I think I finally understand.

[Symph]

(was hoping you were going to reveal the meaning of life)

 

[MattZ]

I think you're incorrect, you see gross is before Youtube takes their part of the money, estimated finalized earnings is after (this is why it's almost always around half)

Nope what I said is correct, Adsense ALWAYS take their cut before your network takes their cut, adsense get 45% of your full gross revenue and then your network takes their % out of what is left.

 

[Invisible]

Another thing is, I don't wanna take advice from someone who literally has 95% of their views on content they don't own.

May i ask how much of the content you feel you own on your own channel (im talking about visuals)?