Why is "how much youtuber make" Such a sealed topic?

How epc is calculated? based on viewers of the country or based on theme of the video?
oops i mean CPM - that is what the advertisers pay for 1000 views on the ads , but it varies and i guess youtube that name the prices
 
Ok so here's how YouTube works as I understand it. I'm not big headed enough to call myself an expert... But I threw out my TV in 2011 and began watching YouTube as my main source of TV entertainment (and streaming the odd TV show occasionally). Three ways a youtuber can make money:

- Independent
- Network
- YouTube Partner


Independent

These are the ones that post a load of low quality videos and get paid through adsense showing before or in the video. This is the hardest way to make money, but it's the main way that most successful YouTubers start out.

Network

Networks (such as Revision3) will get people who are struggling to get approved as a YT Partner and want to get their name out. So they sign up to receive a percentage of what the Network makes from their videos. The Network is a YT partner. There are a few low quality Networks that accept a lot of BlackHat/ IM guys, so a Google search will probably bring up some of those.

YouTube Partners

Everyone pretty much knows about this. You make a few great videos. Get a shit ton of subscribers. You should do REALLY well on YT before you apply to be a YT Partner. Sometimes someone from YT will contact you if you are good enough. If not, just make sure you are doing REALLY GOOD and just apply. I think you can only apply once every 3 or so months (or at least it used to be that way) so that's why your channel should be REALLY GOOD before you apply. If you get accepted, they send you the details... Give you a tshirt... Start paying you PER VIEWS!

So that's it. You can definitely make a living from YT. You just have to be ENTERTAINING!

As per the agreement that you will sign when you become a YT Partner, you are NOT allowed to say how much you make. This is basically because they pay different YT Partners different amounts.

TLDR: YouTube makes YT Partners sign an agreement not to share how much each partner makes.
I'm pretty sure YouTube no longer offers the classic YouTube partnership, they just offer everybody monetization now
 
As a Machinima Partner/Director it's really hard to estimate someone's exact earnings. Different networks provide different CPM's, mobile views don't count on a lot of networks, obviously the YouTube view count, and the ad-view count differs extremely! Ad-View count in my experience has always been much lower. I've looked at my earnings on social blade and it's funny how general they make my possible earnings. They really have no idea.

Please don't underestimate the amount of money put into videos now days, production costs do exist with the more popular YouTubers. YouTube revenue isn't their profit.
Come on. Please say something a little encouraging. I wasn't taking into account production costs. just the gross profit. What do you have to say about my estimate. is it really poor?
 
And PEOPLE DO MAKE ALIVING from youtube with adsense
 
I never knew Youtube worked like this. My buddy has a small but growing comedy channel and he tells me he's making about two hundred per day. I could just imagine what the big boys are making on there.
 
Just imagine Pewdiepie, a YT gamer. Last year in January he had 100k subs, to this day, a year and a half later, he is the second most subscribed with nearly 11 million subscribers and will be most subscribed within a month or two. All of this within two years. He usually uploads a video everyday which gets over 1m+ views MINIMUM, so that's $4500 just from views and not ads and sponsors etc.

When he uploads two videos a day, he's getting over $9000 per day from views alone. Looking at his average views per video it's actually 2m+. His fans love him so Much within 2 weeks they raised $160k for Pewdiepie's charity.

All this with hard work, dedication, motivation and luck. One thing I can say about tthis PewDiepie guy is well done for not letting the money or fame get to him, he uses his fame to get people to donate to charity.

P.S this guy is so popular when he moved to the UK he gets noticed wherever he goes. When he went to Singapore for am award ceremony fans gathered in the lobby just to see him.

YouTube can change your life, it's whether you're lucky enough to be that person.
 
I think the reason why people can't mention their earnings is because of the contract they've signed from the youtube network. It's forbidden to mention it to anyone.
 
Seeing all the posts I would encourage all of you to start some sort of channel. I got the idea for mine, I just need a good name relating to the topic that is not taken.
 
This is the method that you know you can work on forever. Because google... well I don't think google is going anywhere.
 
I doubt they'll be talking about money, but around January I saw that they are making a movie about YT Partners. I'll see If I can find the trailer/ IMDB page.
 
Yes, everyone is technically a Youtube Partner.

Except these days, they have different levels of partnerships. Higher level = more tools


As to answer your question, everyone here has made it clear you CAN definitely make very big money with a YT partnership. But you can't be some run-of-the-mill SEO video.
You have to be an actual celebrity in your own right.
 
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Notice how Smoshs subscribers are going up a steady 20,000 a day...that isn't planned at all...just my observation.

There's an awesome site called SocialBlade that does stats and estimated earnings everyday. Here's Smosh's stats. (They are currently the most subscribed on youtube)
http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/smosh
 
the videos that have ads before a video start is called trueview in-stream ads, i think they only appear when there are advertisers that want such ads, videos with good traffic will get those ads more often

TrueView depends on the length of your video, if you have a video longer than 7 or 10 minutes, it is automatically enabled.

Kind regards,
Eddiemorra
 
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