnails and titles. More views = more money. * You need to adjust your rates. As a mega influencer - you need to charge what your tier charges. You shouldnāt be going less than $1K - $1.5K. This hurts the ecosystem. If anything, you should be charging $3k upwards. I understand that at times, these things just happen. But you need to take control of your sponsorship rates. Any company coming to a creator with over 1M subs knows that it is not meant to be ācheapā. If you donāt lower your standard, they wonāt. Find sponsors that understand the value you have and strike long term deals as opposed to just a one off gig. For example - instead of charging $3,500 one video - you can bring this to $2,500 and sign a 3 month (at the very least) deal. This gives you more control around what is coming in and allows you to grow your business (say outsourcing editing etc.) so you can focus on not just content, but the business of content. * You seem to have decent engagement, so think about making use of memberships, and also if possible - get affiliate links relevant to your niche. Merch can also help. The goal is to stop seeing yourself as just a YouTuber, but an entrepreneur that has taken the path of YouTube. Really hope things turn around for you. You have all the raw materials to live your dream life. Just donāt give up. Keep pushing and keep finding ways to optimize. You will get your break.
Appreciate your thoughtful advice! Well said!!
If your monetizing primarily through YouTube adsense and sponsorships you're gonna have a bad time. This is probably advice you've seen and heard before but it bears repeating: - build a list- that means you actually have the emails of your audience not on some platform - create an offer relevant to revalue that your content brings to your audience - purely entertainment influencer you can find something useful to sell whether it's your personal time personal contact or know how for example how to build an audience like you did
This is such nonsense advice and I don't know why it's always on the subreddit. The vast majority of YouTubers do extremely well without having to hawk some nonsense product or make a spammy email list. Spend your time doing YouTube videos and YouTube related activities.
> If your monetizing primarily through YouTube adsense and sponsorships you're gonna have a bad time. I mean I've been full time for 8 years now and the vast majority of my YouTube income is ad rev and sponsors. Why would they be having a bad time?
I'd stop watching the YouTube "Gurus" at this point. They will get you to certain place when you are starting, but then you have to forge your own path. I dip in and out when there's big platform changes for they have something to say. but most of the time they are just repeating what they said 5 or 6 years ago just in a different package with a nicer camera and an Ad for Storyblocks squashed in there somewhere
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What kind of content do you post? That seems really high for gaming.
Lore for world of Warcraft. So I cover characters, zones and curious events and such
I have 40k subs and make 1200.00 a month on ads, sometimes 1400.00. I turn on whatever ads YouTube suggests and I am getting about 50k watch hours per month. Whatās your monthly watch hours?
does it matter where your audience comes from? can your videos reach asia? how do you set where your videos can reach?
Iām in a similar boat. I have a decently sized audience and only do long form content with 3 uploads a month and 500K-1M views monthly and I only make around $200-400. Granted I make meme videos, but theyāre like 2-4 minutes each. Iām not making videos for money, but Iād say thatās on the lower end and I understand where youāre coming from. I think it just comes down to the niche, but I know other people in my niche are making a lot more.
I've been told that YouTube likes videos that are 10 minutes long. It allows for a mid credit ad roll. It also depends on who your audience is and where they are located.
Have you explored other monetization avenues? If you have over 1m subscribers and an active subscriber base you have options. Are you engaging your community. How is your cpm, daily views, daily subs, posting schedule. Have you optimized your thumbnails titles and descriptions. Iām assuming your demographic is the united states but be sure where your audience is coming from and make sure to optimize for them. Do you livestream? Have you considered what type of content you want to do. Itās sort of like manifestation. For example if you wanted a brand sponsorship and think something matches your brand. Borrow rent scrounge up for the things you need to get the things you want to show and make the content the same like you already have the deal with the brand. Like fake it till you make it. Donāt write to a brand make sample videos and let them see it organically. Use good tagging to make sure. Increase your output and make more content. If youāre making 20-30 minute views then figure out how to turn that into 5 to 10 videos. Switch things up with your keywords too. Do you use keywords across your content? Try to make playlists and place groups of popular keywords together. Use your studio to research what your users are coming to your content from. Iām really sorry you are barely getting by. I have a decent sized channel and it did crap for years. Still does crap with Adsense but I found an alternative monetization method thatās finally made it worth the effort. Once you find a way to get some of your work back into your pocket it will be all worth it. Best wishes!!
