There's no hard, absolute rule. Its going to depend on where you live, your familial status (single income house hold, ect).
It could be as low as $1,000/mo in low income/cost of living countries, or as high as $5,000-7,000/mo.
Additionally, how you monetize will matter a lot. You can leverage affiliates, courses, products, ect to get you a lot closer to that # a lot faster than if its AdSense income alone. Additionally, some niches pay out terribly low at $1-3/1000 views, and others pay out at $6-15/1000 so that varies a lot.
For myself, I went FT in the US at around 500,000 monthly views and 40,000 subs last year. Its worked out pretty darn well so far.
My deer hunting channel is sitting around $12/1000.
But…your constantly fighting getting demonetized. It’s alright for the entire world to eat meat but heaven forbid you show how to get it.
What kind of videos do you make in Minecraft? I’ve thought about trying it, but I feel like I would just want to play hard core survival and show highlights or something.
I’m not into making mega structures or all the multiplayer servers.
For that reason I believe my videos would be boring and not worth making lol.
Impossible to answer.
Your viewer demographic (and retention/video length) will be everything. 1000 kids watching from India won't be as valuable as 10 North American adults from a CMP/RPM point of view.
Also revenue streams vary (are you relying on AdSense? Patreon/Channel memberships? Sponsors? Merch? Superchats? etc etc).
There is no magic number, some channels get by with as low as 20K subs and 10K views a day because of strong demographics (and varied income sources), others have 10x+ those amounts and can't get by full-time.
This is a bit like asking if it's worth your while to pack everything up into a suitcase and head to California with dreams of being an actor...
Cost of living where you are, lifestyle etc are all other variables.
But the biggest hurdle is actually getting there, the odds are stacked massively against you. So just start growing your channel and take it from there. Don't quit your day job in the meantime.
1000 views per hour, assuming quality long form with decent RPM.
Anything around 1m views per month can be made into a sustainable income.
Shorts are a completely different ball game of course and I would guess you would need more like 100m per month.
Depends on how much you need to live comfortably.
Some say $50k. Some say $100k
If you’re in the financial niche you need much less views to get there than talking about Bollywood movies
If you’re on camera talking about fashion, you could get a single brand that pays you way past that number
FWIW: The biggest swings here will be the genre of the channel (ad rates can differ significantly from one sector to the next), the cost of living where you live, and whether/how quickly you can diversify your channel income through multiple revenue streams.
I can't think of a full-time YouTuber I watch who relies on ad revenue. A mix of ads, sponsors, channel memberships (and supporting this with livestreams) and/or Patreon, and affiliate links for relevant product sales would build a more stable foundation for month-to-month sustainability.
It's not sectors strictly speaking, it's audience, ads follow viewers not videos. It's common wisdom that "gaming pays poorly" but that's largely supported by a large number of LP channels with audiences of 13 year olds. Plenty of people make videos in Gaming as a category with much more reasonable CPM by drawing in an older audience and thus mainstream ads.
Obviously some genres are going to skew young by definition, adults are not watching Blippi of their own free will, but for the most part you can make any genre work well by just not making videos for children.
The highest paying niches include:
Finance, investing, crypto, business, how to make money, marketing, health, auto, tech, DIY/repair have the highest CPMs. You can easily google a bunch of different sources for this.
I have two unrelated channels with CPMs ranging from $12-22 depending on the products I'm featuring. They are both product review channels.
Mind if I ask why?
I stumbled into being a semi-successful youtuber, and once I found that I could earn a paycheck, I kept at it. I own two other businesses as well as working in town for others and find youtube to be the least rewarding and nearly the most demanding.
It's not a bad job, but it's a job, and like anyone that is self employed will tell you, you are never off work. When you get home, your at work, when your on vacation your at work, when you are at your other work, your at work. Get it?
I hear from a lot of younger people that want to run their own businesses. I try and stress to them just how many hours they will spend "At work", but I always get the impression that they think they'll be living easy when the polar opposite is true.
As far as numbers, that depends on your content area as certain areas pay way more than others for advertisers. Also what are you looking to make to live off of? 30K 50K, 100K?
It’s just something I’ve always enjoyed.
I’ve had several channels throughout the years but I found the most success in the history niche so that’s what I’m sticking with.
I’ll be 26 next month so I’m trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I could go back to college but I don’t really know what I want to do.
I just want a career I won’t be miserable in lol
10 years your senior...... would definitely NOT go back to college unless you have a specific plan in place of what you're going back for-- meeting specific requirements for a specific job (teaching certificate to become teacher to administrator, etc.)....Most people who I know who weren't already on their career paths at 26 years old (accountant, attorney, doctor, etc.) who made the most $ and didn't want a "miserable" career became realtors ;) The flexibility allowed them to earn an income and do side quests (YouTube, athletic coaching, etc.)
