All statements about YouTube AdSense

51 statements about YouTube AdSense in 23 sources, by upload date.

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2025

2025-01-10 · My Honest Advice to Anyone Starting YouTube in 2026 — Ali: To those who point to AdSense and brand deals, Ali answers that making money directly from YouTube takes a lot of time, people motivated by money will not stick with it long enough, and there is no guarantee. — 00:04:53
2025-07-22 · What 8 Years on YouTube Taught Me About Life — Ali: When YouTube started no one did it for the money, Ali says, with no Partner Program, sponsorships or AdSense; he thinks it began to change around 2012. (hedged) — 00:15:29
2025-11-04 · How To Make Money On YouTube While You Sleep — Ali says Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts pay tiny amounts compared with the AdSense money from a proper long-form YouTube video once a channel is monetised. — 00:00:00
2025-11-21 · 5 ways to start earning on YouTube — recommendation: Ali advises focusing on making even one very good video: often one video going even vaguely viral takes a channel through the subscriber and watch-time threshold, after which YouTube AdSense pays. — 00:01:28

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2024

2024-02-23 · My Thoughts on Why YouTubers Are Quitting — recommendation: Ali advises building a business that does not rely on views: YouTubers who live on AdSense and brand deals are set up for burnout, always chasing views. — 00:29:27
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Around October last year (2023), while she worked full time as a junior doctor and uploaded every two weeks or monthly, AdSense from Izzy's channel exceeded her monthly doctor's salary. — 00:02:56
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy was then spending maybe four hours a week on her YouTube channel alongside her day job as a doctor, which made the AdSense income seem absurd to her. (hedged) — 00:03:25
2024-07-16 · If I Started YouTube While Working Full-Time, I’d Do This — Ali: Making money from YouTube views through sponsorships and AdSense is not particularly passive, Ali says, because you still have to keep making the videos. — 00:04:50
2024-07-16 · If I Started YouTube While Working Full-Time, I’d Do This — recommendation: Ali wants a creator to do YouTube because they enjoy it and see value in the service they offer; doing that grows the channel, which is eventually monetised through AdSense and can later add products. — 00:24:21
2024-11-26 · 13 Brutally Honest Lessons to Grow on YouTube in 2026 — Ali: It takes ages, Ali says, to get the watch time and subscribers needed for AdSense, and to reach the point where brands start paying you. — 00:08:25

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2023

2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali: Through AdSense YouTube pays creators 55% of what advertisers pay for the ads on their videos, and a creator is paid whenever a viewer watches or even skips one of those ads. — 00:01:27
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali's channel made $2.27 in AdSense in 2017, before monetisation, and $16,459 in 2018, after it was monetised in April. — 00:03:24
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali's channel grew from zero to 1,600 subscribers with 65 videos in 2017, to 125,000 with 85 videos in 2018, and to 487,000 with 64 videos in 2019, a year of full-time work as a doctor that brought $42,385 in YouTube ads. — 00:03:53
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali: In 2020 Ali's channel grew from 487,000 to 1.32 million subscribers, almost certainly a pandemic effect, and made $129,262 in AdSense. — 00:04:32
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali: In 2021, which he calls his first full year as a full-time YouTuber though he still did the channel only part-time alongside other business work, Alis channel published 86 videos and 12 Shorts, grew to 2.5 million subscribers and made $464,552 in AdSense. — 00:04:57
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali: In 2022 Ali's channel published 58 videos, just over one a week, and 25 Shorts, grew to 3.6 million subscribers and made around $653,299 in AdSense. — 00:04:57
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali: For bigger YouTubers, sponsorships can often be a far bigger source of income than AdSense. — 00:12:44
2023-08-11 · If I Wanted to Be a Millionaire Before 30, I'd Do This — Ali calls a content business, making content online and monetising through advertising, a modern third category; some argue it is only a marketing channel for others' products, but he thinks content is becoming its own thing. — 00:07:01
2023-09-01 · 8 Steps That Got Me Millions of Subscribers on YouTube — Ali says building a successful YouTube channel also means building a sustainable business to support it, so that you do not rely only on AdSense and brand deals for all your income. — 00:02:17
2023-09-27 · Starting A Business is Easy, Actually — Ali's second step is to choose a business model and find leads; there are three ways to make money from a skill: a service, a product, or content given away free and monetised through advertising such as YouTube AdSense or Medium, or by selling to the audience it builds. — 00:08:53

2022

2022-02-04 · How to Make Money Online — Ali: YouTube has monetisation built in, Ali says: AdSense pays by default, and at about 10,000 to 20,000 subscribers brands such as Skillshare and Brilliant start asking to sponsor videos. — 00:28:47
2022-04-29 · How to Invest as a Teenager — Ali expects this video to make AdSense money even while he sleeps, which makes it a kind of passive income asset. — 00:17:24
2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali: Of the channel's hoped £1 million, Ali expects about half from brand deals and sponsorships and half from YouTube AdSense. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2022-07-22 · How Much YouTube Paid Me For 10M Views — Ali: Five years after he started making YouTube videos, Ali's channel has crossed $1 million in revenue from YouTube ads alone. — 00:00:00
2022-07-22 · How Much YouTube Paid Me For 10M Views — Ali: Two years in, Ali began building other revenue streams, and AdSense is now only about 20% of his business's revenue. — 00:14:36
2022-11-17 · How to Become a Digital Nomad — Ali: The creator path is the one Ali followed: making free content for a long time builds an audience who know, like and trust you, then money comes from AdSense, sponsorships, affiliates and your own products. — 00:03:59

