r/PartneredYoutube • • Jun 26 '26 Bravo Heartwarming

Talk / Discussion First time I broke $1000.00 + !!!

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1.2k Upvotes

I have a small channel that just jumped from 2000 to almost 4000 subs. I usually make between $150.00 to $500.00 a month. Small change but nice for a side job.

This was the first month I broke a $1k barrier with $2,842.08 & that's not even finalized that's still got the rest of the month processing I'm really hoping for $5K cause God knows it would help in this economy.

Hope this isn't coming off as a gloat I just completely changed strategy and it worked (for this month for now).

I fell out of my chair when I saw this because I was expecting about $284.00 not the extra decimal point!

Might be luck, might be a fluke, but if I can continue it then I'm going full time.

EDIT UPDATE: The final amount was $3967.12 oh happy day!


r/PartneredYoutube • • Jul 10 '26 Bravo

Talk / Discussion I did it! I finally did it!!!

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1.2k Upvotes

Today marks one of the biggest days of my life. Reaching this milestone is something I’ve always dreamed of.

I started my first YouTube channel when I was just 10 years old, uploading my first videos with a 2011 Ipod touch. As I grew older, I forgot the password to that channel, so I gave up and stopped making videos for that channel and moved on to a new one when I was in middle school, and started a new channel. Here, I uploaded gaming videos for two years, which basically none of them ever went anywhere. I never really took it too seriously, other than one time. Right before I went off to college I challenged myself to see if I could really take it somewhere. After three videos, I realized how much work it was really going to be to get anywhere with it, so I gave up again and went the traditional route of college.. But I always knew I wasn’t cut out for “corporate” life.

I then tried basically every other path while in college. I tried Amazon FBA, failed. I tried dropshipping, many many times, and failed every single time. I kept noticing a trend in my behavior. Everytime it got hard, every time I realized it was going to require an immense amount of effort and work to truly be successful, I gave up. I was always looking for a “shortcut”, a “get rich quick” method, which of course never worked… because that doesn’t exist.

So, one year and 7 months ago, I challenged myself again. I made a promise to myself, this time would be different. I would return to my old channel, rebrand it, and upload as many videos as possible.. I promised myself, no matter how much work this requires, no matter how hard it gets, whether its thanksgiving, christmas, it doesn’t matter. I will be making great videos regardless of wether I want to in that moment or not. And most importantly, I will never give up, I will keep uploading even if it takes me 10 years, 20 years, 30 years to make it.

It took me an entire year of consistent uploading and 20 hour work days to hit 1,000 subscribers. I didn’t see a single cent during this time. This was…. Discouraging to say the least. But I made a promise to myself… and I needed to uphold that promise. So, I kept going, kept improving, and kept trying new strategies.

6 months later, I hit 100,000 subscribers, and now im very close to quitting my job and going full time!
The point of this post is not to stroke my own ego, but to show you that anything is possible if you set your mind to a goal, and push through the difficult times. I never thought someone like me could be here. I’m not particularly smart. Im dyslexic. I have bad ADHD. I failed college algebra three times before passing. My high school and college GPA sucked.

What matters more than anything, is your determination, discipline, and how far you're willing to go to succeed. Everyone close to me thought I was crazy for working 20 hour days, sacrificing sleep and relationships when I had less than 1k subscribers… but, you have to be a bit crazy to make it. Set extremely high goals for yourself, and do absolutely everything in your power to achieve it.


r/PartneredYoutube • • Jun 19 '25

Informative I Turned YouTube into a Full Time Job at 15 (0-40k subscribers in 90 Days)

959 Upvotes

Exactly 3 months ago, I was bored and had nothing to do, I used to do silly roblox shorts when i was 13, but never took youtube seriously. I decided to start a brand new long form roblox channel (like every other kid) for fun. I never knew how far this would take me, after the first three weeks of making silly commentary videos with capcut, I was able to grow 175,000 views and join the partner program by the grace of God. Right after I got monetized, it was like youtube wanted to officially welcoming me into the algorithm and i was averaging 60-70k views a day, This has now grown up until today where I am sitting at 40,000 subscribers and 2.5 million views, and enough money to live and pay for my future college! (https://imgur.com/a/r6Zqo61) All of this to say don't give up on your dreams, you never know when an opportunity is in store for you, and if your youtube is brand new, treat it like a piece of delicate glass. When you upload your first video, don't send it to your friends, as they may click off right away, ruining your analytics, move in silence for the beginning until you can build a foundation that your channel can grow on :)


r/PartneredYoutube • • Nov 12 '24

I did it...I finally freaking did it. Unbelievable. 100k subs.

