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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by CamelRocketFish on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:57AM (#31106693)
This is incorrect. Having had videos with millions of views myself, the ad money is less than $3k. I doubt that would cover the cost of the plane.
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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by londons_explore on Thursday April 21, 2022 @06:11AM (#31107657)
Ad revenue varies widely. Somewhere between $1k/million views and $10k/million views is most common.

Don't forget that each view on a big video is a chance of a subscription by that user, which leads to more views on followup videos, more sharing, more chance of sponsorships, etc. So the total revenue earned by a 'hit' video is actually much larger than it appears.

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