How many subscribers does a youtuber need before he can make it a full-time gig? The reason I ask is because a Youtuber I follow because he lives pretty close to me and he's doing things I'm interested in (living off grid) has decided to quit his full-time job as an IT guy for a giant chicken operation (Tyson?) and become a full-time Youtuber. It seems to me he doesn't have nearly enough subscribers to do that, he doesn't have sponsorships and he sells no merchandise that I'm aware of. He does have three Youtube channels, but at most, he has 30,000 followers altogether and I imagine some of those are repeat subscribers who subscribe to all three channels.
It's my understanding that certain parameters have to be met first before a YouTube channel is even monetized and one of those parameters is subscribers. One of his channels has a little more than 2,000 subscribers, another has a little over 7,000 and his biggest one has 24,000-plus. I don't think the two smallest ones are big enough to even be monetized yet.
Other things that determine whether a channel is monetized or not are the number of views a video gets per month and the number of likes it gets. None of his channels seems to get enough of either one of those to merit such a brash decision as to quit his job. This is a 40-plus year old guy, so it's not like it's some teenager making an impulse decision.
I've done a little research on this and I know that someone with 80,000-some subscribers can expect to make about $19,000 yearly on Youtube if he/she doesn't have any sponsors, or doesn't sell merchandise. I know one Youtuber couple I follow decided to go Youtube full time when they hit 176,000 subscribers because that, along with their sponsors and merchandise sales, matched what he was earning as an electrician. Just trying to see the logic in this decision.
It's my understanding that certain parameters have to be met first before a YouTube channel is even monetized and one of those parameters is subscribers. One of his channels has a little more than 2,000 subscribers, another has a little over 7,000 and his biggest one has 24,000-plus. I don't think the two smallest ones are big enough to even be monetized yet.
Other things that determine whether a channel is monetized or not are the number of views a video gets per month and the number of likes it gets. None of his channels seems to get enough of either one of those to merit such a brash decision as to quit his job. This is a 40-plus year old guy, so it's not like it's some teenager making an impulse decision.
I've done a little research on this and I know that someone with 80,000-some subscribers can expect to make about $19,000 yearly on Youtube if he/she doesn't have any sponsors, or doesn't sell merchandise. I know one Youtuber couple I follow decided to go Youtube full time when they hit 176,000 subscribers because that, along with their sponsors and merchandise sales, matched what he was earning as an electrician. Just trying to see the logic in this decision.
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