Some facts on what 'clicks' really pay....

[Michaels HiFi]

I often read how many think we get rich of 'click' of our videos.

And I tell them that unless you are getting millions of clicks there is no money to be made. Yet people refuse to believe.

So I though I'd share a screen shot of the stats from my last 7 days on YouTube.

38,000 views and I made ~$9.

That won't even cover the electricity costs of making the content to post for that week.

Facebook is even less. My Facebook page received 15 MILLION views over the last 12 months. By the time FB allows you to "monetize" it, and you pay all their fees, my income was less than the cost of one pair of nice tubes.

Not complaining. I love making content and sharing with you guys. But unless you are like the ones who charge $2500 just to mention a room on your video at a show, or pretend you just happen to want to talk about them on. your videos and fail to mention that big fat check they wrote you (yes that is going on with certain YouTubers right now), this really is about the love and passion and not the money.

 

[Mr Peabody]

I didn't realize you got paid for clicks, especially on FB. No wonder when I watch a YT video most people say, if you like what you see subscribe and click like.

 

[Michaels HiFi]

I didn't realize you got paid for clicks, especially on FB. No wonder when I watch a YT video most people say, if you like what you see subscribe and click like.

You need to reach a certain threshold before they even allow you to apply to monetize.

The action of liking or subscribing doesn't actually count towards pay.

It used to count towards how much YT or FB would organically promote your content. It became a circle-jerk - they only promoted the stuff with the highest subscribers so then people would only see the same narrow limited content over and over. This led to the feeling by viewers it was difficult to discover new 'better' content than the more popular mediocre stuff.

So now FB and YT - FB specifically - have made it worse and have virtually stopped completely organic promotion and are only promoting paid advertised content. This is why it's gotten worse with you seeing paid content on FB that has nothing to do with your interests: FB doesn't care. The more they push out stuff to wrong people the faster the advertisers will burn through their budgets forcing them (theoretically in the eyes of FB) to have to spend more on ad budgets.

It's having the opposite affect and is fueling the exodus of users from FB to other platforms.

Youtube isn't quite that bad yet but it's getting there.

 

[Kingrex]

I watch a few youtube posters. Not audio. Just content I like. They all have adds they drop. Obvious adds. They openly say, Our Sponsor, then they do a bit in their video.

I was going to make a house remodel video of my place. Wife shot that down. The hope was enough likes I could get Miele or Gaggenue to give me an appliance for 4 or 5 video where I use the product and talk about it.

I did not realize they ask for likes to gain organic sorting by Youtube. But it makes sense

I made the mistake of liking a china romcom on Prime Video. I had to go into my queue and dislike every china romcom for a week before it stopped serving them up. And months later It tries to drop them again. I simply hit a down thumb in the Queue and it goes away for a while.

Yes it does suck how they pigeon hole you into a toilet swirl of same old same content.

Oddly I enjoy the EV car crap they push. But I'm still in the market. Sadly looks like Teala and maybe Rivisn are the only manufacturer pushing towards autonomous driving capability. All the rest are 10 years or more back. Tesla is there. Rivian is close. Maybe.

 

[Mike]

I watch a few youtube posters. Not audio. Just content I like. They all have adds they drop. Obvious adds. They openly say, Our Sponsor, then they do a bit in their video.

I was going to make a house remodel video of my place. Wife shot that down. The hope was enough likes I could get Miele or Gaggenue to give me an appliance for 4 or 5 video where I use the product and talk about it.

I did not realize they ask for likes to gain organic sorting by Youtube. But it makes sense

I made the mistake of liking a china romcom on Prime Video. I had to go into my queue and dislike every china romcom for a week before it stopped serving them up. And months later It tries to drop them again. I simply hit a down thumb in the Queue and it goes away for a while.

Yes it does suck how they pigeon hole you into a toilet swirl of same old same content.

Oddly I enjoy the EV car crap they push. But I'm still in the market. Sadly looks like Teala and maybe Rivisn are the only manufacturer pushing towards autonomous driving capability. All the rest are 10 years or more back. Tesla is there. Rivian is close. Maybe.

Cadillac is close too. My EV Cadillac is quite good. My daughters Tesla in self drive mode has a mind of its own.

 

[Kingrex]

Cadillac is close too. My EV Cadillac is quite good. My daughters Tesla in self drive mode has a mind of its own.

Problem mind? The vids I have seen show it as very safe. Safer than we are. But it will take the heck long way around to a store you never imagined. Enough so you take over and force it back to a normal route.

My wife not only does not like to drive, she sucks at it too. I thought a self drive to her hair stuff or doctors might be a benefit. Especially in the dark, rainy days of Seattle.

I personally like the Mercedes EQS with quiet glass, leather, Heads Up Display, Comfort Seat package. The world is out there. Suck range. But enough to get me to Portland where friends live, then a second jaunt on down to Eugene to see family.

 

[Michaels HiFi]

I like and have owned hybrids.

Too many friends get stranded here in Texas due to the heat with their electric only cars. No way I'd trust them with our weather here.

 

[Kingrex]

I'm in Seattle. Perfect weather for EV. I have a Mercedes gas guzzler that can pull my boat and a Porsche Cayman S. Electric will make a great around town car. A straight shot to Eugene I would want gas.

But, it seems to be the EV manufacturer that are pushing the self driving capability. That may change as Rivian has been contracted to advance technology for the Porsche/Audi/Volkswagen group. As well as Mercedes. That may pull their whole fleets forward. But those manufacturer still need to add powerful computers as well as hardware to see the roads. That's additional $$$ on top of an already expensive technology. Gigacasting a EV and the lack of complex motors and transmission is pushing the cost of a quality EV below $50k.

 

[Mike]

Problem mind? The vids I have seen show it as very safe. Safer than we are. But it will take the heck long way around to a store you never imagined. Enough so you take over and force it back to a normal route.

My wife not only does not like to drive, she sucks at it too. I thought a self drive to her hair stuff or doctors might be a benefit. Especially in the dark, rainy days of Seattle.

I personally like the Mercedes EQS with quiet glass, leather, Heads Up Display, Comfort Seat package. The world is out there. Suck range. But enough to get me to Portland where friends live, then a second jaunt on down to Eugene to see family.

The reality is that it can swerve uncontrollably when it gets confused (like on a country road). It’s not foolproof as the promotions may lead you to believe. It’s good, but you have to be alert - especially on lesser known roads.