Also, youtube commented on this how most of affected channels wasn't making much money anyway.

Their earnings algorithm looks at everything, besides content they look at who's watching including age. Then they adapt the ads to the combination of all these factors. Kids and teens make a lot more money than the average age of 30 yrs old of my viewers. Add to that the content they rather get rid of, and you get your shitty average.

But the most loss i had was because they simply demonitize most of my videos so those videos don't make money at all despite millions of views. So now i only get paid for the few videos that are monetized, who have those shitty rates as well.

People don't jump to 1000 subscribers overnight. There are many people that post great content that gets a fair amount of views but not everyone is going to subscribe right away.

They are just making people provide content for free for a greater period of time.

And there will always be people on there posting videos of their dog or a kid showing his pokemon collection. Those idiots won't go away since they never intended to make money anyway.

^^^ This!

:2 cents:

You mean no adds are shown on those videos at all? Even if you post a link to those videos here, we click, we won't be shown any ads?

Does the algorithm account for quality of subscribers?

I have a small channel with 36 subs. Every single one has an Arabic name. My 36 Arabic subs are of no comparison to 36 New York City based subs.

Correct, sir. They've recently also added an 'in between' label, just to calm creators down which says "Not suitable for most advertisers". This means it does get ads but only from companies advertising on Youtube who checked the option "Show my ads on controversial / offensive videos". You can imagine almost no companies check that option, so in reality the video is still not making any money.

Instead of using YouTube as the moneymaker, is it possible to use it as a free traffic source that you funnel into a target site of yours that allows you to control your users and monetization methods?

Example: maybe your YouTube channel is about gardening (highly controversial!) You use your gardening videos to push users to your primary website. From your primary website you give away additional quality free content so people keep coming to your website once they 1st land. You also create a mailing list in which you give away something special to all mailing list subscribers. Now you have your own website that you can monetize directly from, and more importantly, a mailing list (massive value) to monetize from even further.

What is $250 in lost YouTube advertising money anyway when you can sell direct niche products and services from your website and mailing list?

From my little channel, I see people come to my target website and click around, purchase, etc. Instead of looking at YouTube as the moneymaker, look at it as a traffic source.

Wow losing 80% of your revenue sucks man! Sorry to hear that. :(

But $1 per thousand views? No wonder so many people sit there making video after video all day long.

I agree with Sly: try using YT as a traffic source, a funnel, and not the $ maker. At only $50 a month now you don't have much to lose trying that strategy. :)

Think about Youtube as free advertising for your other websites. Shoot a "great" videos with advertising for you other website.

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