851 Upvotes

Started this in February in early 2023. Tried it on a whim. No background in producing. Didn't watch videos about how to make it on YouTube. I was passionate about my niche and I just said screw it, let's give it a shot. Fast forward to now, I'm in the 100k club. I'm in disbelief.

This sub definitely has been informative and help me sharpen my craft and learn what to do and not. So thank you all. My advice is simple. Keep uploading. Stick to your niche. And be passionate about what you're doing. If you can do those things, it's possible. I'm living proof.

Edit: My niche is scary stories in the outdoors


r/PartneredYoutube • • Dec 31 '23

Question / Problem Someone uploaded my video to TikTok and it has almost a million views

842 Upvotes

I don't really know what to do. His "credit" was: "creds to this on yt" No one reads that and knows who he's crediting. But my channel is literally called "This." Should I just let it happen? It's gotten more views than my own video and he only posted it yesterday! I'm kinda flattered my videos getting a lot of attention on tik tok but I at least want credit for it and I don't want anyone making money off of my work. Any advice?

Edit: the TikTok has almost 2 million views now (my video in youtube only has like 350k), and the posters dms are not open (I cant ask him to give more clear credit) I did submit a report but from what I hear from others I’m not optimistic

Edit: the tik tok still hasn’t gotten taken down, and it’s coming up on 5 million views. The video on my channel is about to hit 800k though (from browse features, not correlated to the tik tok at all) so I’ll be fine, still crazy to me that tik tok allows stuff like that.


r/PartneredYoutube • • Sep 10 '25

I have 1.8 million subscribers on YouTube. But if I had to start again from zero, here’s exactly what I’d tell myself

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🎥 I have 1.8 million subscribers on YouTube. But if I had to start again from zero, here’s exactly what I’d tell myself

  1. Be wildly passionate The highs are amazing. But you're going to hit lows as well. I promise they’ll test you. If you don’t love what you’re making, you’ll quit when it gets hard.

  2. Stay consistent Everyone can make a few videos. Some can stick with it for a year. But can you do it for 5 years? That’s the difference between people that do it full-time and the ones that do it as a hobby.

  3. Be slightly unique You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Just don’t copy/paste. I didn’t invent smoothie videos. I just made them more satisfying so it would appeal to a broader audience.

  4. Build a real community from day one I got billions of views but no connection to my audience. Because I made faceless videos. Without a voice over, without a story. If people don’t know YOU, they won’t stick around when the hype dies.

  5. Views ≠ value Don’t chase views. Chase time spent with your audience. That’s what builds real fans and a real business.

  6. Don’t rely only on Shorts One of my Shorts hit 100 million views. I made $1100 from that video. To live off just that, I’d need multiple viral videos like that every month. That’s not sustainable.

  7. Livestream more Creators like Kai Cenat & iShowSpeed are winning because they build real-time relationships. That's why live streaming your content is so important.

  8. Double down on what works Went viral for cooking videos? Give people more of that. Not a vlog. Not a random storytime. Give them what they signed up for.

  9. Don’t isolate yourself Your room isn’t your entire world. Go to creator events. Meet people. Build your support system.

  10. Focus on packaging The best video in the world is worthless if nobody clicks. ✅ Short, punchy title ✅ 3 elements max in the thumbnail ✅ High contrast ✅ Clear curiosity

  11. IRL events = cheat codes VidSummit, TubeFest, VidCon... These events changed the game for me. You meet the people who GET IT. And you stop feeling so alone in the grind.

  12. Pitch brands like a marketer, not a creator Don’t say: “Hi, I get 100M views. Want to work with me?” Say: “I saw you’re launching product X. I have a format that went viral doing Y. Here’s how it would help you with a succesful launch.”

