‘Dr. Pimple Popper’: How Much Money Did Dr. Sandra Lee Make in Her First Months on YouTube?

Dr. Sandra Lee of Dr. Pimple Popper got her start by posting videos of her removing blackheads on Instagram and YouTube. Her YouTube then really took off to where it was a full-on business exposing that there is a demand for these kinds of videos as entertainment. But what was she making before her videos took off? Here is everything you need to know.

Dr. Sandra Lee made $30 from her first month on YouTube

Before reality television, Dr. Sandra Lee would pop her patients' pimples and post videos of them on YouTube. The patients were typically in her office anyways for other things, but she would offer the pimple-popping service for free in exchange for her to anonymously film them. The business paid off but it still took some time.

The dermatologist revealed that she really had to work her way up to getting the success she eventually got on YouTube. She told People, "The first month I made $30 or something. Then the next month I did it again and made $300. Then the next month it was in the thousands."

There are reports that she made hundreds of thousands per year in 2016

The doctor got as many as 350 million views on her videos. Since the videos have ads and are monetized that has led to a lot of money. The Sun reported she made as much as $4,350 every day from her videos. Another report by The Cut reported she made hundreds of thousands a year in 2016.

Part of that success was probably tapping into something that interest people and not a lot of videos providing that. She also teamed up with other YouTube stars like Logan Paul and removed a cyst for him to get more fans.

There are some pimple-popping videos on YouTube that aren't done by medical professionals. Dr. Sandra Lee revealed why she doesn't watch them.

"I don't know if the environment was clean, or if the person was in pain," she told Hello Giggles. She also revealed another thing she can't stand to see. "I can't watch anyone else's popping videos," Dr. Lee told Mashable. "Don't send them to me. I will not watch them. I cannot even look at them. Never, never send me like, a horse abscess or something. That is disgusting to me."

She then continued, "Non-human bothers me … They can't tell you they're in pain. How do I know someone's not numb? I know my patients are numb, and comfortable, and [they're in] a sterile clean area."

So Dr. Sandra Lee made $30 the first month she was on YouTube and eventually, she got thousands of dollars per year from the platform. Now the doctor has many avenues of income with her skincare line, book, and TV show. She also has no plans watching other people's videos.

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Super Bowl hero John Riggins now fighting to get more money for older NFL retirees

ARLINGTON, Va. â€" It has been nearly 36 years since John Riggins produced one of the greatest clutch runs in football history with a 43-yard touchdown rumble on fourth and inches against Miami â€" kids, check out that stiff-arm on YouTube! -- that propelled Washington to victory in Super Bowl XVII.

Now “The Diesel” is still running … with a different purpose.

The Super Bowl XVII MVP is revved up about the still-persistent quest by retired players from his era to increase their pensions, which pale when compared to more recent retirees and current players. 

“It appears the NFLPA and their constituents are only worried about themselves, and, â€˜Sorry, guys, just die, will you please? Go away,’ " Riggins, 69, told USA TODAY Sports during a recent group interview that included his wife, Lisa Marie, and several former teammates. “That’s kind of the feeling you get.”

As another Super Bowl looms, with yet another appearance by Tom Brady and Bill Belichick on tap, there’s also a “Groundhog Day” effect when it comes to aging ex-players looking for a bigger piece of the NFL pie. They’ve been at it for decades, in one form or another, frustrated that those who played before the major sea change in the NFL’s system occurred in 1993 â€" when liberalized free-agency and a salary cap were instituted â€" are in a markedly lower class for benefits. This, while the most robust sports league in the land continues to grow, with revenues exceeding $14 billion per year.

Compare the pension of, say, Hall of Fame guard Joe DeLamielleure, around $30,000 per year, with the $220,000 maximum for similarly vested retirees of Major League Baseball or the NBA who played in the 1970s, and the concerns of the ex-players resonate.

But here’s the big problem for the pre-'93ers: Like the last time and multiple times before, they won’t have a seat at the bargaining table when the NFL and NFLPA negotiate to extend the current collective bargaining agreement that expires after the 2020 season.

So, among efforts by others (such as Hall of Fame legend Eric Dickerson), a reformulated approach now flows through a non-profit entity, Fairness for Athletes in Retirement (FAIR). Headed by attorney Lisa Marie Riggins, FAIR has embarked on a campaign aimed to educate the public and current players in advance of those next CBA talks.

The group is raising operating funds through online donations (pensionparity.com) and has private donor events in the works in several NFL markets. It’s all essentially an appeal to altruism, bolstered by the hope that public pressure, in addition to engaging the NFLPA, will lead to significant increases for roughly 4,000 former players in the pre-’93 class.

“One of the important things in appealing to the union and the current players is that they’ve held themselves out now as social justice warriors,” Lisa Marie Riggins said. “So I think the timing is perfect to make our case. I say to them, ‘Look inside your very own house,’ because there’s some justice that can be done.”

Of course, current players and NFLPA leadership have a different view. When the last CBA was struck in 2011, active players contributed more than any group of players ever to the pre-’93 cause â€" largely through the $620 million “Legacy Fund” that was funded jointly with NFL owners.

Yet the current players are challenged by a lingering perception that, with salaries that dwarf those of previous generations, they lack empathy for the pioneers.

“Active players have increased pensions and benefits for former players under every collective bargaining agreement,” former Falcons linebacker Dewey McClain, a member of the NFLPA’s executive board, noted in an e-mail to USA TODAY Sports. “People overlook the fact that active players not only pay for benefits, but that today’s players pay a higher percentage of their salaries toward pension than in any other era. Former players are most effective when we unite to have NFL owners contribute to the pensions of former players like we did in 2011.”

