Hello and welcome back to you in the kitchen with Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor today and this blog episode,
I'm going to show you how much money I have made with my
channel that has 50000 subscribers.
I always get asked when I'm talking to friends or family
members or just meet new people and tell them that I have a
cooking show on YouTube.
A lot of times they'll ask, do you make any money on YouTube
?
How much money do you make on YouTube?
How much money do you make per video?
I always get questions like that, so I thought I'd
make this video and share it with you all and be totally
transparent with you and show you how much money I've made,
how much money I'm making this week, how much money I'll
make this month, and how much money I have made total for the
whole life of my cooking channel.
So here we go.
There's a lot of different a lot of different revenue
streams that I have from my channel.
The main one is absence from the ads.
And then I have Amazon associates where I
do affiliate links.
I always when I'm cooking, doing my channel, I will get
questions from people.
Well, where did you get that food processor?
Oh, that's a really cool tool that you're using.
Where'd you get that?
So I always include links to some of the more cool products
that use my channel and let people know where they can do
it and if they want to buy it.
I want them getting a small percentage of a sale.
It's like four percent or something like that.
So I earn a little bit of money that way.
Also, I have a book that I wrote called 101
Creative Dates, and I include that link on all of my videos.
Let's talk a little bit more about that a little bit later.
And then I earn some money from a site called Fame
Bit through sponsorships.
I'll talk more about that.
And then also a site called Instructables Dot Com and
through winning contests.
And I'll talk about the value of those of the products and
things that I won over there.
I've been on YouTube since November 2013, and it's taken
me this long to eclipse 50000 subscribers.
And I just want to thank everybody who's been a part of
the show and have written down comments.
I always enjoy reading your comments and, you know,
just supporting me through watching my videos and trying
out the recipes and reporting back to me on how they
went out.
So thank you so very much.
Let's dive right in here.
I am over on my analytics page for my cooking channel.
And right now we can see this is the past seven days.
My estimated revenue is two hundred ninety three dollars.
Not bad.
And that's with one hundred and fifteen thousand views.
That's awesome.
And then if we go to our the last 30 days, one thousand
forty eight dollars with four hundred and sixty one
thousand views, that's just incredible.
Still boggles my mind how well my channel has
been growing recently.
And I just really thank everybody again who's been a
part of the show.
So what what the math works out to be on my channel is about
two dollars and twenty cents, two dollars and 30 cents
per 1000 views.
I'm not going to go into all the different ways that,
you know, YouTube calculates how much you earn
on everything.
I talk more about this on a video I made on my other
channel called How Much Money I Made with a video that had
one million views.
I'll put a link down below.
We can watch that, if you like.
And it goes more into the details of earning
money on YouTube.
Also, I want to point out every channel is going
to be different.
My channel has, what, 454 or 55000 subscribers now.
Other channels I have the same amount of subscribers might be
making more or might be making less is just the nature
of their channel.
Some people might have far more subscribers and are making less
because maybe they're not active anymore.
Or maybe that channel has only like 5000 subscribers,
but they're killing it and making a lot more.
So it's just it just depends on channels.
So the worst thing you can do is start comparing yourself
with other channels.
OK, so there we go.
Now, let's look at the lifetime, the lifetime for
YouTube ad sense revenue on my channel, fourteen thousand
seven hundred seventy four dollars and twenty five cents.
Now, this is since November of 2013 and I have always been
active at the beginning.
Otherwise I probably would have been a lot further along than
I am now.
So there's a little tip for you if you're going to if you're in
it for the money or in it to just grow your channel,
make sure to be consistent.
So that's pretty cool, though.
I'm not complaining at all.
I wish my cut from YouTube was a little higher.
But again, I'm not complaining of super grateful
for this platform.
Now let's move on to the next.
Come source that I have, and that's
from Amazon Associates.
You can join Amazon associates and you can become you can
add affiliate links.
I talked about that a little bit earlier.
So whenever I do a recipe, I add an affiliate link to the
products that I'm using.
And that way, if people want to buy it, they can buy it.
And then I'll get a small percentage of the sale and it
doesn't cost the buyer any extra to do that.
So it's really cool.
And it's a small way for you guys to support me,
especially if it's a product that you really like.
And also if within 24 hours, if that person clicks on
something else on Amazon, they don't necessarily have to
buy the product that I'm using.
But you'll get a percentage of the sale as well.
So it's pretty neat.
So this.
A month, I am on target to make about twenty six dollars,
but hey, that's not a whole lot, but that's enough to
pay for a bill.
You know, one of my smaller bills or, you know, goes to
buying ingredients for more episodes, things of
that sort, but not really bad.
Now, if we look at the payment history, you can see
all the payments I've gotten since December one of 2015.
That's when I started the affiliate program and I added
all that up.
And then if you include what I haven't been paid yet.
