Hey guys, it's sasha, i posted my very first youtube video on the 24th of march 2020, which is just over a year ago, and i wanted to share how much i've been able to earn on my channel during that first year now i started out on youtube, While running my other business while having a bunch of other projects on the go, so it was definitely something i was only doing part time at the beginning. However, as time went on as i got some traction as i got into it, as i learned how to do youtube, i began focusing a lot more of my attention on it, and now i am full time on the platform. One thing to remember is that my results here, i are very much not typical. I've had an extremely extremely good first year and i was very lucky in many ways, so it may well be that other people who put the same amount of effort and who maybe are far better than i am at youtube - may not be able to replicate those Results, however, i started with absolutely nothing.

I never made videos before i had no idea how to make videos. I didn't know what i was doing in my very first videos for the very first few weeks over the very first few months were really not very good. So in that sense, i hope this actually inspires a few people to go and learn, because you definitely can do this, knowing absolutely nothing when you first start so anyway, let's dive into the numbers. First, let's talk about the growth of my channel from the end of march, when i started it took me until early may to hit my first 100 subscribers, that's a little over 40 days.

I then got to 500 subscribers, just before i hit the three month mark in late june and i broke through 1 000 at the beginning of august. I actually had one video that went viral uh, which is a whole separate topic, so things were going incredibly well, given that i had absolutely no idea about making youtube videos, i continued working at it and i had steady growth throughout the beginning of february. When i improved the number of things on my channel, i focused on better content. I focused on producing more content and things really began working for me really really well, so i went from about 7 000 subscribers at the beginning of february to 11 300 subscribers.

The beginning of march to 15 700 at the end of march. This is completely bonkers level of growth, you'll notice. I had a few other things going on at the end of march, which meant that i didn't spend that much time on youtube and in the first two weeks of april as well, and that meant that my numbers have more recently slowed down. Also, there's a factor which is the last bit of the q4 period and through to q1 in every single year, is the hot time for personal finances.

When people are making lots of financial decisions, they're doing the financial planning they're making use of any investing opportunities, because at the end of financial year, that tends to be the time when people are sitting at home during the winter inter being interested in finance. And that generally changes and the summer is sort of the low season. So as a combination of that, it does mean that for the next few months, i'm expecting my channel growth and the revenue i'm able to learn to actually drop. But anyway, let's talk about how much i actually made, starting with youtube ads as the most popular way of any money on youtube.

I got monetized when i reached my 1 000 subscribers and 4 000 watch hours in august last year and on my very first day of being monetized, i earned 11, which is actually a lot. I was extremely pumped when that came through. I was, i couldn't believe the numbers that was incredible in my first month on youtube, i earned 404, which was a really good start and since then, through to january, my numbers actually were growing really nicely really steadily. In september, i owned 435 dollars in october 656.

800 in november, a little drop in december because of a million different reasons. Not all of my videos did particularly well, i earned 702, and in january i earned 1 076. Now you can see that although the numbers are growing and they're doing really really well, my channel was getting kind of steady, slow, paced growth and by no means was exploding. I was only making just over a thousand dollars in january, but i was still putting in a huge amount of time and a huge amount of work into it, but then things really began growing for me.

In february and march this year in february, i earned 2 169, that's more than double my total for january, which is pretty incredible. In march, my ad revenue went up to 3 240 dollars now i expect again, as i said, that this number will drop in april. My growth has slowed down. The ad revenue is always higher in the last month of every quarter, which march was one of them, so in total across my first 12 months on youtube, i own 9 482 dollars from ads, which is really really good.

My playback cpm was 18.48. That's how much advertisers pay per 1000 views on my channel now. This is interesting because my rpm, how much i earn after youtube takes their cut, was 10.42 cents, that's actually a really good number for youtube and it's higher than most channels. I apologize i'm using dollars here because dollars make far more sense for international audience and that's what most of my other earnings are in as well.

So so that's the base currency, although i'm based in the uk and i actually spend my money in pounds anyway. Ads are not the only way in which i earn money on youtube. In fact, i earn far more money from affiliates now affiliates are companies that pay you money when you refer customers to them, so these companies have absolutely no relationship or effect on my content. But if i have a link in my description and people go and click that link to go and buy something and sign up for something i will get a small kickback, you know for the privilege of sending people their way.

Now i started out trying to do amazon affiliate. I tried to go and put links to my camera gear because that's what everyone else on youtube does right. Well, that didn't go well at all. Amazon lets me show the last 90 days at a time and i managed to earn a whopping 14 pounds and 53 pence from january to march last this year, you'll notice a drop off and it clicks from march from sort of middle of march onwards, and that's Because i stopped putting the amazon affiliate links on my videos because they literally do absolutely nothing for me.

They don't mean nothing. They get me nothing. So i've just stopped putting them on the big earners. However, on the affiliate front, for me have been the investing apps.

I'm a member of three different affiliate programs, free trade training to one to an etoro. Now there are lots of others out there. There's almost every platform out. There has an affiliate program.

However, i only use the ones that i actually personally like i actually personally use, and i feel that i can speak a lot about, so i don't go and do what some other people do. I'm going to have an affiliate link for every single app out there. Now, free free trade and trade, each one 2 pay you by giving you a free share every single time. Somebody goes and uses your link and signs up.

That's exactly the same as what the person using your link actually gets. So essentially, it's like a very fair exchange. They get the same benefit as you get for sending them to the platform trading into one. Two has paid more per account: the average about eleven pounds.

Thirty six perfect share for me and free trade earned me an average of six pounds. Twenty, however, since end of january trading, two two stopped booking new accounts. So, although i was earning a reasonable amount from them that stopped - and i haven't been earning any money from them really ever since between the two of those, i managed to send over 1500 people through to them to sign up for an account in my first year And i only started doing this sometime in september october, so the numbers are really good and they've been increasing quite substantially um over the last few months. As with ads, i'm expecting a big drop off in april, because the new financial year and people are not so interested in personal finance, but hopefully you'll continue earning a reasonable amount.

Now, in the us there are similar programs with some of the bigger platforms over there, but they pay considerably more. So if i was over there, maybe things would be even better, but then there's etoro now etoro doesn't pay in free shares. They pay in commission, which is in dollars which depends on where which country your customer comes from. They actually pay a lot more than others.

I probably should have done way more content about etoro and focused a lot more on them, but i haven't been doing that because i was trying to focus on content. I'm doing the right thing for my viewers on doing the best possible interesting stuff. Instead, now you can earn up to 250 dollars per customer or more. The program is flexible.

There's lots of weird and wonderful rules in there, but that's a lot of money. However, people have to go and make an account and make a big initial deposit of over 200 and people joining get no benefit for using your link. There's no free share, there's no any reason for them to actually go and use your link. So naturally, as a result, very few people actually go and use those links, and so, although they pay considerably more, you get far less people clicking.

So it kind of balances out in that way. Now etoro also paid me for three videos where i ran a small ad for atari during the video uh this boosted. My writing. In february, you'll notice that three of my videos have a little uh sponsored tag when you go and watch them and there's a little ad during the first two minutes of the video that runs um.

But i i think it worked pretty well, although i haven't had any sponsorship, neither from etoro nor from anybody else. Since then, although i do get a huge number of people asking, i just try to be very, very picky. I don't want to do ads for companies that i don't agree with for companies that i don't think would be any use to my audience so hopefully, at some point i'll get some other good ones coming through. So the total across all of these affiliates and sponsor videos from september 2020 to march 2021 was 38 000.

419, which is crazy, and this number has been growing really really fast over the last few months. So the total amount earned on youtube for me during the course of the first year is forty, seven thousand nine hundred and one dollars, which is an incredible result, and i am really really happy with that's. Actually a really pretty good salary. But as of yesterday, my etoro account seems to have disappeared.

I have tried contacting my account manager and online help, but so far i've got absolutely no response. That's slightly concerning, given that they're one of my revenue streams, i have no idea if it's a technical glitch or maybe i was kicked off the platform for whatever reason, i'm kind of hoping it's the former, but this does show you how important it is to diversify Your income streams, any affiliate program can end at any moment. Even the money that you have apparently earned on. That platform could be sitting there and if it's not being paid to you, you may not ever actually go and collect it.

Anything can happen uh. This is a really crazy world. I am planning to diversify my online business income quite a lot over the coming months and, if you're interested in exactly how i do that. My story in the learnings and some of the progress and some of the falls i'm expecting a lot of false.

Especially this one as it materializes make sure you go and follow me on my other channel. Where i talk about the growth of my youtube channel uh, it's called the sash reaction story. I'm gon na link it in description below and if you're interested in that there's gon na be a lot of really useful content on there coming up soon. Thank you very much for watching.

I really really appreciate it. Thank you. So much for anyone gets the end of my video and, as always i'll see you guys later, you.