(02-27-2015, 04:59 PM)30CamdenSquare Wrote: Where did this $0.30 - $2.50/1000 rate come from?
(02-27-2015, 02:42 PM)Tusk Wrote: I posted about this on this very thread just a week ago 
http://haleyfans.com/showthread.php?tid=...0#pid44740
(and posted videos about this on other threads)
Reposted from the above link:
Quote:YouTube Economics
Making a few dollars of revenue on YouTube is easy; you can be up and running as a partner, pump out a few videos, and have your first ads appearing withing a day. The tough part is making enough money to support yourself full time. In a way, YouTube is a lot like professional baseball: a few stars make it big and get rich, but most toil in obscurity and retire without ever coming close to the big leagues.
Let’s put some more concrete figures around YouTube earnings potential:
Most publishers earn between $0.30 and $2.50 CPMs from YouTube. (I.e., they make between $0.30 and $2.50 for every video 1,000 views; this tool can help you figure out revenue potential.)
Some publishers are definitely getting rich from YouTube; the average of the top 1,000 channels is $23,000 of monthly revenue.
According to Google, “thousands of channels are making six figures a year”.
30% of the YouTube videos account for 99% of total views.
It’s very difficult to track down updated information about the average YouTube video, but the reality is that most videos posted on the site get fewer than 1,000 views. Here are a few older studies showing the disproportionate allocation of YouTube views:
The average YouTube video gets about 500 views, with 25% of total views coming in the first four days and most viewers watching less than 60 seconds. (2010).
Only about 10% of videos get more than 1,000 views in their first month (2008).
Half of all videos get fewer than 500 total views (2009).