The total is one thousand one hundred and fifty three dollars
and one cent, so not bad just for adding a link, you know,
adding a couple of links here and there.
Not too bad.
Pretty neat.
And that brings us to Kindle Direct Publishing.
So I mentioned the book.
I published this book.
This is a shameless plug for my book, One Hundred
One Creative Dates.
And I wrote that and I published it in
February of 2018.
And so it's been on the market for a little over a year
and pretty cool.
So let's just show you how much I've made with this.
Also, put a link down below in the description in case you
want to pick up my book and have a bunch of
creative ideas.
So I am on target to make seventy dollars and 90 cents
for this month.
Not too shabby.
And then if we look at the historical lifetime book sales
and everything and how much income I've earned,
I've earned.
This doesn't include what I haven't been paid yet, but I've
already already been paid seven hundred and thirty five dollars
and 46 from the U.S. buyers and then forty four dollars and 65
cents from those in Great Britain.
Pretty neat.
And then I added what I have yet to be paid.
So it brings me to a total of eight hundred and fifty three
dollars and one cents on my book, which is nice because
that has paid for the book editor and it's paid for my
marketing so far and it's leave me just a little bit
in profit.
So now from now on,
most of it will be will be profit.
Of course, you know, I've spent tons and tons of time, tons and
tons of time writing the book.
But anyway, from now on, there we go.
Some residual income.
Right.
So if you have an idea for an e-book or a book, you know,
you know, maybe you had a whole year or a lifetime of doing
some kind of skill for your job or not make an e-book and start
selling it as a way to make some some extra money
if you want.
And now there's a site called Fame Bit.
I want to talk to you about fame.
It is a cool way for creators like myself or maybe you if you
Touba and then brands and agencies to come together and
either collaborate or to to do sponsorships.
And the sponsorships can be all kinds of things.
The campaign could be just do a simple unboxing video.
It could be an actual video review of a product or it could
be they just want you to highlight or just show their
product and use it in your video, whatever the
campaign might buy might be.
Now, I've done a few of these.
I haven't done a whole lot, only about four or five.
And they were all products that I really, really,
really liked.
And that's why I did it.
And so I made a little bit of money on.
There are not a whole lot.
Five hundred and ten dollars.
But that's pretty cool.
Five hundred and ten dollars across a few videos.
That's pretty nice.
Now there is a little bit of competition.
There's other people competing to to win the business.
So like I have applied for a lot more than one,
I've actually won again all products that I was really,
you know, passionate about and didn't mind highlighting
on my show.
So if you're looking for another avenue to get
some income, check out Sambit.
Now, that leads us to last revenue source.
You know, what I mean by revenue is this is going to be
cash value because I haven't been paid dollars.
I haven't been paid cash from them.
But it's the value of all the products that I've
won through contests.
And this is a site called Instructables dot com.
And I have an account over there and I've been publishing
all my videos over there and a step by step recipe, a guide on
how to make the particular dish that I do.
A lot of times people ask me, do you have a step by step
recipe or whatever for your.
And I direct them over here to Instructables because that's
where I that's where I post them.
At some day I will have a website where I'll have all
this on there, which is pretty cool.
And so here on Instructables, I've entered a bunch of
contests and I've been really lucky to win a couple of grand
prizes where the value of those the products was like four or
five hundred dollars.
And then another first place, second place prizes and a bunch
of runner ups where I've gotten free T-shirts, mugs, aprons,
things like that.
And so I added up the value of the estimated value of all
those products and it was about 2000 dollars.
So not too shabby.
Now, if you add up, here's the grand total.
If we add up all those income sources, it gets to be
nineteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and twenty
seven cents if my math is right.
So there you go.
That is how much money I've made to date with my channel
that has 50000 well, about 54000 subscribers now
and again, it's going to vary from channel to channel,
but hopefully you have some inspiration to, you know,
do your own channel.
Or maybe this was just served as some pique your interest a
little bit just to satisfy your curiosity.
But what I would say is, don't be discouraged if you
are you, Chuba, just keep at it, be consistent and be
passionate about what you're doing and the money will
come hopefully someday.
This could be my career.
I think it'd be really awesome right now.
I'm not there yet.
It's going to take a lot, a lot more money than this each month
for me to, you know, quit my day job, so to speak.
But.
Even then, I probably won't quit my day job completely
because I do video production, it's fun.
The claims that I have that I work with, I probably won't.
Even if I start making a lot more money on YouTube, I'm not
going to stop making videos for them.
There we go.
So hopefully you found this video helpful.
And I once again wanted to thank everybody for being a
part of the show and thank any new viewers that are
watching this video.
Thanks for watching.
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lots of cool tutorials and other kind of videos there that
are not cooking related until next time.
I am Matt Taylor with In the Kitchen with Matt.
Take care.
Happy YouTube.
Happy cooking.
Happy baking.