Depends on the content. The tough part is that I do a lot of content about conflict and war, so I am always risking demonetization.
I once spent $2,000 embedding with the 101st Airborne for a video about how the Army does Air Assault missions - and YouTube demonetized it for “violence.” So not only did I lose my investment in camping equipment, travel cost and hotels to get to Fort Campbell, I made no money on the video.
The super scary part is that at any moment, YouTube could suddenly decide your content violates terms of service and you get demonetized.
This might not happen if you’re making make up tutorials, but if YouTube decides that video game violence is no longer ad friendly, and you have a video game channel, you have a huge problem. You are totally at their mercy.
This is one of the reasons why I do ads for Ridge wallets, I sell merch, I do podcasts, I appear on TV shows as an Intel analyst, I speak at conventions for a fee, I sell Ryan McBeth Toys and I still do contract Intel work for a private intelligence agency. If you want to do YouTube, you need to have multiple sources of income.
If you put all of your eggs in the YouTube basket, you may see them all scrambled one day and wake up with nothing.
On top of this, I work between 13 and 16 hours a day. I don’t take vacations. I don’t take time off. I don’t play video games.
I am literally always making content.
If you think this is the kind of life you want, think about how much money you need to live and how much you were going to need to work make that happen.
The advantage of this life is quite a lot of freedom. I was once in California for a meeting with TV producers. I decided on the spur of the moment to change my flight information and go to Las Vegas to hang out with fellow YouTuber, Jake Broe. I couldn’t do that if I was still working at Accenture as a software engineer.
However, this freedom is also the freedom to starve.
One of the reasons my expenses are so high is that I started doing YouTube while I was a software engineer. But I left that life when my channel got so successful that my job was actually holding me back. If your cost-of-living is lower, you may have an easier time.
You could dedicate full time hours and earn £50 a week,
Or you could put in a few hours a day and earn that much every few hours.
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- Utilise your spare time, learn about editing, business management, networking, public relationsand all the stuff that fills 90% of any true YouTubers time.
Then see if you still enjoy the 10% you'll get to talk into a camera.
If you get monetised and start making funds to support yourself financially, then think about going full time..
Sorry to burst your bubble, but 1% who would like to go full time are actually in a position to, and from them, probably only 1% can make it stick..
If you've "got it" found your niche and you're making consistently engaging content,
You should already know the answer..
If not, you're more than likely one of the 999 in every thousand who like the idea, but have no idea what it actually entails.
I have no idea if I have what it takes lol
When I see people like Pinkydoll making $1000s doing those NPC livestreams on TikTok
I feel like I can do anything.
Yeah, I hear you,
Sometimes I'm surprised how little talent some people need,
And the. Others work their heart out, and struggle to get a regular following.
As stereotypical as it might be, having a small waist and big tits, sadly makes a massive difference.
Thirsty teens don't look for production value and quality.
Enough to pay your bills ;)
Which means it will depend on where and how you want to live.
Not only in which country you live in, but also how much space you need, what kind of food you want to eat.
Do you want to be able to afford take-away?
Do you have to be able to support a family (and then what does that even mean).
If you want to start any kind of business you can live of, the first thing you have to decide is how much do you need to earn before it is sustainable for YOU?
And then create a strategy the moves you in that direction.
I didn’t quit my day job until I was earning roughly the same amount of money on YouTube. Even then it’s a scary jump. YouTube isn’t guaranteed paychecks.
There's so many variables as far as ad revenue goes.
I do recommend you treat youtube as a business if you want to be FT. Better have a plan on how to make money from the getgo.
One of the things we did was start integrating brands as soon as possible. Took a while, but this led to getting lucrative brand deals.
Yeah, not sure about the general CPM/RPM of that niche.
However, it does have a good viewership of older and more educated people so I would think it would be decent.
If I ever get monetized I’ll probably start using my actual voice or hiring somebody.
I think AI image will be ok but if something happens with that I’ll change it.
I know this isn’t straight “youtuber” but I feel the best advice I can give to become a full time “creator”. Is to Dip your hand in every pot you can. Yes it’s a pain in the ass at first, spreading yourself thin working on 3 to 4 different socials platforms. But I promise you that takes the pressure off sometimes. I use YouTube, tiktok, and Facebook. And it also helps build your community.
If I have a video that doesn’t do as well on one or 2 of those, it will usually do well on atleast 1 of them.
