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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jfim on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:28PM (#20811475)
According to Quora [0], ad revenue from YouTube is about $1 per thousand views. I doubt that programming live streaming is mainstream enough to be sustainable from ads alone.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-YouTube-pay-per-1000-vie...

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by cameronbrown on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:34PM (#20811550)
These metrics are totally inaccurate because different verticals pay different CPMs. Some can be much higher, but I've no idea how programming topics fares.
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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jfim on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:37PM (#20811598)
Even if it's 10x that, and one has 10k viewers, $100 is about one or two hours of work at a FAANG. And there's no health care coverage or free lunch for streamers.
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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by cameronbrown on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:49PM (#20811757)
Bear in mind that most viewers will see multiple ads during the stream, so 10k viewers could be more like 30k impressions.

Well I wasn't necessarily thinking this was being compared to a full time job, just that a channel could be self supporting, but there are ways to get close:

A strong supplement to ads is direct donations/subscriptions. If you've ever seen a YouTube/Twitch chat, people send a LOT of money that way and get their message highlighted/usually responded to for their money. It's not uncommon to see mid-tier YouTubers make hundreds in one stream but its probably the exception and not the rule.

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