Doing Youtube Full time?

I work 16 hours a week now to focus more on YouTube and my family. I don't earn anything at the moment on YouTube. Apparently I have to wait till I've made £60 before it becomes available to spend.

I already live a pretty comfortable lifestyle as it is so if I did start generating Income through YouTube and AdSense, I'd donate it to Childrens Hospice charities.

I'd say if you generate Income enough to get you through a month or the same as you make at your current Job, as well as having plenty of ideas and passion to keep your audience keen then go full time.[DOUBLEPOST=1486843831,1486843789][/DOUBLEPOST]I work 16 hours a week now to focus more on YouTube and my family. I don't earn anything at the moment on YouTube. Apparently I have to wait till I've made £60 before it becomes available to spend.

I already live a pretty comfortable lifestyle as it is so if I did start generating Income through YouTube and AdSense, I'd donate it to Childrens Hospice charities.

I'd say if you generate Income enough to get you through a month or the same as you make at your current Job, as well as having plenty of ideas and passion to keep your audience keen then go full time.
 
adams eats said:
I think you'd need about 3 million views a month to live comfortably just off ad revenue. But if you have sponsorships and paid promotions then that will top up your income. I've set myself a goal of reaching that a month before I quit my job
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Wow... that's a lot of views per month to shoot for. Famous vloggers like Roman Atwood and Casey Neistat can get that amount of views in a video!
 
I always say this... 1000 views is a dollar. It might be more, but a dollar is a pretty safe bet.

An 80 hour minimum wage job grosses, before tax, 15080 dollars. In order to make that you need 15.080.000 views a year or 1.250.666 views a month or 41315 views a day. I get around 1000 views a day. So yeah... Nope... Nope train coming through. It is an appealing proposition, but getting to that number is an impossibility for me and 99.9% of the YouTubers out there no matter how much they want it.

Even if you end up with better CPM's the amount of views needed is still staggering. If you do not routinely launch videos that hit 100K in a week you are not going to be YouTubeing for a living.
 
I would say stick at it for at least a couple of years so you really understand where the ad rate drops are, so you know where you need to save.
on adsense alone, I wouldn't be able to pay rent and bills if I lived alone. Even with my min wage job supporting it (one day a week) I couldn't do that.

for a month it could be anything as low as £200 up to £1,500 depends on what month, and if I posted a video that month.

of course most of you will be posting more than a few vids a year, so i'd imagine it would be better for you
 
Crown said:
It's the same for me too, but the $1 / 1000 is the conservative worldwide average. :)
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In other countries where Youtube ads are newer (and where the audience is much smaller) $1/1000 views is a dream, I wouldn't be surprised if the ad revenue there is 10-15 times smaller.
 
Lightsen said:
I would say stick at it for at least a couple of years so you really understand where the ad rate drops are, so you know where you need to save.
on adsense alone, I wouldn't be able to pay rent and bills if I lived alone. Even with my min wage job supporting it (one day a week) I couldn't do that.

for a month it could be anything as low as £200 up to £1,500 depends on what month, and if I posted a video that month.

of course most of you will be posting more than a few vids a year, so i'd imagine it would be better for you
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Coming from a channel with 100k+ subs. Thanks for opening up and giving us a better perspective on this situation. Personally, I wouldn't drop everything until maybe ~500k subs.
 
winson yuen said:
How many subscribers and views per month do you think a channel must need in order to drop everything and pursue YouTube as their full-time job?

I know a friend's brother of mine that dropped out of college at 100K subs generating about few hundred thousand views per month and is apparently living a great lifestyle. I find this interesting, drop your opinions down below ;)
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I have a different channel that has a bit over 20k subs earns about 700-1200 depends on what time of the year. Hope that helps give an idea. I still have a full time job. I think when it starts costing you money to go to work that's when it's time to go full :)
 
winson yuen said:
Coming from a channel with 100k+ subs. Thanks for opening up and giving us a better perspective on this situation. Personally, I wouldn't drop everything until maybe ~500k subs.
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Number of subs doesn't come into it. A channel with 1 million subs could earn less than a channel with 30,000 subs. The only metric that counts in terms of ad revenue is number of views in a given time period. :)
 
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