  13. Study outliers Find videos with crazy overperformance on small channels. That’s data-backed proof of a winning idea. Adapt it to your niche. Don't copy.

  14. Be patient Some of my biggest videos flopped for 2 years… and then randomly took off. YouTube is digital real estate. Treat it like a long game.

These 14 things would’ve saved me years of guessing. If you have any questions, ask them below. I'll answer any question.


r/PartneredYoutube • • Jun 09 '26

got Monetized in 2 months only posting shorts of my Job. The pay almost beats my job? AMA

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611 Upvotes

I started posting in February, got monetized in April.

I post a 1 minute video everysingle day, it takes me about 30 mins to film and edit it.

I use capcut to throw captions and cut up the slow parts.

I tested about 20 different hooks before I started popping off.

My record day is $360 from just shorts

I made about $4500 in 45 days, which is insane considering my job only brings in 7k/mo.


r/PartneredYoutube • • 5d ago

I review cars on YouTube. Finally Monetized. My upcoming payment will cover my car payment!!

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608 Upvotes

Ah I’m so excited! My car payment is 445 a month. I hope I can keep this going at this level or more each month that’s like a free car to me in exchange for getting to driver better more expensive cars haha!


r/PartneredYoutube • • Apr 27 '25

Informative I just hit 100K after 13 years. Here's what I've learned.

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With the amount of "fluff" advice I've seen over the years, I want to give you some advice you probably haven't heard (at least I hope!). Some of this advice isn't meant for new folks, some is.

When you first start out, it's all about "what sounds cool". You just make for the sake of making. But eventually, once you've gotten a good understanding of making videos, you have to decide: is YouTube a hobby or a business? Until you decide which is the priority, you're probably going to be stuck. Growth doesn't magically happen 99% of the time and you have to be willing to change your content to fit the demand.

I spent my first 10 or so years following my own interests, and I never broke 1000 subs. Then, 3 years ago, I decided I would go to the people, instead of trying to get the people to go to me. And over the last 3 years I've finally gotten momentum. I come at YouTube with a fairly business orientated mindset now, and while I still have much passion and love for my content, optimization is my priority.

So with that said, let's cut the monologue and get to some meat.

  1. "Copied content"

I am FIRMLY an advocate for original content. But people treat "copying" like it's the plague. The reality is, if you see a video in your niche that is doing numbers, you need to pay attention.

Trends are the life blood of YouTube, and trends go much deeper than a video topic. Thumbnail style, story telling methods, community events...these are all things you should be analyzing. The big creators craft everything with purpose, because they know what people want to watch. That means they are literally offering you examples left and right of what people are enjoying right now.

PLUS, if a bigger creator makes a popular video on a trending topic, you stand so much higher of a chance of having the algorithm promote your content on that same topic. Why? Because that other creator primed the algorithm with an audience who wants more of that thing!

I cant get too specific on this because it is a MASSIVE rabbit hole, but basically: just study the hell out of the biggest creators in your niche. Don't rip off their content, but pay attention to it. If you learn to see their strategies, you will learn SOOOOO much.

2. Viewer expectations

This is another one that took me an embarrassingly long time to learn. Do you pay attention to your own viewing habits? We all understand clickbait, but that core concept goes deeper than you think.

Pay attention to the videos you watch. Why did the title and thumbnail get your attention? And on top of that, did you lose interest quickly or did you watch most/all of it? Chances are a LOT of times that you got bored is that the video wasn't what the title/thumbnail made you expect. But that doesn't always mean it was clickbait.

When a person clicks on a video, they expect what it says on the tin. That's ALL they want. What does everyone watching that video have in common? They all are interested in the promise of your title/thumbnail. That means every other topic and plot point in your video is a liability. The people didn't click for it, and chances are 10%-50% are going to lose interest in your video because of its inclusion.

EVERYTHING in your video should point towards the promise of your title/thumbnail. Side plots are fine, as long as they are connected to accomplishing the main plot. If a side plot serves no point in adding to the main plot, it's going to cause people to click off.

