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Subscriber counts don't decline, with how old youtube is now, and how little competition there was back in the day, you can have a long running channel (like vi
by ametrau 3y ago
Subscriber counts don't decline, with how old youtube is now, and how little competition there was back in the day, you can have a long running channel (like vice's) with very little active viewership. How are the views on their recent videos?
- mvdtnz 3y agoLooks like they're regularly 100k-500k views with a few outliers every few months in the millions and a couple of times a year hitting 5M. I have no idea how this translates to income.
- notatoad 3y agojust anecdotally, among the youtubers i follow those seems like view counts which would allow a solo creator to quit their day job and hire a part-time editor.
- kombookcha 3y agoI'm beginning to see the issue. That's 1,5 employees covered by the youtube money, now for the remaining 2998,5...
- ejb999 3y agoAs someone who has never even tried to monetize youtube, I am shocked that having that sized audience still can't make a go at it as a FT job. Guess I will stick to programming.
- kombookcha 3y agoI suppose this is why most of the big channels are very upfront about how their bread is buttered by Patreon and merch far more so than youtube adbux.