Lisa Marie Riggins allows that the NFLPA doesn’t have a fiduciary duty or legal duty to their cause. Yet she contends there is a “moral duty,” as roughly 140 players per year from the pre-’93 class die â€" and there is no shortage of hardship cases of former players dealing with financial and physical challenges.

“I see it first-hand,” said Mark Moseley, 70, who in 1982 became the only pure kicker in NFL history named the league’s MVP. He now heads the Washington Redskins Alumni Association. “I know that they need help … so that they don’t have to get on their hands and knees and beg. That’s just not right for guys who played and gave their hearts.”

Even so, this is hardly a business environment where it’s typical for retirees who were, for example, autoworkers, technical engineers or teachers, to go back to former employees to negotiate new pensions, years later. If FAIR succeeds, and more power to them, it would buck the trend that has existed for over a decade as traditional pensions are frozen or slashed, if they exist at all, often replaced by 401(k)s or other retirement-saving vehicles.

“What’s the problem? We’re the ones who put it together,” said former receiver Roy Jefferson, 75. “We’re the ones who started free-agency. We’re the ones that started the benefits program. And we’re the ones left in the cold.”

According to Lisa Marie Riggins, the pre-’93 class has received just one cost-of-living increase in 38 years â€" which came with the aforementioned “Legacy Fund.” According to the NFL, the fund boosted the monthly pension for a 10-year veteran who played during the 1970s, for example, from $165 per month to $1,810. Other benefits include programs that address assisted living, joint replacement, spine treatment and discount prescriptions.

Yet listen to former players and they will tell you that without lifetime medical coverage and other resources, it is far from enough. And they still feel disenfranchised by the dividing line that is 1993.

“The other leagues â€" hockey, baseball, basketball â€" they all realize that the pioneers deserve the same thing their current guys get as far as the retirement (benefit) goes,” John Riggins said. “I’d say that’s a pretty small chip when you think about it.”

Karen Friedman, executive vice president and policy director of the Pension Rights Center, has heard similar themes before. The Washington, D.C.-based group once advocated with Johnny Unitas for the same purpose.

“If the NFL is making record profits,” Friedman told USA TODAY Sports, “there’s no reason why it shouldn’t want to raise the pensions of those who helped build the league.”

If so, perhaps the model was exhibited with the “Legacy Fund,” with both owners and the players' union contributing as an aside to their labor negotiations â€" albeit without the pre-'93ers having a seat at the table. Remember how the late Gene Upshaw, a Hall of Fame tackle who ascended to head the NFLPA, infuriated former players years ago by declaring that he represented current players â€" and not former players.

Smith, who has often talked of supporting the pioneers since first elected in 2009, inherited that animosity as part of his job. While the intensity hasn’t risen to the level that it did with his predecessor, he probably won’t win any popularity contests with the pre-’93 players, either.

Which fuels irony. Many of the pre-’93 players participated in the four player strikes during the '70s and '80s â€" which ultimately led to the class-action lawsuit settled with the 1993 CBA and system overhaul that brought about free agency.

Now those former NFLPA members, decades after their labor battles, still seek more benefits.

Riggins sees it like this: “We robbed the bank and they spent the money.”

Follow Jarrett Bell on Twitter @JarrettBell.

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You can make money on YouTube

Jerome Stone Youtube Channel.Photo Submitted by Darrien Alexandra Fordham.

YouTube is one of the fastest growing online platforms for young adults between the ages of 18 and 24. Content creators such as Jake Paul, 22, Daniel Middleton (DanTBM), 27, and Jeffree Star, 33, are listed among the top 10 YouTube earners, making between $18 and $21.5 million a  year between their channels, endorsements and company collaborations.

Since YouTube was originally created for amateur content, people of all ages have started channels posting specific content such as make-up tutorials, reaction videos, movie reviews and so much more.

Jerome Stone, a student at FAMU, plans to use his YouTube channels for profit.

"The inspiration is I used to do other stuff on TV, like back when I was a kid, and everyone tells me that I should've kept going with it, so YouTube was my way partially back into that path," Stone said.

Since its humble beginnings in 2005, YouTube is one of the largest growing social media platforms in the world. YouTube, once started as a place to upload random videos, has now turned into a market that profits off of shows, movies and other entertainment outlets.

With its increased popularity, YouTube has played a large role in decreasing traditional television's views, specifically for young adults.

A common myth is that one can profit off of YouTube videos based on views of their video. In actuality, Youtubers make a profit only off of their ads. According to videopower.org, a Youtuber will profit off of a video depending on if the viewer interacts with the ad or watches the ad for at least 30 seconds. Typically, one must have at least one thousand subscribers for YouTube to start automatically uploading ads to videos.

"You are more likely to get more ads on your videos if it's over a 10 minute video … and if you are a consistent poster the shorter ads that [the viewer] can't skip through will post on your channel," Stone said.

In addition, the Youtubers earning the most money do so by being sponsored by companies and advertising products. Essentially, becoming a hired spokesperson for a company, which is commonly seen in the make-up industry.

For example, Jeffree Star, who has 12 million subscribers, collaborated with the high-end make-up company BH Cosmetics and now has used his own platform to create his own line of make-up products. He has also filmed videos with celebrities such as Kim Kardashian.

Stone advises those who are new to YouTube to "post consistently and just do it. It's really not as hard as people make it sound; you 've got to start from somewhere or you're not going to get anywhere."

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How to earn more money on YouTube? Here’s how you can do it.

