YouTube Channel

MooShop

Who here has their own YouTube channel, where you regularly upload videos? And if so, do you make any money from it?

I'm just curious, because I came across this website yesterday. I searched for some of the channels I subscribe to and was amazed at the money some of the channels were, potentially, making.

Sir Arthur Daley

OP what is your link about, on dial up and time is precise.

MooShop

WikiHow wrote: »

OP what is your link about, on dial up and time is precise.

It's called socialblade.com

It's a site that does statistical analysis on YouTube channels, and shows estimated monthly and yearly earnings.

It shows group data, like top channels etc. and you can also search for individual channels.

orangesoda

I have one that i used to upload my short films/documentaries on, i just upload videos of metal concerts i go to nowadays, i won't link as i don't want any ladies fingering themselves to videos of me

Duggy747

I looked up what that gobshìte PewDiePie's earnings were and just made myself depressed

DrGreenthumb

I upload videos of cats,

everyone loves some pussy

MooShop

Duggy747 wrote: »

I looked up what that gobshìte PewDiePie's earnings were and just made myself depressed

Yeah, that's what inspired me to start this thread. Couldn't believe it was possible to make such an amount!

Never heard of PewDiePie before I saw that website though.

orangesoda

I used to touch myself to jenna marbles, she is a real temptress

FearDark

PEwwwwwwwwDeeeiiiiiiiiiiiPieeeeeeeeEEE

MRnotlob606

i have a youtube account where i used to upload surreal comedies i created

mike65

I thought 99.245% of youtube views were bogus and the rest made up.

Earthhorse

No, I don't, and I imagine it'd be quite hard to get enough views to make money. I always liked Oney's video which is somewhat related to the topic:

BrokenArrows

I've got a channel with about 200k views over the past few years. I've made about 50 euro.

If really depends on whether your videos attract people who are going to follow advertisements.

Kaiser D

Not got a channel myself, but I know a guy who does, he's Irish.

Makes a living from it.

biko

My channel

masti123

theres a lad called optic nadeshot who averages 100-200k views a video and his average income per month is 10k and thats not to mention the money he gets from sponsers etc. btw a hacker leaked this info

Kaiser D

masti123 wrote: »

theres a lad called optic nadeshot who averages 100-200k a video and his average income per month is 10k and thats not to mention the money he gets from sponsers etc. btw a hacker leaked this info

100k a video?

€100,000 per video?

masti123

Kaiser D wrote: »

100k a video?

€100,000 per video?

i meant views per video lol

batistuta9

Kaiser D wrote: »

100k a video?

€100,000 per video?

he means 100k views a video

PizzamanIRL

It's crazy the amount of money some of those gaming channels make for playing a game, talking over it and uploading it. I obviously don't have the figures but it's those pesky naive kids that click every video and make them 100s of thousands.

Like, favourite and subscribe it really helps me out makes me loads of money. Manipulating 12 year olds is all they're at.

batistuta9

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

It's crazy the amount of money some of those gaming channels make for playing a game, talking over it and uploading it. I obviously don't have the figures but it's those pesky naive kids that click every video and make them 100s of thousands.

Like, favourite and subscribe it really helps me out makes me loads of money. Manipulating 12 year olds is all they're at.

you think, the average age of gamers is in the 30s

PizzamanIRL

batistuta9 wrote: »

you think, the average age of gamers is in the 30s

But the viewers are predominently teens

Penny Tration

I have a YouTube channel for my music, but never tried signing up to try make money from people clicking on ads. Couldn't be arsed.

TheBrinch

SocialBlade is also a Youtube Sponsor, so if you have a channel that's doing half decent, you can apply on their site for sponsorship

yellowlabrador

TheBrinch wrote: »

SocialBlade is also a Youtube Sponsor, so if you have a channel that's doing half decent, you can apply on their site for sponsorship

I just checked my channel and was offered sponsorship but it seems more like one of those networks that skims your ad revenue. I keep on getting invited to join a network and I don't really know if I would benefit. You usually have to sign up for 2 years.

ElvisChrist6

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

It's crazy the amount of money some of those gaming channels make for playing a game, talking over it and uploading it. I obviously don't have the figures but it's those pesky naive kids that click every video and make them 100s of thousands.

Like, favourite and subscribe it really helps me out makes me loads of money. Manipulating 12 year olds is all they're at.

Manipulating? They provide regular, often daily entertainment for money. Just like television's being doing for decades! It doesn't even come out of the kids' pockets.

TheBrinch

yellowlabrador wrote: »

I just checked my channel and was offered sponsorship but it seems more like one of those networks that skims your ad revenue. I keep on getting invited to join a network and I don't really know if I would benefit. You usually have to sign up for 2 years.

