welcome to adventure sport
well it finally happened i see a lot of
activity on YouTube about this
how much money do youtubers make how
much money do youtubers get paid how to
make money on your YouTube channel so i
thought i'd make my video I'm still
pretty new to this so this won't really
be out how to but what I will tell you
is how much money I made how long it
took me to make it and what sources I
have that income from let's start with
the Adsense revenue since I know that's
what most people are going to be
interested in the hundred and two dollars and six
cents is my adsense revenue and that was
my first check adsense won't pay
anything less than a hundred dollars so
if you don't ever break that threshold
you won't get paid my channels fairly
old but when I consider my launch date
is april first 2016 because that's when
I really started taking my channel
seriously and also when I monetized my
videos another question I hear a lot
about this is how much money do
youtubers get paid per view the best
estimates i can find our between one
dollar and two dollars and fifty cents
per thousand views a quick look at my
analytics shows this to be true in my
case if you look you can see that right
around the time i got my hundred-dollar
check was right around the same time
that I crested the hundred thousand
viewmarq even now in February this is
still holding true so it's about one
dollar per thousand views that puts me
at the bottom of the scale I think part
of that might be because revenue is more
closely tied to watch time than views
and my videos are pretty short so I
think that has some effect a longer view
duration would mean viewers see more ads
and exercise revenue i found supplement
my youtube income was affiliate
marketing
if you've ever seen links in the
description of some youtubers videos
that go to amazon or ebay that's what
that is
amazon doesn't offer the service to
people in my state but ebay does and
when people click on those links and
then make a purchase
I receive a commission on that sale I've
been using that since august of 2016 and
i have received about thirty-seven
dollars in commissions for some of that
I've already been paid third source of
income from my youtube channel is what I
call donations this is when companies
send me products to review on my channel
i call it donations because it's not
exactly a sponsorship or commercial
because in those situations the
companies have a say in what goes in the
review they basically pay someone to say
great things about their products in my
case I say what I want and they either
like it and send me more product or they
don't I can sell the higher quality
items that i received for about
sixty-five percent of the retail value
and estimate the cash value of the
products that I've received so far to be
about three hundred eighty dollars plus
4 source of income is my business and
that's not going to work for every
youtuber but in my case it was the
primary reason for starting my channel
I've been spending money on like Adwords
advertisements with google and not
really having much luck the cost per
click was just too high for me so i
decided to try to make some videos for
YouTube and see how that went
since I started this I've been able to
stop using Adwords and the nice thing
about doing it this way is I don't
necessarily have to be pitching people
anything that in my videos are
advertising a product there how to and
DIY videos about flashlight modding and
people see those and then they just buy
products that are related to that off my
website not sure exactly how much this
is increased traffic on my website but i
do know that it's
ultimate continue making videos so how
much money have I spent growing my
youtube channel the largest cost for a
youtube channel is definitely time and
I'll go into that deeper in another
video but monetarily speaking some of
the costs are purchasing products for
review like in my best LED upgrade for
maglite video i purchased all of the
bulbs that I don't manufacture new and
then I only recover a portion of that
cost when i sell them as used another
thing that cost me some money is I tried
advertising with my videos basically
paying google to get skip ads or you
know ranking in search results and i
didn't do that much either because i
didn't find it to be that effective but
that was still a couple hundred dollars
spent the largest monetary cost i would
say has been buying equipment and I mean
I know that you can get by recording
your youtube videos on a phone for a
while but if you're going to do it
frequently you'll want more than that I
don't even have a smartphone to use so I
went out and bought a what's called a
bridge camera it's not quite a DSLR but
a little better than a point-and-shoot
thinking that that would work for
shooting videos and it is great for
still product shots but it hasn't been
overly good for youtube video quality i
got that camera on sale for around 200
or 250 plus there's the cost of lighting
and microphones and things like that
all-in-all having a YouTube channels
been need experience it's not always
easy but it has been worthwhile going to
say that when a guy with no formal
education in cinematography can pick up
a camera at walmart and talk to people
about something that he loves and would
do for free anyway then gets to make
money addict
that's a pretty good life so to all my
viewers and subscribers i just want to
say thank you so much for making this
possible