The change in policies on YouTube has made many YouTubers ineligible for monetization during the last year. The problem arose for YouTubers when Google changed its YouTube Partner Programme. Managing social media and making money through blogging has become difficult for bloggers. Their earnings have come down – revenues are falling. YouTubers will now be needed to have many more subscribers and viewership to earn money. Earlier, however, a YouTuber needed to have only 10,000 views to become eligible for monetizing their content on YouTube. With the revised policy, now, to become eligible, a creator needs to get 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months and also have at least 1,000 subscribers.

While this move has come as disheartening news for new creators, experts suggest, they should use it as a motivating factor to raise their bar. Praval Sharma, a tech YouTuber (with channels, Sharmaji Technical, and Sharmaji Infinity), says, "As Internet data became affordable, many new creators entered YouTube. People started making money through videos that did not add any value." Industry experts say, trying out options like sponsorships, merchandising and affiliate marketing helps creators who are serious in this platform and make value additional videos. With all these changes, find out what you can do to increase your reach and earn more.

How does it work?

After a creator gets monetized, YouTube shares a portion of its revenue that it generates from running ads on user-generated content with the creators. It is divided in 45:55 ratio, where YouTube keeps 45 per cent of the revenue while the creator gets the balance 55 per cent.

What can you do?

Experts suggest YouTubers should concentrate on one thing at a time, and adopt a focused strategy. For instance, many YouTubers, even popular ones, used to run multiple channels. After the monetization change last year, many of them have also fallen prey to the new policy as most of them too have not crossed the threshold limit. Such YouTubers then focussed only on one channel, their primary one which they thought had the best chances of crossing the monetization threshold. To make that one eligible for Google's new monetization criteria they abandoned all of their other channels.

You can also look at other options, within the platform. For instance, the YouTube platform offers multiple other sources of income besides its primary source, AdSense. Other options include sponsorships, merchandising and affiliate marketing.

Sponsorship gets a little difficult for new creators. To get brand sponsorships, you need to build your reach first. Brands don't sponsor new creators. They only approach people with a decent number of subscribers. YouTubers who have good reach with higher views and subscribers, brands readily sponsor such bloggers. Those brands then pay to review their products.

Through affiliate marketing, you need to put a link of the product or service you are reviewing in the description box. If your viewers go to the product site by clicking on that link in your description, you will receive a commission.

YouTube ads, on the other hand, are served only on advertiser-friendly contents. Creators making advertiser-friendly content get more advertisement offers from YouTube. Hence, if you produce advertiser-friendly content, you are likely to get more advertisement offers.

Similar to YouTube, other social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram also work in the same way. These social media platforms can also get you brand sponsorship if you have a good reach there. Experts add new people planning to make a career out of social media blogging should try and work to enhance their reach on other media platforms. This way they can earn brand sponsorships on different platforms other than YouTube.

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How to earn more money on YouTube? Find out

The change in policies on YouTube has made many YouTubers ineligible for monetization during the last year. The problem arose for YouTubers when Google changed its YouTube Partner Programme. YouTubers will now be needed to have many more subscribers and viewership to earn money. Earlier, however, a YouTuber needed to have only 10,000 views to become eligible for monetizing their content on YouTube. With the revised policy, now, to become eligible, a creator needs to get 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months and also have at least 1,000 subscribers.

While this move has come as disheartening news for new creators, experts suggest, they should use it as a motivating factor to raise their bar. Praval Sharma, a tech YouTuber (with channels, Sharmaji Technical, and Sharmaji Infinity), says, "As Internet data became affordable, many new creators entered YouTube. People started making money through videos that did not add any value." Industry experts say, trying out options like sponsorships, merchandising and affiliate marketing helps creators who are serious in this platform and make value additional videos. With all these changes, find out what you can do to increase your reach and earn more.

How does it work?

After a creator gets monetized, YouTube shares a portion of its revenue that it generates from running ads on user-generated content with the creators. It is divided in 45:55 ratio, where YouTube keeps 45 per cent of the revenue while the creator gets the balance 55 per cent.

What can you do?

Experts suggest YouTubers should concentrate on one thing at a time, and adopt a focused strategy. For instance, many YouTubers, even popular ones, used to run multiple channels. After the monetization change last year, many of them have also fallen prey to the new policy as most of them too have not crossed the threshold limit. Such YouTubers then focussed only on one channel, their primary one which they thought had the best chances of crossing the monetization threshold. To make that one eligible for Google's new monetization criteria they abandoned all of their other channels.

You can also look at other options, within the platform. For instance, the YouTube platform offers multiple other sources of income besides its primary source, AdSense. Other options include sponsorships, merchandising and affiliate marketing.

Sponsorship gets a little difficult for new creators. To get brand sponsorships, you need to build your reach first. Brands don't sponsor new creators. They only approach people with a decent number of subscribers. YouTubers who have good reach with higher views and subscribers, brands readily sponsor such bloggers. Those brands then pay to review their products.

Through affiliate marketing, you need to put a link of the product or service you are reviewing in the description box. If your viewers go to the product site by clicking on that link in your description, you will receive a commission.

YouTube ads, on the other hand, are served only on advertiser-friendly contents. Creators making advertiser-friendly content get more advertisement offers from YouTube. Hence, if you produce advertiser-friendly content, you are likely to get more advertisement offers.

Similar to YouTube, other social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram also work in the same way. These social media platforms can also get you brand sponsorship if you have a good reach there. Experts add new people planning to make a career out of social media blogging should try and work to enhance their reach on other media platforms. This way they can earn brand sponsorships on different platforms other than YouTube.

