Anyone making money on your You tube account?

[livi]

Last week I got a message from Google that I was now welcome to join in some kind of partnership to make money on my you tube account if I allow them to place adds on my channel.

Anyone else experience with this concept? I don´t feel comfortable doing it. First of all my clips are crap and I am just amazed the view count is increasing at all. Secondly, it feels awkward making money out of it - even if the clips were good.

[slodave]

I have not done it.. Yet... The things that are posted are for fun. I don't see a reason to bugger them up........... Unless......... I hear that people are making a few $$. I might reconsider.

[Rick V]

Once you take fun and add money it no longer becomes fun. Just sayin' There is a reason I hate cars now.....

[livi]

That is how I feel about it too. Its primarily a way for me to remember the short tunes I come up with occasionally and save them easily without crowding the disk of my computer. Its amazing how much space a one minute analog recording requires!

Also its quite fun to plague you with it!

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by livi

Also its quite fun to plague you with it!

I somehow "lost" the patch cord to the TV so plague away.

[URY914]

I'm making money on my YouPorn postings. Wait...........maybe I shouldn't have told you that.

[porsche4life]

My account was selected, but I haven't done if either, as all my videos that get lots of hits are from concerts, material I don't own the rights to.

[livi]

Originally Posted by Rick V

I somehow "lost" the patch cord to the TV so plague away.

I am sure you did Rick. I am sure you did.

Wait 'till I tell the missus.

[livi]

Originally Posted by URY914

I'm making money on my YouPorn postings. Wait...........maybe I shouldn't have told you that.

Hm.. thats a new angle. Right up my alley it would seem.

[wdfifteen]

These folks are doing it.

Pomplamoose: Making A Living On YouTube : NPR

[cstreit]

I think anyone that gets over a few hundred hits gets that email. Honestly I suspect you'd get about $0.001 per display of the add, so unless you're someone that gets a few hundred thousand views, it's probably not worth it....

I got it too and declined simply because I don't want to annoy people with ads for the few hundred views my racing vid's get....

[livi]

I figure you are right, Chris. I´d hate to come out as Mr. Scrooge.

[cstreit]

Well I wonder though, if you tagged all your videos with "fluffer" that you might actually make a living off of it. Not saying don't do it, but my thought was "why annoy all my friends with ads for $10/year"..

[livi]

He he. Now there is a thought!

[LWJ]

I have some friends whose son does these long strings of dominoes falling over. I believe he gets $.07 for every view from YouTube. This is something YouTube promotes as it is cute and wholesome. I don't think he as made $1000 yet. It has been a while.
Larry

[livi]

Originally Posted by LWJ

I have some friends whose son does these long strings of dominoes falling over. I believe he gets $.07 for every view from YouTube. This is something YouTube promotes as it is cute and wholesome. I don't think he as made $1000 yet. It has been a while.
Larry

$.07

Wohoo!! I am in business!

[porsche4life]

I have one video that has gotten almost 20k hits....

At .07/each that would $1400....

[livi]

So I guess what you guys are saying is that I should probably keep my daytime job..

[intakexhaust]

Thats the standard promo and another revenue stream for them. I refuse to have some irratating ad on my vids and just want the viewer to see what they came for.

I suppose if one has another gone viral stupid 'pie in the face' and 1/2 mil eat the vid, good for them if they can get a payout.

[livi]

Now I get it. I didn´t understand where the ads are placed. They put it at the start of your video, right? Forcing viewers to see while waiting for the actual clip.

No way I will accept that. What would my fans say??!!