Anyone got details on how YT "cuts down" your revenue after a month has concluded?

Uncivilized Elk

Uncivilized Elk

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The earnings reported on AdSense or in the estimated earnings in roughly real time tend to be a bit higher than the actual payout.

The AdSense website/Google/YT describes briefly that it does some stuff to figure out the true earnings for payment, but they are (purposefully?) quite vague about it.

Just out of curiosity, I was wondering if anybody actually has more detailed information on how Google handles this task?
 
I believe they have a kind of little audit on click activity and if they find any clicks that are found to be invalid then they take that revue back and give back to the advertisers, hence why your actual check is a little less than your estimated
 
Yeah, my question is mostly about how they determine what constitutes invalid.
Bit of a techy and difficult question I know, but perhaps somebody knows so I thought may as well ask.
 
Uncivilized Elk said:
Yeah, my question is mostly about how they determine what constitutes invalid.
Bit of a techy and difficult question I know, but perhaps somebody knows so I thought may as well ask.
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Invalid clicks are either "self clicks" or "clicks by encouragements". Therefore, ad-sense is keep tracking all clicks-IP addresses and how frequent they are.
 
Yeah, but most revenue comes from watching in-stream ads for 30 seconds or to their completion, no?
So how does AdSense determine that somebody was "invalid" in watching a full ad roll by?

A lot of people say payouts are on average around 20% less than estimated earnings. And we're talking about people who earn hundreds or thousands per month here, I'm not talking about $4 getting paid rather than $5.
I kinda doubt that many clicks are happening to generate revenue in an invalid manner? Or do people who subscribe to channels actually click ads often because they think it helps the channel and these clicks just become invalid?
 
I think those in-stream ads does not appears for you in consecutive manner. They may appears after 4 or 5 re-views.But even if they appears in consecutive, if you didnt skip them and you watch them twice that means invalid click. that is what i think and i am not 100 % sure.
 
*Over in the Youtube office*

"Hey Al, what if instead of needing to compute and code a fancy algorithm to figure this stuff out, we just take a flat 20% off revenues every month"
"Genius!"

-A new Youtube policy is born.
 
RocketTV said:
*Over in the Youtube office*

"Hey Al, what if instead of needing to compute and code a fancy algorithm to figure this stuff out, we just take a flat 20% off revenues every month"
"Genius!"

-A new Youtube policy is born.
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Bahaha, thats funny. But in my case it works out to around 12.5% per month. Bastards!
 
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