YouTube as a Full-Time Job

We get by - but more than that: every other job I have done in the media - writing, editing, broadcasting - is paid on a promise, that whatever I do will improve the lot of the media I am doing it for - get it more listeners/viewers/readers - but on YouTube you are paid for exactly how good you are. I went to a seminar last year where a lot of old music biz and old BBC were whining about how the 'democratisation of content' meant the death of the creative establishment, as if anyone would mourn the passing of a system where a few people made millions and the rest were poor. I made an angry speech (a lot of it was out loud!) about how the democratisation of income from content - which is what they were really talking about - was the only honest income in the media. There - I've done it again.
 
Charlie Jacoby said:
We get by - but more than that: every other job I have done in the media - writing, editing, broadcasting - is paid on a promise, that whatever I do will improve the lot of the media I am doing it for - get it more listeners/viewers/readers - but on YouTube you are paid for exactly how good you are. I went to a seminar last year where a lot of old music biz and old BBC were whining about how the 'democratisation of content' meant the death of the creative establishment, as if anyone would mourn the passing of a system where a few people made millions and the rest were poor. I made an angry speech (a lot of it was out loud!) about how the democratisation of income from content - which is what they were really talking about - was the only honest income in the media. There - I've done it again.
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I agree very well said and good points. How longs it taken you to get your channel to this point?
 
Hi Mattz - sorry it took so long to answer. You will think us very stupid. We joined YT April 2009 but didn't really post much until late 2010 (we were paying for space on a Flash media server). We didn't realise YT could provide an income until 2011. We reached 500,000 monthly views in Jan 2012 and knocked on 1.5m in Jan 2013.
 
dude i wouldnt trust the interwebs as a full time job (in the future ur wife will have to be super understanding LOL) and you could go up down (side ways!?!?) and you can get h4x3d so easily and you can do utube as a job but u should try to get a real job to
 
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