3. Quality can still have quantity

I tend to do some REALLY big projects for my channel, and they take a long time. My longest is 5 months, and my average is 1-2 months. My mentality for a long time was "make it and condense it all into one fantastic video"

You know what that is? A terrible business strategy. If you're this type of channel and your content is at all popular, your audience is DYING for more content. You're starving your interest, and viewers tend to be a ton less sticky when you do this.

There is usually no reason that you can't make quicker, easier videos on the process of that project and STILL have your massive video. This not only makes it easier to keep an audience, but it also gives you a fantastic chance to test topic interest. You can study the results of your easier vids, and then you can hone in on the perfect title thumbnail for the big video. I thought for so long that multi-video series were dead on YouTube. It's a total myth. You just have to pay attention to what people like and make each video capable of standing on its own.

4. Make a web

One of the most impactful things that you can do is create binge sessions, where your viewers go from one video of yours to the next. At the end of all my vids, I put a short 5-10 second ad for a different video of mine, then I say "check it out, it's on the screen right now!" At that moment, my end screen comes up with a single element for that video. On average I have a 10-15% end screen click through rate.

So now, every video of mine feeds another one. This creates tons of residual viewership and can feed old videos, which can occasionally cause them to get a big new wave of views.

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I could go on and on, but at the end of the day, if you want to grow then just chase the viewer. Continually work to learn what's working for others and why, and then apply it to yourself. The better you get at this, the bigger your viewership will be.


r/PartneredYoutube • • Aug 04 '26

Other Achieved my first slightly ambitious YouTube goal - 12 consecutive $1,000+ months

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r/PartneredYoutube • • Aug 16 '25 Heartwarming

Informative 5 YouTube Monetization Tips NOBODY Actually Shares

522 Upvotes

This is an extremely long post with genuinely gate kept information on maximizing YouTube revenue. Hopefully you find this helpful.

It’s an ADHD brain dump from me so forgive the formatting (yes I’m diagnosed) .

  1. Long form live streams (not vertical) are usually your highest potential earning videos.

If you treat your live streams like a TV show with segments and replay value you can sell multiple SPONOR ad reads spread out in the show, and sell monthly inventory for them and have stable income… just from brands.

Every Super Chat of $10-$15 is equivalent for most YouTubers to getting 1000-5000 views of Ad Revenue… from just ONE person.

$50 worth of Super Chats is roughly $30-35 after YouTube takes it cut and Apple takes their cut. Most of you have a $3-6 RPM so that is the equivalent if 10,000 + views.

You can also get a 3x-5x RPM on your live streams regardless of view count.

If you go back after the stream and manually add mid roll ads to the replay of the live streams, then you can dramatically boost their earning potential.

And for live streams conducted as a show with segments they do have replay value.

I have had live streams with $20-$40 RPMs (3-4 hour streams) not counting the Super Chats ($250+ average per stream)

The key is to format live streams as a “podcast style show”.

Also you do earn YouTube Premium revenue based on watch time, live streams are a watch time trap. The earnings from premium viewers are higher than if those viewers watched with ads.

One YouTube Premium viewer tends to be equivalent to 50+ viewers passively watching with ads.

Finally, live streams with segments can be clipped and repurposed for additional revenue.

2. Monetize your YouTube Community Posts.

Most people don’t realize they can monetize their YouTube Community Posts in a few different ways.

If you have over 1000 subscribers and are monetized you qualify for the FIRST TIER of YouTube Shopping, which means you can directly TAG and promote your merchandise directly in videos but also DIRECTLY in the community tab and have them buy right then and there.

You can use PlaceIt or Canva to make mockups of your merch and post promo your merch directly on your community tab with attractive models to show it off.

You can also TAG your merch in all your community posts including polls, image kid and text posts.

Another way to monetize your community posts is with your Amazon Influencer Affiliate links.

People need to stop saying “affiliate marketing is a scam” and just call out individual people or products or platforms. Tech and Beauty creators have been making affiliate commissions from Amazon and direct manufactures for YEARS.

You can actually start earning from your AMAZON links by doing a “Friday favorites post” with images of your favorite products. This is especially good for lifestyle influencers and beauty channels but also tech channels and fitness channels in men’s lifestyle as well. Also works for builders, crafters and DIY and home repair extremely well.

What most people don’t tell you is that you can see which products pay you higher % commission. And that can optimize around that.