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YouTube still wants gamers to ‘earn money’ — and provide content

YouTube is going through some growing pains as it tries to balance its history as one of the most important platforms to the democratization of content creation and its current status as a highly valued partner for brands and advertisers. The latter wants some insulation from the behaviors of the former — especially after some brands found they were ending up next to videos featuring people making sympathetic jokes about Nazis. In response to those concerns, YouTube has created a new monetization status that indicates a certain video is eligible for advertising but it is also "not suitable for all advertisers." This has started to appear next to almost any video featuring a modern shooter game (like Call of Duty or Battlefield 1), and sometimes it appears for no obvious reason at all. This has the vast community of gaming YouTube creators anxious and confused, and that prompted the video site to speak up with a forum post addressing user fears.

In the post, YouTube Gaming boss Ryan "Fwiz" Wyatt wrote that the company understands the problems, and it has already made some steps to improve the process.

"In the last few months we spent time addressing concerns from advertisers around where their ads are placed," wrote Fwiz. "With new controls and guidelines implemented, many creators have seen their earnings return to normal as advertisers resumed their campaigns. As a part of these recent changes, however, some videos were classified as not suitable for all advertisers, limiting the number of ads served on those videos. There was also no ability to directly appeal in Video Manager. So on August 7th, we announced that we've expanded the ability for creators to appeal videos that have been receiving fewer ads. "

Fwiz wrote that if see the yellow icon, you should appeal.

"With 400 hours of video uploaded every single minute, we rely on machine learning to evaluate content across the platform," Fwiz explained. "But no system is perfect. When you appeal, our reviewers take a look and their decisions help our systems get smarter over time."

YouTube is also reiterating that violent video games on their own are typically not enough to permanently brand a piece of content with the yellow monetization emblem. The company previously provided guidelines that explain only videos that are explicitly about gratuitous violence or over-the-top profanity should earn that tag. So, again, if you're just uploading a match of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, you should feel ready to appeal if YouTube's system blocks most ads.

Appealing will also help YouTube's machine-learning algorithms get better at only flagging truly inappropriate videos in the future, so it could get the service to a point where you don't have to worry about going through this hassle in the future. But as of today, YouTube's A.I. moderators are costing creators money. Valve News Network, a YouTube channel that covers all things related to Valve Software, posted a video yesterday about the Half-Life 3 prototype map. The video has more than 400,000 views as of the time of this posting … and it was marked as "Not suitable for all advertisers." Tyler McVicker, the person responsible for the Valve News Network, vented on Twitter that he doesn't understand why it was marked as inappropriate.

McVicker is also not happy with Fwiz's response.

"It doesn't fix any of the issues I have or bring up," McVicker explained in a note to GamesBeat. "I wasn't emailed when [YouTube] flagged it. I don't know why it was flagged, specifically. And I have lost over 400,000 views of revenue, which is the largest I would have ever earned in my career."

McVicker has requested a review of his video, but he'll have already missed out on the bulk of his revenue by then. And he likely still won't know what triggered the bots so that he can avoid doing something similar in the future. It appears YouTube still has problems to solve.

For now, however, YouTube wants to talk about other ways for creators to get paid for their work.

"We're very focused on creating more ways for gamers — and creators of all kinds — to earn money on YouTube," said Fwiz. "That's why we acquired FameBit to help creators partner with brands and why we're experimenting with sponsorships in the YouTube Gaming app. We even launched Super Chat so that your biggest fans can give you money for serving up chicken dinners while live streaming PUBG."

But for most YouTube affiliates, none of that could replace revenue sharing from advertising, and the company acknowledged that.

"In all seriousness, we have teams of partner managers, engineers, and product managers, not to mention one of the biggest salesforces around, whose entire job is to make sure that creators — including gamers — find success on our platform by monetizing videos with advertisements," said Fwiz. "The gaming community has been a central part of YouTube's success from the very beginning. With hundreds of millions of fans watching hundreds of billions of minutes of gaming videos every month, gaming has never been bigger on YouTube than it is today. We're proud to be the home of gaming and know that the community will continue to play an important role in YouTube's future."

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YouTube's Latest Advertising Changes Have People Worried About Money

Last week, big advertisers such as AT&T pulled ads from YouTube, in reaction to being matched with content that was deemed racist or inappropriate. YouTube has since said they are fine-tuning how people make money on YouTube in general, but content creators on the platform say their channels are being unfairly affected by changes they do not understand.

Figuring out how to make money consistently on YouTube is a bit of a struggle: while creators can get revenue from from ads, individual views don't account for much money until they reach the hundreds of thousands. Making sure your videos can reliably have ads matched with them is essential for creators being able to have long term revenue. Six months ago, when YouTube introduced guidelines that outlined certain political content as inappropriate for monetization, creators like Philip DeFranco reacted with frustration, fearing their channels were over.

More recently, YouTube announced new policies for monetization on March 20th, saying that they would be cracking down on hate speech, and introducing strong controls for advertisers to determine what videos their ads are displayed next to, among other things. Since then, YouTubers like Ethan Klein, also known as H3H3 Productions, said that they had hundred of videos demonetized without warning. Given the amount of content that was demonetized, it's hard for him to ascertain which of these videos break the guidelines.

It isn't just large channels that are being affected by these changes—YouTuber Tim TV, who has been a fulltime YouTuber for about six months, told Kotaku that on he saw that his revenue was, "tanking faster than ever before," and that he found the changes, "terrifying."

"Not only was seeing something like this demotivating," he said, "but was also incredibly scary as I'm now going to be riding off of my savings until these issues hopefully blow over."

Two days after YouTube announced the monetization changes, The Wall Street Journal broke the news about the video platform by reporting that major advertisers were pulling ads from YouTube. At the time, one representative from WalMart stated that, "The content with which we are being associated is appalling and completely against our company values." In particular, the Journal noted that ads from these companies were being displayed before videos that featured racial slurs in the title and description, as well as videos about Holocaust denial. In response, Google said that they would improve their policies on what content is considered acceptable for the platform and would continue to pull ads from inappropriate footage.

