How Much Money YouTube Paid Me After 1000 Subscribers (My First 6 Months as a Monetized Creator)

[00:00] In this video, I'm going to share with

[00:01] you how much YouTube paid me in the

[00:03] first 6 months after hitting 1,000

[00:06] subscribers. So, to give you a bit of

[00:08] context, I started this channel in April

[00:10] of this year. And for the first 6 weeks,

[00:13] you can see that my videos were getting

[00:15] basically no views at all. I mean, I

[00:17] remember posting some videos that were

[00:19] getting less than 10 views each. And of

[00:22] course, to pour your heart and soul into

[00:23] your videos and for them to get

[00:26] essentially no views, it does sting a

[00:28] little bit. like let's just be honest

[00:29] with each other. But I knew I had to

[00:32] keep going. And I think it was the 12th

[00:34] video that I posted, which is this one

[00:37] right here, is the one that really,

[00:39] really took off. And you can see that in

[00:41] the 8 days after posting that video, my

[00:43] channel hit 1,000 subscribers and I got

[00:46] monetized just a couple weeks after

[00:48] that, which was such a crazy feeling.

[00:51] Like, I never expected in my wildest

[00:54] dreams for the channel to take off that

[00:56] quickly. Now, if you're unsure about how

[00:59] monetization on YouTube works, you

[01:01] essentially need two requirements to get

[01:03] monetized. So, you need to hit 1,000

[01:06] subscribers and also 4,000 watch hours.

[01:10] And for most people, myself included,

[01:12] they will hit 1,000 subscribers first

[01:15] and then it usually takes a little bit

[01:16] longer to hit 4,000 watch hours. So, for

[01:20] me, it took 59 days to hit 1,000

[01:22] subscribers after posting my first

[01:25] video. and it took 71 days to hit 4,000

[01:28] watch hours. So that's around 10 weeks.

[01:30] And once you hit those requirements, you

[01:32] have to actually apply to get monetized.

[01:35] So after I applied, it took about 8 days

[01:37] for me to actually start earning money

[01:39] from AdSense. So now let's dive into how

[01:42] much money YouTube actually paid me in

[01:44] my first 6 months of being [music]

[01:46] monetized. Okay, so we'll start off with

[01:48] month number one. And the reason I'm

[01:50] doing it month by month is because later

[01:53] in the video, I want to show you

[01:55] something about how the amount of money

[01:56] that you make per 1,000 views actually

[02:00] changes as you get further into the

[02:02] partnership program. And I think you're

[02:04] going to find that really interesting.

[02:05] So, in June, my channel received 102,000

[02:09] views. I gained 3.9,000

[02:12] subscribers and I made a grand total of

[02:15] $8.74,

[02:18] which sounds really bad, but it's only

[02:20] because I only actually got paid for the

[02:22] last day of the month. So, let's move on

[02:25] to July. Now, this was my first full

[02:28] month of being monetized, and this month

[02:30] was absolutely insane because I actually

[02:32] had two videos that were popping off at

[02:35] the same time. So, you can see that my

[02:36] views were much higher. So, I received

[02:39] 167,000 views, 5.7,000

[02:43] subscribers, which is crazy. And I got

[02:45] paid a grand total of $67529.

[02:52] Now, of course, this isn't life-changing

[02:54] money. You know, I definitely can't live

[02:56] on this as a monthly income, but to me,

[02:59] this is still amazing. You know, it pays

[03:01] for some bills and maybe a few nights

[03:03] out in the month. And also, just to be

[03:05] fully transparent, this isn't the main

[03:07] way that I make money from this channel.

[03:09] I actually have a community for beginner

[03:12] creators and a couple other things as

[03:14] well, which by the way, some of our

[03:15] members inside the community are getting

[03:17] insane results at the moment. So, if you

[03:20] are struggling to grow your audience,

[03:21] link in the description. I can help you

[03:23] out. Okay, so in August, my channel

[03:25] received 92,000 views, 2.3,000

[03:28] subscribers, and I made $412.99.

