Here’s how much money YouTubers make

Run this search on YouTube and you’ll find lots of folks reporting their income for 2019.

Your earnings on YouTube depend on several things, including:

• How many views you get … more views = more ad revenue
• How many ads are in your videos … longer videos = more ad spots
• The topic of your videos … ad rates fluctuate greatly according to this
• Non-ads revenue … eg sponsorships, merch, affiliate marketing, etc.

Andrei Jikh’s income report stood out to me…

He started his YouTube channel at the beginning of 2019 and ended the year with $118,040 in ad revenue 💰

But here’s the thing: despite working full-time on his channel from the get-go, Andrei earned ZERO dollars in ad revenue his first two months, and his earnings for the entire year worked out to little more than $5/hour.

He looks like a genius now that he’s “made it,” but spare a thought for those long weeks and months in the beginning when he was putting in the work with no guarantee it would pay off.

Surely helped that he didn’t set his expectations too high: his goal for the year was to earn just $1000 in ad revenue.

Related: Brian Dean’s new video is a must-watch if you’re thinking to start a YouTube channel…