2021

2021-04-15 · 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week — Ali made 70 videos before he started earning any money from YouTube AdSense. — 00:09:38
2021-04-15 · 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week — Ali's YouTube channel makes about $12,000 a month, about $3,000 a week, from AdSense, most of it from older videos rather than new uploads. — 00:10:07
2021-04-15 · 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week — Ali: Podcasters make money through sponsorships and brand deals, Ali says, since there is no YouTube AdSense for podcasts. — 00:11:05
2021-08-08 · Dating, Regrets and Boxing - 2 Million Subscriber Q&A — Ali says YouTube AdSense makes his channel about $30,000-40,000 a month at 2 million subscribers, only about 10-15% of the business's revenue; most revenue comes from Skillshare classes and his online courses. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2021-08-15 · Revealing ALL My Investments at 27 — Ali: AdSense on Ali's channel made $121,903 in the last 90 days, and his passive income video from April alone made $47,559. — 00:21:12
2021-08-15 · Revealing ALL My Investments at 27 — Ali's ultimate guide to investing in stocks, made in October 2020, made $4,800 in AdSense in the last 90 days. — 00:22:00
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: From 1 January to 2 December 2021 Ali's main channel had 74 million views, 6.2 million hours of watch time, 1.1 million subscribers and $391,135.30 in AdSense revenue, about $5.47 per thousand views. — 00:17:49
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali's top-earning video of 2021 by far, 9 Passive Income Ideas, made $103,529 in AdSense; next came How to Invest for Beginners ($22,000), How I Type Really Fast ($11,000), How to Build a Website ($11,000) and How I Manage My Time ($9,000). — 00:18:18
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: Ad rates rise a lot towards Christmas: Ali's channel made $46,000 in AdSense in July 2021 and $60,000 in November. — 00:18:51
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali's second channel, Ali's Appendix, made £1,709.15 in 2021; with the main channel, AdSense to date, excluding December, totals $372,900. — 00:19:20
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali thinks there is still great opportunity in YouTube: even starting in 2022 there has been no better time, since niches are saturated but the algorithm is tuned and there is much money in AdSense, brand deals and selling your own products. — 00:21:17

2020

2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: YouTube pays a video's creator whenever a viewer watches one of its ads; on Monday 23 March 2020 Ali made £95.66 in AdSense from 97,723 views, about £1 per thousand views. — 00:02:26
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: On Tuesday 24 March 2020 Ali's channel got about 30% more views, mostly on a demonetised video, so AdSense paid slightly less, £94.83: only monetisable videos earn revenue. — 00:07:18
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali's AdSense CPM, revenue per thousand views, varies by content: maybe £5 for his tech videos and maybe 10p for his book videos, depending on who advertises on them. (hedged) — 00:09:44
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: Maybe 10% of Ali's audience is in India, where ad rates are very low; the 25% or so in America bring in much more, because advertisers want American viewers, who have more money to spend. (hedged) — 00:10:13
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: After Ali released his iPad review video on Saturday 28 March 2020, AdSense paid $264.41 that day; iPad videos tend to do well with advertisers. — 00:13:48
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali's YouTube AdSense revenue for the week was £947, more than his weekly spending of £701 ($879) on mortgage, bills, food, car insurance and apps. — 00:20:00
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali went from earning nothing on YouTube to cents a day, then about $100 and $500 a month; now AdSense alone brings $3,000 to $4,000 a month, enough to fund his lifestyle indefinitely. — 00:21:22
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: Skillshare's pay per minute watched fluctuates month to month, Ali says, so his numbers guarantee nothing, just as AdSense pay per video is not guaranteed. — 00:25:24
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: To earn Google AdSense a YouTube channel needs 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time; it took Ali 52 videos and six months to reach 1,000 subscribers. — 00:11:29
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: In 2017, six months of YouTube, Ali made 59 videos, had 1,600 subscribers by the end of the year and made £1.76 in revenue. — 00:11:29
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: In 2018 Ali's channel made £12,329.67 in AdSense revenue, not quite a full-time living but close. — 00:12:20
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: By the end of 2019 Ali had 209 videos and around 450,000 subscribers, and made £33,186.14 in AdSense that year, almost his junior doctor pay and a full-time living for a UK YouTuber. — 00:12:50
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: As of 15 December 2020 Ali has published 98 videos that year (307 in all), has just under 1.3 million subscribers and 57 million views in 2020, and has made £100,695.12 from AdSense. — 00:13:12
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali's 2020 revenue: £22,100 as a doctor, £100,000 AdSense, £132,000 affiliates, about £136,000 sponsors, £350,000 Skillshare, £220,000 Part-Time YouTuber Academy and £53,000 Inner Circle, about £1,013,000 ($1.362 million). — 00:46:57