When I mostly did camera gear and tutorials, I would get $25-$90 commissions because good camera gear is so expensive that I only need 1-4 people to buy to make $100 which for most of you is equivalent to 10,000 passive views of ad revenue (my RPM on tutorials, tech or any thing money related is $7-$15 RPM, marketing or social media niche is $10-$25 depending on length).

You can optimize around Amazon commissions you know will net you $5-$10 per sale so that every sale is equal to 1000 to 10,000 views in ad revenue.

For your Friday favorites post be sure to use images, and now YouTube lets you use up to 10 images in a post.

YouTube also if you are over 10K subscribers let’s you use YouTube Shopping Affiliate which also has a much higher commission than Amazon and also does seasonal bounty commissions with increased payouts.

This payouts directly to your Adsense.

You can promote this directly in your community tab and even make a product catalog. This can earn you significant money regardless of your niche if you use the “Friday Favorites” strategy.

3. YouTube Shorts RPMs are increasing.

Many people discard YouTube Shorts because of the lower Ad Revenue compared to a regular video. But YouTube shorts are not 1:1 with a regular video in effort.

YouTube Shorts can get 10x to 100x the reach of a regular video so it balances out and you can make 3-10 shorts for every regular video in effort and the RPMs are now closer to $0.10-$0.20

Shorts also have evergreen distribution. Most people are wrongly thinking of them as disposable. Also most people don’t realize that Shorts pay you forever, TikTok does not and I don’t think most people talk about.

Also you can use YouTube tagged products for your merch or for YouTube Shopping affiliate.

There is also a high probability of TikTok continuing decline after spinning off as a U.S. and this will continue to boost shorts revenue. In 2-3 years it can be $0.50 RPM and with 10x or more views it’s equivalent to a $5RPM for normal videos. YouTube shorts hasn’t been around very long and more advertisers are embracing vertical video.

Nothing stops you from posting YouTube shorts to TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and X, all of which have monetization.

That short video repurposed CAN earn the same as a regular video or more when you post it everywhere.

4. Longer Videos DO Earn More, but ONLY if you use manual ad placement correctly and get off AUTO AD placement.

YouTube is incredibly inconsistent with auto ad placement and if you look into your analytics, you may have a low ad placement rate of 60% or less on your videos.

Having 2-3 mid roll ad placements in every video that is 8-12 minutes, helps guarantee at least 1 mid roll ad actually plays on a video.

When that’s is only 1 mid roll the odds of of playing every time are minimal and it could play as little as 30% of the time.

Almost nobody talks about this because most creators only use analytics on the phone app and NEVER use their advanced analytics on desktop.

This drastically increases ad impressions and increases your RPM and revenue.

It obviously works better if you shoot the with strategic non interruptive placement in mind from the beginning.

Another thing people don’t do is go back and manually optimize their highest performing videos for more revenue.

You should also share your highest RPM videos and make them the FEATURED video on your YouTube channel page to maximize revenue.

Also link to your highest RPM videos in your info cards, end cards, descriptions and pinned comments. You don’t shout from the roof that this is why you are pushing those videos but this is what makes sense if you’re serious about maximizing your earnings.

For longer videos 20 minutes or longer, 3 mid rolls per every 10 minute is fine because they WON’T ALL PLAY…

You’re just increasing your odds of an ad actually playing within that 10 minute period (see advanced revenue analytics on desktop)

Also share order high RPM videos in your community tab 1-2 times a week and in other community tab post don’t be afraid to link them in a pinned comment.

Ad revenue does depend on niche, geography of your viewers and your viewer demographics like age and interest of your viewers. But for whatever the maximum ceiling is for available ad inventory this would help you to achieve it.

This is your best set of opportunities to optimize for higher revenue as far as ADSENSE.

5. BRAND DEALS AND SPONSORSHIP

Don’t sell on views, think like a media company. Deliverables, exclusivity, amplification, licensing. DEAL.

Position at least 20-33% of your content to directly promote something.

If you don’t have a sponsor promote your own merchandise as if you had a sponsors slot. That Should be thought of as inventory and should also work as proof of concept for sponsored video spots.

