PewDiePie makes $15 million year on YT and is pissed and says traffic down on Youtube

If the algorithm change is correct then the decline of some channels means the growth of others.

It's easier said than done especially when it involves money.

It is truly amazing. I have never heard of this person before so I tried to watch one of his videos and thought. "this is really stupid" but, if he is making that kind of cash then go for it.

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Nah - that guy isn't going anywhere. He isn't going to lose all this money.

Rob

One factor is that Add Blockers will not show any ads on YT , I have not seen any in 3 years
since I have it installed , like on this site I do not see any pop ups of crappy products to buy

Jason

With that many subscribers why care if the algorithms change. Why not be happy to share the wealth(traffic) with other up and coming marketers? Give and you shall receive.

He better enjoy the free ride while he can. That money will eventually dry up like MySpace, especially when he gets older.

He also has a history of drama page titles (clickbait) like he's going to stop his videos. OMG please don't.

He's looking for attention?
I just see this as a good publicity stunt and a way to (hopefully) attract more traffic/subscribers

Well i dont think will loose all and will became poor but his earnings will decrease a lot .Thats way you should never put your eggs in one basket

The Prank people have be really big the last couple of years.
Randal Matwood, Fouseytube are two I have watched here and there. It's crazy stuff but people are eating it up.

Fousey had a decent size roll in Madea's Hallowwen Movie recently. So they are branching out

He said this on purpose. He wanted to get some free publicity. His income will stay the same.

The subscribe button now on youtube is as useful as the like button on facebook pages. No-one will watch your videos unless he'll double subscribe to you which no-one does.

It's not about how much money he's making, it's about if he's right or wrong. I have 10k subs on my channel and I got around 5k views on each upload, now I get 1000 if I am lucky enough.

It's not wise of youtube to add to my homepage "recommended" videos I've never subscribed to, instead of videos I've subscribed. On related? I get it. But not on my homepage. If they continue doing that they can remove the subscribe button completely.

Pewdiepie isn't the only one who has seen a traffic drop. A lot of other big youtube names have seen the same thing. It's a very big concern considering this is their bread and butter.

I'm actually kind of surprised at some of the responses here saying he should just deal with it. There have been many threads on WF from people who have seen a sudden drop in traffic on their websites. It's a very valid concern. Why should Youtube be any different?

For those who don't know who Pewdiepie is, he's a gamer that records himself playing different video games, often adding commentary and video edits that can make the videos entertaining to those into gaming (which is a massive, profitable niche).

It's kind of hard to feel sorry for someone who is earning millions of dollars from a business that has very little overall overhead.

I'm not going to knock the guy, though, because it's pretty amazing what he's done. Personally, I don't like his videos. They annoy the crap out of me. Obviously, though, I'm in the minority there because he has millions of people who love his videos.

At any rate, it's funny this thread came up when it did because last night I was completely blown out of the water when I found a channel on YT that also has millions of subscribers.

I happened to land on a video that he put out only days ago and it already had views into the millions.

I start watching the video and I'm totally puzzled as to why it's so popular. The camera quality is good, but the editing is not all that, and the content is somewhat ridiculous.

It basically consists of showing a guy's hands as he heats up a chef's knife with 3 blowtorches until the blade is red hot, and then proceeds to slice through different objects, the finale being a full plastic bottle of Coca-Cola. He never even speaks throughout the video. There's some annoying music in the background, though.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not hating at all. These people are making tremendous amounts of money from these videos. I have to respect that.

I don't think the ad blocker software apps can block every ad on YT. I use AdBlock 3.8.2 for Chrome which is one of the most popular blockers, and still some ads get through. I could be wrong about this, but I also heard that some ads pay a certain amount of money per 1000 impressions, whether they are blocked by an ad blocker or not. I'll admit that I don't have a lot of knowledge in that department because I don't monetize any of my videos.

At any rate, these people are killing it!

Now, I'm not big into video marketing myself, only because I simply don't have the time it would dedicate the time necessary to YouTube. I just have too many other things going on, and 90% of my time is spent on list building, as that is my bread and butter.

However, I have all of the equipment, software, and knowledge necessary to make great videos. I bet if I was just starting out and I decided to create a business plan which would be built 100% around nurturing a YouTube channel, I'm 98% positive I could succeed.

