YouTube builds income

[scullivan]

Hi guys-

I apologize in advance if this comes across as a rude question (discussing income), but I wanted to see if anyone was willing to talk about how much one might make on YouTube posting their builds.

I personally love watching speed builds and let’s play on YouTube, and I also love playing PZ/sharing my builds. I have been considering starting an account to share, but I don’t know how it all works….obviously I understand it varies depending on #of videos, time working, build quality etc. but the idea of creating a side gig out of something I enjoy so much is quite appealing.

Is anyone willing to enlighten me on how much a YouTuber may realistically make putting out YouTube videos?

Thank you!

 

[GroG79]

At the start or after years of doing it and finally gaining viewers?

 

[Captain Callum]

I've heard from several YouTubers it can take years of constant hard work with a stroke of luck to getting any respectable level of income from YouTube, even worse these days with the constant copyright flags. I would just upload to share your creations if you like showing the planet zoo community your work, it's just really hard starting off when you haven't built up a name

 

[scullivan]

I've heard from several YouTubers it can take years of constant hard work with a stroke of luck to getting any respectable level of income from YouTube, even worse these days with the constant copyright flags. I would just upload to share your creations if you like showing the planet zoo community your work, it's just really hard starting off when you haven't built up a name

Right, that’s what I expected to hear I guess I’m curious what kind of following one would need to obtain in order to get any sort of income at all from videos

 

[SalamAnders]

All in all gaming seem to be one of the harder topics to get big within on YouTube, and I imagine creative games are even worse, since a lot of people like showing of what they spend hours on creating. PZ is no exception. There is a lot of content creators out there for this game.

I make PZ content on YT myself. I am not at a point where I can earn anything on it. Of course it would be cool to get there, but I am for the most part just trying to have a good time with it and I'm not really consistent with how often I upload videos anyway.

There really is no clear answer to how you get to that point easily. And if you go into it with money on the mind, then I imagine you are likely to do worse than those who does it just for the fun of it.

You can't do much else than give it a try, see if you enjoy it. If you don't, then stop. A few earn money on it after a few months I believe for others it might take years. Most people probably never gets to that point.

 

[ZSHplays]

Tiny YouTuber here. To be eligible to earn money on YT you need 1,000 subscribers & 4,000 hours of watch time. Took me 7 months of a video every Saturday to get to that stage. In terms of how much you earn at that point, my first month of being monetized I earned £30

I would recommend either having a distinctive way of making your videos, a distinctive building style or both. Making videos people want to watch is seriously time-consuming, my latest series often takes me a full day just to edit plus another evening doing the voice-over. That's not counting the hours spent building!

 

[YesIndeed]

Tiny YouTuber here. To be eligible to earn money on YT you need 1,000 subscribers & 4,000 hours of watch time. Took me 7 months of a video every Saturday to get to that stage. In terms of how much you earn at that point, my first month of being monetized I earned £12

I would recommend either having a distinctive way of making your videos, a distinctive building style or both. Making videos people want to watch is seriously time-consuming, my latest series often takes me a full day just to edit plus another evening doing the voice-over. That's not counting the hours spent building!

Do you get more money if the same person watches a video agian or do you only get it from each person watching it once?

 

[ZSHplays]

Do you get more money if the same person watches a video agian or do you only get it from each person watching it once?

I believe it's purely based on ads shown so I guess you would. YT gives out very little info on how it works though.

 

[XT]

Most of these social media influencer money options are basically scams that allow advertisers (and platforms) to make free money off your work.

With my anti-end stage capitalism rant out of the way ...

It's just like writing or acting. 95% of the people who get into do not make any money, and certainly not a profit. So, if you want to show off your builds, or whatever, do it because you enjoy it - not with an eye towards making any money because you are not at all likely too, no matter how spectacular your builds may be.

 

[Swjosdotschka]

For most full time YouTubers PZ doesn't actually do that well. Especially not so late into the life span. So I wouldn't count on PZ on YouTube as your main income.
But if you have fun sharing and really want to put passion into it: Do! The community is supportive and while most of us couldn't make ends meet with PZ videos, the support you'll get is probably worth it.