How do creators make money from YouTube?
AdSense, sponsors, products, courses, his income reports.
Axis: ads are a small part; products and sponsors matter … ad revenue is the business
Answers by date: 8 records in 7 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2020), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) | Ali | Ali tells beginner YouTubers not to worry about brand deals until they have made content once or twice a week for two years, when they will have the views and a trusting audience. | How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:32:39 |
| 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) | Ali | Putting out useful content regularly builds an audience that knows, likes and trusts you, Ali says, so your product recommendations seem and are more sincere than a random website's. | How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:24:56 |
| 2020-11-15 | Ali | Ali used to think of sponsorship money as free money; now it is just another line of revenue in the business, and with his agency there is a sponsor almost every week, so he can focus on the content. | How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers 00:26:21 |
| 2020-09-09 | Ali | Ali says three factors decide how much a creator earns on YouTube, and the most important of them is watch time. | How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) 00:02:05 |
| 2020-09-01 | Ali | If he could pick only YouTube or Skillshare, Ali would pick YouTube: building an audience there is relatively straightforward, and that audience can then be funnelled into paid things. | Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A 00:04:49 |
| 2020-05-19 | Ali | With a personal brand, an audience that knows, likes and trusts you, you can sell goods and services and even sell attention directly through sponsorships, as Ali does. | How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels 00:15:09 |
| 2020-05-01 | Ali | YouTube is one of the very few platforms where creators make money while the audience pays nothing and advertisers pay, a business model with value exchanged on all fronts, Ali says. | How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber 00:20:29 |
| 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) | Ali | Signing with the agency Standard changed the game for Ali on YouTube: he can now do sponsored videos pretty much whenever, and the extra money lets him hire people full time and scale the channel. | My Annual Review using Notion 00:03:25 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).