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Extremely small success with youtube, but it's a start

by nest28
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Just want to report my very limited experience with Youtube. Since being hit with the unnatural links notice I decided to experiment with youtube a little bit. In 10 days time I made a couple of bucks, which is nothing but still better than checking my adsense and seeing a big fat zero.

In my very brief experience I noticed a couple of things necessary to getting a ton of views on Youtube.

1. be the first to upload the video, you may even get a good amount of views if your the second one to upload it to, but not as much as the first person will.

2. Have attractive titles, things that encourage user interaction, or at least a title that people just gotta click on.

3. Have a great thumbnail, this combined with title really helps to get views.

Now some people make their own vids, I do not. I find videos that are of amateur nature and upload those.


Here is my first youtube channel that I made, at one point I deleted it, don't ask why I don't eve know lol, it started off with 19 vids but I found out that half were already on youtube.


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Loco Flix - YouTube
4th to upload, which is me btw. views 455


Here is the type of vids I go after


Old Super Mario Bros. Theme Played On Glass Bottles - YouTube

I actually just found this same video on youtube.


3rd upload 4,447 views.


2nd upload 11,447 views




First upload 137,000 views


The thing is if you stay tuned to google alerts or check video sites daily for most recent vids you should be able to make couple hundred dollars a month, in time, by just uploading vids such as this one.

Copyright violation are almost nonexistent if you use amateur vids instead of tv shows,music videos etc.


Here is another prime example of what I'm talking about.


I saw this video, on a lesser known video site before it was on youtube, but for some reason I didn't download it, now it has 578,429 views in just under a week's time.

Here is the software that I use to download video.

http://www.real.com/ it makes downloading vids from any site super easy.
#extremely #small #start #success #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author hocuspocus32
    Did you get any Revenue for getting this much views? Or am i missing something?
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by hocuspocus32 View Post

      Did you get any Revenue for getting this much views? Or am i missing something?
      Not much, as I said before just a couple bucks from 1,700 total views. But uploading vids from lesser known video sites should bring in much more money. I haven't really put my all into this youtube thing yet, that's why I only made 2.02.

      Still just playing around with this method in my spare time. Once I find out where to get good vids before anyone else ,I would be able to make much more money.
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      • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        Not much, as I said before just a couple bucks from 1,700 total views. But uploading vids from lesser known video sites should bring in much more money. I haven't really put my all into this youtube thing yet, that's why I only made 2.02.

        Still just playing around with this method in my spare time. Once I find out where to get good vids before anyone else ,I would be able to make much more money.
        How do you plan on monetizing your videos? Adsense?
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    I'm not a fan of stealing other peoples' work to bank from. I know times are tough, but for me, I wouldn't feel good about stealing.

    Best wishes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chrisbroholm
    So you are essentially stealing other people's videos and putting them on youtube, or am I missing something here?
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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    First off how am I stealing some one's work, if I video tape my cat playing with a toy mouse, your telling me that's work or if I'M at the zoo and video taped a lion playing with his cub , that's work.Most of the vids I go after aren't somebody else's work, I go after same things news stations would use.

    Security cam footage, stupid things people my just happen to tape etc, it's not like I'm stealing footage from somebody like Ray William Johnson who earns a living from making youtube vids by being funny.

    Is the news stealing by using security cam footage, or footage from somebody's video cam that just so happened to have caught a exciting event on tape.

    Forget the whole thing, if that's the case youtube would be nowhere near the size it is now if you could only upload video you yourself made.

    When you watch these vids that I listed as example, none of these people are performers, aspiring singers or something and I just stole their work. I used to be a police officer, so not a big fan of stealing.


    Edit: I have an alternative to taking video from lesser known sites and uploading them to youtube. I just go with plan B since I'm stealing, this way I get the same amount if not more views and it would be vids that I made.

    But let it be known I damn sure aint no thief!
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    • Profile picture of the author agmccall
      Hello

      I like the idea of marketing videos.

      But, how do you make money on Youtube with videos

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    • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

      First off how am I stealing some one's work, if I video tape my cat playing with a toy mouse, your telling me that's work or if I'M at the zoo and video taped a lion playing with his cub , that's work.Most of the vids I go after aren't somebody else's work, I go after same things news stations would use.

      Security cam footage, stupid things people my just happen to tape etc, it's not like I'm stealing footage from somebody like Ray William Johnson who earns a living from making youtube vids by being funny.

      Is the news stealing by using security cam footage, or footage from somebody's video cam that just so happened to have caught a exciting event on tape.

      Forget the whole thing, if that's the case youtube would be nowhere near the size it is now if you could only upload video you yourself made.

      When you watch these vids that I listed as example, none of these people are performers, aspiring singers or something and I just stole their work. I used to be a police officer, so not a big fan of stealing.


      Edit: I have an alternative to taking video from lesser known sites and uploading them to youtube. I just go with plan B since I'm stealing, this way I get the same amount if not more views and it would be vids that I made.

      But let it be known I damn sure aint no thief!
      If you take and use someone else's footage to profit from, then yes, it is stealing.

      Why don't you take your own video camera to the zoo to shoot footage for your own personal use?

      If you want, you could write in the description that everyone in the world has full rights to re-using and/or re-publishing your videos on YT, any other video sharing website, or for commercial use so they can earn income from your videos.

