r/PartneredYoutube

Does it hit six figures?

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I'm gonna be punished for simply refusing the new terms that hurt new creators???

Hi Everyone,

I've been trying to figure out the answer to this question for awhile. I have 150k subs now and get around a million or so views on average on each short. I only make shorts at the moment due to not having enough time to make long form videos.

My full time job takes up about 60 hours per week, while i also spend about 50 hours per week making shorts.

My niche is tech, and I engineer and make unique pieces of tech from scratch on my channel and in my shorts with high quality editing, story telling, and cinematography.

Because of this, one short usually takes me about a week to make. I work 12 hours per day Monday through Friday at my 9-5, i then get home from work and go right back to work on YouTube until I go to sleep. On the weekends i usually spend about 10 to 15 hours on Saturday and 10 to 15 hours on Sunday working on YouTube.

I am at my absolute maximum, meaning, it would be physically impossible for me to optimize my time more efficiently so that I can free up more time to work on YouTube.

I did have about a 4 month run where I was making more on YouTube than I was at my full time job, but that happened because I decided to grind until i couldn't anymore, meaning I was getting off work at like 6:15pm then working until like 2am to 3am on YouTube then waking up at 6am to go back to work.

It was unsustainable for forever, which I knew. I can only get 3 to 4 hours of sleep every night for so long before my body starts shutting down.

So, I'm now at a sustainable point where I get about 7 hours of sleep per night, but that doesn't give me enough time to make more money than my job.

So, it seems I would have to take a risk and quit before YouTube income surpasses my jobs income.

I have tried getting another job, something part time, but there just aren't very many jobs in my field in the united states right now. Only maybe 50 total, and they all have thousands upon thousands of applicants so im not betting on that.

I have about $20,000 saved up which should cover my expenses for about a year with no income if I'm very frugal.

If I quit, i plan on moving back in with my parents so I'll have no rent payment. My car is paid off so I'll have no car payment, and all my debt is paid off so the only payments ill have is food, water, and a few subscriptions that I use to help with content.

If you're wondering why my shorts take so long to make, its because creating a unique piece of tech from scratch takes a lot of time. First i have to come up with the idea, then i have to research how to do it, then i have to purchase everything I'll need to make it, then the actual building process takes a long time as I'm usually learning as I go and failing multiple times and having to innovate new ways to do things.

The tech I build is 100% unique so there's no blueprint on how to make what I'm making.

Then i have to condense about 15 hours of footage down to 1 minute, then write the script for the voice over, then film additional shots to supply the story, then keyframe clips for motion, add text overlays, go to sound design and add multiple music tracks for tension building, then do sound effects for everything, then add captions, then make the thumbnail, write the post caption, write the post description, then finally i can post

I’ve always liked the idea of making a separate channel where I upload short clips pulled from a main channel’s long form videos. I’ve seen lots of large creators do it but with the current direction Youtube is going I was wondering if anyone has ever received a warning for spam, repetitive or inauthentic content. I have a lot of clips and highlights already ready to go I just don’t want to get myself in trouble.

I'm a relatively smaller YouTuber, only just recently hit 1.33k subs, highest performing video right now is at 31K. I have an offer from TripoAI which a AI-based 3D asset service, pretty much you can make models from uploading pictures or just text-based prompts.

We've agreed on a payment amount that they're going to pay half of upfront and the rest after the video has been published. They have sent me a contract in the form of a .docx document as well as their bank information via pdf. I've read the contract and had ChatGPT go over it as well just in case, it seems legit.

The only thing I have to do apart from giving them my legal name + payment information and sending an invoice is I'd have to do is make an account on their site and send them the email address I used so they can activate a 30-day "Tripo Max Membership" on my account and set up an exclusive code for my audience to use.

I'm a faceless YouTuber so I'm mainly concerned about giving them my information in case they have a reputation for something.

Is this legit or a scam?

Im changing banks, can i use the new account for Adsense?

This sub needs to follow a similar flair structure to /r/AskDocs, where people have to prove they are in the YPP via the flair system (the current one here works well, the one that shows sub-count etc.), and anyone that doesn't is automatically assigned a flair saying "Layperson/not verified as YouTube partner" - I am fed up with the sheer amount misinformation and guesswork that the comments on the threads here have. They are actively giving terrible advice.

I have lost count of the number of times I have read "don't put a business email on your channel because all sponsor offers are scams" like WTAF.

There are also FAR too many threads from people that really belong in /r/newtubers (e.g. "I normally get 150 views per video, now I get only 10), and I see a lot of threads from people who are looking for advice for "starting out".

