We're far from being huge on youtube, but we are making money. When we first started, we made videos purely for fun-ones that we wanted to do. Youtube was sort of a money pit back then. We spent far more money making the videos than we ever made from ads. Now that we've grown large, we do turn a profit on most videos-which allows us to purchase better items for the show. We still interact with all of our fans and try to answer every single question left in the comments in our videos-that's not easy when you're getting 35k-40k views per day. We are also very active with fans on Facebook and Twitter accounts. The money aspect has changed things a little bit. We try to stick to a budget and as equipment gets a lot more expensive when you start using professional stuff, we have to save up for a longer time to buy it. We still do videos that we want to do, but within the constraints of a budget and we won't do a video that will lose money in the long run. Yet there's still always a fan who gets offended when they suggest an idea for a show that will cost us $1000 and will maybe pull in $40 total the first 90 days and we tell them no. There's still things we won't do. If a company sends us products to review, that in no way guarantees a good review. If we hate the product, we are free to say so. If a company offers to pay us good money to review their product and tells us that we can only give a positive review, we'll turn the deal down. It's not worthwhile to compromise our standards for money. The last company that helped us out did so knowing full well that their product would be vomited out in a very big way and they didn't have any issue with it, so there's always opportunities out there if you stick to your standards.