The reason I say that is not to be a braggart, but to point out that there is really NO REASON why anyone with a decent digital camera, a copy of Sony Vegas (or if you want to go the free route, DaVinci Resolve), and a little bit of creativity, couldn't have a successful YouTube channel.

I have a friend who collects baseball/football//Pokemon/Magic cards, and he has a pretty decent following and all he does is film himself opening new packs of cards and then showing off what cards he got to the camera. He only started about 8 months ago and he already has close to 6000 subscribers. His average video has anywhere from 25,000 - 30,000 views. He even has one with almost 50,000 views. Now, that might not sound like a lot compared to the YouTube "whales," but bear in mind he only puts in about 4-5 hours a week working on his channel, and he uses Windows Movie Maker Live to edit!

This just goes to show you that starting an online business does not have to be complicated and super technical. If you happened to have an extra room in your house or even half a garage to work with you could really make a nice little video studio for yourself.

Another aspect of video marketing that makes it an attractive way to build an online business is that there are just so many niches you can pick from. I'm willing to bet there are literally tens of thousands of niches and sub-niches that you could get into. Just about everyone has a hobby or hobbies, and that's the best place to begin if you want to be a video marketer. It's actually going to allow you to have fun while working. After all, isn't that really what we all want?

Other advantages include the fact that you will have the ability to drive traffic to a squeeze page or a blog so you can build a list. You don't even really need your own website. You could set up a Facebook page instead and make a squeeze page right inside of that. This would also give you the opportunity to cross promote by using Facebook Live to put exclusive videos on that can be used to let your fans know about your YT channel and vice-versa. Once you start making a little bit of ad revenue from YT, you could even start experimenting with sponsored posts on Facebook & Instagram.

I guess I went off on a little bit of a tangent there, but I actually get excited thinking about ways to open more income streams online. I'm also a firm believer that you should open as many income streams as possible when you are an Internet Marketer. Some streams are bound to dry up on you from time to time, so it's good to have many others flowing so you don't take as much of a hit financially.

In the end, I have to take my hat off to people who are crushing it on YouTube. It does take a certain amount of creativity and originality to blow up that big, and let's not forget that you need to have a great work ethic. I don't want people to get the wrong idea when I say that it's a great way to succeed online. It is, but that doesn't mean it's easy, either. No matter what kind of business you get into, the direct result of your level of success will always depend on how much time and effort you put in.

I never heard of the guy and I'm not into gaming at all but I just took a look at a couple of his videos.

I think they're pretty good for what they are and can see why he's so popular.

I don't play games because I hate trying to figure them out and suck at it anyway.
But if I did want to play a game, I would check this guy out to see if he had a vid about it first.

He really understands his audience and how to reach out to them.

Hats off to PewDiePie. Dude is crushing it no doubt! I just hope he has been smart enough to build his own list from all those followers, because building a business solely on a platform that you do not own or control is risky business! I've been hearing about YouTube channels getting axed left & right these days without warning, and as we know, no one is too big to fall under the thrash of Google. There's No Mercy!

that fart vid is funny

For the record, I also agree with some of you in that I have no idea why PewDiePie is as popular as he is. I don't find him appealing at all, and his videos annoy the hell out of me. That being said, millions of people around the world love him and his videos, so he's clearly doing something right. Kudos to him indeed.

My bad. I did go ahead and erase even before you made this comment
It's X-mas by gawd I cant be getting snippy lol

Actually I looked it up David I think in this circumstance it should in fact have been "some times"

Quote, "Most often, "sometime" is one word: He will wash the car "sometime".When some is used adjectivally with time to mean a short time, a long time, or an indefinite time, "

In my case it was used as a adjective because I could have used "most times"

I guess you learn something new everyday

PewDiePie is not leaving YouTube, he uses such headlines for getting more views to his videos.

There is nothing wrong with current YouTube algorithm.

Oh no, someone is earning money, online, which is kind of the purpose of this forum.

I don't understand why people hate on him. You can agree with him, you can not, but what he's doing is working. He found a working formula and he refined it to almost perfection. I admit that his videos are puerile and sometimes, downright stupid. On the other hand, there are 51.000.000 people who considered his "puerile and stupid" videos worthwhile for their time.