But YouTubers are reportedly already feeling an unintended effect of these pending changes. Creators like H3H3 Productions, Philip DeFranco and Jenna Marbles have all had hundreds videos no longer qualify for advertising revenue, and other YouTubers are claiming they didn't have a chance to appeal their demonetization.

While YouTube says that the inability to appeal was a bug, YouTubers find these changes too opaque, given that they were not warned that it would happen or how. Today, YouTube released a statement about the changes and how to appeal demonetization. While YouTube's statement does warn creators that they will be "seeing fluctuations in your revenue over the next few weeks," and explains how to appeal demonetization, creators feel like the guidelines on how to make content advertiser friendly is still too vague.

Responding to the statement in a tweet, Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson said that he wanted YouTube to "be more clear about what advertisers are opposed to having their ads displayed on. What can creators do specifically to make their content more advertiser [friendly]?"

"It honestly makes me feel worse about the situation," Tim TV said. "For some reason, [YouTube] continually seem to only respond to issues when they blow up to the point of mass panic in the community, and then they give a blanket statement that gives the impression that they're just trying to push the issues under the rug."

While YouTube assures creators that they are, "working as fast we can to improve our systems so that … revenue continues to flow to creators over the long term," and that they've made the appeals process for demonetized videos faster, some are still skeptical. YouTuber Stephen Jay "Boogie2988" Williams said in a video today that while he understands why this is happening, he still can't appeal demonetized videos.

While YouTube continues to operate in seemingly mysterious ways that confuse and anger content creators, there is a narrative forming around why YouTube is changing. The Wall Street Journal reported both the Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg fiasco from earlier this year, as well as the more recent advertising changes, leading the assumption that, by reporting this news, the publication is also responsible for the actions of big brands, or YouTube's unwillingness to communicate with its creators about changes that affect people's livelihoods. "I know some of you are still scratching heads, saying, 'Boogie, who am I supposed to be mad at?'" Williams said in today's video. "Me? I'm going for the media."

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YouTube Is Making it Harder for Fake Channels to Make Ad Money

YouTube is hoping it can weed out rogue channels that violate its content policies by making it more difficult for them to make money.

The Google-owned online video service announced a new rule on Thursday requiring creators to reach a minimum of 10,000 lifetime views before they can earn a share of ad revenue from the site. YouTube said it is looking to reduce the number of channels that steal content from other individuals or companies in order rack up video views that they can then use to make money through the site's partner program. YouTube offers creators a 55% share of the ad revenue from pre-roll ads that appear in of their videos.

YouTube has been working to reduce bad behavior on its site by introducing a tool for users to report channels that impersonate other people or accounts. On Thursday, YouTube said that it has removed "hundreds of thousands" of violators from the site.

According to YouTube, the 10,000-view benchmark allows the company time to determine whether a channel is violating community guidelines and advertiser policies. The service had been receiving complaints from certain advertisers who were unhappy that their ads were being played in conjunction with questionable content, the Wall Street Journal,

In creating the new policy, the company considered whether a minimum page view threshold may offend or discourage some of its less prolific creators from contributing to the site. "By keeping the threshold to 10k views, we also ensure that there will be minimal impact on our aspiring creators," the company said in a blog post announcing the rule change. YouTube also added that channels with less than 10,000 views would be able to keep any revenue they earned before today's changes.

(Two years ago, YouTube angered some of its content creators when it introduced its YouTube Red ad-free subscription streaming service and removed the videos of any partner creator who did not sign a revenue share deal for the new service.)

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YouTube also said it would soon add a new review process for its Partner Program that assesses the activity of video publishers on the site once they reach the 10,000-view milestone and apply to make money from future content. "Together these new thresholds will help ensure revenue only flows to creators who are playing by the rules," the company said.

YouTube launched the Partner Program and ad revenue-sharing in 2007, and the site has paid out billions of dollars to rights holders while helping to spawn a number of "YouTube celebrities" whose individual accounts can earn millions of dollars annually.

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How To Boost Your YouTube Subscribers And Views Number Fast

As you might already know to be a professional YouTuber can be quite a lucrative hobby, and channels with millions as well as hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers earn more than enough to support their living style and families. The way you earn money on YouTube is through ad monetization as well as promoted and sponsored videos. Of course, in order to be able to live on YouTube, you need to have a large group of people following you that will then see the ads.

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And though YouTube might seem like a fun thing to do it isn't easy at all and you need to be pretty consistent and patient in order to be successful. Saying this, getting YouTube views and subscribers can be pretty hard at first, and you need to have a bit of lack and put in a lot of hard work in order for it to happen. Still, there are some tips on how to get a lot of views on YouTube and the main one is to post things that might be interesting to a wider audience, and try to make it viral.

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Let's take a look at certain tips on how to have a more popular YouTube channel!

Tips On Getting Youtube Views And Subscribers

1. Although you can find a lot of articles on how to get subscribers and views fast most of those are just a YouTube glitch and don't actually give you persistent and real followers. Instead of trying to trick the system your best bet is to go ahead and start promoting your content. Do it through social media, ask your friends to share and why not visit multiple forums and post your work! Very soon after you will be getting much bigger traffic and enjoy the popularity!

2. Figure out a publishing schedule and stick to it. Saying this if you say news videos will be every Tuesday and Friday don't miss out of any, and you will get a devoted and large group of followers that are eagerly waiting. This way you will show people that you are serious about what you do and that subscribing is a worth it option.

