Hey guys, I was hoping you could help me. I have two channels that I'm managing. One is a watch review / restoration channel that I created back in 2020. I was monetized in two years... didn't even really try. I would buy a watch, review it, and post a video, and then sell the watch. Sometimes I bought a broken watch, fixed it up and restored it, and then reviewed it, and then posted a video. Here's a link to it: https://www.youtube.com/@ToddsWatchshop
I haven't posted a video in a year, and before that, maybe posted 2 every 4 months... and I still get on average about $100 bucks a month in revenue. I wasn't really trying to build a channel, just trying to have fun with a hobby. It has 2.97k subscribers, and 148 videos.
Now, I'm helping my daughter create a channel, and her content is SIGNIFICANTLY more exciting to probably more people (I'd think), and has much more substance. This is her channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerationZGarage
She started the channel 3 years ago when she was 14, and is now 17. She restores cars. I mean... she actually restores cars. She totally stripped down a Pontiac Fiero, rebuilt the engine, restored the interior, suspension, welds, you name it. She's really, really good. She has 2.67k subscribers, about 87 videos... and I CANNOT get her channel monetized for her. It's like impossible. We've got more than 1,000 subscribers, but no matter what we do, we can't get more than 3,500-3,600 hours of watch time in a 365 day period. I NEVER remember it being that hard when I did the watch channel. Furthermore, her videos used to get about 1,500-2,000 views... a couple of them have 10k views... but since February it seems like her views have basically halved. Her videos are really good (here's a couple of examples):
EDIT: Removed the videos... didn't realize I couldn't post them. Sorry about that. Anyway... just take my word for it that they're really good.
Has YouTube changed significantly, or is it something that I'm doing wrong?
I hope it's OK for me to post these links... I'm just at a loss. She's working so hard on these videos (and I'm helping with them), and it's soooo much work, and while I don't expect her to get wealthy from it. I thought it would be a nice thing for her to have so she can buy a pizza on Fridays... hahaha... but I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I've watched tons of videos, I have tags, good descriptions, hash tags, 500 characters worth of reference words, good titles, decent thumbnails ... what am I missing?
Thanks guys...
I haven't posted a video in a year, and before that, maybe posted 2 every 4 months... and I still get on average about $100 bucks a month in revenue. I wasn't really trying to build a channel, just trying to have fun with a hobby. It has 2.97k subscribers, and 148 videos.
Now, I'm helping my daughter create a channel, and her content is SIGNIFICANTLY more exciting to probably more people (I'd think), and has much more substance. This is her channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerationZGarage
She started the channel 3 years ago when she was 14, and is now 17. She restores cars. I mean... she actually restores cars. She totally stripped down a Pontiac Fiero, rebuilt the engine, restored the interior, suspension, welds, you name it. She's really, really good. She has 2.67k subscribers, about 87 videos... and I CANNOT get her channel monetized for her. It's like impossible. We've got more than 1,000 subscribers, but no matter what we do, we can't get more than 3,500-3,600 hours of watch time in a 365 day period. I NEVER remember it being that hard when I did the watch channel. Furthermore, her videos used to get about 1,500-2,000 views... a couple of them have 10k views... but since February it seems like her views have basically halved. Her videos are really good (here's a couple of examples):
EDIT: Removed the videos... didn't realize I couldn't post them. Sorry about that. Anyway... just take my word for it that they're really good.
Has YouTube changed significantly, or is it something that I'm doing wrong?
I hope it's OK for me to post these links... I'm just at a loss. She's working so hard on these videos (and I'm helping with them), and it's soooo much work, and while I don't expect her to get wealthy from it. I thought it would be a nice thing for her to have so she can buy a pizza on Fridays... hahaha... but I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I've watched tons of videos, I have tags, good descriptions, hash tags, 500 characters worth of reference words, good titles, decent thumbnails ... what am I missing?
Thanks guys...