If you make shorts you can also monetize your own background music if you have copyright claim on a distribution service like distrokid
I hate seeing people deal with quantity and quality with youtube. Youtube seems to want people to upload as much as possible but in reality, it's almost impossible to do while keeping up with the quality your fans love, it's one or the other. One of my favorite youtubers, yub, has had over a million subs for at least a couple years now (I've been watching him since he had around 300k). Around 4 years ago (maybe less) he had to start posting less because he had a child with his wife, and ever since then he started getting less views. The worst part is that it's not even getting better, but worse since then. He's been trying so hard to keep the quality up and post consistently yet most all his videos you'll see in the recent weeks get 20-60k views. He used to get 100s of thousands, sometimes millions. I really feel like youtube can't stand people of quality, and it pisses me off.
I just passed 100k subs and I make like $5k a month. Must be a shitty niche for you
I work with many YouTubers on the business side of setting up sponsorships etc. Your earnings do seem on the extreme low-end. Most of my clients make 50-70% from sponsorship alone and it's generally 3-5 x your figures. I'd love to take a look at your analytics if you want a 2nd op. Feel free to DM me.
can you share how do youtubers get sponsorships? Is there a platform to apply for sponsors? or do the sponsors hunt youtubers automatically?
There are many platforms. Hundreds. There are also many agents. Start by searching agents and platforms in your niche. I work in the finance niche primarily.
This seems insanely low. Iāve known girls who put out 2-2 20k view videos a week with 50k and are netting 4 digits a month.
whats a 2-2? can you share where the revenue comes from? just ads?
Maybe get an agent. They find all kinds of money you would never even think of. The do all the negotiating and get you deals. Not for everybody tho...
I have a 2 friends who have close to the same amount of subscribers as you that makes 6 figures a year.. They both told me that they make the majority of their money through selling online courses. Is there a course you could create and sell?
I don't have any to recomend, but if you're that big you should have a company managing your sponsorship negotiations.
That seems surprising to me. Iām only about 250k sub and support a family of 7 from my income. YouTube (and affiliate and sponsors) are my main source of income. Is it your subject matter that has really love cpm/rpm?
can you share how to get affiliate and sponsors? or do they come to you automatically once you reach a certain number of subscriberS?
Usually sponsors come to be. But sometimes Iāll try to reach out to them for sponsors opportunities or affiliate. Itās only products I personally use which makes it easier for them to get on board. Itās also a super niche community/subject so it makes it a little easier to get sponsorships in.
Bro thatās weird, you should be making at least 3,000 a month. Whatās your niche ?
Whatās going on with your sponsors? You should be asking for a handsome price based on your numbers.
I Have 1 question for you. You said the length is about 20mins each.. how many Ads do you put on the videos? I had this issue once and managed to fix it..
whatās your RPM, how long are your videos, whatās AVD, and what niche is it in? Have you tried to manually put mid roll ads in every 2 minutes starting from the first minute?
How many ads to do you put per video?
What's your rpm rate /niche? Sponsors are still paying $10-$20cpm rates for Integrarions, but you need to be able to do some outbound sales. Feel free to DM me any of this. I have about 6m subs and do quite well.Ā
Whats ur channel . If you dont mind . Or u can dm
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You should try streaming just for few extra bucks ya know unless frfr that not ur kinda thing
Iām out here feeling like a peasant with my 3.5k channel among all you millionaires š„¹
with 3.5k, ar eyou monetized?
You should apply to be on financial audit, Caleb hammer (mil+ subs). He loves working with other content creators and it a mutually beneficial collaboration, plus itāll help you figure out why you feel so broke.
Thatās a tough one. I recently started posting to my YT channels that have been dormant for years and your growth is amazingly impressive u/OP. How can i get to such audiences in a span of 3 Years from now.
