Very Bad CPM with Machinima - What should I do?

Arzondra

Arzondra

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Hello everyone.
I make gaming content in spanish, most of my audience is from Spain and spaniard countries (like Mexico, Argentina, etc). I signed a contract with Machinima in january, but they activated my partnership in late february. I've been part of them for 2 months and a week now. They pay me 60% of the estimated earnings I earn from youtube. Wich it didn't seemed that bad because when I signed with them on January I had like 3k subs and 5k daily views.Recently I received the payment for february, and I earned like 6 dollars from 58k views (last week of february, because the partnership was activated that week).

So the thing is that I'm still getting a really bad CPM. Now I have almost 12k subs and 14000+ average daily views, and my CPM is (calculated from the 60% of the estimated earnings) 0.3 dollars. The channel is not very big but I think that the CPM it's still pretty low. I want to hear your opinions guys, if you could recommend me other network. I think that the best I could try to apply are TGS, Yeousch, Curse, Union for Gamers...

Other question I have is: Somebody knows how to get out of machinima? My contract is an Affiliate contract and the first term is 3 years. I don't really know if that only indicates the duration of the contract or if that means I'm forced to stay with them for that period (I will try to contact them again because they don't even reply to my mails).

If the case is the 2nd one I will make another channel but it will be owned by one of my friends, since as I'm the person who signed the contract, we are four friends making the videos, but it would suck to 'start' again with already more than 10k suscribers.

If you want to see our stats search in socialblade: trescolgaosmuycagaos (I would post the link but it's forbidden).
PD: Sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language.
Thank you all!
 
Machinima is so f*cked imo. Pewds got out of it but I think he was already with them in a yr. 2011-2012 and decided to go with TGS and I think you are qualified to it.

And Machinima has A LOT of contracts it seems ranging from 1yr to 7yrs of lock-in.

You should have at least getting $200-$500 in a month with that average views.

But there's also A LOT of factors why you're getting bad CPM. But that's just ridiculous
 
Arzondra said:
Hello everyone.
I make gaming content in spanish, most of my audience is from Spain and spaniard countries (like Mexico, Argentina, etc). I signed a contract with Machinima in january, but they activated my partnership in late february. I've been part of them for 2 months and a week now. They pay me 60% of the estimated earnings I earn from youtube. Wich it didn't seemed that bad because when I signed with them on January I had like 3k subs and 5k daily views.Recently I received the payment for february, and I earned like 6 dollars from 58k views (last week of february, because the partnership was activated that week).

So the thing is that I'm still getting a really bad CPM. Now I have almost 12k subs and 14000+ average daily views, and my CPM is (calculated from the 60% of the estimated earnings) 0.3 dollars. The channel is not very big but I think that the CPM it's still pretty low. I want to hear your opinions guys, if you could recommend me other network. I think that the best I could try to apply are TGS, Yeousch, Curse, Union for Gamers...

Other question I have is: Somebody knows how to get out of machinima? My contract is an Affiliate contract and the first term is 3 years. I don't really know if that only indicates the duration of the contract or if that means I'm forced to stay with them for that period (I will try to contact them again because they don't even reply to my mails).

If the case is the 2nd one I will make another channel but it will be owned by one of my friends, since as I'm the person who signed the contract, we are four friends making the videos, but it would suck to 'start' again with already more than 10k suscribers.

If you want to see our stats search in socialblade: trescolgaosmuycagaos (I would post the link but it's forbidden).
PD: Sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language.
Thank you all!
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First off, do you know what % of your views are actually monetized? It may not be the CPM that is low it may be the amount of monetized views (some people have a really low % of monetized views), also something to bare in mind is that having the majority of your viewers from non English speaking countries will greatly lower your CPM.
 
MattZ said:
First off, do you know what % of your views are actually monetized? It may not be the CPM that is low it may be the amount of monetized views (some people have a really low % of monetized views), also something to bare in mind is that having the majority of your viewers from non English speaking countries will greatly lower your CPM.
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Beat me to it, this is what I would have said.

Sounds like you're not getting many monetized views for whatever reason.
 
karlsanada10 said:
But still, it's quite ridiculous. 60/40 cut and only $6?
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That is without knowing the facts, he may only have 10% of his views being monetized + add in the fact that even his monetized views are coming from countries that pay less for adverts.
 
MattZ said:
First off, do you know what % of your views are actually monetized? It may not be the CPM that is low it may be the amount of monetized views (some people have a really low % of monetized views), also something to bare in mind is that having the majority of your viewers from non English speaking countries will greatly lower your CPM.
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I know about that a non english audience will make me getting less CPM, that's why I posted it. About the monetized views I have all my videos monetized, and about 40% of the views shows an ad. I don't know if that is very low or not.
 
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