What should everyone know about "Youtube Money"?

[Shane]

Adblock is nowhere close to 22% , not on YouTube anyhow. I can see it in monthly reports from YouTube, never seen it above 3%, 2% on average.[DOUBLEPOST=1401395118,1401395024][/DOUBLEPOST]

IDK about you, but when I watch on mobile (iOS), less than half of the videos I watch have ads, while they do about 90% of the time on desktop. When I refresh one of my videos on desktop, an ad appears nearly every time. On mobile, I rarely get one. Further, mobile view graphs correlate very closely with monetized view graphs in my experience

I never said you didn't but that isn't because it is mobile, that is because YouTube doesn't sell enough of their inventory, they sell around 50-60% of the monetizable views on an average channel. So even though it could show a view, it didn't.

 

[babyteeth4]

Another potential source of revenue is product placement and paid reviews. However the terms are going to vary wildly. Suffice to say, the terms being offered need to be significantly better than typical RPM for it to make business sense from the creator's end, given the fact that the video creator is offering targeted advertising and an almost guaranteed interested audience since the products align with the type of video being shown. It has to be worth the headache of creating tailored content as well.

You're going to have a hard time getting some of the big fish to give you hard dollar figures regarding product placement because it may be forbidden by the terms of the contract, and also it just doesn't make good business sense to go publicly blabbing about how much you charge for it--you'll never get a generous offer if they know what they can get away with paying you.

 

[ohaple]

Adblock is nowhere close to 22% , not on YouTube anyhow. I can see it in monthly reports from YouTube, never seen it above 3%, 2% on average.[DOUBLEPOST=1401395118,1401395024][/DOUBLEPOST]
I never said you didn't but that isn't because it is mobile, that is because YouTube doesn't sell enough of their inventory, they sell around 50-60% of the monetizable views on an average channel. So even though it could show a view, it didn't.

Where do you find this number? More searching couldn't turn up anything similar. Every article I find turns up the same numbers I originally found.

You're going to have a hard time getting some of the big fish to give you hard dollar figures regarding product placement because it may be forbidden by the terms of the contract, and also it just doesn't make good business sense to go publicly blabbing about how much you charge for it--you'll never get a generous offer if they know what they can get away with paying you.

I have done a few sponsored offers and understand the stuff there. I wasn't looking into specific numbers, more general insights if there are any. I wouldn't ask anyone for specific earnings on here simply out of courtesy, contracts aside.
Things like..
-What number of monthly views or subs did you feel was the "hump" in being able to use youtube as a job?
-If you do youtube full time, how many hours per week do you "work"?


Just based on my year or so of experience and my channel size, I figured that 15-20k views daily would allow for a reasonable wage doing youtube fulltime. I have also found that sponsors offer a variety of wages. I got offered $5 to review a poorly translated iphone game a couple weeks back lol not worth it.

 

[babyteeth4]

I couldn't survive on the revenue of 15-20k views per day, but I have a mortgage, 2 cars, a wife and 2 kids, 2 cats and a dog to support! I put about 10-12 hours in per week, more if I'm making a big feature film.

 

[ohaple]

I couldn't survive on the revenue of 15-20k views per day, but I have a mortgage, 2 cars, a wife and 2 kids, 2 cats and a dog to support! I put about 10-12 hours in per week, more if I'm making a big feature film.

Thanks for the input! I guess I was relating it to my current situation (student in an apartment with no wife or kids or car payment). good to have a bigger channel input a bit.