Youtubers make how much?!?

one of the youtubers claimed that they make lots of cash, but I then turned out to watch 1 youtubers that's showing his accoutn, making a month like $3k.. which is a lot less than what others claimed.

i think there is no place for newbies here. only those who are already earning can earn.

If you only do video advertisements the average is about 1$ for every 1000 views. The majority of youtubers don't take advantage of the massive reach they have though. If they were to use their viewership to it's max and gather an email list through a connected website and offer promoted videos they could make a fortune, but the majority have zero business sense.

From last year... The Average YouTube CPM Is $7.60, But Making Money Isn’t Easy

The Average YouTube CPM is $7.60, But Making Money Isn't Easy

YouTube has been responsible for an exponential growth in my life insurance recruiting business.

Thanks specifically to Claude for suggesting this one idea in his book, as it wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for him.

Making money on YT isn't that hard when you enjoy it. I've sold everything from CB products to local services to my own products.

3 years ago it was pretty simple. Just upload a video, boost it, rank & bank.

These days you gotta make content that's like crack to your target audience. You gotta test it. Then share it with them. Example, I love music. Have a studio been making music 15 years now.

When you're involved in a niche you can spot market gaps (or trends) pretty easily.

I noticed a trend where people don't really need or want long complicated tutorials. They don't really care to see how a song was made from soup to nuts. Most the time they're just interested in a specific segment of that song.

Like gangnam style. I knew when that came out lots of noobs wanted to know how the bass was made. I also knew how amateur producers would respond. Most these people don't monetize (properly I should say) or do quick, sloppy work. So I took my time, monetized it on the back end then shared. I shared on my draft account (a YT account I test on) and 2 forums. It's a great feeling when people share your shit and don't care it's monetized. Then I scaled up. Hit up every relevant music forum and quickly moved the video to my main account. Overnight got a small army of "free affiliates" aka fans. I woke up the next day, earnings updated to almost $200 in less than 12 hours. A couple weeks later they plateaued around $10-$20 / day. But its passive income. When you have lots of videos it adds up. And you don't need to be a genius to scale or figure out the math.

There are other examples I can give but you asked how much youtubers make.

Back in 2013 youtube was unbelievably easy. I worked up to $200 / day uploading half decent video reviews and spamming them to death with retention views & GSA. Back then I know LOTS of YT marketers were making coin.

After youtube cleaned up things ... after Google cleaned up things (they deranked tons of health videos ranking on page 1) a lot of video marketers quit. Even I quit YT for like 9 months. I still used it for local marketing (bread and butter) but with blackhat techniques becoming less effective I couldn't compete in normal affiliate niches.

Niches like, "how to make money online fast" "best way to lose weight" "how to cure hypothyroidism" "how to stop masturbating" "how to speak french" etc etc. I was grabbing top 5 spots over and over just by spamming.

These days lots has changed. Gaming G with PBNs will never die. But YT requires a good deal of old fashioned whitehat marketing.

As far as fashion and makeup that shits like Latin to me. I know lots of women are into it. I know 1 with a fashion blog ranked on G. Think she does 2-3 grand a month. I know another who's been struggling for over a year on YT. I tried helping her at some point but some people just don't get it. She wasn't organized. Talking about weird things or politics in her videos. Refused to test properly. Just not a business oriented person.

If you're gonna go for fashion and makeup ... I can't advise you since you didn't lay out a real plan. In big niches I look for gaps and trends I understand. Like fashion to me is artsy as hell. I'm sure music is artsy to other people. But since I just know a lot about music I know how to systematize my "art" for mass consumption.

Then there's form vs content.

Two people can have great content but without good form or execution only 1 will make money.

Maybe 1 has a strong following on Instagram, Facebook, or some fashion forum. I have old accounts on a ton of music sites. I'm not very active. But active enough so people know my name and know I always try to share good content. I also always microtest before macrotesting, or rolling out to my main YT account. Even things I'm super confident about I like to test. Like just uploading to a few small forums. If responses isn't as I expect, that video stays away from my main account. The better the response the bigger and faster I share. Facebook does this with all their new roll outs. They always test updates on a small group. If that goes well they roll out to the masses. Use this same concept when you promote.

It's like hunch crunching. You crunch a hunch with data so you know it's no longer a hunch but a true desire people have. Do this enough eventually you'll gain a 6th sense for what people want in your niche.

Always know ahead of time how you will monetize. Become an amazon affiliate. Make a website and instagram. Sell your own products it doesn't matter. What matters is that you take action, test, and use your brain.

If something doesn't work ask for help. This is another benefit of keeping multiple YT accounts. If something fails it's on an account with other failed ideas. So I don't have to worry about people stealing my shit which they will if given the opportunity.

-RS

I have a few YT clients, one being a very large one with hundreds of thousands of views per video and a rabid subscriber base.

Even with that kind of traffic, YT doesn't pay anything significant for monetization. In order for this particular client to make a comfortable living from YT full-time they rely on Patreon and other channels that I've setup for them such as email marketing, free guide downloads, physical merchandise, digital products, etc.

Youtube is really smart and just seems to promote good content to the right people, but we've found that the real key to driving up organic youtube traffic comes down to the title and thumbnail image. You can basically scroll through a video list and know based on the title and thumbnail which one will have the most views. I'm also probably one of the few marketers out there who's direct mailing to youtube subscribers (via funnels that get their physical addresses), and it's absolutely killing it.