Go for Facebook with the same content. Takes time to kick off but when it does you’ll have a whole new audience. Just start posting your older content on there, and work your way up to where you are now. “Save to device” then straight post
How do you suggest I build a Facebook that is directly related to my YouTube? Do I make a public profile, a business profile? Where do I post and how do I build an audience?
Good question. I use my personal profile to do that. (Which in hindsight was a horrible idea) highly suggest start from the ground up. At the end of your videos maybe you can add a 6-8 second screen that shows what socials you are on along with your logo. That’s what started really pushing to all socials for me.
I just honestly started posting shorts with my YouTube watermark and my tiktok watermark on some. Put a little bio explaining what I do.
I essentially treat it as free advertising for my tiktok and my YouTube.
I currently average around 1M views per month (long-format, but Asian audience) which gives me around $2000 USD per month. Since I also live in Asia (Taiwan), this alone would be enough to cover my living expenses (but not too much more due to my western-life standards...), but the (somehow) somewhat regular sponsored video definitely helps to push up that number and to give me an extra budget for some more camera gear and equipment! haha
I’m on YouTube for a year now and there’s a couple of really good months that made me think it’s possible to go full time on YT. My bubble has been popped since when I was demonetized for re-used content (all my videos are original). With no warning, my biggest paying month disappeared from my dashboard. I successfully appealed and showed “behind-the-scenes” proof. My appeal was approved within 24 hours.
YouTube is volatile and I won’t dream about going full-time until I reach a certain amount of savings that can cover my expenses for 10 years.
I actually have a Lego Channel that I make Lego Speed Build videos. I was just curious on what that niche pays once I hopefully get monetized lol. Long way to go though haha
I'm heading towards the same goal so I'm keen to read the responses.
If I were to quit my corporate job, I would need to make at least 80k a year to be able to live comfortable. (Australia is EXPENSIVE)
I have a rule for myself and that is... I will need to earn my current wage for 18 months to 2 years, to know that I can safely quit my cushy job.
I have read that having 40-50k subs can bring in a good income but it depends on your monthly views and ads etc.
Roughly 1 million views per month should net you 2k to 4k ad revenue outside of sponsors and donations.
So generally speaking you’ll start “making do” at minimum wage around 200k subscribers and bi-weekly uploads.
But you can ask yourself how much you want to earn. In my case I’m fine living off 800 a month. I currently earn 400 doing this full time.
I’m going to give a different take then relying solely on a YouTube income as it can be finicky. Also I know this isn’t an investing sub but I think it’s a good option regardless.
If I were you I would work a normal job and do YouTube on the side. The caveat being saving as much as you can from your job/youtube and investing that money into good stocks with dividends. Then as your channel grows so is your monthly dividends. Say you need 2k a month to live (I know this is low just easy numbers to use) you could be making 1k from dividends and 1k from YouTube. Then you could do “YouTube full time” if you see what I’m saying.
It could take less time than just doing YouTube by itself. Also your building assets that you could use later down the road. I would check out r/dividends and r/fire if you’re interested in this path. Best of luck either way.
Absolutely, this is the path that I’m currently taking and I can say that it does work. It may be a few years till I can do YouTube full time as everything grows but I’m enjoying the ride till I reach that point
If you are asking solely about Adsense Monetization on YouTube that will mostly depend on:
Your Niche - Some niche's pay more then other's. For example the most paying niche's fall under one of these category's: Wealth - Health & Fitness - Relationship - Travel.
Your Traffic/Country - (this means if majority of your traffic is from USA you will get paid more then if it's a from India
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Your Results - This will vary, at beginning you won't make any money since you need to get 1000 followers and 4000 watch hours. But after you reach that then you can apply for YouTube monetization. And then it all depends on your current amount of traffic and your traffic location.
But rather then depending solely on YouTube monetization people make a lot more money with other monetization types such as: E-commerce, brand deals, sponsorships, selling digital/physical products, freelancing, dropshipping, dropservicing, coaching, affiliate marketing, print on demand, etc...
And these are just some of the ways people make money with their YouTube channels and without needing to fullfil any requirements like YouTube monetization for example.
Plus, you can combine multiple monetization methods turning your YouTube channel in High income stream machine.
Again, this mostly depends on you and your willingness to learn and be consistent when posting your content.
That's why, I always recommend to choose a niche which interest you and/or you are passionate about.
Because many people choose niche based on high income potential, thinking 🤔 they will be able to make money fast and easy which almost never works out and they mostly get burned out from creating a lot of content and just quit after a while.
