Did you know that MrBeast made more than 54 million dollars on Youtube? There are also plenty of people making more than a living on Youtube every day. You can be one of them. Let’s take a closer look at how much YouTubers make and how you can do it too.
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How much do YouTubers make?
How much Youtubers make depends on the niche and the channel’s monetization strategy. Some of the most used monetization strategies are ads and affiliate marketing. Let’s look at how much YouTubers make at different levels of views and CPM.
What is CPM?
CPM stands for cost per millie and that’s the amount of money you’d get paid for 1000 views or 1000 impressions of the ads displayed.
In a low CPM niche, you can expect to earn between $1-$3 per 1000 views. In a high CPM niche, you can expect to earn between $30-$50 per 1000 views.
How much can you make on Youtube with 1000 views/month?
Let’s be conservative and use $6 as your CPM. With 1000 views, you’d make $6.
What if we add an affiliate link? You can promote other people’s products for a cut of the profit. Just include the affiliate link in the description below your video.
Let’s say you make $50 for every person who buys the product from the affiliate link and only 0.1% of your viewers buys the product, with 1000 views per month, you’d make $56.
How much can you make on YouTube with 10,000 views/month?
With 10,000 views you can expect to earn $60/month from displayed ads if your CPM is $6. Of course, if your niche is more profitable, you’ll make more from the ads.
If just 0.1% of people buy from the affiliate link, you can make $500/month from the affiliate product.
That brings the total to $560/month.
How much can you make on Youtube with 100,000 views/month?
With 100,000 views per month, you can expect to earn $5600 from ads and affiliate sales.
How much can you make on YouTube with 1,000,000 views/month?
With 1,000,000 views every month you can expect to earn $56,000 per month.
How do you get 1 million views on Youtube per month?
Everyone wants to make that sweet $56,000 per month on Youtube but how do you actually get 1 million views per month?
Well, you need to be in a niche that has a market. If there’s no market, no one would watch your videos no matter how good it is and there’s probably little to no advertisers willing to have their ads displayed on your video.
You can also produce more videos that are high-quality. Think about this, if you have 200 videos on your channel, you’ll need to get 5000 views per month on each of your videos in order to get to a million views.
Of course, there are other things you can do to help you get more views on your YouTube videos which we’ll cover down below.
Why niche influence how much YouTubers make
Niche influences how much YouTubers make because there are more advertisers who want to advertise under videos talking about finance and tech than scary stories and DIY videos for instance.
Some niche is more lucrative than others. For instance, personal finance is a lucrative niche while language learning isn’t as lucrative as a niche.
How long does it take to start making money on YouTube?
Most profitable Youtube niches to choose from
Below is a list of the most profitable Youtube niches and their corresponding average CPM:
- Make money online — $13.52 average CPM
- Social media marketing — $12.42
- Finance & investing — $12.25
- Educational videos — $9.89
- Photography and filmmaking — $7.31
- Cars — $4.23
- Lifestyle — $3.47
- Fashion and clothing — $3.13
- Entertainment — $2.74
- Cooking — $2.50
- Tech and gadgets — $2.39
- Reviews and reactions — $2.03
- Bodybuilding and fitness — $1.60
- Music — $1.46
- Video games — $1.40
- ASMR — $0.29
- Dance Cover — 0.035
If you’re hoping to make money these are the best niches to be in.
List of other YouTube niches to choose from
Below is a list of other YouTube niches you can try:
- Email marketing
- Insurance
- Unboxing
- Sell house
- Website hosting
- Tech and gadget reviews
- Ecommerce software
- Lawyer
- Lifehacks
- Credit card
- Attorney
- Fail compilations
- Casino
- Mortgage
- SEO
- Online business
- Health and fitness
- VPN
- Loans
- Cryptocurrency
- Food reviews or restaurant reviews
- Dropshipping
- Home repair
- Cooking
- Weight loss
- Career advice
- Kitchen hacks
- Auto repair
- Trading
- Invest
- How-to
- Pranks
- Makeup
- Travel
- Scary stories
- Parody
- Reaction
- DIY
- Art
- Baby
- List type videos
- Pet
- Timelapse
- Educational
- Yoga
- Animated stories
- Lifestyle vlogging
- Motivation
- Book reviews
Do you have to show your face on camera to be a YouTuber?