And isn't this what information marketing is? You give what the market wants, not what you want. You can say that his videos sucks but the numbers are on his side. Some people are in the business of creating content that they like and some people are in the business of earning money. You can guess in which he is.

You guys forget that the market is NOT you. The market may have completely different perceptions and outlooks on life. You guys forgot that there are many good, Oscar like movies that earn less than the latest Adam Sandler romantic comedy. You guys forgot that a girl showing her body in a video and having a song about booze and sex will outsell real talents in the music industry, not by a small margin, but by multiples.

PewDiePie knows what he is doing. Maybe he got lucky in the start, as timing and positioning is important but he recognized that he stumbled upon a gold mine and now he's earning money with almost mathematical precision. He knows what headlines pull and what doesn't pull. He knows the bad jokes that will get the video shared and he knows that there is no such thing as bad publicity - as YouTube doesn't judge him by the quality of his video, only by the traffic he delivers.

So instead of saying bad things about him, I would pick up a pen and a notebook and I would start taking notes.

Charlie Chaplin, Flash Gordon, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, PewDiePie

NEXT.

Oops algorithm change.

Maybe the Quickening is happening.

Long-term is so Short-Term nowadays.

Happy New Year - are we there yet?

Best regards,

Ozi

I'm sure he'll figure out how to move on to other things. Or just accept the algo change and roll with it. It took a massive amount of work to build up his following, so I can see why he's pissed. Points to the plus and minus of building one someone else's platform.

This just proves something again that has been true for years, long before the Internet...

"Stupid" and "Profitable" have never been mutually exclusive.

When I was working my way through college, one of the sales reps that came into the store got into a discussion with my boss. The end result was a bet that my boss could sell dog crap at a profit.

He took the 'harvest' from his yard, distributed it among several paper bags, and taped a cheapo lighter and set of instructions to the bag. He sold them as "practical joke kits" for $5 each. The instructions read "1. Place bag on victim's front steps. 2. Use lighter to ignite bag. 3. Ring doorbell. 4. Hide and watch the fun."

He set up a table at the local flea market and sold a couple of dozen of them in an hour or so.

Like I said, stupid and profitable are not mutually exclusive.

If you really want an example of how easy it can be to crush it on YouTube then all you have to do is take a look at this video.

It's from a YouTuber called "MrGear."

It was uploaded about 4 hours ago and has already hit half a million views. This guy makes tons of videos exactly like this one and he has over 4 million subscribers and almost every video he puts out gets views into the multi-millions.

If you are able to heat up a chef's knife with a blowtorch and then cut through every day household items, you can make a killing on YouTube.

That's why when I get emails from people explaining how difficult it is to make money online or how "it doesn't work" or how "making money online is a big scam," I have to sit back and have a little chuckle.

I swear that ANYBODY with half a brain and a little bit of creativity can succeed online. Whether it be list building, blogging, video marketing, product creation, Kindle publishing, social media marketing, etc, all it takes is an idea, a desire to succeed, and a lot of hard work. If you want it bad enough, you can have it.

Let me put it this way. If someone can heat up a knife and slice through household objects and become a six figure YouTube marketer, then I'm sure that just about anyone can figure out how to make themselves a few thousand dollars a month from the Internet.

Enjoy!

PewdiePie knows his worth and has no intention of jumping off the gravy train that is YouTube.

The amazing thing is the mainstream media, as desperate as it is for anything approaching a story, took this hype and reported it as something that was actually likely to happen.

They all got punked.

Anyone that believes Pewdiepie is going to walk away from a 5 figure per day income is naive at best.

My nephew is the reason I know who PewDiePie is (I like video games but I find a lot of the people doing commentary on video games pretty dumbed down in how they interact with their audience). I think people watch videos of people playing games more than they actually play games these days!

"Ooh look it's someone playing a game"

"How about you buy the game and play it? You know, interact with something and use your brain?"

"No... that sounds too much like hard work. It's more fun just consuming"

Consume. Consume. Consume.

It's amazing how long kids spend watching YT videos (seriously it is insane - bordering on worrying levels of random content consumption). It's also amazing what people create channels around. One channel involves creating a fort in a supermarket/shop (etc) and hiding in the racking overnight - I kid you not.