I'm gonna share with you my YouTube earnings for year one. That's right,
very few YouTube creators share this information but I know this is exactly
what you want to see because I searched for the same information when I was
starting out. You may be thinking about starting a channel of your own and have
questions. How long does it take to earn money? How much can you make? How many
views or subscribers do you need? Do you earn enough revenue worthy of the time
and effort? Do you only make money off of viral videos? Can you make a living doing
this full-time? I hope sharing my first year revenue
with you will give you some answers to those questions so let's get started. As
you can see my estimated revenue for the month of April 2018 is $1851.81.
You can see my views is 272,925
which calculates out to about $6.78
per thousand views, which is a really good number. My channel is a tech
training channel and those kind of videos generally get a higher per
thousand view revenue rate. So let's take a look at a previous month. For March
I received 1,300 and the view count was still pretty high but a little bit lower.
Going back one more month the revenue was $622 and you can see there's a pretty
big spike that happened toward the end of that month. That was a result of some
of my tips and tricks videos starting to take off. Going back to January 2018 I
hit $204 and there was growth at the end of that
month as well. So let's go back to December. I only had $51.72.
At this point in December I had not even hit the one
hundred dollar total from the beginning of my channel so I couldn't even receive
a payment at that point. So let's continue on back one more month to
November 2017. $18.08. In fact even
October was in the same range with $13.12.
October 2nd 2017 was the first day that I actually
could do monetization of my channel because that's when I reached 10,000 total
views going back to six months prior. So if we take a look at the entire six
month period up to this point, this is what it looks like from the end of March
until September 30th. I earned 37 cents and that was only because there was little
bits of monetization before they required the 10,000 views and then it
shut off for several months until October 2nd when I could turn it back on.
Now in hindsight, knowing what I know now, I could have compressed that six month
timeframe into about a month if I approach things differently and at the
time I hadn't been putting a lot of effort into posting many videos and it
was really in October when I turned on monetization that I realized time to
focus, time to create some videos, and to produce some results. So if we take a
look at the entire lifetime of the channel this is what it looks like. You
can see that it grew significantly just in the last three or four months and
almost half of my revenue was earned just in the month of April. So to answer
some of those earlier questions, How long does it take to earn money? It all
depends on your ability to produce videos and to get attention.
As you can see by mine really the last four or five months has produced all of
the activity. Up until that point it took a long time to get any earnings and any
subscriber base so the more effort you put in early on and the more videos you
produce and the more attention you get is gonna help you earn revenue quicker.
How much can you make? The sky's the limit.
You can actually earn way more than I've earned in this period of time. I've seen
other channels that shared their information and it's pretty obvious that
they've done three, four, five times the volume I've had in the same amount of
time. How many views or subscribers do you need? View count make a difference.
You're gonna get earnings based on the number of views that you generate so
it's all about exposure and getting access to your videos. How many people
subscribe, having them share it on other sites, and promoting your videos to other
channels or other sites as well. So is that worthy of the time and effort? I
think it is. It just depends on your expectations, what you want to do, what
your long-term goals are, but for me being able to produce videos and
share information with people is something I enjoy and earning a little
bit of money on the side works well. Do you make money off of viral videos? Well,
you can see by my chart I haven't had any viral videos. Here's my top videos.
You can see my Excel 2016 tips and tricks video is the biggest performer.
It's produced the most watch time. However, my Outlook 2016 tips and tricks
is the one that's produced the most revenue. I have a number of other videos
in the same theme but then as you get down here you'll see that there's not
very much revenue being generated from these bottom performers and I have about
35 other videos that aren't even shown on this list. You often have to create a
number of videos before you find the ones that are interesting and provide
value to people. Finding that niche and producing those videos is the trick. Can
you make a living doing this full-time? I certainly couldn't do it off of the
revenue that I'm getting right now. I actually have a full-time job that I do
besides these videos but the potential is there so it depends on your expectations.
I hope this information is helpful for you. I'm going to update my stats in the
future and would love to have you come back and see how I'm doing. I also have
other great tech training videos you may find useful and would be honored to have
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