What Are The Odds?

[TinHatRanch]

Has anyone ever figured out the odds on making a living off of YouTube? Let's say you arbitrarily set the bar at $50k USD a year, how many folks make that kind of coin? How many folks are "active" with monetized accounts?

To make $50k a year, wouldn't that mean you'd have to have roughly 25,000,000 views a year?

 

[KGATV]

It's pretty low.

 

[unknown_user90483573867]

Not many people have youtube as their main job, so pretty slim I'd say I don't think they need quite that many views to earn 50 k

 

[TheHolyMedic]

Ray William Johnson gets around that many views a month ... I think

 

[unknown_user90483573867]

Lots of people who are semi big have it as a hobby that earns a nice amount of cash as well as having a job

 

[unknown_user0032]

Has anyone ever figured out the odds on making a living off of YouTube? Let's say you arbitrarily set the bar at $50k USD a year, how many folks make that kind of coin? How many folks are "active" with monetized accounts?

To make $50k a year, wouldn't that mean you'd have to have roughly 25,000,000 views a year?

That's a lot of money.

OlgaKay earns that from her main channel (OlgaKay, of course hehe). She has about 500 channels haha so she earns more than that overall, but you're looking at those kind of stats on average.

 

[unknown_user90483573867]

That's a lot of money.

OlgaKay earns that from her main channel (OlgaKay, of course hehe). She has about 500 channels haha so she earns more than that overall, but you're looking at those kind of stats on average.

500 really?!?

 

[unknown_userr433436365]

You only need to get 25k monetized views daily to earn over the average yearly wage in my country

 

[unknown_user0032]

500 really?!?

lol no I'm being sarcastic.[DOUBLEPOST=1367870747,1367870681][/DOUBLEPOST]

You only need to get 25k monetized views daily to earn over the average yearly wage in my country

Yep, and this is why I will never, ever concern myself with earning money from YouTube.

 

[TheWillBox]

I asked the question when I first joined these forums back in March, someone posted a good write up for me:

"In 2013 so far, I've been averaging about 800K views a month, and I was partnered about a week into a January. Naturally, alot of my views in January weren't monetized, as there was a week I wasn't partnered, and I did a lot of my video claiming in bursts. I got paid for 372,000 views, which, if Youtube was a 40-hour work week, gave me what would be a little under minimum wage. For my February payment I'm expecting a good deal more, as the CPM increases and more of my views are accounted for. I'm not personally looking into doing Youtube as a career, and look at my videos as a hobby, but if I can end up getting a few grand a month from simply playing video games, that would be incredible, regardless of whether or not it'd be enough to support a family, haha. No doubt it'd be best to not rely on that too much, and try to get a Job IRL also, but YT money no doubt can be a great support."

Oh and my original question was a bit higher than yours, I wanted YouTube to match my current annual salary so it was $80k+