Anyone here ever start a YouTube Channel? What did you do? Did you make any money? I am browsing YouTube and see a ton of people doing all kinds of things and getting subscribers.
A fat fuck stuffing his face 3 times a week on fast food and making retard noises has over 200K subscribers. Thoughts?
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I don't do YouTube but know somebody that does it for a living.
Ad revenue isn't very high for these saturated "stars" that get millions of views.
Its better to do a niche and make money outside of YouTube like sponsorships. Think of all the hardware reviewers like that manlet white guy I forgot his name.
Some ads are paid per views like the ads before videos that you can skip. If a viewer doesn't watch the first 30 seconds or entire ad (whichever is shorter) then the YouTube creator doesn't get ad revenue because YouTube doesn't. Then you have pay per click ads like the pop ups while the video is playing and in the side bar. The revenue all depends on your viewers. A generic vlogger that gets generic ads like Coca-Cola or geico ads aren't getting paid much per viewer but they get the millions of views to make up for it. A very niche channel with a very niche audience may have 30k views but will get paid more for per views or clicks.
A generic gaming fag with millions of views may make a few hundred thousand a year. A niche channel with 300k views and sponsorships may also make a few hundred thousand dollars a year.
And don't forget that 80% of views use as block so you aren't getting paid for 80% of your views.
How do I into youtube?
I don't want to work anymore. I'll play games unironically good or bad. I'll rub skittles on my body while singing yankee doodle dandee and listening to hitler speeches. Just gib me an audience
You talking about Lloyd? Those guys that are always reviewing the newest high-end tech?
Yeah, that dude has to make a lot of money.
Currently working on starting a MGTOW related channel targeted towards 25+ virgins like myself. Its an actual niche, since the popular MGTOW channels are run by normies who have had lots of sex and relationships before, most of what they talk about is women, while I come in to preach to depressed loners voluntary celibacy, nofap, and how to cope emotionally with the difference between what your balls and brain want in life. My bubble has been burst regarding ad revenue from videos, but if such an endavour becomes popular enough, I could accept PayPal/Patreon/Bitcoin donations, and do paid video requests like sandman does.
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The "will it blend" guy gets a lot of views too and probably a lot of money.
He just throws stuff into a blender and films it.
Its so simple but you have to be the first
So far I've just made stupid videos like this.
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Anyone have any ideas on what direction I should take my channel in and how I should grow my audience? On the first day of starting my channel I got over a hundred views and 14 subscribers. I'm off to a good start, but it's partly because I posted my video on /r9k/, sent it to my friends, and put it on Reddit. Right now, it seems like Reddit doesn't like my videos, especially not /r/youtubehaiku. They only seem to like meme videos or something genuinely interesting.
What about those ads that are an hour long but you can skip after five seconds? Surely they don't have to watch the whole ad for the uploader to get money?
Try twitch
Make more videos, do normie memes and be better :^)
My hardware isn't good enough and I don't have enough time. I'd love to dedicate myself to YouTube if I were a neet because I already have some ideas jotted down but I doubt I'd get enough people to notice.
Thanks. I just need to learn to edit better to make good memes. What's a good program I can use that's safe to pirate?
>What's a good program I can use that's safe to pirate?
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pls help
I recently discovered this guy's channel: youtube.com
He offers extremely concise summaries of historical battles and other events, all while making $750 per video on patreon.
This goes to show a few things:
1. Quality content matters.
2. If you're doing something that appeals towards intellectuals, they are more likely to donate to you than the average person that makes shitty vids.
For the amount of followers that he has I'd say he makes enough money to feed himself for a full month per video.
Don't underestimate kids donating with mommy's credit card. They're also less-likely to have Adblock. If you get a following of 12-year-olds then you're golden.
While were asking, anyone have a good program for adding visuals to audio? I want to use youtube to advertise music
This. You need normie followers who won't use adblock .Get ready to play some minecraft while shrieking.
But you also have to be different because that's saturated.
Fuck, man, this is hard.
>Anyone here ever start a YouTube Channel?
Yep
>What did you do?