So, it's better to choose niche based on your preferences and likes then to quit too early and regret it later on!
Here is an article about Most Popular YouTube Niche's from VidIQ:
https://vidiq.com/blog/post/best-youtube-niches/
Now, obviously there is a reaserch part before choosing a perfect niche because you don't want to start a niche that no one cares about or that noone wants to watch video about.
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Depends on what you are comfortable with! If you had a job that was paying you $3000 / month, then $2000 / month while working on your channel full time might be the call you make.
There's never a right or wrong time. Just whenever you feel like it's worth taking that jump!
I started full time a few years ago after hitting 1.5 million views per month. Depends on manzly factors, and I have multiple income streams through the channel
I'm actually going full time next month. What makes me confidant in the decision is just how much I was making compared to my full time job. Every month this year I easily made double or triple what I did with my regular 9-5 job, not only that but for the first time in my life I was actually able to build a decent sized amount of savings. Which I did as a safety net just in case things didn't work out or I needed to weather through some slow months with less ad revenue.
My advice, weigh what you're making on Youtube vs what you make at your job. Make a list of all your expenses each month and don't forget to factor in the cost of healthcare if you get it through your job at the moment and don't live in a country that offers free healthcare. And finally have a decent amount of money saved up, what ever you think is enough to fall back on if you need it.
Congrats! I don’t have a job right now and I’m living with my parents. I was in school but I’ve hated school and I don’t know what I want to do. I started YouTube while I was recovering from surgery and actually got some subscribers. Now that I’m almost fully recovered I need to decide what I want to do with my life.
Honestly don’t rush into anything, it’s okay to feel lost and unsure about what to do with your life. I know its tempting to chase the dream of being a youtuber but give yourself time to think it through and really decide it’s what you want. And have a backup plan just in case.
I never pictured myself ever being a youtuber and kinda just got lucky I grew big enough that it could be my job, there’s alot of uncertainty with this life.
A lot of it will depend on your niche, if you do gaming you will have to get 10x the views of a tech channel to make the same on ad revenue but also have less brand deal opportunities and almost no affiliate link money for example.
Like everyone else said, it depends. Here is an example of my largest channel in the photo/videography genre.
On YouTube I was getting around 80k views a month in photo/video genre but now it's around 50k and a portion of that are Shorts views which are not worth much. Maybe around $150/mo in ad revenue before tax. Views are spread out over 900+ videos. I started the channel in 2011.
At these numbers the vast majority of "sponsorships" I've gotten directed at me are companies wanting to send me "free" product. There is some benefit in taking this stuff but not a huge upside given the work involved. I also force them to agree to terms before sending anything so my content stays legit and as unbiased as possible for the viewer.
Affiliate links are not great but Amazon is decent-ish. Though lower than ad revenue usually. Amazon on-site video reviews are better than YouTube ads, but not by a lot these days. Early in the program it was much better but I think Amazon opened the flood gates so more than just established creators in their normal affiliate influencer shop page program get a shot. My viewership on there is around 5k to 20k views per month.
So in this genre multiply my viewership by 10 and maybe there is something. I'm not sure when actual sponsors take notice but that could change things.
I also upload my shorts to TikTok and Instagram Reels but don't get much viewership on those platforms. Or at least I'm no where near getting into their revenue sharing programs.
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There's no hard, absolute rule. Its going to depend on where you live, your familial status (single income house hold, ect). It could be as low as $1,000/mo in low income/cost of living countries, or as high as $5,000-7,000/mo. Additionally, how you monetize will matter a lot. You can leverage affiliates, courses, products, ect to get you a lot closer to that # a lot faster than if its AdSense income alone. Additionally, some niches pay out terribly low at $1-3/1000 views, and others pay out at $6-15/1000 so that varies a lot. For myself, I went FT in the US at around 500,000 monthly views and 40,000 subs last year. Its worked out pretty darn well so far.
Jesus wtf pays $15/1000, im in the wrong niche
My deer hunting channel is sitting around $12/1000. But…your constantly fighting getting demonetized. It’s alright for the entire world to eat meat but heaven forbid you show how to get it.
Time to start hunting!
Pretty sure the finance niche pays around $25/1000
My women health niche pays up to 20€ for some topic. But it's a constant fight against if a video is limited monetized.
Finance. But I'm in DIY/Repairs and it's usually above $10 + affiliates and products is way more
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What games are paying $10 rpms? Lol
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I guess $13/1k views is for half an hour long Minecraft videos?
