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title: 'How Much I Made on YouTube with 100,000 Subscribers (Realistic Results)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIAWTwjfgq0'
video_id: 'HIAWTwjfgq0'
date: 2026-08-10
duration_sec: 526
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# How Much I Made on YouTube with 100,000 Subscribers (Realistic Results)

> Source: [How Much I Made on YouTube with 100,000 Subscribers (Realistic Results)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIAWTwjfgq0)

## Summary

This video provides a transparent breakdown of a YouTuber's earnings at 100,000 and 200,000 subscribers, including revenue from top-performing videos and the impact of audience demographics on CPM.

### Key Points

- **First 6 months earnings** [00:42] — From September 30, 2024 to April 2, 2025, the channel gained 3.4 million views, 195,000 watch hours, 100,000 subscribers, and earned $20,118.91.
- **Growth to 200,000 subscribers** [01:35] — From April 2 to August 14, the channel gained 4.2 million views, another 100,000 subscribers, and earned an additional $31,579, totaling roughly $53,000 in the first year.
- **Top video earnings** [02:34] — The best video, 'If your shorts get less than a thousand views, do this,' got 2.1 million views, 100,000 watch hours, 55,000 subscribers, and earned $10,488 with a CPM of $9.46.
- **Second best video earnings** [03:42] — A CapCut tutorial video got 1.3 million views, 80,000 watch hours, 20,000 subscribers, and earned $15,126 due to a higher CPM of $31.
- **Impact of audience on CPM** [04:51] — A travel video targeting Indian audiences earned only $3,556 for 2.5 million views, with a CPM of $1.43, compared to $10,000 for a video with 2.1 million views targeting Western audiences.

### Conclusion

YouTube earnings vary significantly based on audience demographics and niche, with Western audiences yielding higher CPMs. The creator emphasizes that while these numbers are realistic, they are not guaranteed for everyone.