      Maybe someone takes you up on your offer and makes $500/mo from your videos. while you earn a mear .02 cents a month from your same videos that you invested your time, money, and resources into.... Will you be okay with that?
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      • Profile picture of the author nest28
        Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

        If you take and use someone else's footage to profit from, then yes, it is stealing.

        Why don't you take your own video camera to the zoo to shoot footage for your own personal use?

        If you want, you could write in the description that everyone in the world has full rights to re-using and/or re-publishing your videos on YT, any other video sharing website, or for commercial use so they can earn income from your videos.

        Maybe someone takes you up on your offer and makes $500/mo from your videos. while you earn a mear .02 cents a month from your same videos that you invested your time, money, and resources into.... Will you be okay with that?
        The average person doesn't know about adsense, so if they go to the zoo and film a monkey doing something funny, it was just to have memories of that day, it wasn't work for them, they didn't film the monkey with intent to make money, so it's not work.

        Now if I see a vid of some guy who is a aspiring singer, I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot poll, because he is making that vid in hopes of being found, either way I would consider that work.

        Now I mention Ray William Johnson before, for those of you who don't know who he is, he makes a living on youtube by simply making fun of other popular videos, so is he stealing. He takeS the most popular videos and makes fun of them, and now that guy is worth 5 million dollars.


        Did he steal because he used videos that he didn't make himself?

        Originally Posted by mikeshinobi View Post

        You aren't really doing any wrong by finding videos elsewhere on the net and uploading them to Youtube to make a little money. Hell, more than likely the place you're getting it from isn't even the original source, and as long as you don't try to claim that you're the one who created/recorded the video then I really don't see why you should feel any guilt about having it on Youtube and earning ad revenue.

        Think about it. If some Joe uploads a cute cat video on Facebook to show his friends - and that's all he intended to do with it - but you snag it, throw it up on YT and it gets popular and you make some advertising bank, did you really hurt anyone? Is that guy who took the video of his cat out of money or anything at all? No. You shared a video in a more public format - you added value to the internet - and you got paid for it. Who's at a loss here? You could say the Joe is - he could've uploaded that video to YT and made the money for himself! The keyword being could've. He didn't and that's not your problem.

        Like I said, just don't try to claim that you're the original author/creator of the video, because THAT is still pretty ****ty imo.
        That's what I'm saying, the places where I get these vids don't even have a right to them, and I never claim that I am the person who made the video. And if I didn't use these vids somebody else will.

        By now I think most people on this forum know me for being a stand up guy, I'm not looking for a short cut to success by stealing other people work . If that's the case google and youtube are thieves by allowing copyrighted material such as t.v. shows, movies and music to be on youtube.
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Pff people like to nag about anything nowadays, can't even copy a video anymore. I bet those people who complain also never downloaded torrents, yeah right.
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    • Profile picture of the author bbncu
      Ray William is pretty funny..that is why I go to youtube..to get my laugh fix..I'll check out the rest of his videos...BTW Nest, you can do like Ray William does too...make fun of the videos..also how do you profit from youtube videos? I know that they put ads on them at the bottom or sometimes they do the ad before the video thing...
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I've already said this plenty of times here on WF.

    If your monetizing a video with Adsense on YT, you've already claimed that you own 100% of the audio/video rights.

    If your posting other peoples videos as your own & monetizing with Adsense on YT, your risking YT shutting your channel down & also risking your Adsense account (IMO), since it's not possible to use other people videos yet your claiming you own the videos.

    Do the right thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chrisbroholm
    You gave that as an example Nests? Really? If you take the time to put a piece like Ray together, you are free to use any video you want. It's just like the media.

    But directly copying the joey video and uploading it as your own? Man, such a huge difference there. If you wanted you could easily do "best of youtube this week" and do a similar thing as Ray, but then you probably lose out on what you tried to accomplish on the first place (piggybacking on viral videos)

    Just make your own videos if you are going to attempt making money with youtube, anything else is bound to catch up with you very quickly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
    Wait, I thought you couldnt monetize videos you dont own. I had uploaded a video about a car chase from a cops dashboard and it got over 200k views, however youtube wouldnt allow me to monetize because it said it wasnt my original work.
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  • Profile picture of the author Builder154
    I have a question about the thumbnails on YouTube Videos. They only give you 3 options. Can you choose any frame you want or is that option only available to YouTube partners? I agree having a great thumbnail helps but it seems like you are limited to what YouTube happens to pop up as your choices.
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      Originally Posted by Builder154 View Post

      I have a question about the thumbnails on YouTube Videos. They only give you 3 options. Can you choose any frame you want or is that option only available to YouTube partners? I agree having a great thumbnail helps but it seems like you are limited to what YouTube happens to pop up as your choices.
      It used to be 33% 50% 67% but now google is using a random pattern around those times to prevent people abusing it. So yeah, you only get the 3 examples youtube gives you.
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  • Profile picture of the author momakmak
    People are trying to be so righteous. I say good job Nest. This is an old trick and there are risks. It is not 100% legit, but you can do it if you want too.

    If someone is really mad at you for making money on their videos, all they have to do is prove to youtube that they are the creator. If they can not prove anything than I would say that is their fault and you just taught them a valuable lesson in life. Lessons are worth a lot. LOL.

    I dont practice this myself though.
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    * There is no copyright violation intended. This video is for entertainment reasons only."Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. **

    I saw these in 3rd upload youtube decription box. So his views right or not?
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