3. So, along with that, you should start delivering more at the beginning of your videos. This will attract more views as well as subscribers to your channel. Use the first 8 seconds to hook people to it and deliver the core of your video straight from the start.

4. Use Pinterest to your advantage. Asking someone to create a picture of your best YouTube videos, and investing in ads on Pinterest will bring you quite a few people and views in a matter of days.

5. People are interested in reading Amazon Reviews so use that to your advantage and add the name of your YouTube channel at the end of your review. And along with that try to expand your social media promotion and reachability to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

6. Also, when it comes to how to get subscribers on YouTube fast, you should start using the power of a good title. By creating an attractive and searchable title chances are your video will be easier to find and thus the number of subscribers and views will constantly grow.

7. And last but not least translate some of your most popular videos. Do it by yourself or hire an agency. This way you will be opening the door to an international subscriber audience!

Summary

YouTube profession is the one of future, and if you enjoy recording things, then it might be just the right for you. Still, it is important to be consistent and innovative in order to succeed. Doing this you will be able to increase the number of views, and subscribers fast, and enjoy all the benefits of YouTube popularity!

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YouTube will no longer let you make money off its platform unless your channel reaches 10,000 lifetime views

Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, is YouTube's biggest star.YouTube Nearly five years to the day YouTube made its Partner Program available to anyone, essentially letting people create a channel and immediately start making money, the company said Thursday that creators would no longer be able to monetize their channels until they received 10,000 lifetime views.

Once a channel reaches that threshold, YouTube will review it against its policies to see if the channel is OK to begin making money.

YouTube says this is designed to help discourage scam artists and content creators that violate YouTube's policy from making money on the platform, the company said in a blog post.

"In a few weeks, we'll also be adding a review process for new creators who apply to be in the YouTube Partner Program. After a creator hits 10k lifetime views on their channel, we'll review their activity against our policies," Ariel Bardin, YouTube's vice president of product management, said in the blog post. "If everything looks good, we'll bring this channel into YPP and begin serving ads against their content. Together these new thresholds will help ensure revenue only flows to creators who are playing by the rules."

YouTube has been under fire since revelations that the ads of several large brands were appearing next to offensive videos and other objectionable content. That caused more than 250 brands to freeze their campaigns aside from search with Google, which owns YouTube.

Though Google is doing its best to assuage these concerns about brand safety, Nomura Instinet analysts have estimated it could lose up to $750 million from the boycott.

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How to make money on YouTube in South Africa

Video-streaming site YouTube is a valuable advertising platform for its parent company Google, with hundreds of millions of hours of videos uploaded generating billions of views.

According to World Wide Worx and Fuseware, South Africa had 8.28 million YouTube users in 2016.

Talk Radio 702 interviewed Google South Africa country director, Luke Mckend, on how South Africans can make money on the video platform.

In December, Forbes released its list of top-earning YouTube stars in 2016, with the world's most popular internet star taking home over $15 million (R204 million).

Swedish 'Let's Play' YouTuber, Felix Kjellberg – known as PewDiePie – retained the top spot on the list, leveraging his sizeable audience to make money beyond YouTube revenue made from people watching him play video games online.

The YouTube star extended his reach through branded mobile games, and even published a book, taking his total earnings for the year up to $15 million (up from the $12 million he made in 2015).

This is significantly higher than anyone else on the list – almost double 2016's number 2, Roman Atwood, a popular "vlogger" (video blogger) and prankster, who earned $8 million.

Mckend said that it is possible to generate a livable income from YouTube in South Africa. "You really have to think very carefully about the kind of content you are going to create. Folks who are able to make a living off YouTube really reach international audiences."

He said the model works in such a way that YouTube places an advert that either appears before a video or an advert appears just to the right of the screen – a static display advert.

"We give the content creator a cut from that particular advertisement," Mckend said.

Each individual advert, he pointed out, is a relatively small sum of money. "So for someone to make a genuine living from YouTube, you need to be delivering millions and millions of views."

He said that, in a South African market, delivering those kinds of hits is difficult. "The guys who have been super successful, have reached an international audience," Mckend said.

The Google exec pointed to channels like Kruger Sightings which appeals to a wide audience including people from the US and UK, and Yellow Brick Cinema – which generates relaxing music, reaching a global audience.

When questioned how much a person can make from uploading content, Mckend said: "Each individual play you are talking about very small percentages of a rand. The last time I looked at this in any detail, you would probably get paid something in the region of R1,000 per million views…that's an estimate."

Mckend said that the way people make money from YouTube though has very little to do with the advertising. He said that many content generators are creating ecosystems around their content that enables them to monetize what they do.

He cited SuzelleDIY as an example. "She has created a brand that has launched her into television. She is making a lot more money from her activities surrounding her YouTube channel than from the channel itself."

Mckend cautioned that it only shares money with content providers if an advert is viewed to its conclusion or if it is viewed for more than 30 seconds. He said the reason for this is that Google only charges advertisers for the placement if the advert it watched to its conclusion.

Read: These are the most-watced YouTube videos in South Africa in 2016

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New YouTube Monetization Policy: Video creators will need 10,000 lifetime views to mint money

New Delhi, April 7: Before creators could mint more money from YouTube videos, the company on Thursday has decided to make sure that all its video creators are legit. Earlier, YouTube let people create a channel and immediately start making money but the company on Thursday made a surprise announcement saying that the creators will no longer be able to monetize their channels until they receive 10,000-lifetime views.

