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There are a few smaller youtube channels I follow and really enjoy their content.
I assume they generate their revenue from the ads.
Do they still get paid if I choose the skip option after a few seconds?
I am happy to watch the crappy ads if it helps them produce their stuff.
Watching ads doesnt matter.
Roughly, they get paid an amount per view of their video, based on the number of subscribers they have. (think its a bit more complicated than that)
Believe they need a minimum of 1,000 subscribers to start to be paid (and then its a really small amount)
I think marketing data on who is skipping your ads is likely to be as valuable, if not more so, than who is watching them.
There is nothing that I get in my YouTube stats that show which bits of the video you are skipping. Just the retention time, which is the total time you spent watching it I assume.
Having said that, I don't get any money from my videos. I just make them as a warning to others about what might happen
A video earlier in the year from a smaller channel I follow stated that they do get paid more when people watch the whole ads vs skipping as soon as they can.
When I'm watching on my tv I let the ads roll unless they are one of those shitty annoying ones.
If YouTube serves me long unskippable ads for unpalatable things I go back and reselect it until it gives me shorter ones. Sometimes when it does it in the middle of videos I quit the video altogether. Consumerism can get in the bin, as can the gambling industry.
Roughly, they get paid an amount per view of their video, based on the number of subscribers they have. (think its a bit more complicated than that)
This is not true.
Youtubers get paid for successful ads campaigns run on their channels.
Advertisers putting video ads on Youtube will pay only when a certain proportion of their ad has been viewed. It's a teird scale. If you skip within 5 seconds then the advertiser won;t pay anything for that view. Only when view time is longer than that does the advertiser pay for the view. I think the full rate is payable after about 75% of the ad has run - it's something like that.
If nothing is paid by the advertiser then there's nothing to split between Youtube (40%) and the Youtuber (60%).
They DO get a share of subs revenue from anyone who watches the video who happens to be a YouTube Red subscriber. But that is a tiny amount in proportion to viewers who do see ads.
The general rule is that if ads don't get watched then no one gets paid. There are few exceptions. The more of the ad you watch the more the youtuber will earn.
So for channels we want to 'support', we should let the adverts roll as long as we can bear?
Matt - that is my understanding (Mark said differently on another thread last week but i think he was confusing web ads with google ads).
Display ads are google ads. Well 80% of them are.
No confusion. Youtubers get paid depending on how much of the ads get watched. There's a minimum time threshold under which nothing gets paid to anyone. Youtubers get a share of subscription revenue from those who pay youtube to go ad free. What they get is down to how long a youtube subscriber spends watching the channel.
If you are a youtube ad free subscriber and you pay £12.99/month then 60% of that amount will be shared among ALL the channels you watch in that month. If you view 13 channels equally (in terms of watch time) then each channel will earn 60p.
For those that see ads, yes.. The more you watch of the ads the more you will contribute to the youtuber. If you skip the ads before the initial threshold of 5 seconds (That may vary depending on the type of ad) then you will not be supporting the channel financially.
Web ads or display ads as they are known work in the main as PPC ads.ie. pay-per-click ads. This basically means the advertiser will be billed when their ad gets a click. No clicks = no money flowing down the pipe to the publisher. What the publisher gets is often shown on a report as a CPM ie cost per 1000 views of the ad. This is just an accounting trick that makes it seem like every person who views an ad is contributing to the final amount the publisher gets. But the reality is that if all the ads displayed get no clicks then the CPM rate would be zero. If an Advertiser pays £1/click and the ad gets 1 click after 1000 views of the ad then the publisher will get a report saying the ad paid £1CPM. Only that 1 person who clicked the ad contributed to the amount the publisher got. The other 999 who didn't click the ad contributed nothing.
Display ads have to work or the system doesn't.And by work I mean the ads need to be engaged with. The same goes for Youtube video ads. The ads need to be engaged with in order to generate money. Skipping them does not help the youtuber.
The more of the ad you watch the more the youtuber will earn.
I block ads, but I do make payments to YouTubers who's channels I watch frequently. Its often just £20.00 or so each time, but I reckon still probably more than they'd get from me if I watch ads.
If we are talking really small channels, if they have less than 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours viewed in the last year, you can't monetize your channel so they get nothing anyway. If they are popular enough and have chosen monetization then yes it does relate to ads but also you could have things like 'channel membership' that pays directly the youtuber. https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_uk/howyoutubeworks/product-features/monetization/
Believe they need a minimum of 1,000 subscribers to start to be paid
You need 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours in the last 365 days to monetise the account, even then it's something silly like £0.0002p per click on an advert
I have 1k subscribers, but only 2750 watch hours if anyone wants to subscribe and leave "play all" on while you go out riding!
https://youtube.com/@ukgravelco?si=fRFgVIldt_hf705K
Youtubers do get paid for watching the whole ad rather than skipping it. My mate runs a Youtube Channel (approx 25k) and has confirmed this. He has also devised a script whereby the computer starts the video, watches the adverts and video in full, then automatically refreshes the page and starts again when the video has ended. This is run 24/7 and he reckons it makes more money than it costs to run the laptop that it is on... Genius.
even then it’s something silly like £0.0002p per click on an advert
No. The person who clicked will have triggered a large payment from the advertiser. The £0.00002p is if you then take that amount and divide it up by 1000 and attribute it to every viewer.
This is run 24/7 and he reckons it makes more money than it costs to run the laptop that it is on… Genius.
Trivial to detect though as the same browser and IP address and just watching the same Ad and also the same IP as the owner of the channel....
No. The person who clicked will have triggered a large payment from the advertiser. The £0.00002p is if you then take that amount and divide it up by 1000 and attribute it to every viewer.
I'm getting the full 0% of it 🤣
isn't there an alogrithm that ranks videos over 10 minutes higher?
Unfortunate really as there's some absolute dribble out there now where the useful info could be condensed into a couple of watchable minutes, but sadly, they just drone on.. bit like the megasack vids I suppose 😉
If it’s over 10 minutes then YouTube will insert a mid roll ad in it. This makes those videos more valuable.