First things first couldn't give a shit about Mr Chapman. This is more to do with gamers and beauty channels etc.
My nephew whose eleven said he wants to be a youtuber. I thought it was a dying medium. I fully expect the big guns like pewdiepie and ksi to be minted etc. I came across a channel; blackpanthaa. He's in his early twenties and does racing game based content....the guy is 23 and owns an x5, a Lexus, an old tt and a Nissan skyline gtr r34.
In one of his videos he said he paid £50k outright for skyline! He's done the stupid thing of buying a mint example and is now modifying it..but hey no.
I know he may have other revenue streams and everything is not what it seems etc. But now I'm thinking why don't I scream and make stupid videos on YouTube if the money is that good??
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Harder to work out nowadays but I still use I to hazard a guess
Certain genres pay well, business and gaming. And depending where your viewers are is huge. Americans pay $6 per 1k (before YouTube take a big cut) where as Asia get you less than a dollar per 1k in some places
I'd have been a good dad.
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Far from even 0.1% of those who upload videos come even close to making a living from it.
Its not easy either.
Also my favourite youtuber is taken already
We had this conversation last year and apparently it was still going really well for him despite Guitar Hero disappearing from most people radars a number of years ago.
cant remember the exact figures, but think it was about £4K a month at that time, and a lot of “gifts” from subscribers.
Look at it this way. He made a lot more from fake guitar than most of us will ever make from a real one.
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Being a YouTuber is not an ambition. Most of these people have something fairly unique, whether I can see it or not, and that's why they are popular. Kids need to focus on doing what they love, and if they have time and energy to Vlog about it then maybe they'll got the sweet spot and get rich too.
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Essentially, to make a living you need to hit big numbers consistantly with regular uploads
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If you look at people like Shroud, with 50-60k subscribers on Twitch and a regular stream of people paying to comment and get a mention you can see how they're getting their money. His full time job is sitting and playing games while talking to his subscribers.
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Wow! How!
They've got 10k+ subscribers and over a million total views - I know they make a few quid but put it this way, they still have to turn up to work every day.
What they do get though, is masses of free stuff from leisure companies (which they review) kayaks, paddle boards, wet suits, van tyres, all kinds of camping equipment....
It's definitely worthwhile...
The aforementioned Shroud, a favourite of mine, has been gaming since he was 3 (and is now mid-20s) thanks to a game-obsessed dad, was a competitive tournament eSports player before even touching youtube, and has about 10,000 hours playtime on his main game (PUBG).
Remind him that his favourites are all likely to have a solid skillset behind them, and he should first start putting in the hours honing a skill that someday, maybe he can show off. Alternatively, send him down the mines.
Its not so simple to make money just via views unless you upload monetisable content very regularly to a large audience. And if I understand correctly there are some gaming things that are no longer monetisable
Really anyone doing well is a business person as well as an entertainer.
The money is there to be made, but the work has to be done.