Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make?

Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by munificent on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:23PM (#17339961)

For a system with as insanely long of a tail as YouTube, statistics like this aren't helpful or illuminating.

I have a couple of videos of my kids on YouTube to share with friends. I am technically a "YouTuber", but obviously I make zilch. For every person trying to use YouTube to actually be a video producer, there are hundreds of people who just use it as a video hosting site.

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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by giarc on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:50PM (#17340172)

You likely wouldn't be included since you don't meet the lower limit for a monetized channel (I'm assuming).

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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by basseq on Monday June 18, 2018 @02:55PM (#17340713)

Ah ha! I think that's it. The denominator could be "people in the YouTube Partner Program", which means 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. So this may be saying that only 3.5% of YouTube Partners make $12k+ from that program.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851#eligibility

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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by VectorLock on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:50PM (#17341138)

Is that what the article means? I wasn't able to find anything that explicitly states that but maybe I overlooked it. Would make the conclusions much more cogent.

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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by munificent on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:57PM (#17341643)

Oh, it wasn't clear to me that they were limiting their statistic to monetized accounts.

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