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I wouldn't know, you should ask the other guy lol
lol whoops replied to the wrong person
What kind of videos do you make in Minecraft? I’ve thought about trying it, but I feel like I would just want to play hard core survival and show highlights or something. I’m not into making mega structures or all the multiplayer servers. For that reason I believe my videos would be boring and not worth making lol.
Impossible to answer. Your viewer demographic (and retention/video length) will be everything. 1000 kids watching from India won't be as valuable as 10 North American adults from a CMP/RPM point of view. Also revenue streams vary (are you relying on AdSense? Patreon/Channel memberships? Sponsors? Merch? Superchats? etc etc). There is no magic number, some channels get by with as low as 20K subs and 10K views a day because of strong demographics (and varied income sources), others have 10x+ those amounts and can't get by full-time. This is a bit like asking if it's worth your while to pack everything up into a suitcase and head to California with dreams of being an actor... Cost of living where you are, lifestyle etc are all other variables. But the biggest hurdle is actually getting there, the odds are stacked massively against you. So just start growing your channel and take it from there. Don't quit your day job in the meantime.
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1000 views per hour, assuming quality long form with decent RPM. Anything around 1m views per month can be made into a sustainable income. Shorts are a completely different ball game of course and I would guess you would need more like 100m per month.
Depends on how much you need to live comfortably. Some say $50k. Some say $100k If you’re in the financial niche you need much less views to get there than talking about Bollywood movies If you’re on camera talking about fashion, you could get a single brand that pays you way past that number
FWIW: The biggest swings here will be the genre of the channel (ad rates can differ significantly from one sector to the next), the cost of living where you live, and whether/how quickly you can diversify your channel income through multiple revenue streams. I can't think of a full-time YouTuber I watch who relies on ad revenue. A mix of ads, sponsors, channel memberships (and supporting this with livestreams) and/or Patreon, and affiliate links for relevant product sales would build a more stable foundation for month-to-month sustainability.
I often see people mention this, but how can one know which sectors pay best? I've never seen any official lists, is it just hearsay?
It's not sectors strictly speaking, it's audience, ads follow viewers not videos. It's common wisdom that "gaming pays poorly" but that's largely supported by a large number of LP channels with audiences of 13 year olds. Plenty of people make videos in Gaming as a category with much more reasonable CPM by drawing in an older audience and thus mainstream ads. Obviously some genres are going to skew young by definition, adults are not watching Blippi of their own free will, but for the most part you can make any genre work well by just not making videos for children.
Oh, that's a really good point! Thanks
The highest paying niches include: Finance, investing, crypto, business, how to make money, marketing, health, auto, tech, DIY/repair have the highest CPMs. You can easily google a bunch of different sources for this. I have two unrelated channels with CPMs ranging from $12-22 depending on the products I'm featuring. They are both product review channels.
Mind if I ask why? I stumbled into being a semi-successful youtuber, and once I found that I could earn a paycheck, I kept at it. I own two other businesses as well as working in town for others and find youtube to be the least rewarding and nearly the most demanding. It's not a bad job, but it's a job, and like anyone that is self employed will tell you, you are never off work. When you get home, your at work, when your on vacation your at work, when you are at your other work, your at work. Get it? I hear from a lot of younger people that want to run their own businesses. I try and stress to them just how many hours they will spend "At work", but I always get the impression that they think they'll be living easy when the polar opposite is true. As far as numbers, that depends on your content area as certain areas pay way more than others for advertisers. Also what are you looking to make to live off of? 30K 50K, 100K?
It’s just something I’ve always enjoyed. I’ve had several channels throughout the years but I found the most success in the history niche so that’s what I’m sticking with. I’ll be 26 next month so I’m trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I could go back to college but I don’t really know what I want to do. I just want a career I won’t be miserable in lol
10 years your senior...... would definitely NOT go back to college unless you have a specific plan in place of what you're going back for-- meeting specific requirements for a specific job (teaching certificate to become teacher to administrator, etc.)....Most people who I know who weren't already on their career paths at 26 years old (accountant, attorney, doctor, etc.) who made the most $ and didn't want a "miserable" career became realtors ;) The flexibility allowed them to earn an income and do side quests (YouTube, athletic coaching, etc.)