The tidal wave of people posting about the burden of needing 8,000 watch-hours per year was the final straw - if you cannot get 8k views on a 1 hr video then you would not be making any meaningful income on YouTube anyway.

Other subjects similarly have awful advice and recommendations, to the point where it is clear that the vast majority of commenters here are not actually YouTube partners at all.

This is not meant to be a discouraging "rant" against those just starting out, I wish the best of luck to you, but this sub is supposed to be for partnered YouTubers and the overwhelming majority of posts are not appropriate.

I know this question gets asked often and for no reason. But I feel like my case is interesting.

I created a history channel exactly one year ago. I’m at 42K subs nowadays and my videos average 50K views.

Since I got monetized, a couple of weeks after creating my channel, my RPM was somewhat between $5 to $8. Which is not amazing, but not terrible either.

My audience is men between 18 and 45. Mostly located in France, a little bit in Canada Belgium and Switzerland, and a small part in Africa.

50% of my audience is between 25 and 44.

My watchtime is usually around 50% for videos between 15 and 20mn long. My 30s retention is around 70%.

So on paper my stats are fairly good, right? Yet, in the last couple of weeks, in 5 consecutive videos, my RPM crashed to $3 and below.

One of my video is at 2.99 only! Even tho it has 107K views and 90% from France and Belgium.

How can I explain that?

Thanks!

I joined the Creator Rewards program on Facebook and I'll admit, I wasn't taking it that seriously at first. I have 250K+ YouTube subs and just wanted to earn my $1K/month for 3 months and bounce. But, after YouTube decided to cut Shorts monetization for ~98% of creators (I actually triple the requirements and am safe on one channel but will lose $350/month on another channel with an average of 5M engaged views per 90 days).... I am starting to warm up to Facebook. The reels don't pay well, but... they pay. Now, they're linking shopping as well. I am getting a lot of engagement, nice build of community. I kind of like it there.... mostly because I know I'll get paid for my content no matter what.

First of all my channel might be controversial but it is a lyrics channel (the kind that displays the song's lyrics while it is going in the background). I created it more than 3 years ago after I saw similar lyrics channels with ginormous views. I was foolish because there are so many lyrics channels that fail because there is competition.

I remember copying each line of the lyrics into the video editor on my tablet as auto captions didn't exist (or I was not aware). The lyrics video got 15 views in its first 24 hours but then it exploded and it reached 1.62 million views which was amazing for my first video.

I did post more that reached 40k views and 16k views but the views per video dropped as lyrics channels don't tend to have a community or fan base as they're just there for the music, not the channel itself.

I absolutely smashed the ypp requirements and applied but as I expected it was obviously rejected for unoriginal content. The channel stayed silent but after a year I applied again and my channel was accepted!!!

Well I was overjoyed but instantly I wondered what I could post that would be monetizable. As someone who doesn't even listen to music often it's hard to even come up with ideas. I tried by posting fun facts of music celebs and they did alright but I quickly ran out of things and was uninterested in the topic as a whole.

Recently I decided to post my own things with my own voice (as previously I was nervous to do so) and make a tech short (about two old tablets I had at home). Its something I am more passionate about and have more ideas on.

This post is more about releasing these thoughts because previously i've been dismissed on other yt communities as ''undeserved' (which it maybe was) or 'low effort' with no feedback whatsoever.

(If this is the wrong yt subreddit please direct me to the correct one where I can post this)

I'm tired of seeing people complaining stuff here that YPP youtubers don't even need to worry about. You got your own sub at newtubers. Why are you bringing your problem here when the sub is clearly named "PARTNERED YOUTUBERS" ??. The last few weeks have been post about new youtube rule changes and then the people complaining how they won't reach it or the just starting their channel. I thought I was in newtuber sub but when I double check, its partnered youtube sub instead.

don't get me started when you tried answering them with the harsh truth. They'll just call you out for being negative which is bs. Get your non ypp as* out of here.

This might be incredibly stupid to ask, but I follow a lot of creators that will just use top 40 music constantly in their videos.
Are they buying the rights to every single song or just taking the hit with no adsense?
Or is there some secret third option like a popular catalog you can subscribe to?

I use epidemic and although I love it, sometimes I just want a banger beat that I cant find anything similar to.

The youtuber im specifically thinking about is David Dobrik. I know he has more money than god but hes been using copywright music from the beginning so i figured Id ask if theres a subscription model / site I just havent heard of.

*(not to be a discussion on if you like or dislike the youtuber mentioned. I dont care about that I really just want to know if theres more mainstream music subscription options or if the only way is actually just to buy each song for a buttload of money)*