Hey! This is the daily overpass. My name is Eric and I make apps. Now today I want
to talk about "How Much Money We Make From YouTube".
Okay, so today I want to answer a question that came in on episode 483
from Shahrukh Ahmad, who says, so, how much money do you make from these YouTube
videos? All right good question Shahrukh. Thank
you very much. So we talked a lot about how much we
make from apps, but I don't really talk about how much we make on the YouTube
videos, and the truth is, not a lot. So right now we're making between 180
and 200 dollars a month on the YouTube videos, which might sound like pretty
decent right? $200 a month? That's not too bad, but like last year at this time,
we're only making $30 a month, and considering that we do it every day, it
doesn't really, doesn't really pay for itself. Right it's not and we're not doing it
to generate money, although it's nice to have a little bit of money flowing the
opposite direction once in a while. So it's nice to have a little bit of
passive income coming from it, but it's nothing that we can live off of. Nothing
that I can live off of. I think anyone who's thinking about doing
a career in YouTube, doesn't realize how hard it would be, and that's not what I'm
trying to do. I talk to a lot of young people, like kids and stuff who
would say "what do you want to do when you grow up" and they say "I want to be a
youtuber", and you're like I don't know if you could really make a living off of
that. Of course they point to you know Casey Neistat, that's making millions, or
this youtubers making millions, or whatever. The truth is they're always
looking at that top tier. They're always looking at the best ones, and they're
ignoring all the thousands of others that are trying to do the same thing, and
copying the same format and not getting anywhere. And you know what, it's very
much like the app store in that way. Right we all look at the big apps and we
don't we don't realize all the other people who are trying to do the same
thing at the same time, and,and there's just so much competition. All right but
that's not why we do it anyway. We're doing it. The videos are like a really
good way to talk about the things that we've learned, and to build the community,
and it really does help. I learn more from you guys, probably than you learn
from me. You guys are always telling me interesting stuff. I'll tell you what
I've learned. I'll tell you the stuff that we've tried that's worked and hasn't.
Or, what hasn't worked and everything like that.
It's a good way for us to meet new clients, so sometimes clients will get in
touch with us through the videos. And as always, we talked about this before yeah
being able to brand yourself. We need to brand Overpass. We think how do we get in
front of more people, and the videos are another good way of doing that. But I
mean, the revenue that comes in is good. Now I could do other things. I could do
like affiliate links. This is one of these things I've been meaning to do set
up affiliate link, so that whenever I talk about a book, I could just have an
Amazon link, but I've never done it. It just seems like you know one of these
days I'll get around to doing that. But yeah, I'm not it's it's not. I do them
every day, but I don't make a lot of money doing it. I'm not trying to be a
martyr here anything, because there's other benefits that you get. And I highly
encourage anybody out there if you're a software developer, or whatever you're
doing is to start doing YouTube videos. Get over that initial nervousness of
getting in front of the camera, because it's very rewarding to do and it's a lot
of fun. I mean, I would recommend it to anybody right, but don't do it as a
sense of, as a revenue stream, because yeah I just think it would be very, very
difficult. Although I did meet with somebody at YouTube. I had this
one-on-one consultation, like about six months ago. It was really
cool, because the channel was growing so fast, they had this one-on-one consultation
with me, and the consultant I spoke to, she seemed to think that
this could be the main revenue earner one day. And I'm like I
don't know. You know, I'd rather, I'd rather stick to the apps which are safe and
that's saying a lot. So anyway, let me know let me, know what you guys think. Are you
thinking about doing a YouTube channel? In fact if you have a YouTube channel,
and you want to share it with the rest of the group, put a link in the
description, it might go straight to spam but I'll try to remember to go in there,
and then and then clear all those through so they'll show. And then we can
start building up this community a little bit more. So anyway that is it for
today, I'll talk to you guys again tomorrow.