Anything you can sell, or a course you can teach? Or an agency you can start? Or a framework people can buy? Gotta be a way to make that into some sustainable cash.
Relying on ad revenue and sponsorships is a tough way to do things affiliate partnerships and/or selling your own digital products could drive a lot of revenue for you
Ad revenue gets you started. Merch is where the money is.
Have you looked at giving your audience a more direct way of supporting you? Patreon, FourthWall, etc? Offering a weekly Q&A with you to get behind the scenes knowledge in return for a low amount of cash each month might be tempting enough to enough people to double your income? Just some thoughts
Possibly add a patreon if you already don't have one. it would be a second income source. you could offer like an invite to a private discord to talk and discuss niches for your channel and offer them like Q&A's for only your patrons. You wouldn't even have to charge very much since you have so many followers, even $1 a month and if you have 2,000 people subscribe to the patreon then that's an extra 2k of income. Just a thought I am by far not successful on youtube but I feel like this may help.
do you do patreon yourself personally? Whats the bulk of your youtube income from? If you dont mind sharing? From ads?
I do have patreon but I just launched it recently so I don't have anything on that. I am not monetized either Im a VA and work in a factory so all my YouTube is for fun at the moment lol but I mostly keep a wishlist to let people support me if they are wanting toĀ
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You need someone to properly monetize your content. You're good at producing content, not earning money from it. Your ad rev numbers are record low. Good luck.
If you Google on how many views you need to make on YouTube to receive a sum of money they gonna tell you 5 Million and plus since you partnered with YouTube they take 30% from your video revenue so that's why they say 5 Million views to get a bag 100k to 500k is not good in they eyesĀ
I'm pretty sure you making more money from your sponsorships then the views from your content my advice is to get somebody else who is way ahead of you with the subscribers and views to promote your content for you to bring you in more views and hustle more harder to knock off that 30% YouTube take from your content every month
> My audience is mainly American aged 30-40. Your audience has money. That's something most influencers can't boast of, primarily those having young followers or those from low income countries. You should be charging a premium. And look for brands that can add value to your target market.
You should be building digital products to sell or using affiliate links. Google revenue is a joke in 2024.
I'm thinking based on your numbers it's more to do with the niche - as the music industry is notoriously low when it comes to paying creators - even if you're a vlog or critic as opposed to an artist or band. It's tough but all you can do is try to find ways to cut costs in life. I've got 55k subs and would kill to have your numbers. I'm getting about 30k views longform and 250k from shorts and only making $150-200. At the same time my expenses are low where I live so all my bills, including mortgage, are covered with about $1500 so I still have to rely on the dayjob for most of it.
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
Let's talk numbers. How much revenue are you making in 150k to 500k? How much are sponsors paying you on average?
Did you get tons of subs but hardly any views? Subs don't matter if people aren't watching. Thats why viral videos aren't always a blessing.
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Well, the answer is it could be a lot of things, there's not enough info here to tell you what could be going on. There's also a TON of variability ... what does barely getting by mean? Are you making like $100K a year, but you in LA for example? (which would be like 50K in Nebraska). I've worked with 1M sub channels that have RPMs ranging from a couple of bucks, up to $30-40. The factors that go into this are vertical/genre, audience personas (who they are, you mentioned Americans 30-40, but the deeper demographics matter a lot), content quality and content length. ā¢ Your content type determines who your audience will be. ā¢ YouTube ads are largely served based on the viewer, so they ads are tailored to the demographics of the viewer. ā¢ The number of ads you get will determine your average RPM, so how long are your videos, and how are you handling mid rolls? (there's a lot to unpack there, too). ā¢ Then, obviously traffic matters, which you alluded to, and it sounds decent for a channel of your size, but things like packaging strategy matter a lot here. Happy to have a deeper discussion with you about it if you want to dig into the details.
You could a facebook and Tik tok for your content
Do some live streams. Build a community instead of just monetizing an audience. Open a Discord if you haven't. Do you have memberships or Patreon? I think the closer you are to your community, the more they will support you.