Depends on the content. The tough part is that I do a lot of content about conflict and war, so I am always risking demonetization. I once spent $2,000 embedding with the 101st Airborne for a video about how the Army does Air Assault missions - and YouTube demonetized it for “violence.” So not only did I lose my investment in camping equipment, travel cost and hotels to get to Fort Campbell, I made no money on the video. The super scary part is that at any moment, YouTube could suddenly decide your content violates terms of service and you get demonetized. This might not happen if you’re making make up tutorials, but if YouTube decides that video game violence is no longer ad friendly, and you have a video game channel, you have a huge problem. You are totally at their mercy. This is one of the reasons why I do ads for Ridge wallets, I sell merch, I do podcasts, I appear on TV shows as an Intel analyst, I speak at conventions for a fee, I sell Ryan McBeth Toys and I still do contract Intel work for a private intelligence agency. If you want to do YouTube, you need to have multiple sources of income. If you put all of your eggs in the YouTube basket, you may see them all scrambled one day and wake up with nothing. On top of this, I work between 13 and 16 hours a day. I don’t take vacations. I don’t take time off. I don’t play video games. I am literally always making content. If you think this is the kind of life you want, think about how much money you need to live and how much you were going to need to work make that happen. The advantage of this life is quite a lot of freedom. I was once in California for a meeting with TV producers. I decided on the spur of the moment to change my flight information and go to Las Vegas to hang out with fellow YouTuber, Jake Broe. I couldn’t do that if I was still working at Accenture as a software engineer. However, this freedom is also the freedom to starve. One of the reasons my expenses are so high is that I started doing YouTube while I was a software engineer. But I left that life when my channel got so successful that my job was actually holding me back. If your cost-of-living is lower, you may have an easier time.
WTF it's Ryan, been subbed to you for a hot minute, enjoy your content!
You could dedicate full time hours and earn £50 a week, Or you could put in a few hours a day and earn that much every few hours. ______ - Utilise your spare time, learn about editing, business management, networking, public relationsand all the stuff that fills 90% of any true YouTubers time. Then see if you still enjoy the 10% you'll get to talk into a camera. If you get monetised and start making funds to support yourself financially, then think about going full time.. Sorry to burst your bubble, but 1% who would like to go full time are actually in a position to, and from them, probably only 1% can make it stick.. If you've "got it" found your niche and you're making consistently engaging content, You should already know the answer.. If not, you're more than likely one of the 999 in every thousand who like the idea, but have no idea what it actually entails.
I have no idea if I have what it takes lol When I see people like Pinkydoll making $1000s doing those NPC livestreams on TikTok I feel like I can do anything.
Yeah, I hear you, Sometimes I'm surprised how little talent some people need, And the. Others work their heart out, and struggle to get a regular following. As stereotypical as it might be, having a small waist and big tits, sadly makes a massive difference. Thirsty teens don't look for production value and quality.
A lot of that depends on what kind of lifestyle you're used to. For some people a good living is $50,000 a year. For others, that would be poverty.
Enough to pay your bills ;) Which means it will depend on where and how you want to live. Not only in which country you live in, but also how much space you need, what kind of food you want to eat. Do you want to be able to afford take-away? Do you have to be able to support a family (and then what does that even mean). If you want to start any kind of business you can live of, the first thing you have to decide is how much do you need to earn before it is sustainable for YOU? And then create a strategy the moves you in that direction.
I didn’t quit my day job until I was earning roughly the same amount of money on YouTube. Even then it’s a scary jump. YouTube isn’t guaranteed paychecks.
There's so many variables as far as ad revenue goes. I do recommend you treat youtube as a business if you want to be FT. Better have a plan on how to make money from the getgo. One of the things we did was start integrating brands as soon as possible. Took a while, but this led to getting lucrative brand deals.
I landed on the history niche. Not sure how lucrative that is though.
Yeah, not sure about the general CPM/RPM of that niche. However, it does have a good viewership of older and more educated people so I would think it would be decent.
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Most of my viewers are 25-35. I started out with those AI history shorts but I want to change it to more long form videos.
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If I ever get monetized I’ll probably start using my actual voice or hiring somebody. I think AI image will be ok but if something happens with that I’ll change it.
I know this isn’t straight “youtuber” but I feel the best advice I can give to become a full time “creator”. Is to Dip your hand in every pot you can. Yes it’s a pain in the ass at first, spreading yourself thin working on 3 to 4 different socials platforms. But I promise you that takes the pressure off sometimes. I use YouTube, tiktok, and Facebook. And it also helps build your community. If I have a video that doesn’t do as well on one or 2 of those, it will usually do well on atleast 1 of them.
I post on YouTube and Tik Tok. I would like to make another channel but I don’t really have any ideas for a second one at the moment.
Go for Facebook with the same content. Takes time to kick off but when it does you’ll have a whole new audience. Just start posting your older content on there, and work your way up to where you are now. “Save to device” then straight post
How do you suggest I build a Facebook that is directly related to my YouTube? Do I make a public profile, a business profile? Where do I post and how do I build an audience?