## Transcript

actually make? Now, this is a question I had in my head for about 6 months before I decided to quit my job and go full-time all in on YouTube. So, in this video, I'm basically going to show you how much money I earned with 100,000
subscribers, and then how much I earned with 200,000 subscribers, and then I'm going to go through my top-performing videos and show you how much exactly those videos earned, just so you can get a good kind of like estimate as as to
how much like full-time YouTubers actually make. Maybe you're considering watching this for a bit of inspiration, but I just want to show you the raw numbers behind it. Okay, so we are now in the analytics of my channel. So, I
posted out my first-ever video on this channel the 30th of September 2024. Now, up until the 2nd of April 2025, which is 6 months pretty much exactly, I
gained a total of 3.4 million views, 195,000 195,000 watch hours, 100,000 subscribers, and watch hours, 100,000 subscribers, and $20,118.91.
level like millions of dollars every year, but for 6 months on a brand new channel with only 100,000 subscribers, $20,000 is actually quite good. So, that's what you can expect to earn if you get 3 and 1/2 million views and you
for a lot of you guys, obviously, the 100,000 subscriber range is going to take you a lot longer than 6 months, which is fine, it's not a race, but this [music] is just to show you exactly how much you can expect to earn. So, then
here we have the 2nd of April. So, from the 2nd of April, it then took me a roughly about another 3 to 4 months to hit another 100,000 subscribers. So, within like 10 months, I'd grown to 200,000 subscribers. So, in this period
from the 2nd of April to the 14th of August, I got 4.2 million views, I got watch hours, another 100,000 subscribers, so that now takes me to 200,000. And in this period, I earned another 31,579
period from my first ever video to hitting 200,000 subscribers, I hit roughly around 53,000 dollars, which is quite good for your first ever year on YouTube. Um I just left my job. This was full-time. Um so,
yeah, I I think that's quite good. So, roughly around 53,000 dollars is what you can expect if you hit 200,000 subscribers and you get roughly um 4.2 million views and then 3.5 million views before. So, let's now break it
down into individual videos because this is where it gets quite interesting. So, my best ever video is this one here. If your shorts get less than a thousand views, do this. It got 2.1 million views. It got me nearly 100,000 watch
hours and it got me 55,000 subscribers. Now, as you can see here, even though this this video is posted like back in 2024, it's still pulling in nearly 8,000 views every 48 hours, which is insane. It just keeps going up and up and up.
But anyway, the amount this video made me was 10,488 dollars, which is insane. [music] Like this video probably took me maybe a few
days to put together and it brought in nearly 10 and a half thousand dollars. So, when it comes to revenue, um the revenue per 1,000 dollars is um the revenue per 1,000 dollars is 4.92. The actual CPM is 9.46. So, it's
not too bad. That's that's quite good. It's earned me 25 dollars in super fan >> [music] >> um which isn't great. But then, so this this video got me 2.1 million views and
that was 10,000 dollars. But what you want to see next is actually quite interesting. So, this video is my second best performing on this channel. It got best performing on this channel. It got me 1.3 million views, 80,000 watch
hours, to 20,000 subscribers, but the revenue, bearing in mind this has got revenue, bearing in mind this has got 1.3 and this had 2.1, the revenue for this video got me 15,126 dollars.
Which to me is a lot of money for one single video. All I basically did was teach people how to use CapCut and how to use CapCut to generate videos for YouTube. Which like that's insane. 15,000 dollars of ad revenue is really
cool. So the reason this got so much more is because how much advertisers pay, CPM of 31 dollars compared to the CPM over here of only 9 dollars. So paid more than that because it's usually around like 55% of this, but um I have
no idea what's going on there. But I get 11.62 for every 1,000 views, which is really quite cool. So that's basically kind of like what I'm earning today on may or may not have been aware, I actually used to run a travel channel
the world and I went to loads of different places. And on my travel different places. And on my travel channel, my best ever video got me 2.5 >> And here, this is really going to show you how big the gap of earnings on
YouTube can be. Like the variations between CPMs and RPMs between videos and audiences can be huge. So just as a reference point, back here, this one got me 2.1 million views and it earned me 10,000 dollars,
okay? This video, because it basically targeted young people like you from America, the UK, Canada, and other Western countries. But this video basically targeted Indians and it was in the travel space. So this one got me 2.5
and guess how much it earned me. It earned me 3,556 earned me 3,556 dollars compared to 10,000 there. So it earned like 60% less than this, which is just mind-blowing. And the reason it did
so because if we go to revenue, the revenue per 1,000 views is $1.43. So, that's basically I get paid in British money, it's like a pound per 1,000 views, which is which is nothing compared to like this, which is $11.62
per 1,000 views. So, that's like 10 times more than this video. Look, I'm not actually complaining because I was traveling at the time and my costs were low. Um and a video that all I had to do was ride a train from one city to
another in India, and I got paid nearly like over 3 and 1/2 thousand dollars for good, but it just shows you that it in and who your audience is because the disparity between how much you can get
paid can like vary a lot. Now, you'll see down below, I've actually tagged my new channel into this video because I'm going to set up a brand new channel all targeted about how to leave your 9-to-5 and pursue YouTube as a genuine career
because when I quit my 9-to-5 and started going on YouTube full-time, my right now. You can't really see it here, but I actually have a brand new office full-time. I literally make YouTube videos full-time. I sit here, I'll
>> [music] >> Now, it has genuinely changed my life for the better. I don't have a boss. I have I don't have to come into work with a certain like uniform. I don't have to ask my boss for permission to go and
take a holiday. I am my boss, and I've created a company that pays me as much as like I can earn. So, whenever you see all these numbers on here, this is how much goes straight into my bank account. Now, I know a lot of you guys are
probably watching this right now dreaming and wishing that your channel will get you to a point where you can take it full-time. Uh and I was you at that point. Like, I spent years before I did this dreaming and watching and
looking at how much people earned because I genuinely dreamt of one day quitting the 9-5 which I absolutely hated and taking YouTube full-time. So, all of my down the creator channel it's always been like quick tips and deep
dives and titles and thumbnails, but I realized like sometimes people actually want to see the real raw truths of how to actually quit your 9-5, what to do, all that kind of stuff because I know a lot of you guys you want to quit your
9-5, but you don't really know where to start and what to do. So, in this brand new channel I'm going to uncover the real truths of everything you need to know and everything you need to do to start a successful channel and hopefully
quit your 9-5 down the line and take YouTube full-time. So, if you are made it this far, please do go down there, subscribe and I promise you within the next few weeks I'll start pumping out loads of great content. I'll
all that good stuff. Um but yeah, let's let's show the support early on. Um you enjoyed it. Hope it was somewhat insightful. Um and yeah, I'll see you on insightful. Um and yeah, I'll see you on the brand new channel. Goodbye.