This means that the social network will not allow ads on channels that have fewer than 10,000 views total on their videos. However, revenue earned on channels with under 10k views up until Thursday will not be impacted. After a creator hits 10k lifetime views on their channel, we'll review their activity against our policies. The video giant, YouTube is taking measures to ensure its user-generated content doesn't end up positioning ads by big brands next to objectionable content, reports stated. The company announced a big change to its partner program on Thursday that now requires creators to reach 10,000-lifetime views before it can run ads on channels.

The YouTube Partner Program was first created in 2007. This paved way for producers of very popular content to monetize their videos. In 2012, YouTube opened it up to all creators. The threshold of 10,000 allows a certain level of self-selection wherein videos that offensive enough to never find much of an audience won't be included, reports stated. YouTube's system also automatically placed ads against content using algorithmic methods, meaning preventing this kind of thing on a case-by-case basis is a relatively difficult, if not impossible, task. (ALSO READ: This is how you can download YouTube videos to Android)

The company came up with this decision after revelations that advertisements owned by several huge brands were appearing next to offensive YouTube videos and other objectionable content.

This, however, caused more than 250 brands to reportedly freeze their campaigns with Google.

The company announced last month a handful of changes to its advertising systems designed to give brands more control over where their ads appear.

The video giant announced a big change to its partner program on Thursday that now requires creators to reach 10,000-lifetime views before it can run ads on channels.

The change is a response to repeated user complaints about unlicensed re-uploads of popular videos aka "freebooting." Facebook also often faces this issue with its videos.

YouTube said that the measure has been in development since November and that it's intended to block channels which steal content from other sources from deriving revenue from the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported. Ariel Bardin, YouTube's Vice President of product management, wrote in a blog post that this new threshold gives us enough information to determine the validity of a channel."It also allows us to confirm if a channel is following our community guidelines and advertiser policies. By keeping the threshold to 10k views, we also ensure that there will be minimal impact on our aspiring creators", he added. Bardin said, in a few weeks, YouTube also be adding a review process for new creators who apply to be in the YouTube Partner Program.

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Making Money On YouTube In 2018 Being An Artist, Is That Doable?

Youtube is there for quite a few now and has had many incredible successes. But even with billions of views per year, an insane amount of incomes and a worldwide audience and fame, the platform is still evolving.

Evolving not only on a technical aspect but also as a community.

With the drama created around PewDiePie or more recently with Logan Paul, youtubers, viewers and headquarters are trying to make the platform a better and safer place to be.

Everybody from 1 year old to 100 can literally find content to suit their needs and so it then requires to have a very special attention on the way everything is operated.

What mostly is in the discussion these days is all about monetization.

As you surely know by now, you can actually make money out of Youtube.

So, you may have seen that I said "can make money", I didn't say that you will be set for life with that.

It is because Youtubers never really made millions of dollars out of Youtube itself. They have been self branding for years, uploading content on a daily basis, whatever their field was (gaming, makeup, music, tech…) and used this platform to make themselves a name in the whole ecosystem.

Youtubers are like entrepreneurs and therefore bank on their own brand to develop their business.

Monetization is in the discussion all the time because advertisers don't want to put their name in poorly executed content or associate their name with people that could draw a bad attention to their brand.

Therefore, Youtube decided to limit the monetization of creators to a 4,000 hours minimum. Which means that your videos can be monetized if and only if you make at least 4,000 hours of cumulated views on your channel every month.

I have a very small channel at the moment that I upload daily content on it, around 10 minutes per video but I have around 30 views each time. This is far from being the 4,000 hours required to be monetized but why would I care since that would bring me around $0.60 per month?

Now, I understand, some people are having great channels that maybe don't make millions of views but enough to earn around $70 a month for example, that is not a crazy income but that still pays for whatever expenses they may have of that amount.

But I want to be clear with artists that are reading this right now, I think that banking on Youtube to make money is a poor strategy because in reality, it never paid.

Even at a very high level of "recognition" in the Music Business, artists, singers, musicians, never received a check from YouTube. First because their label are making them sign a record deal based on record sales, totally eclipsing their hopes of revenues from millions of views, and because if they make millions of views without a label, their consistency is far from being enough to pay the bills.

Should we stop using Youtube, then?

Hell no!

Youtube is an amazing platform to actually document your journey. Therefore, I think it is one of the most strategic place to be when you are an artist.

I believe in documenting over creating. Which means, everyday, try to upload a piece of content to document your journey as a singer, a songwriter, a musician, a beat producer and document, document, document…

First because this is called self branding. Your content, being consistent will start to appear in searches and google algorithms, and later on you will be one of the content creators that viewers are looking for.

Therefore, you'll be bringing attention to your name and then, bringing attention to advertisers.

Forget about the money that Youtube can bring or not, it just doesn't. Big channels couldn't care less about monetization anymore, and for those who complain, I find it a little bit ironic knowing Youtube made them, and for free. They may have paid for their equipment but never had to pay for that platform.

Focus on documenting your journey as an artist, build your brand that way and use it as a hub to bring even more awareness.

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Top Ten Money Making YouTube Channels Of 2018

The popularity of YouTube makes it a valuable marketing channel. Nowadays, everyone is getting the advantage of this platform including businesses who need this platform to increase brand awareness and generate more traffic.  

A celebrity can increase his/her fan following with a personal YouTube channel. Students can learn new things with informational videos. Mothers can get the advantage of Kids Learning Songs Play Videos to help their toddlers in education. In short, YouTube allows a layperson to earn money and fame at the same time. These are the top ten moneymaking YouTube channels of 2018.

1. Daniel Middleton ($16.5m) DanTDM

DanTDM is a British professional gamer famous for a popular game Minecraft. Dan earned money with YouTube views, graphic novel, Red Series on YouTube, acting credits and touring. He was in the list of highest-paid YouTubers of Forbes in 2017. As of 2018, he has more than 20 million subscribers and 13 billion views.

