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.