I was thinking the same thing but you never know, it might be worth it. Yeah 2 years is a bit of a pain. Reading the contract is by far the most important thing. I know several youtubers that have had their channels closed down after their contract was finished.

J_E

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

It's crazy the amount of money some of those gaming channels make for playing a game, talking over it and uploading it. I obviously don't have the figures but it's those pesky naive kids that click every video and make them 100s of thousands.

Like, favourite and subscribe it really helps me out makes me loads of money. Manipulating 12 year olds is all they're at.

You'd swear the kids were being swindled or something? It's not just kids, don't know where you get that impression. The channels are highly entertaining for the groups who watch it. (I personally prefer the commentary axed as it does my head in, usually watch Longplays/TAS instead for this reason)

Aspiring

I had a video on there once that was monetized and went viral on a small scale (10,000 views in a day) and as far as I remember I was getting €4 for every 1,000 views. Not that great really and that's supposed to be really high apparently the average is like €1 for every 1,000 views so unless you're fairly popular on there you're not making much.

BrokenArrows

The videos that make money are ones where the content can be directly related to advertising.

Gaming videos are highly profitable because the people who watch them want to buy games, so the gaming advertisements are far more clickable then on any other video content type as far as im concerned.

yellowlabrador

A big money maker is tractors. In fact most farming videos are popular. a friend of mine makes videos about classic bikes, vintage guns and vintage tractors and has views all over the world. Tractors are the most popular and the biggest money makers. A lot depends on the country of your audience. France and Italy are poor for revenue. Indonesia likes bike videos.
And from the stats on my lace channel, I have enough Mohammeds to start a jihad, enough priests to become a cardinal and enough brothers to fill a monastry. In fact 15 % of my lace making is viewed by men.
But tractor porn beats them all.

scoobydoobie

I read a piece about this the other night, that Charlie bit my finger has made 500k so far, the lad that recorded a taxi driver dancing out in the street has done very well, and that lad that spoofed his dad about failing his driving test, well he has made about 10k, or stands to.

BmCon

I set up a channel for my 13 year old son. He does gaming videos but does not make any money for it.

Maybe his videos are s***

dmc17

I made €60 out of a crappy video of the storms last year. It was even better as I wasn't expecting anything

PizzamanIRL

BmCon wrote: »

I set up a channel for my 13 year old son. He does gaming videos but does not make any money for it.

Maybe his videos are s***

The gaming video industry is very saturated. It would be tough to get going now.

DoYouEvenLift

Old friend of mine makes a living from it, even deferred college for a year to concentrate more on it. Those stat sites can greatly over estimate how much they earn but it's true that the top youtubers like pewdipie are genuinely earning millions per year. The funniest thing is, pewdipie is just one guy who sits in his room and makes all of his own simple videos yet gets way more money than other people who have full blown production crews.


Merchandise like t-shirts and hoodies also make them pretty good money. These guys are earning more in a couple of months than most people do in an entire year lol, can't even hate because they saw an opportunity and took it successfully.

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

The gaming video industry is very saturated. It would be tough to get going now.

This. Unless you were close with one of the medium or big channels and they helped you out by promoting your videos. But even then you'd feel like a using prick lol.

The Adversary

Interesting stuff OP. I knew you could make money from it but I thought it was pittance tbh, Even the smaller channels (averaging about 5000 views a video) are still making 15000 a year according to that website!?

Some of what the biggest channels are making is criminal. Getting millions a year for talking over gameplay footage :rolleyes: capitalism at its best! Can't blame them for doing it though.

Thought about getting into it years ago, but didn't have the money to splash out on a camera/recording equipment. Kind of regret not making the investment now....

SMJSF

Youtubers who sign up as partners with youtube sign a contract to NEVER discus to anyone the amount of money they make from YT - it is all based on:
-subscribers,
-video uploads,
-video views,
-advertising,
and lots more.

I think its something like €1 per a number of thousand views.... I THINK - DONT QUOTE ME ON THAT!!!

like beauty vlogs (video blogs) and tutorials are extremely popular - and I think a brand (lets say MAC) - they have come to blogers and asked would they try out these items - and they do - and they make a video on them, and I think they either get a lot of beauty stock for if - or money - its practically FREE advertising for the company/brand & the youtuber gets money off the views and everything else as I stated above!

I myself was thinking of doing vloging - but I tried filming myself - but my life is not exciting for anybody to take an interest in!!

Schwiiing

Meh, get a camera and cat. Film it doing something mildly cute/amusing. Wait for it to roll in.

In fact it doesn't even have to be amusing... or cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsCLxfFd6KU

1M views in 2 days!!!

The Backwards Man

One of my videos has reached 37 views.