PC hardware, how-to's, peripherals, general "tech". I'm in between places like Tom's Hardware ("alright now this is how the NAND cells are fabbed, first we start with bare silicon and slice the wafers...") and all the garbage le-youtubers who read the box for you ("well this is uh... an SSD, with 250 gigabytes of storage, I'm not sure what SSD means but it says here that it's fast")
>Did you make any money?
Nope. Been at it 3 months, high quality content, but still under 10 subscribers.
>I am browsing YouTube and see a ton of people doing all kinds of things and getting subscribers.
And you aren't seeing the people who didn't get exceptionally lucky with a video going viral or their videos being arbitrarily chosen to show up at the top of search results or on YouTube's homepage.
>A fat fuck stuffing his face 3 times a week on fast food and making retard noises has over 200K subscribers. Thoughts?
It's stupid but if it sells, it sells.
This guy has it. Either general "entertainment" which needs high volume because you're getting paid nothing for ads, or low-volume high-specificity stuff (like computer components, makeup, shoes) which you can add affiliate links for and get brand deals if you're big enough.
Look into livestreaming, probably. The whole "let's play" thing has dropped immensely on YouTube and gotten picked up on the live side with Twitch, YouTube live, etc.
I look like a normie but I'm a bitter neckbeard at heart. I'd watch your stuff if it were informative/entertaining. Then again, that's the basic requirement anyway.
>Make more videos, do normie memes and be better :^)
Gotta become meme supreme normie king if you want success on places like youtubehaiku or, I dunno, /wsg/
Play shitty lightweight games (older stuff or "indie" games). You'll never know if people will care unless you try.
Sony Vegas, use the pirate bay or wherever. I mean, you can pirate just about any maintstream software these days anyway, and I guarantee that's how most youtubers started.
>1. Quality content matters.
Quality content *with a focused audience* matters. You need to know where to advertise/shill your videos. In this case it's easy, because /r/history isn't going to downvote the dude for self-promotion; his videos are literally exactly the stuff they want.
You aren't allowed to specifically target children under 13 in the US (and therefore, on YouTube) but, if you happen to have a large following of underage children... Yes, children are literally the most profitable, easiest to produce for, and most dangerous audience. I'm sure you could find 10+ channels dedicated solely to unboxing children's toys that all make over $200,000 a year.
Like TrapNation or Tobu (like this video: youtu.be
>play some minecraft while shrieking
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What is /wsg/? A board here or a general?
Thanks for the suggestions. I didnt know of any yet, but I got the idea from watching back midi (the shit that you would need 5 hands to play) videos made with Synthesia
Thanks. Also, I won't specifically target them but I might make content they are more likely to enjoy.
Also, where do you think I can branch out from my two videos here I seem to have a high dislike bar but as I comment right now, likes exceed dislikes.
Worksafe gif, basically /gif/ but no porn. It has some good stuff sometimes, certainly fewer bananas than /b/.
Ooh, I love synthesia videos. Seems like way too many people fuck them up though, like audio not synced to the video or it's jittery. There's plenty of room for improvement in that niche.
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Memes. Just go after memes. As for what to do specifically, I have no clue. Look at the top crap from youtubehaiku and use that as a springboard for new ideas. Stuff like this really just has to come from your imagination or, you know, copy stuff you see on YLYL threads on /b/.
Got it, thank you user.
Bump. What are the top YouTube memes right now that are easy to take advantage of?
lol top kek. The dayligt saving is pretty funny
Thank you user, some people told me it was dumb. I feel like my acting could have been a bit better.
By the way I might be posting with a different ID because of my phone.
It is pretty dumb but thats the funny thing about it. The daylight thing could go viral on memesites but I dont know how you can benefit of that
People from /r/youtubehaiku seemed to not like it. Do you think I should post it on shit like 9gag?
Here's a question, what should you avoid? If you get an audience, how do you keep from losing it?
red hot spatula though child's neck
I mean I could get a baby doll and make it some dark comedy. Not sure if the audience will appreciate the clickbait, so I could get a fair amount of dislikes. Might try it though, thanks.
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