[03:33] So you can see it's actually come down a

[03:35] little bit from the month before. Now

[03:36] September is where things get a little

[03:38] bit interesting. And one of the reasons

[03:40] why I wanted to show you this month by

[03:42] month is to show you just how much your

[03:45] income is going to fluctuate when you

[03:47] get monetized. For example, in this

[03:49] month I gained 64,000 views, 1.4,000

[03:53] 4,000 subscribers, but I only made

[03:55] $23663,

[03:59] which is actually only a third of what I

[04:02] made a couple of months before. But this

[04:04] is totally normal because every channel

[04:07] has videos that take off and then of

[04:10] course those videos have to come back

[04:11] down and you just have to get used to

[04:13] the fact that your income is also going

[04:15] to go up and then it's going to come

[04:17] right back down with the views. So in

[04:19] October things started to pick back up

[04:21] again. So, I gained 86,000 views, 2,000

[04:25] subscribers, and made $414.15.

[04:31] And finally, last month in November, I

[04:34] had another video that did quite well,

[04:36] and I received $134,000

[04:39] views, 3.3,000 subscribers, and I made a

[04:42] grand total of $65958,

[04:47] which is almost my best month so far. In

[04:50] fact, I had this day right here where I

[04:52] received $44. And I'm pretty sure that's

[04:54] the most I've made so far in a single

[04:57] day. Now, like I said, this definitely

[04:59] isn't life-changing money. And I tell

[05:02] you guys this literally all the time,

[05:04] but YouTube AdSense is never going to be

[05:06] your main source of income as a creator.

[05:09] For example, if you do want to become a

[05:11] full-time creator, then you can make so

[05:14] so much more money from sponsorships and

[05:16] of course creating your own products as

[05:18] well. Now, the next thing I want to show

[05:20] you is really interesting, and I wasn't

[05:23] actually aware of this before I got

[05:25] monetized. So, I want to talk to you

[05:27] about something called RPM, and how that

[05:29] actually changes over time. So, your RPM

[05:32] is basically the amount of money that

[05:34] you get paid per 1,000 views on your

[05:37] videos. For example, if your RPM was $5,

[05:42] every 1,000 views that you get on your

[05:44] channel, you make $5. But something I

[05:47] didn't know is that when you get

[05:49] monetized, your RPM can actually

[05:52] drastically improve over time. So you

[05:54] can see that when I got monetized, my

[05:57] RPM was $2.73.

[06:01] And this number is pretty low. But you

[06:04] can see that over the course of the next

[06:06] six months, my RPM slowly but surely

[06:09] improves all the way up to $658,

[06:14] which is crazy because that means I'm

[06:16] making two to three times more money for

[06:18] every 1,000 views that I get on my

[06:20] videos. So, I want to end this video by

[06:22] giving you a couple of lessons that I

[06:25] really wish I knew before I got

[06:27] monetized. And if you're still on your

[06:29] journey towards monetization, I think

[06:31] you're going to find this really

[06:32] valuable. So, the first lesson is that

[06:34] your first breakthrough will always come

[06:37] from an unexpected video. It's almost

[06:40] always the video that you didn't really

[06:42] expect to take off. For example, the

[06:44] first video of mine that blew up was

[06:46] essentially just a yapping video. There

[06:49] was no fancy editing. I didn't really

[06:51] put that much work into it. It was

[06:52] basically just me telling a personal

[06:54] story and sharing my experiences. And

[06:58] then on the other hand, I've had videos

[06:59] that I've spent absolutely ages on and

[07:02] I've poured my heart and soul into and

[07:04] they've just completely bombed. And

[07:06] that's kind of the irony of YouTube. The

[07:09] less you try hard to impress people, the

[07:12] more impressive you become. And the

[07:14] second lesson is that monetization is

[07:16] the start, not the finish line. So I

[07:19] think a lot of new creators, they treat

[07:22] monetization like it's the end goal and

[07:25] it's all that really matters. But once

[07:26] you actually get monetized, you realize

[07:29] that it's literally just level one. And

[07:31] there are so many more levels to

[07:33] becoming a full-time creator and turning

[07:36] all this into a full-time business. And

[07:38] on that note, if you do want to dive

[07:40] into the easiest way to make money as a

[07:42] small creator, even if you're not

[07:44] monetized, I actually made this video

[07:46] right here where I give you an ultra

[07:48] simple blueprint on how I reached my

[07:50] first $10,000 month as a complete

[07:53] beginner. So yeah, click onto that video

[07:56] and [music] I'll see you there.

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