Youtube Monetization

AndyManCam

AndyManCam

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Hey all!

I was hoping for a few opinions on monetization.


Firstly, who uses it and what kind of success are you getting out of it?

Second, when did you start adding adverts to your videos? Straight away or after the video has accrued a few views?

The reason I am asking is because I have been sticking ads on my videos since pretty early on, but now I am starting to wonder if that is the reason that my channel is being very slow to grow?

I've been Motovlogging for about a year now and I'm pretty confident that my content is good, and the quality of my videos has only gotten better and better. I like to think that I add a lot of production value to the stuff I create.

Only problem is, the traffic isn't happening.

Today I went through ALL of my videos (about 60!) and removed ALL adverts to see if it is indeed affecting people's likelihood to watch, or switch off.

Any and all input is very welcome here.

Who knows, maybe my videos are just crap!!
 
You need thousands of subscribers and thousands of hits to start seeing the $$$. Generally if you have a new channel-not too many people will put up with the ads. My recommendation- just me you and do it for the fun of it. Months/years down the road- if you make it big, then even better.
 
Yeah I agree. All the ads are off now. Well, except for 'display ads'. The one to the right of the video. YouTube is going to put there anyway, so I may as well make $1 a century out of it!
 
I'll be interested to see how much difference in traffic you get. I imagine most people who get annoyed with ads use ad blockers anyway.
 
I won't bother doing that with my vlogging channel because the amount of views it has is laughable. Each video gets as much as 10~15 views before dying. Unless I suffer because of something like a challenge. Those get at least 500 views but I'm not on facebook right now so I can't pick up new challenges to do.
Also, I hate ads, last thing I'll do is put ads in the face of my subscribers. That may change later.

I have got another youtube channel which I monetize, I started last year about the same time I launched my vlogging channel.
The income source is advertising in the channel and it has another vlog linked.
The channel has 300k views since 2009. About 8k/month.
The blog has 82k views. About 2k/month.
Let's translate that into money, so far I got $160. About $90/year from both sources. It doesn't even pay the monthly internet fee of my crappy ISP.
 
Yeah those are pay per click, etc. Like peeps have said above, it's about the traffic, as for being noticed, that is hard some get lucky fast and some take a bit, and unfortunately, some don't make it at all.
 
Another thing as annoying as ads is over-branding and trying to keep me watching your channel by means of annotations and "watch next" suggestions.
"Watch next" is annoying and intrusive and breaks youtube on mobile phones.
"Over branding" is just pointless, you should stick with a watermark on your videos OR the logo overlay, not both. Even then, Is it really necessary? I'm watching a vlogger, not "channel 5 News", the logo is not needed. I can remember who I'm listening to, thank you very much.

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Yeah, that stuff annoys me too. I try and keep that to a minimum!

Pointless recording all that lovely footage and filling it with badly formatted youtube annotations! (even the well formatted ones still look crap imo!)

I've recently even started policing my subs thumbnail crimes too! If they have a thumbnail of a girl on a bike, and she's not in the video... Well then it's goodbye from my subscriptions list!

At least with the banner as on screen, you can switch them off so you can see everything.
 
It's already been said, but I think for the time being you should just enjoy the journey. When you grow larger as a content creator—as I'm sure you will—then you can consider monetizing. There are some motovloggers who didn't consider monetizing until they reached 50k+ subscribers. By that time, they've gained such a following that it doesn't bother their subscribers to see an ad here or there as long as the content is still what they've come to know and enjoy.
 
The only reason I would monetize my vlogs would to be to give back to the community like giving away cameras or something along that line but my channel is way too small to generate any kind of $
 
At first I did setup monetization but have since disabled it. I myself find ads annoying on videos I watch and really unless you have alot of subscribers an tons of views, is it really worth it? I have my channel and make my videos for fun, to document my rides and also promote places I go. Good for those who can make money off it and a living, not for me though.
 
Personally I don't think it matters, everyone has gotten used to ad blockers and just skip ads anyways
 
I agree with @R.E. ads are everywhere. As long as you don't get a long non-skippable (not seen any for a while actually), they're OK.

I have monetisation on, and as @thezattack says, it would be used to give a bit back to the subscribers, or I would split the money between the Yorkshire Air Ambulance or the Whiteknights (local blood bikes). At the moment, I've made single digit dollars, and I've spent more on stickers, and the postage costs will be more than the stickers cost to buy if I send them out as singles, but some subscribers like stickers, and I'm grateful to them for watching, so I send them. It has been about a 50:50 split as to stickers going to other vloggers or to non-vlogging subs.
 
Lurch said:
I agree with @R.E. ads are everywhere. As long as you don't get a long non-skippable (not seen any for a while actually), they're OK.

I have monetisation on, and as @thezattack says, it would be used to give a bit back to the subscribers, or I would split the money between the Yorkshire Air Ambulance or the Whiteknights (local blood bikes). At the moment, I've made single digit dollars, and I've spent more on stickers, and the postage costs will be more than the stickers cost to buy if I send them out as singles, but some subscribers like stickers, and I'm grateful to them for watching, so I send them. It has been about a 50:50 split as to stickers going to other vloggers or to non-vlogging subs.
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If you want awesome stickers I would talk to "spacep0d" dude is awesome at that stuff. I've made like $1 so far but I think that any money made off youtube (as long as you are not like super in need of money) should be put back into the youtube channel to make better content. Like if I ever made enough then that money would go to a dirtbike or snowmobile or more cameras... stuff like that so that I can create more content
 
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