No, you don’t have to show your face on camera if you don’t want to. In fact, you can use stock footage, animation, and whiteboard drawing instead. Just add a voice-over and/or texts over the footage.
What equipments do you need to be a YouTuber?
This section is for those looking to make professional YouTube videos. If you have a tight budget, check out the section below. Some of the following links are affiliate links.
Cameras:
The cameras below have lenses that can be changed. You can also plug-in with external microphone.
Sony A7S lll:Great for low-light talking head videos, 4K resolution, slow-motion option
Canon EOS R: Great for vloggers who need to see themselves as they film. 4K, touch-screen, LCD, Flip-screen.
Lens:
Sony 24–105: Large focal length of 24–105. You can zoom in a lot and zoom out a lot. If you only have the budget for one lens, this is it.
Microphone
Boya B1M1 (Clip-on microphone): It has to be plugged into your camera and you can clip it on your shirt
RODE video mic pro: Can be plugged into camera for nice crisp sound. Great for daily vloggers and travel vloggers
Blue Yeti: This can be plugged into your laptop. The best desktop microphone for those who record videos sitting
SD card:
Sanddisk extreme: 128gb and 170 mb/s of transfer speed. But really any 128 gb SD card with 95 mb/s of transfer speed is good enough
Tripod:
COMAN professional tripod: 72 inch, 360 degrees fluid head to get all the angles you desire so you can make professional videos
Screen recorder:
Loom
Stock footage:
Storyblock
Video editing software:
Adobe premier
Whiteboard animation:
Videoscribe
YouTuber equipment for those with a <$100 budget
Camera: Your phone! If your budget is tight, your phone will do just fine.
Tripod: It may be worth it to invest in a phone stand so your video is not shaky or filmed from an odd angle.
UBeesize: This item will also come with ring light and a 16″-50″ extendable leg as well as a wireless remote with a lifetime warranty
Microphone: here’s the cheapest microphone that you can get with the highest quality performance. Having a crystal clear voice in the video will make a huge difference in the quality of the video so I would say this is the most important equipment for a Youtuber.
If you can’t afford a microphone, speaking into your phone will do in the meantime. Once you earn some money from YouTube, invest the money into a good mic.
Boya B1M1 (Clip-on microphone): It has to be plugged into your camera and you can clip it on your shirt
Blue snowball: cheapest microphone with the highest quality performance. Plugged into the laptop to use. Not for vloggers who doesn’t sit down when recording videos
Screen recorder: here’s a free screen recorder you can use. If you like it, you can sign up for a premium plan which would allow you to record more than 15 minutes of video.
Screencast-O-matic: You can record your screen for free for 15 min. There’s an online editor you can use. Super beginner-friendly.
You can record in 15 min chunks and edit on iMovie or MovieMaker so you don’t have to pay for the premium plan.
Stock footage: here’re some places you can get free high-quality footage from. It may be a bit limited but it’s a start.
Video editing software: if you’re on Mac, you can use the free iMovie software. It’s easy to use and it’s completely free. If you’re on Windows, you can use MovieMaker. It’s free and beginner-friendly as well.
If you’re looking for a bit more features, these are the best free video editing software out there.
How do you make money from youtube?
There are many ways you can make money from YouTube, let’s look at what some of those ways are.
1. Join the YouTube Partner Program (ads)
What’s the YouTube Partner Program?
This is a program on YouTube that allows you to put ads in your videos. Through the YouTube Partner Program, you can earn money from ads on YouTube.
There are a few rules before you sign up for the YouTube Partner Program:
- You need to live in a country where the YouTube Partner Program is available to you. Click here to find out.
- You must have 1000 subscribers
- You must have 4000 watch hours in the past 12 months
- Your content will not be ad applicable if your video has sexually suggestive content, violence, inappropriate language, harassment, drugs, etc.
Since it’ll take some time before you can make money from ads, you should explore other ways of monetizing your YouTube channel before you hit the milestone.
How much can you make from ads on Youtube?
Depending on the CPM, if your niche has a low CPM, you can expect to earn $1–3 per month for every 1000 views that you get that month. If your niche has a high CPM, you can expect to earn $30–50 for every 1000 views that you get that month.
