How Do YouTubers Make Money?
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·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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1,496 words · ~7 min read
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remember when youtube was a repository for 240p cat videos and memorializing
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trips to the zoo like i'm a full-time youtuber who
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employs two dozen people and even i had no idea back then that the site would
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explode into a platform that would allow people to make a full-time living by
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uploading videos that other people watch for free but explode it did these days
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youtube stardom has been a ticket to international notoriety and lucrative
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careers for many people who started out with nothing more than a webcam and a
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good idea or in some cases kind of a bad idea but where the heck does all this
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money come from well just like how real celebrities might make money in a lot of
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different ways tv deals endorsements
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fashion lines ill-advised forays into music
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online creators can actually have a variety of revenue streams as well let's
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start out with the most obvious one google adsense this program allows
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creators like me to earn a share of the money from the advertising that you
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might see before a video you know the ones with the yellow progress bar along
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the bottom and sometimes a skip ad button on the right
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outside advertisers bid on these paying
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more for unskippable or longer video spots and less for banners and other
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less desirable placements youtube then runs these ads you see them and that
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money gets shared between youtube itself and whichever creators video the ad was
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run against so if you get a lot of views it's a fairly straightforward way to
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monetize them but there are a few caveats first you have to have a total
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of at least four thousand hours watched in one year and a thousand subscribers
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to be eligible for this sort of monetization and
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creators have to certify that their videos aren't offensive or
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politically sensitive as advertisers have become increasingly concerned about
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the possibility that their ads will be run against videos that might turn off
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consumers and lead to outrage on twitter meaning that for some creators adsense
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actually ends up being a fairly small percentage of their overall revenue
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another model that many creators use is brand deals these often take the form of
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product placements or brand messaging that is directly baked into the actual
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video instead of being separately served from the adsense program techwiki is a
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perfect example of this speaking of which i'm sure you guys have seen the
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spots that we do at the end of each episode that often start with speaking
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of something if it wasn't for our outside sponsors this channel which
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strives to be more about information at the expense of some clickability would
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struggle to operate profitably so for the most part creators are free
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to negotiate brand deals directly with potential sponsors keeping all of the ad
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revenue for themselves this means they can be quite lucrative but there's also
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a lot more management overhead because there are so
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many ways to approach this so some deals
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are per video some are bonus based some
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offer rewards for extra engagement through clicks and views or even twitter
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followers so all of a sudden someone whose entire life's focus has been on
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creating content can find themselves making pitch decks
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sitting on conference calls and compiling proof of performance reports
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bringing us to yet another way that creators make money affiliate links
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oftentimes creators who feature a certain product in their videos such as
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for an unboxing a haul or a review we'll
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include a link to an online retailer like amazon in the video description if
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a viewer clicks the link and buys something the creator will get a
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kickback from the retailer in return for driving traffic to their site
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now although each individual purchase might only net a small amount of money
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affiliate revenue can add up to a lot over time so it's a significant thing
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that viewers can do to help their favorite creators make money unless
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they'd rather just cut out the extra step and give it to them directly now we
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don't do too much of this on techwiki but either through youtube's own
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memberships program or third-party sites like patreon and Floatplane shameless
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plug viewers can contribute directly to their
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favorite shows in return for rewards like live hangouts early access
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exclusive content or even just fuzzy feelings of gratitude
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not that that's enough for most people so we'd be remiss if we didn't mention
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merchandise some youtubers make a small amount of
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money from selling a t-shirt here or a sticker there well for others it makes
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up a significant part of the business like logan paul's maverick clothing line
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or zoella's beauty product portfolio
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so then that's most of the common stuff but frankly just like how you can find
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videos about just about anything on youtube you can also find a seemingly
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unlimited supply of creative ideas for
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how to make money on youtube we've seen everything from traditional media gigs
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like appearing on reality shows or hosting events to going on live tours
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both music and other in the case of something like source fed's tour which i
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actually attended when they were here in vancouver youtube premium and crowdfunding have
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also opened up some interesting opportunities freddie wong's video game
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high school was a breakout online slash
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traditional media crossover and since then we've seen more funding get put
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towards both serialized ideas akin to traditional tv shows and feature length
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ones like smosh the movie i mean really
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if you think about it anywhere the creator's brand can be leveraged to sell
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more widgets you will find it uh conventions have
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been springing up ever since people realized that vidcon was profitable and
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those are also really fun actually ltx was a blast for the last couple of years
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we're not making money on it in case you guys were wondering but it's still fun
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we're gonna keep doing it and then pewdiepie even did a mobile game that
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from my understanding performed very well for him so the one thing that all
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of these methods have in common so far is that they require a strong viewer
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base and i'm going to bust a popular misconception right now you do not get
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paid a penny for having a lot of subscribers it is all about views
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but there is some good news even much smaller niche creators have come up with
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some really clever ideas that work for them including providing services that
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are closely related to their tutorials for people who just couldn't be arsed to
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do it themselves selling the creations that they make on
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video or on stream directly to their viewers or providing one-on-one or group
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lessons to people who are willing to pay so hopefully if you're an aspiring
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