Do you monetize immediately?

So many people instantly going to monetize..... because money is all you gotta care about.
Not all we care about, but as an artist I'm not gonna be making engineer salary and I'll need to be able to feed myself, yo. Capitalism forces us to think about money a lot because if you end up hitting hard times, you're SOL.
 
Not all we care about, but as an artist I'm not gonna be making engineer salary and I'll need to be able to feed myself, yo. Capitalism forces us to think about money a lot because if you end up hitting hard times, you're SOL.
And how is 27 subscribers gonna make enough salary for you to live?
 
I have a strange bit about this. My first video was put up in 2007, when monetization was either just starting or wasn't yet offered to everyone. I got a notification in 2008 that my video had passed 20,000 views, and I could put ads on it if I wanted, so I did, just as a lark.

When I started posting videos this year, monetization was available, and I looked at my dashboard and saw that in the 7 years or so since I monetized my first video, it had made something like $15, I figured it'd be fun to see if I could get that money past the threshold to be paid out by Google (the $100 mark), so that's what I did. It took the better part of a year with lots of monetized videos.

I do monetize everything, but I don't expect much out of it. It's such a variable system that I wouldn't want to count on any income from my oddball little hobby.
 
It seems to be a good idea to monetize from the beginning. If you didn't monetize, a video could unexpectedly go viral or have a surge in traffic and you wouldn't make any ad revenue from it. YouTube users are used to seeing adverts.
 
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