I am a jealous YouTuber
Some here who know me know that I am a lazy person. Several years ago I decided work is boring. Not only that, I learned when bones break at work, not only does it hurt, but the employers don;t care. There is always another employee to use up. So, I stopped doing that. Yes, sure the decision did cause some minor financial upset but I seem to have gotten by it.I spend a lot of time on YouTube. Mostly learning videos actually. Languages, Science and Tech, free online classes from major Universities, etc. Years ago I also made a few fun videos for CS folk. Then I read some comments on other pages and some YouTube information pages (YouTube has whole books online to read, buried in their help pages). The big thing is monetization.
Monetization, you make videos, you get 10,000 views, then you are eligible to apply for YouTube monetization. If they like your videos (and they look at all of them) in a few days they will say yes or no. If it is a yes, you can then begin selecting which videos it would be okay for YouTube to attach commercial ads to. YouTube (which is owned by Google) selects the ads. If a viewer has an option of cancelling the ad and lets it run for more than 2 seconds, the adverttiser pays YouTube and YouTube pays a cut to the video owner. What could be cooler? My high school guidance counselor never even suggested making home videos for a living.
All anyone needs is a cheap pocket camera and an idea and the cash register begins to ring. And this brings us to my jealousy. I compete against true artists. I am a child with fingerpaints by comparison, competing for ad dollars against Van Gough and Rembrandt. I wish I had their creativity. They get millions of views, while I have only a few tens of thousands.
My voice is a monotone, so am I. I just is. They flower, bloom, then bloom again. Here is an example.
The Mother of Dragons (from Game of Thrones) does rap. Genius, I kneel.
And her White Walker?
One in ten views gets an ad. Four of ten of those let it run more than 2 seconds. Over one million views for each video. $$$$ Ka ching, Ka ching, just here those cash registers ring. And she does at least one video every day. With my laziness one a month is a lot. I am in awe. I am jealously in awe.
Comments (7)
I've got one youtube vid with 59000 views and another with almost 20000.
Should I be alerting youtube.
How do apply for monetization?
Sounds like I could be missing out
All your youtube vids I have watched were mostly addressed to "specialist" group. Not many people are in such group. You need more people to watch, people from all other groups if necessary. You better broaden your market if the total views is all that matters. It's like you are in a restaurant business where you serve chicken and also pork. That way you will not get cash from Muslims. But if you don't serve the pork.. your market is bigger. If you know what I mean.
And one more thing..
You need a woman's "touch" in your vids..
YouTube hunting with women be like
Heather (the woman in the 'hunting be like' vid) & hubby Jeff attend gun/sporting goods trade shows to garner sponsors in exchange for product placement in their vids.
So. Ken.
What kinda percentage are raking in off pitching antique guns?
"I have 105 videos I uploaded on my channel, 1083 Subs, and 1,889,679 Views. I have contributed a lot of music to your viewers. It's people like me who make you a success, without us you wouldn't exist. Therefore I think it is in your best interest to keep me happy. However, lately I keep finding ads on my uploads. Is there some way to put a stop to this? I don't like it when other people make money on my labors. If this doesn't stop I will have to start deleting my vids as I find they've been corrupted. I don't want to do that so please help me by deleting these ads or I will delete my videos and nobody wins."
For a while after this I was unable to open my video manager and I thought that youtube blocked me so I couldn't delete my vids. A few days later I could get to my video manager and found that all the ads were removed.
It appears to be a compilation taken from many different vids.