$53/hour Small-Time YouTuber

That’s Thomas Smith, who has 3.5k subscribers on his YouTube channel about consumer electronics 🔌

Here’s a typical video of his, talking about a tower fan for 4 minutes. He does it all in one take and never shows his face…

Thomas writes that he now earns about $53 per hour spent on his YouTube channel, and expects to earn “a comfortable low-five-figure income on the platform in 2021.”

For a platform with such a massive reach, YouTube’s revenues are surprisingly evenly distributed among its millions of creators.

That’s great news for small-time YouTubers like me.

I can rank 2 millionth among around 30 million total YouTube creators in terms of overall subscribers and still make thousands of dollars per year on the platform.