Being a youtuber

immuno

mikep22 wrote: »

I suspect thats not the case. If you were to do an average it would come out far closer to £200 then the £2k.
For example you will have 5,000 people earning £200 - and 4 people earning £2k.

Its a bit like a standard company where you have a CEO on say £100k and most employees on £20k.

Ah, I see. Thanks. I'm not sure why it'd give that range for one particular Youtuber, though?? It's not like it's a range for several people!

mikep22

immuno wrote: »

Ah, I see. Thanks. I'm not sure why it'd give that range for one particular Youtuber, though?? It's not like it's a range for several people!

Couldnt answer that one

Flyonthewall

immuno wrote: »

I don't mean to say that I think that on average, Youtubers earn £1000/month. I mean that if on Social Blade, it says £200-£2k for a particular person, for that month, does that mean it's somewhere in the middle? Ie. if another person has £30-60/month, is it approx £45, etc?

I don't think it's any kind of average or based on a particular person, it's just a rough idea of what you can potentially get from Youtube.

A lot of sites say $1 for every 1000 views, but that will vary based on what advertisers pay and how many people watch/click the ads. For many (top Youtubers included), the amount per impression has gone down recently so will likely be (far) less than $1 for 1000 views.

tommyukuk

As a general rule of thumb, its around £1 for every 1000 views give or take a couple of pence.. and around £3 give or take per 1000 for the channels that get around a million views plus a video..

Fallen-Angel

I've gone to my stats, over my YouTube lifetime I've had 88,047 views and made $42.47. Most of those views come from 2 videos

1) 56,927 views earning $21.75
2) 23,400 views earning $11.53

Both created and posted in April 2014.

I've not even got 200 subs yet but I've only really started focusing on creating and posting over the last 4 months. Just as an idea

It's a lot of work and the key is to get viewers to watch as much of a video as possible, and hopefully click ads.

Beartricks

immuno wrote: »

Yeah, I know there are some big Youtubers outside of the US. I just mean that on average, they seem to have more views...maybe it just seems that way to me.

I meant the monthly average, so when SocialBlade says £200-2k for someone per month, I assume it's roughly in the middle?

I know that asking how much Sponsored videos make is also like asking how long a piece of string is....

I realise it's going to be very time consuming, so just trying to weigh the pros and cons. I do have a good camera..and we were thinking that my partner could do most of the editing whilst I prepare content for the videos.

Do you have a good camera though, or do you have a decent camera? Like I said, the big youtubers are dictating what makes the smaller ones successful. If the bigger youtubers are using 4K cameras as their standard, then that's what people will be expecting across the board. A two year old SLR wont cut it. You really need to keep your finger on the pulse.

I used to work in the media, and most of that was media training. It's not easy to be on camera and you'd need to look at stuff like lighting, set dressing, costume etc as well as things like how to hold and carry yourself on camera, and how to address audiences.

Hermia

Beartricks wrote: »

Do you have a good camera though, or do you have a decent camera? Like I said, the big youtubers are dictating what makes the smaller ones successful. If the bigger youtubers are using 4K cameras as their standard, then that's what people will be expecting across the board. A two year old SLR wont cut it. You really need to keep your finger on the pulse.

I used to work in the media, and most of that was media training. It's not easy to be on camera and you'd need to look at stuff like lighting, set dressing, costume etc as well as things like how to hold and carry yourself on camera, and how to address audiences.

The quality of YT vids has really gone through the roof. I love travel vids and some of the better channels are producing content that doesn't look all that different to a BBC documentary! I was watching a couple the other day with stunning drone shots, 4K quality video and beautiful time lapse footage. I also enjoy cooking vids and when I started watching YT the vids were long shots where you could hardly see what the person was doing. Now there is professional lighting and close-ups. The presentation is more polished now. It seems standard for people to look smart and behave more like a professional presenter. There are still vids where people just sit in their bedroom and record grainy footage of themselves droning on, but you do see a lot of criticisms in the comments section of those vids.

Flyonthewall

Beartricks wrote: »

Do you have a good camera though, or do you have a decent camera? Like I said, the big youtubers are dictating what makes the smaller ones successful. If the bigger youtubers are using 4K cameras as their standard, then that's what people will be expecting across the board. A two year old SLR wont cut it. You really need to keep your finger on the pulse.

I used to work in the media, and most of that was media training. It's not easy to be on camera and you'd need to look at stuff like lighting, set dressing, costume etc as well as things like how to hold and carry yourself on camera, and how to address audiences.

A lot of big Youtubers also make it clear they did not start out with the top tech or any knowledge at all on lighting, camera settings or anything else. They also say to just start making videos. Grab any camera and start filming.

Lots of mobiles now have pretty good cameras and lots of cameras and camcorders film in HD. You don't have to spend loads on a top camera and it would be daft to do so when starting out.

The content is most important part. If you've got good content you'll keep people coming back. You can improve video quality as you grow the channel. Focusing on video quality and spending loads and worrying about that is pointless anyway if the content suffers because of it.

[Deleted User]

If you want to create more watched videos create some playing minecraft videos or unwrapping Kinder eggs! Works for my kids.

Credit-Crunched

Youtube revenue has plummeted as of late.

The system they use to recommend videos pushes all but the top youtuber's to the bottom of the pile.

Any slightly off the norm content and your video is instantly demonitized.

Lots of large ad companies have pulled their youtube budgets as there were videos on youtube that they did not want to be assocaited with.

I am sorry to say, but I think that you have missed the boat.

If you are doing it for a hobby and enjoyment, then I would say that is best. If you happen to make some money off it, then that is a bonus.