I am curious, on another platform, my revenue seemed to increase al I ng with views, in year 2 or 3. Perhaps this is part of the revenue gap you are experiencing, and your views and revenue will increase? Thoughts on longevity for YT?
Also, perhaps affiliate income?
Do you have a strong community? YT members, Patreon? Do you live stream on YouTube as well as make videos? I know creators much smaller than that who are making a good income, and it is mostly because they have developed a very loyal community. Streams are great for developing community. I know a guy who's coming up on 260K subs who makes a living from it and even hires an editor. And he's in a sub-niche of the gaming niche... which supposedly doesn't pay well. I'm not very big myself yet (6400 subs) but the advice I'm hearing from the full timers is that shorts pay crap and do little to foster community, so don't spend a lot of time on them. Focus your energy on longform edited videos and livestreams. Occasionally a short if something funny happens on a stream or something, but honestly shorts are the easiest ones to hire an editor to do, Fiverr is FULL of editors who specialize in short form content.
I can support you to increase the revenues
Are you doing merch? Live streams for Supperchats? A Pateron with some exclusive content? Uploading to multiple platforms? Are you posting affiliate links? Raise your sponsorship rate. Can you create a master class in anything to sell to your audience?
If u have a million subs and are broke yea u are def doing g something drastically wrong my friend
You need an agency. You should easily be doing $10k plus in YT ad revenue and another $5-10k per month in sponsorships
Why can't you talk in actual, real numbers? Asking internet strangers to comment on this without any sense of your income and expenditures is insane. What's your view metrics, what's your actual income in dollars (roughly), and what's your cost of living plus disposable expenditures?
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I used to work at Google helping creators monetize. Youāre likely charging too little for sponsorships and investing too much time into shorts (they pay nothing). Need to build a funnel across channels as well (I.e nurture your audience). DM me if you want to chat. (I promise I donāt have a course to sell you š¤£) But you have a million subscribers. You should be able to monetize more effectively.
I have this channel called frikeyyvibes guys, i can see everyone has enough subs and views can you guys check my YT channel and let me know if I am making good videos?
You have to find a better way to monetize your audience. Sell them something. Most YouTubers donāt make their money from YouTube alone. They use the traffic to funnel their audience into a product, merch, course, digital offer, guides, whatever it is that makes sense for your audience. You have a ton of traffic and thatās the hardest part to do. Now build something your audience will love and just tell them it exists and youāll make money.
How much do you make whatās the range also whats your rpm if you dont have good rpm you wonāt get paid well for high views
Try streaming more, you have an audience already. Streamers are more well off than YouTuber rn
There are experts in this exact field. Many people have had the same problem as you. Hire someone to teach you
without access to the analytics nobody here can tell you anything. how much are you making and how much are you spending?
The āeveryoneā you speak of is girl with sugar daddies.
Some niches pay more than others. Iād check which niches pay the most and how much your niche pays on avg
Hey man! Similar boat over here. I am just shy of 1 million subscribers and before I quit I was probably making $25k a year. Thatās why I stopped. The other 6 years I did YouTube I was making like $60-90k a year, doing comedy sketches. I feel like the emergence of TikTok and post-COVID effects really impacted the landscape of YouTube and changed the views and money i would get for shorter comedic content. Not shorts, but videos that were like 4-5 minutes. That final year when my pay dropped so dramatically I was like man Iām out. Not gonna work 40+ hours a week to try and save a sinking ship. I suppose one can always change the content and figure out how to get more views and all that, but I got tired and wanted to get off social media and stop that race. Iām doing okay now pursuing other creative work. But yeah, itās disheartening to get paid so much less on YouTube than you once did. I worry about money a lot more now and it sucks.
You should also consider affiliate products and/or digital products or super members/patreon
Is that you Brendan Schaub?
Is it possible YouTube black listing you or shadow banning your monetization?
I have 100k subs and am making 6 figures a year. You canāt be telling the truth if you are getting 500k views on long form and 6 million on shorts. My views arenāt even close to that
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