YouTube Creator Earnings

Although his video does have 130k views and I'm sure he picked up a ton of subscribers too...... So he's making money there too.

I doubt that your video is making Youtube any money with a 1000 views a month on a niche subject. Yet they let you stay on their platform, for free.Most videos like yours aren't made to make $2 extra each month, they're made because people wanted to share the information. Youtube provides a platform, allowing people to distribute videos, for free. The most prolific content producers are given a cut of the profit, or make their advertising deals.

People make the videos, and then sometimes youtube pays them for it.

I have seen youtubers who live off youtube with average video views of 20-30k per upload.If an ad plays on 1/10 videos, and each ad makes the person 0.1 cent its still (30 million * 0.1 * 0.1) / 100 = 3 thousand dollars. Now take into account the added subscribers this adds which will make all future videos more profitable, and that I'm probably underestimating ad revenue, it is worth it.

have you seen how much youtubers earn?

Currently the top YouTube channels make around 10-30K a month from ads and sponsorships (some much more). They put out really quality stuff. Just go look at the top subscribed channels and you will find some really great video creators. What your asking for already exists, it happened naturally as people became more and more popular on YouTube.I highly recommend this guy, he has over a million subscribers: http://bit.ly/b4aivv and you shoul

This video has 1.7 million views. Old estimates, before YouTube cranked up the ads to an unbearable level, were $1-$3 per 1000 views, and that's just for ads, not the sponsorship.Besides, it's also his hobby. I have no doubt his channel is at the very least financing his hobby.If you look at even more popular Youtubers, yes, YouTube can be extremely profitable and justify immense production values.

Most content creators have links to support them with donation or patreon.Once a year choose 3 small youtubers (larger ones are already multi-millioners, they don't need your help) and drop them $5 each.Now you just did 1000% of what they could get from you watching ads.

Having a YouTube channel with 1M+ subscribers and videos that get 5M+ views each is a much more profitable and generally better gig than SpaceX employee #10,000+ working 60-80 hours a week in a high pressure culture.

Running a YouTube channel is not a viable way to make a living unless you have an existing audience or get blessed by the algorithm. There is an oversupply of people making video content, and only a small portion of them succeed. Plus you are at the mercy of YouTube’s frequently changing ad revenue terms (the “Ad-pocaplyse”) and opaque demonetization/takedown rules.