Youtube Analytics make no sense!

Jungle Explorer

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I have had my channel since 2007, but I just enable monetization in July of 2016. Since then I have tried to understand how this whole monetization thing works and it all seems like smoke and mirrors.

If I look at my earnings for the whole time I have had monetization enabled; in the Overview area, it says my "Estimated Ad Revenue" is $221.72. If I then click on the "Ad Rates", it then says that my "Youtube Ad Revenue" is $393.91

That's a pretty big difference. The deal is, neither one of these number are in line with what my actual earnings have been as reflected in AdSense. The real amount of my total earnings is $205.62.

I am not complaining about how much I am making. I am complaining about the inconsistency of the information provided by Google about how much I am making. This whole youtube Analytics thing, feels a lot like a Bait and Switch scam. Analytics always predicts you are making a lot more then you actually getting paid when Google Adsense finally cuts the check. Kind of like a boss that pushes you to make sales by quoting a bunch of high numbers of potential earnings you can make at you to motivate you work harder, but then pays you way less then what he led you to believe you were going to get. And then, when you ask him why, he buries you with a bunch incomprehensible, complicated, double talk that makes no rational sense, and then says, "Now you understand, it's simple?"



Does anybody else feel this way?
 
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Analytics is estimated revenue, AdSense, which does far more thorough auditing, shows actual earnings.

$393 is the estimated total money earned from ads, $221 is your earning after YouTube takes their cut.
 
Shakycow said:
Analytics is estimated revenue, AdSense, which does far more thorough auditing, shows actual earnings.

$393 is the estimated total money earned from ads, $221 is your earning after YouTube takes their cut.
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Okay, so Youtube takes a 44% cut then. Okay, that makes a little more sense. I still think that Analytics estimates to the HIGH side on purpose to encourage people to work harder. ;)
 
Jungle Explorer said:
I still think that Analytics estimates to the HIGH side on purpose to encourage people to work harder. ;)
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No, it's because YT cuts suspicious views and bot views and all that stuff with their mysterious algorithms.

Therefore, the "legitimate ads served" number is always even at best and inflated at worst until the purging occurs.
 
I think the key words here are "Mysterious Algorithm ". Kind of like asking a boss to explain how your sales commission are calculated and getting the response, "Well, I can't tell you that, but trust me, I am being fair." LOL

It's not like there has ever been a multi trillion dollar monopoly that was not fair before.
 
I'm very well-aware of the key word. I doubt even YT could explain their algorithms, they just probably operate them on the basis of results, which are actually testable.

The reason for inflated estimations is very obvious and clear-cut though. Whether the algorithm is fair or not is something we'll never know. YT is a platform, and you're agreeing to use their platform (they gave you terms and you signed em), so you play by their rules.
 
Take a chill pill man, it was a joke.

But on a serious side. How can you agree to terms that are impossible to explain? I once had a lawyer draw up a disclosure form of my Inspection business. I wanted to make it simple to understand, but the lawyer told me that any article in the disclosure that was not exessivly and painfully discribe would not hold up in court. Any statement that was "Ambiguous" would be through out.

But anyway, you are right. What it boils down to is that we agreed to TRUST google without them providing any clear verifiable method of testing their trustworthiness. No doubt, you are correct about this.
 
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