just stumbled across a post on reddit where a youtube partner was talking about the youtube partner's program, which is now open to everyone. this quote interested me (he was asked how much money a dude with 3 million youtube views/8000 subscribers missed out on):
"If you monetized all those views in the past, you would have received about $15000 if we assume its poor-average quality videos. If you got lots of "likes" and good quality (HD) then about 20K would be a good solid number."
if his lower figure is right, that comes out to $5 in profit per 1000 youtube views. is that anywhere close to being correct? if so, i have an easy way to produce comedic videos really quickly at a rate of maybe 40 videos a day. similar videos on youtube are consistently averaging about 8000 views with very few followers. if i made 40 X 365 videos in a year thats 14,600 videos a year x 8000 views a video = 116,800,000 views a year…..116,800 x 5 = $584,000 for "easy work" that could probably be outsourced. am i being retarded? are comedic videos actually worth anything? some of the supposed big earners (ray william johnson) seem totally worthless.
also, i'm curious if the videos would continue to earn at the same rate years down the road (sort of passively), or if there is some kind of drop off in the rate for older videos?
sorry if this post is dumb and all my assumptions are out of whack.
"If you monetized all those views in the past, you would have received about $15000 if we assume its poor-average quality videos. If you got lots of "likes" and good quality (HD) then about 20K would be a good solid number."
if his lower figure is right, that comes out to $5 in profit per 1000 youtube views. is that anywhere close to being correct? if so, i have an easy way to produce comedic videos really quickly at a rate of maybe 40 videos a day. similar videos on youtube are consistently averaging about 8000 views with very few followers. if i made 40 X 365 videos in a year thats 14,600 videos a year x 8000 views a video = 116,800,000 views a year…..116,800 x 5 = $584,000 for "easy work" that could probably be outsourced. am i being retarded? are comedic videos actually worth anything? some of the supposed big earners (ray william johnson) seem totally worthless.
also, i'm curious if the videos would continue to earn at the same rate years down the road (sort of passively), or if there is some kind of drop off in the rate for older videos?
sorry if this post is dumb and all my assumptions are out of whack.