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Post by wrestlingambassador on Mar 19, 2018 22:30:18 GMT
going down since 2014. Ironically, basically since the current YT CEO has taken over how convenient huh?
For real, just take a look at your numbers since you've started and you'll see this is the case. Year after year, since about 2014 the earnings have just kept going down.
Earnings aren't everything, but we've all got to eat something & make a living somehow right?
If you happen to be reading this, please bring this point up to the "monetization specialist"
Thanks.
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Post by squidgamer on Mar 27, 2018 14:43:57 GMT
Agreed. I'm sorry but this is work. You could be covering gaming like I do. Sure playing a video game is fun. But you gotta record and investigate and take notes and try to cover as much of the Key aspects of a game to do a fair review. You need equipment of some sort capture cards etc. Software to edit cut trim and produce a video with and that requires time and effort to just learn the bare bones basics.
I don't think it's easier for other subjects by much. Sure a commentary video may be "Less Work" But notice how I say less work and not easy. You still gotta investigate write script drafts practice and of course record and edit accordingly. Hell even if your videos are nothing but showing off firearms and shooting them for mindless entertainment at inanimate objects. You will have to pay for ammunition, proper recording equipment, safty equipment, firearms training, setting up a area you can shoot in both senses. Not to mention buying lots of firearms gets expensive fast. Hell even just renting a gun. Nor is the process particularly quick and easy.
Politics is a logistical nightmare too. I mean everyone knows it's a violtaile subject. But you gotta do alotta investigating fact checking grabbing examples and elaborating your points in layman's terms. Then of course you have to deal with political activists and trolls who disagree making false reports and generally being a nuisance. Then of course political channels have to bear the full brunt of the abuse from any of youtube's nasty moves.
To be fair being a content creator is work. I'm not going to say it's the hardest work. Or that all channels require the same amount of work. But as it is work I think it's only reasonable that our earnings are protected and reflected fairly. Youtube makes money from the views and traffic. Some better than others. But all channels have the potential of taking off. Personally I think youtube needs to do better in defending us against unfair character assassination. And the wholesale attack of youtubers as a whole. The wall street journal caused both the ad-pocalypse and ad-pocalypse 2.0 not to mention the whole demonetization of Pewdiepie. Like him hate him doesn't matter the WSJ did scrap the bottom of the barrel to attack him. Lucky for Pewdiepie he's already Rich so he don't really care about it too much. Unfortunately that status doesn't apply to us so the WSJ's crusade against youtube and content creators is a low blow that's been hurting us all.
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Post by bigmonmulgrew on Apr 1, 2018 13:46:50 GMT
It really irritates me that many people don't consider it real work. YouTube sells us the dream that we can do what we love for a living. Once we make that jump and start relying on it they screw us over.
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Post by wrestlingambassador on Apr 1, 2018 16:57:06 GMT
It really irritates me that many people don't consider it real work. YouTube sells us the dream that we can do what we love for a living. Once we make that jump and start relying on it they screw us over. For at time, it really could be considered a job. Till YouTube went full....... The $ hasn't been as high, despite having more than ever because? YT employees seem to get dumbfounded, whenever this question is ever bought up. |
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Post by bigmonmulgrew on Apr 1, 2018 17:28:30 GMT
As a small channel I peaked at around $30 a month before the crash, dropped to just a few $0.01 despite my channel doubling in size, posting more regularly and improving content quality. I dread to think what happened to the larger channels
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Post by wrestlingambassador on Apr 1, 2018 19:14:21 GMT
Mine cut in half, even thou WWE's is YouTube's 2nd most viewed channel on YouTube.
So F logic. That said, what's the real reason YT?
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Post by dronetek on Nov 19, 2019 0:52:07 GMT
I was doing good up until my channel was inexplicably demonetized. Now I'm struggling every month. I quit a good IT job of 5 years because i was doing better on the YT channel, then that happened.
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