It's of me singing Cotton Fields by CCR on the dashcam parked outside someone's house as the headlights shine on a doorstep ornament of a man fishing

Notorious97

biko wrote: »

My channel

Lol wtf

Talib Fiasco

I had a channel where I used simply upload underground Hip Hop music that wasn't on YouTube and 90% of the population wouldn't know about. Literally the song uploaded with the album art as the visual or just the rapper. I could upload a few videos a day if I felt like it. It was a pretty damn successful channel until copyright became a fashion trend and my channel was shut down. I started a new channel but again was shut down.

I plan on setting up a new channel maybe next summer but not to do with music.

Notorious97

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

I had a channel where I used simply upload underground Hip Hop music that wasn't on YouTube and 90% of the population wouldn't know about. Literally the song uploaded with the album art as the visual or just the rapper. I could upload a few videos a day if I felt like it. It was a pretty damn successful channel until copyright became a fashion trend and my channel was shut down. I started a new channel but again was shut down.

I plan on setting up a new channel maybe next summer but not to do with music.

Similar story here man, just had some rare or hard to find videos of biggie, rare performances etc and a while ago all these copyright strikes started hitting me, pain in the arse as i wasnt trying to profit in any way from it, just thought other biggie fans would like to have access to them.

Talib Fiasco

Notorious97 wrote: »

Similar story here man, just had some rare or hard to find videos of biggie, rare performances etc and a while ago all these copyright strikes started hitting me, pain in the arse as i wasnt trying to profit in any way from it, just thought other biggie fans would like to have access to them.

Yeah I had uploaded music by dudes who literally had a fan base of few thousand taken down. Worst part was I stored my music on my old computer which has since been lost and weeks worth of music gone forever. The vast majority of it is not available to buy online anymore never mind finding it on YouTube. One rapper got in contact with me apologising for the political bullsh*t from his previous label and sent me signed CD's and stuff.

Notorious97

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Yeah I had uploaded music by dudes who literally had a fan base of few thousand taken down. Worst part was I stored my music on my old computer which has since been lost and weeks worth of music gone forever. The vast majority of it is not available to buy online anymore never mind finding it on YouTube. One rapper got in contact with me apologising for the political bullsh*t from his previous label and sent me signed CD's and stuff.

Fair play to him for that.

The whole copyright thing is annoying, media companies who just bought up specific videos id uploaded are the ones making the claims to take them off youtube, bad boy for example never was named as the company reporting content for copyright so its just a pain that you cant share videos like that.

Feel your pain man

Paramite Pie

As far as I know, Social Blade doesn't take into account Youtube's 45% cut of all Ad Revenue as well as a Network's cut.

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I obviously don't have the figures but it's those pesky naive kids that click every video and make them 100s of thousands.

A lot of the money comes from actually watching the Ads (so if Ads are skipped there's not much payed, bar a small fee to air the ads on that channel in the first place). I don't think kids have the attention span to sit through ads, but then again they're watching 30min videos of games so who knows.

It's up to the Channel whether or not to allow unskippable ads (which I imagine Adverstisers pay premium for). But the mere act of watching a video alone will not make the youtuber money. They made no money from Adblockers and I imagine a lot of young people use them.

Schwiiing wrote: »

Meh, get a camera and cat. Film it doing something mildly cute/amusing. Wait for it to roll in.

Damn. I recorded some monkeys at Dublin Zoo a few years ago -- two baby monkeys were fighting over a stick (to play with) and the parent monkeys were trying to split them up. It was adorable.

I don't think I kept the footage. Shame.

Earthhorse

Thread started 2 years ago? F*ck that noise!

Paramite Pie

Earthhorse wrote: »

Thread started 2 years ago? F*ck that noise!

But it appeared on the 2nd page of After Hours before I posted? Opps...:o

Not the first time an old thread has appear in After Hours this week... there was another one that had no new posts for years and was on the first page the other day --weird.

justchecked

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....little brats (did he say little brats )...... (he did say little brats grrr)



......and their unfunny...... (who's unfunny :mad: )....fvcking (whoa there cowboy) ......

...cut sequences.


(loud obnoxious theme music - 100 on screen links)

pillphil

Paramite Pie wrote: »

But it appeared on the 2nd page of After Hours before I posted? Opps...:o

Not the first time an old thread has appear in After Hours this week... there was another one that had no new posts for years and was on the first page the other day --weird.

It seems to happen every so often at night for some reason.

This is my channels big earner, that's right, 565 views :eek:

Earthhorse

Paramite Pie wrote: »

But it appeared on the 2nd page of After Hours before I posted? Opps...:o

Not the first time an old thread has appear in After Hours this week... there was another one that had no new posts for years and was on the first page the other day --weird.

No idea, PP, but I forgive you. :pac: