Hi guys it's mark so there's one question that i get asked all the time: how much money do you make from youtube after one year of doing youtube? I've never asked that question. I don't want to come across as showing off believe it or not. In england. We're a bit shy talking about money, it's just not the british way, tea and crumpets anyone.

However, i started this channel to help people with personal finance, business and investing tips. By sharing my 35 years of experience, it only seems fair to be completely transparent about everything. After all, if you didn't find my videos helpful and laugh at my bad jokes, then none of this would be possible. So my aim today is to satisfy your curiosity once and for all and who knows maybe inspire some future youtubers.

So i asked you guys two questions on instagram at mark tilbury. If you want to follow first, i asked if you'd find it interesting. If i revealed how much youtube paid me for a 2 million viewed video, or would you think it's a bit showy offi? The response was pretty clear on that one. As many of you even stated, you enjoyed similar videos from other youtubers.

The second question was just a little bit of fun. I just wanted to see if you could guess how much youtube paid me for this video of over two million views. Now your responses range from one penny to one million dollars, but to be fair, it's almost impossible question to actually answer, as there are five main factors that determine how much youtube pays. You that's why i find videos like this so interesting as everyone is earning different amounts.

I thought about starting a youtube channel years before taking the plunge, i've even been asking you guys to smash the like button on my son's channel even before graeme, stefan, and that was six years ago. If you liked the video don't forget to smash that like button. Hopefully, by showing you what's been possible after one year on youtube, it will help inspire you to do whatever you've been putting off. Maybe that's grabbing your free stock from the investing social network public.com worth up to fifty dollars i'll leave the link in the description below and free trader, giving away a free stock to anyone in the uk worth up to 200 pounds.

First of all, let's break down how money is actually made from videos. It's actually views that make the money not subscribers. This is something boomers. My age never seem to understand.

There are lots of different platforms. You can upload videos to the biggest and best. In my opinion, are youtube and tick tock, i'm going to let you into a bit of a secret. The platform is the first big factor that affects how much money creators can earn and their relationship with advertisers, because that's where the money comes from.

Let's take a look at one of my tick tock videos, which has over 2 million views. Tick tock has something called the creator fund, which they split up between all the creators every day, depending on how many views they get. So this video has around 2 million views and it's made a grand total of 48. Now, that's not actually bad.

When you consider that's only a 30 second video - and i would have been doing it for free anyway, but it's certainly not what a lot of people would expect. But this helps me to pay for my son and all the filming and editing work that he does for me. However, the youtube numbers look entirely different. Even i was shocked when i saw them.

So, let's look at what actually makes a youtube video, more valuable and why there is such a huge difference, even between other youtubers. So, stick with me guys, as this will really help you understand, who gets paid what and why youtube pays its creators per thousand views. This is known as a cpm. This stands for cost per meal, which is french for 1 000..

I actually didn't put adverts on my channel at first, as i didn't want to distract from the content, but when i started thinking about it a little bit more, i did wonder if youtube would really want to promote my videos if they weren't making any money from Them so i tested it out by including a few ad breaks and almost instantly my channel exploded. This may have just been a coincidence, but it does sort of kind of make sense because youtube is a business and of course it needs to make money factor. Two is the type of niche: there are lots of different youtubers and topics that they talk about, and they all have a big impact on how much money they get paid on the lower end. You have the gamers and vloggers who generally make an average of one to four dollars per thousand views.

Now i love a bit of casey neistat and pewdiepie. As a lot of people do and that's exactly the issue, everyone likes them. It's nearly impossible for brands to know who they're actually advertising to which means these creators get more generic ads running on the videos that pay less. Imagine you had a bunch of chocolate for easter and you wanted to sell it.

Would you choose to go to a room with a bunch of random people that could be vegan, lactose, intolerant or just simply didn't like chocolate, or would you go to a room full of chocoholics? I think the answer is really clear. You'd sell out in seconds - and this is exactly how advertisers think and why they're prepared to spend more on targeted audiences in the middle. You have the beauty, vloggers and the car channels who make, on average, seven to ten dollars per thousand views again. The advertisers can target their ads to these two subjects very easily, with makeup and car products, to name a few and at the very top you have the highest paid, and you may have guessed it by now.

It's finance and business channels, which, of course, is what i talk about now. We don't have to guess about this one, because i can just show you my average cpm, which is 45 dollars per thousand views. This is, of course, before youtube. Take their cut, these earnings in all categories, depend on factor number three, whether you're family, friendly or not.

A few swear. Words can really cost you a lot of money. It's not youtube itself, it's because a lot of advertisers don't want to be associated with this kind of content. I've always had the rule to avoid swearing on the channel and to keep it family friendly.

As more people can enjoy the videos and we don't get censored. The length of the video is the four factor that goes into this big calculation. This is because the longer the video, the more adverts can be placed inside it. If you make your video over eight minutes, you can actually place an advert every 10 seconds.

If you wanted to, but this would be just silly because no one would watch it - youtube is obsessed with watch time. So as a creator, it's really important to be a good storyteller, so people want to watch your video in full. This makes sense as youtube wants to keep viewers on their platform for as long as possible. Number five is the time of the year.

This has an impact on youtubers earnings. That's why lots of them do vlogmas in december and upload every single day as near to the holidays. Advertisers have lots of money to spend and also, you may have noticed a lot of them go away in january for a break because the advertiser's budgets dropped through the floor. My video that hit two million views luckily seemed to be the perfect combination of all of these factors.

Firstly, it's in the investing niche. As i talk about all the different options. People have to invest a hundred dollars and i actually do it myself. Next, the watch time is extremely high.

The average view duration is nearly 40, which is pretty good when you consider it's quite an in-depth topic, which most people would usually find, boring and click off. I think it's great there's still 30 percent of people watching right to the end. They must have really loved watching me, go through those lotto scratches and it's also very family friendly. I even have my son in some of it and to top it all off, it was posted in november, which is great for the december advertising rates, not that that was planned.

It was just good luck. Looking at the graph, the video actually did really well in the first few days, but it wasn't until day 20 that it actually hit the youtube algorithm and it actually exploded. Look at that. One of the questions i get asked the most is why i speak in dollars and not in great british pounds as i'm from england, so now's the perfect time to answer that us dollars are seen as the currency of the internet and most people understand their value.

So it's just a good way for more people to get as much as possible out of the videos. This is actually one of the reasons i think this video has done really really well and got the amount of views that it did. Looking at the stats, nearly half of the views come from the united states of america and it's not just the us that uses dollars. Australia, canada and many others have their own versions, so it just makes more sense to use this currency.

The cpm for this video is 55, which is a lot higher than usual. This is probably due to the video being 18 minutes. Long, meaning youtube can show more adverts. This number is the rpm, and this is what i actually get paid after youtube.

Take their cut and that comes out at 32 dollars per thousand views. So if you're, quick at the maths, then you'll probably be able to work out the total, but i'm not going to make you wait any longer. So here are the numbers that you've all been waiting for over the last four months. Youtube have paid 76 391 dollars for the views on this video, which i'm still trying to wrap my head around.

What makes me even more happy? Is it brought in over a hundred thousand subscribers, which meant we managed to get this award from youtube without you guys that wouldn't happen. I remember wanting to thank each and every one of you individually, who subscribed to the channel. It also had a knock-on effect on my other videos as they started to gain more traction, so in reality it could be more valuable than the final figures suggest just to show you the difference. The niche makes.

Let's have a look at the video all about my tesla. The idea behind this video is to make the money back for the car in different ways like renting it out and wrapping it in adverts. And if i manage to succeed, then i'm giving away five thousand dollars to a random subscriber. As you can see, the cpm is much much lower on this.

It's only 25 dollars per thousand views and the amount i get is 14. This video is a mixture between the car and the finance niches, so it does make sense. I'm looking forward to releasing episode. 2 soon, as we've been working really hard on it, this video has outperformed every video i've ever posted and please don't think i take any of this for granted.

35 years ago i started my business and investing journey, and now i'm really happy to get the chance to be able to pass some of that knowledge onto you, and i really appreciate all of your support. It means so much to me, and now i can spend more time, creating more videos and also improving the camera equipment. I really love that youtube allows me to do all this for free and that's how i'm going to keep things. So i'm going to leave the next video right up here, but don't click on it just yet remember to subscribe to the channel and pick up your free stock worth up to 50 from public.com i'll leave the link in the description below alright see over there.