2. Vanossgaming (Evan Fong) ($15.5m)

VanossGaming is a young Canadian YouTuber famous for his gaming videos. People are crazy about his editing skills. He abridges hours of gaming into a hilarious video. Fong is working on his video games and music. His YouTuber Red series "Paranormal Action Squad" is famous among youngsters.

3. Dude Perfect ($14m)

Dude Perfect has over 24 million subscribers. This channel is from Coby and Cory Cotton (twins). They are working with their three basketball mates from high school. Their videos contain sport-related exciting stunts and comedy sketches. Along with their channel, they have a Nickelodeon TV show and a mobile app.

4. Long Paul ($12.5m)

The former vine star is famous for more than 17 million subscribers on his channel. You can find comedy videos and vlogs on his channel. Paul is renowned for his controversies, such as his suicide incident and tasering of rats. The Paul may not be a part of this list in 2019 because his Original YouTube Red series is canceled and YouTube dropped ads from Paul's videos.

5. Markiplier – (Mark Fischbach) ($12.5m)

Mark is famous for his gaming videos and commentating moves. With over 18 million subscribers, he is one of the famous YouTuber. His channel has survival horror games video. Currently, he is voicing a role in Mexico cartoon network series "Villainous".

6. Pewdiepie (Felix Kjellberg) ($12m)

PewDiePie is a famous video game commentator from Sweden. He has over 58 million subscribers on his channel. The YouTuber is busy with a Scare PewDiePie YouTube Red series and a book "This Book Loves You."

7. Jake Paul ($11.5m)

He is a famous vine star for creating videos with his brother. Logan Paul and Jake Paul posts music, vlogs and comedy sketches on their YouTube channel. The channel has over 14 million subscribers.

8. Ryan Toysreview ($11m)

A 6 years old boy is earning 11 million dollars with his YouTube channel. He is a primary school kid earning money by reviewing toys. He has more than 10 million followers.

9. Smosh ($11m)

Smosh produces parody and slapstick videos. The channel was started in 2005 and now have more than 22.8 billion subscribers. He is working with Anthony Padilla and Hecox.

10. Iisuperwomanii (Lilly Singh) ($10.5m)

Lilly sing is famous for producing music video and sketches. She is renowned for her "Superwoman" psydom and has 13 million subscribers on her channel.  

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MrBeast, YouTube’s viral philanthropist, explains where all that money comes from

Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson made a name for himself on YouTube by giving away more than a million dollars to strangers and friends in bouts of random donations. Now, a new video on his channel is answering the question he receives most often from fans: where does all the money come from?

The majority of Donaldson's $1 million donations came from brand deals, which many fans may have guessed, but he also relies on going viral to boost his own personal revenue. The more viral he becomes, the more brands want to work with him, and the bigger his own AdSense earnings get. He can then entice viewers with even bigger giveaway videos. It's a never ending cycle.

It started with incrementally sponsored deals from companies like Quid, working with Donaldson on $10,000 videos. Donaldson gave just about everything away: to homeless people, to attractive Twitch streamers, to his parents, his friends, and even his followers. He rolled up 30 million pennies, toyed with major Twitch streamers like Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, and walked around his city donating $1,000 to as many homeless people he could find.

Donaldson explains in his video that after giving away $10,000 to a homeless man for his first major sponsored act of philanthropy, he realized he liked helping people, so he continued doing it. But Donaldson also realized something else: the bigger his giveaways became, and the more extravagant his method of delivering donations seemed, the faster his channel grew. Donaldson went from having a relatively small channel to amassing more than 5 million subscribers. His videos regularly boast more than 10 million views after just a few weeks. The result, as Donaldson says at the end of this video, is a sizable paycheck.

"If you want the special secret, if you want to know where it all came from — my parents aren't that rich, I'm only 20 years old, every dollar I've ever made came from YouTube, and YouTube just pays better than you think," Donaldson said.

Giving away money earned Donaldson the title as "YouTube's biggest philanthropist," but every giveaway video comes with an equally impressive return on investment. It's something that Donaldson has acknowledged in previous videos. One video in particular, titled "Giving my mom $100,000," includes a back-and-forth conversation with his mother about the donation. While she refuses the gift at first, he explains that he needs to give the money away — a combination of sponsorship cash and his own personal earnings — to keep his channel going.

"If I don't give it to you, I don't have a viral video," Donaldson confesses.

"So, you're using me for views?" his mother responds.

"Yes, but you get money too, so we're both happy," Donaldson says.

YouTube creators rely on brand deals — from companies like Quid and Honey — and AdSense for their revenue. Donaldson explains at length about his relationships with the aforementioned companies, but doesn't really get into AdSense revenue. It's difficult to estimate just how much Donaldson is making from AdSense because the average CPM (cost per mille) for YouTube creators, which refers to how much they make per 1,000 views on a video, differs.

However, considering Donaldson regularly amasses more than 10 million views on his videos, and doesn't usually publish content that YouTube would have to demonetize to appease advertisers' concerns, it's safe to assume that Donaldson is making relatively good money from AdSense alone.

Everything comes full circle. Donaldson relies on viral giveaway campaigns to generate more interest from brands and create viral videos. His channel is consistently growing, and he's considered one of the top creators working today. He's given away more than $1 million in less than two years, and shows no signs of slowing down. His revenue model is unique — he's the only "top philanthropist" on the platform — but his method of working with brands to boost his own AdSense revenue is something that others have attempted to copy as demonetization woes continue.

It's unclear what's next for Donaldson, but he does hint in the video that he's working with brands on even bigger concepts for giveaway videos for early 2019.

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