So if your CPM is $5 and you have 1000 views that month, your income would be $200 that month from the displayed ads.
YouTube Super Chat
This feature is only available for those who are in the YouTube Partners Program. When you go live, the chat would be open allowing people to donate money to you.
Channel memberships
This feature is only available for those who are in the YouTube Partners Program. This would allow people to pay you monthly. The benefits of being a member of your channel would be exclusive content that non-members won’t have access to.
2. Affiliate marketing
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is another main way in which YouTubers get paid for their content on YouTube.
How affiliate marketing works is this: you find a company you want to work with and they give you the link to include in your description or in your video. When someone clicks on the link and buys the product, you’ll get part of the profit.
Where to find affiliate programs to work with?
You can sign up for many of these affiliate programs easily without much hassle while others may take a bit more work to convince them to work with you.
These are the best places to find products/companies with affiliate programs
- Amazon affiliates
- Shareasale
- Clickbank
- Rakuten
3. Sell your own merch
You can sell your own merchandise off of YouTube on print-on-demand stores before you’re able to join the YouTube Partner Program and make money from ads.
What’s a print-on-demand business?
The print-on-demand business is a type of business where you get to upload your design for free to the free store you opened on the platform. When someone buys your product in the form of a hoodie, t-shirt, hat, water bottle, sticker, poster, etc, the design is printed on the corresponding product and sent to your customer’s home all without you handling the shipment or the physical product itself.
How do you get people to buy your merch?
Just by simply uploading your design onto a POD store, you won’t’ get any sales. You’ll have to find a way to pitch the product to an audience. This is why YouTube is a great place to be. It gets you in front of many people who may buy your merch to support you if they like what you create.
4. Have a Patreon account
Patreon allows your fans to support you directly with a donation (one-time or monthly). You can offer exclusive offers for your Patreon supporters.
For people who support you on Patreon, you can give them free content that no one else will be able to see.
Alternatives to Patreon
There are other similar sites to Patreon such as Buy Me A Coffee or Tipeee with similar functions.
5. Endorse sponsored content
Sponsored content works like this: you talk about the company, product, service in your video and give your viewers a link so they can check it out.
How is sponsored content different from affiliate content?
The difference is that with affiliate content, you’ll earn recurring income every time someone clicks on the link and buys the product. With sponsored content, you talk about the product once and that’s it. You get paid once, you don’t get paid more.
How much can you earn from sponsored content?
This data was taken from WebFX if you want to read the article, click here.
If a YouTuber has 10,000 subscribers, they can make $200 per video of sponsored content.
If a YouTuber has 100,000 subscribers they can make $2,000 per video of sponsored content.
If a YouTuber has 1,000,000 subscribers they can make $20,000 per video of sponsored content.
How to get sponsorship deals on YouTube?
You can check out the following places if you want to find sponsorship deals on YouTube.
- Grapevine Logic: you’ll need at least 1000 followers if you want to join
- Channel Pages: you’ll be able to partner with brands and other YouTubers
- Crowdtap: no minimum number of followers. You can complete content tasks to get paid in money or other forms of rewards
Some sponsorship deals pay you the product and some pay you in money. Choose what is best for you.
6. Create a course to sell to your YouTube subscribers
Many people after realizing that you can make a lot of money selling courses would go on to create courses that ended up not making them any money if at all. This is because you need an audience to sell to.
You can try to sell your course on Udemy where people can find your course with a simple search but without reviews, it’d be hard for anyone to choose your course over others that have a lot more reviews.
Once you have built up some following on Youtube, you can make a course to sell to your viewers. Those who click on a video would have a certain purpose. For example, those who searched “How to make money with youtube” and clicked on your video want to learn to do exactly that. You can create an in-depth course to teach people how to make money with Youtube.
What is the best length for a YouTube video?
The most ideal length for a YouTube video to be is 10 minutes but anywhere from 7–15 minutes is good.
Most YouTube videos are over 10 minutes. In fact, YouTube videos have gotten longer in the last few years. This increases the watch time and that means, it takes less time for you to join YouTube Partner Program. Longer videos also mean that you can play more ads.