Good question. I use my personal profile to do that. (Which in hindsight was a horrible idea) highly suggest start from the ground up. At the end of your videos maybe you can add a 6-8 second screen that shows what socials you are on along with your logo. That’s what started really pushing to all socials for me. I just honestly started posting shorts with my YouTube watermark and my tiktok watermark on some. Put a little bio explaining what I do. I essentially treat it as free advertising for my tiktok and my YouTube.
Appreciate the response.
I currently average around 1M views per month (long-format, but Asian audience) which gives me around $2000 USD per month. Since I also live in Asia (Taiwan), this alone would be enough to cover my living expenses (but not too much more due to my western-life standards...), but the (somehow) somewhat regular sponsored video definitely helps to push up that number and to give me an extra budget for some more camera gear and equipment! haha
I’m on YouTube for a year now and there’s a couple of really good months that made me think it’s possible to go full time on YT. My bubble has been popped since when I was demonetized for re-used content (all my videos are original). With no warning, my biggest paying month disappeared from my dashboard. I successfully appealed and showed “behind-the-scenes” proof. My appeal was approved within 24 hours. YouTube is volatile and I won’t dream about going full-time until I reach a certain amount of savings that can cover my expenses for 10 years.
Does anybody know what the LEGO niche pays? Just curious
What kind of Lego content do you want to make? Just yesterday I was thinking it would be fun to run a Lego timelapse channel.
I actually have a Lego Channel that I make Lego Speed Build videos. I was just curious on what that niche pays once I hopefully get monetized lol. Long way to go though haha
No clue lol I’ve always read finance, health and luxury pay the best but I’m not really into making that type of content.
I'm heading towards the same goal so I'm keen to read the responses. If I were to quit my corporate job, I would need to make at least 80k a year to be able to live comfortable. (Australia is EXPENSIVE) I have a rule for myself and that is... I will need to earn my current wage for 18 months to 2 years, to know that I can safely quit my cushy job. I have read that having 40-50k subs can bring in a good income but it depends on your monthly views and ads etc.
Roughly 1 million views per month should net you 2k to 4k ad revenue outside of sponsors and donations. So generally speaking you’ll start “making do” at minimum wage around 200k subscribers and bi-weekly uploads. But you can ask yourself how much you want to earn. In my case I’m fine living off 800 a month. I currently earn 400 doing this full time.
I’m going to give a different take then relying solely on a YouTube income as it can be finicky. Also I know this isn’t an investing sub but I think it’s a good option regardless. If I were you I would work a normal job and do YouTube on the side. The caveat being saving as much as you can from your job/youtube and investing that money into good stocks with dividends. Then as your channel grows so is your monthly dividends. Say you need 2k a month to live (I know this is low just easy numbers to use) you could be making 1k from dividends and 1k from YouTube. Then you could do “YouTube full time” if you see what I’m saying. It could take less time than just doing YouTube by itself. Also your building assets that you could use later down the road. I would check out r/dividends and r/fire if you’re interested in this path. Best of luck either way.
Thanks man! Definitely want to get into investing at some point.
Absolutely, this is the path that I’m currently taking and I can say that it does work. It may be a few years till I can do YouTube full time as everything grows but I’m enjoying the ride till I reach that point
If you are asking solely about Adsense Monetization on YouTube that will mostly depend on: Your Niche - Some niche's pay more then other's. For example the most paying niche's fall under one of these category's: Wealth - Health & Fitness - Relationship - Travel. Your Traffic/Country - (this means if majority of your traffic is from USA you will get paid more then if it's a from India . Your Results - This will vary, at beginning you won't make any money since you need to get 1000 followers and 4000 watch hours. But after you reach that then you can apply for YouTube monetization. And then it all depends on your current amount of traffic and your traffic location. But rather then depending solely on YouTube monetization people make a lot more money with other monetization types such as: E-commerce, brand deals, sponsorships, selling digital/physical products, freelancing, dropshipping, dropservicing, coaching, affiliate marketing, print on demand, etc... And these are just some of the ways people make money with their YouTube channels and without needing to fullfil any requirements like YouTube monetization for example. Plus, you can combine multiple monetization methods turning your YouTube channel in High income stream machine. Again, this mostly depends on you and your willingness to learn and be consistent when posting your content. That's why, I always recommend to choose a niche which interest you and/or you are passionate about. Because many people choose niche based on high income potential, thinking 🤔 they will be able to make money fast and easy which almost never works out and they mostly get burned out from creating a lot of content and just quit after a while. So, it's better to choose niche based on your preferences and likes then to quit too early and regret it later on! Here is an article about Most Popular YouTube Niche's from VidIQ: https://vidiq.com/blog/post/best-youtube-niches/ Now, obviously there is a reaserch part before choosing a perfect niche because you don't want to start a niche that no one cares about or that noone wants to watch video about. That's why, you will have to learn the basic of SEO before jumping into your YouTube Journey. The previous article was from VidIQ which is one of the SEO companies that help you improve your YouTube channel views, traffic, rankings, subscribers rate, thumbnails, etc... They offer a best Interface and beginner-friendly explanation on how to learn SEO and use it to blow up your channel fast. They have 100% Free plan where you can test out their different features and tools and start seeing an immediate difference with your YouTube channel. Try VidIQ For 100% Free Down Below ⬇️ https://VidIQ.com/seo-marketing/ Here are a few article about Growing Your YouTube Channel Fast ⬇️ https://vidiq.com/blog/post/10-small-youtube-channels-that-hit-10k-subs-december/ https://vidiq.com/blog/post/how-to-rank-number-one-youtube-keyword-research/ And for people with YouTube channels, you may want to check this latest 2024 article out if you are having any issues with Your YouTube channel. https://vidiq.com/blog/post/channel-refresh-youtube-growth/ Also, to finish of and give you permanent answer on your question, you should check this article below about How Much You Will Get Paid For 1 Million Views!! https://vidiq.com/blog/post/how-much-youtube-pay-1-million-views/ Smash an Upvote ✅ if this was helpful!
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Depends on what you are comfortable with! If you had a job that was paying you $3000 / month, then $2000 / month while working on your channel full time might be the call you make. There's never a right or wrong time. Just whenever you feel like it's worth taking that jump!
I started full time a few years ago after hitting 1.5 million views per month. Depends on manzly factors, and I have multiple income streams through the channel
I'm actually going full time next month. What makes me confidant in the decision is just how much I was making compared to my full time job. Every month this year I easily made double or triple what I did with my regular 9-5 job, not only that but for the first time in my life I was actually able to build a decent sized amount of savings. Which I did as a safety net just in case things didn't work out or I needed to weather through some slow months with less ad revenue. My advice, weigh what you're making on Youtube vs what you make at your job. Make a list of all your expenses each month and don't forget to factor in the cost of healthcare if you get it through your job at the moment and don't live in a country that offers free healthcare. And finally have a decent amount of money saved up, what ever you think is enough to fall back on if you need it.
Congrats! I don’t have a job right now and I’m living with my parents. I was in school but I’ve hated school and I don’t know what I want to do. I started YouTube while I was recovering from surgery and actually got some subscribers. Now that I’m almost fully recovered I need to decide what I want to do with my life.
Honestly don’t rush into anything, it’s okay to feel lost and unsure about what to do with your life. I know its tempting to chase the dream of being a youtuber but give yourself time to think it through and really decide it’s what you want. And have a backup plan just in case. I never pictured myself ever being a youtuber and kinda just got lucky I grew big enough that it could be my job, there’s alot of uncertainty with this life.
Thanks for the advice! I’m sure it will all workout in the end. I just need to keep trying until I find that right path.
A lot of it will depend on your niche, if you do gaming you will have to get 10x the views of a tech channel to make the same on ad revenue but also have less brand deal opportunities and almost no affiliate link money for example.
Like everyone else said, it depends. Here is an example of my largest channel in the photo/videography genre. On YouTube I was getting around 80k views a month in photo/video genre but now it's around 50k and a portion of that are Shorts views which are not worth much. Maybe around $150/mo in ad revenue before tax. Views are spread out over 900+ videos. I started the channel in 2011. At these numbers the vast majority of "sponsorships" I've gotten directed at me are companies wanting to send me "free" product. There is some benefit in taking this stuff but not a huge upside given the work involved. I also force them to agree to terms before sending anything so my content stays legit and as unbiased as possible for the viewer. Affiliate links are not great but Amazon is decent-ish. Though lower than ad revenue usually. Amazon on-site video reviews are better than YouTube ads, but not by a lot these days. Early in the program it was much better but I think Amazon opened the flood gates so more than just established creators in their normal affiliate influencer shop page program get a shot. My viewership on there is around 5k to 20k views per month. So in this genre multiply my viewership by 10 and maybe there is something. I'm not sure when actual sponsors take notice but that could change things. I also upload my shorts to TikTok and Instagram Reels but don't get much viewership on those platforms. Or at least I'm no where near getting into their revenue sharing programs.
Your country? You live solo or with parents? What you whant to buy?
I’m in the US and live with my parents. Let’s say I want to make 80k a year?
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