If you can keep your video interesting throughout the whole thing, shoot for at least 10 minutes.
If you want to optimize the chance of monetization, your video should be at least 8 minutes in length to give you time for mid-role ads.
You’ll need to verify your account to be able to upload content longer than 15 minutes.
The intro of your video should be under 30 seconds otherwise your viewers may get bored and click off.
How do you make your videos go viral on YouTube?
Someone who can make viral video after viral video is MrBeast. If you’re interested in how much he makes and how he did it, click here.
Most viral videos hit one or more of these categories
- Reaction video
- Money related
- Pranks
- Challenges
- Drama
- Include other famous Youtubers
To make a viral video on YouTube, you should try to hit as many of these categories as possible in the same video.
8 Tips for new YouTubers to help you succeed
As a new YouTuber, you’ll benefit from knowing these 10 tips. These are tips that people took years to learn. If you can implement it in your Youtube career, you may see a faster result.
1. Start a blog for your brand as well
A blog will outearn Youtube
Why would you start a blog if you already have a youtube channel? Well, because with a blog you’ll be able to outearn your Youtube channel. A blog will outearn any successful Youtube channel in most cases. If you don’t have a blog set up, you’re doing something wrong.
Reach your audience personally with an email address
The reason why you can earn more with a blog compared to your Youtube channel is that you can connect to our audience on a deeper level with a blog. You’ll have their email address to personally contact them. something you ant’ do with a Youtube channel.
Protect yourself from Youtube’s algorithm
Another important thing to note is that Youtube is not your own platform despite them saying that it’s “your” youtube channel. They can remove your video at any time if they so choose. There is a lot more restriction when you release your content on someone else’s platform and you’re at the mercy of their algorithm. If they suddenly change the algorithm so that nobody finds your videos anymore, you may see your earnings drop significantly. Try not to rely on just one platform to build your brand. You must have your own platform if you want to build a successful brand.
Ads have higher click through rates when it’s on a blog
If you want someone to click on the ads and make you money, you can bet that a blog will get you more clicks than a youtube channel. This is another reason why you should start a blog
Hosting service
The best hosting service I would recommend is HostGator. They have an awesome live chat service.
2. Know what your audience wants to see
You can make any videos you want but if no one is searching for it, no one is going to click on your video and watch it. One way to know what your audience wants to see is to go to your competitor’s channel and see their comment section. Oftentimes, the viewers would comment on what they want to see in their next videos.
3. Just start
Something that a lot of new YouTubers do is that they feel like they have to make their first video perfect so they spend a lot of time researching gears, redesigning logos, rewriting the summary, and reshooting the same scenes. Or, thinking about starting a Youtube channel but never really starting it.
Just start. You won’t make your best videos in the beginning. In fact, most first videos on any channel are the worst video. You’ll pick up some things as you go along but you must start.
4. Have a consistent look and feel in your channel
Your brand needs to have a consistent feel and look so when someone saw your video in the suggestion, they know it’s you and would be more likely to click on your video since they had a good experience with it before.
Use the same font and the same color theme for your thumbnail and logo.
5. Treat it like a business and take it seriously
A lot of people will think that they’ll take their youtube channel seriously once they start to gain more momentum. If you want to make a living with Youtube or even just make money with youtube, you need to treat it like a business and take it seriously in the beginning. Once you start doing that, you’ll realize that the pace at which your channel grows becomes faster.
6. Don’t be afraid to experiment
Don’t be afraid to experiment with different ways of shooting your content and editing your content. This will tell you what works best for your viewers and what your viewers want to see.
For instance, you may realize that your viewers respond better to stock footage rather than animation.
7. Don’t fake a persona
A lot of people will come to YouTube and completely copy someone else’s persona because they’re doing so well. Don’t fake it. Your viewers will either see right through you or you’ll be tired of faking it one day and stop uploading new content.
8. Be consistent
It’s better to upload one video per week than to upload five videos at once and then not upload anything for the next two months. If you don’t stick to a schedule your viewers will not know what to expect from you and would lose interest.
Afterthought
There is still a lot of potential on Youtube so if you want to make money on Youtube, you need to start now. You have nothing to lose. Go implement what you learned and start creating content now.
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