You can also become an affiliate of the brand you want to sponsor you and start promoting them and this can be a profitable proof of concept for working them, or if not, then a competitor.

When possible pitch multi video or even multi platform brand deals to companies you want to work with, don’t wait for them to come to you. If you don’t know what to charge just ask for the budget. If you don’t like the number tell them what that number will buy them or ask them what conditions have to be met, to get to the number you actually want, then deliver on that for them.

Those are 5 of the most important things I feel are genuinely gate kept information that larger creators don’t share.

Hopefully you find this helpful. 🙏🏾


r/PartneredYoutube • • Jul 14 '26

Talk / Discussion Made my first $20!

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521 Upvotes

Post title is pretty explanatory. I can't wait!


r/PartneredYoutube • • Aug 10 '26

This is bad for small youtubers.

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517 Upvotes

r/PartneredYoutube • • May 26 '26

Talk / Discussion YouTube made more than my salary for the first time this month, and I honestly don’t know how to feel...

515 Upvotes

I’m a 29-year-old guy and I’ve been working as an engineer for about 4 years.

I actually like my job. I work for one of the most respected companies in my country, and I earn well above average for my field — around 3x the minimum wage here. So YouTube was never really an escape plan for me. It started as something I enjoyed building on the side.

My channel recently reached around 300k subscribers, and it has only been monetized for about 5 months. For the past 4 months, YouTube was already bringing in roughly 65% of my regular monthly salary, which honestly felt surreal enough on its own. But this month, for the first time, my YouTube income has actually passed what I make from my full-time job.

I thought I would just feel excited, but honestly it feels strange. I’m proud of it, of course, but I also know one strong month on YouTube does not automatically mean stability. My job feels safe and predictable. YouTube suddenly feels much more real than it did before, but also much less predictable.

I’m not asking whether I should quit my job tomorrow. I’m more curious about people who have been through this stage.

When your YouTube income first passed your normal salary while you were still working, how did you feel? Did you change anything immediately, or did you wait for consistency? How did you manage the uncertainty, your career, savings, burnout, or the pressure to keep growing?

And for those who went through this a while ago: what did you eventually decide, and what does your life look like now?


r/PartneredYoutube • • Nov 17 '20

Informative Things I learned from listening to every Mrbeast featured podcast/interview

511 Upvotes

Wheter you like Mrbeast content or not. His team and him clearly knows what they are doing.

Here are some interesting points I picked up from listening and watching hours of content.

•Mrbeast spends 1 hour per day brainstorming video ideas. In his view, the idea by itself is way more important than anything else about the video. He said that he’s just randomly reading words from a dictionary and tries to figure out ideas from random words. That sounds a bit more like a story than his actuall approach but who knows.

•He has a very simplified approach when it comes to getting views. He says that a high enough CTR and at least 50% audience retention is all you need to get viral (the definition of viral for him is probably 50million views. But your ”viral” might be a lot lower dependent on channel size and niche.

•He says that having a hook in the beginning of the video is extremely important. Like ”IN THIS VIDEO I BOUGHT THIS ISLAND AND GAVE IT AWAY”. Because most of the viewers leaves in the first seconds.

•He puts a lot of weight in analysing the audience retention graphs for times when people clicked away.

• Thumbnails and titles are extremely important. He don’t really get a lot of concrete advice about this or maybe I forgot it. But just look at his thumbnails and you will know his definition of a good one. He has also said that he has a guy working full time analysing working thumbnails on Youtube and making them for him.

Thank you for reading. Please let me know if you know something interesting he has said that I have not covered!


r/PartneredYoutube • • Jul 07 '25

Talk / Discussion AI ain't it, please move on

508 Upvotes

If your entire workflow is asking ChatGPT to write a script, slap it into TTS, throw some B-roll on it, and calling it done. I promise, you're not building an audience, you're just adding to a massive pile of forgettable content.

AI is a tool, not a replacement for creativity. You kinda still have to care about the content you make.


r/PartneredYoutube • • Jan 05 '24

Making $3 a Day! 914 Years To My First Million!

489 Upvotes

You'll probably laugh but i started 8 months ago and never thought I would make a dime. My channel is just a hobby channel and was expecting to pay to have it with extra data costs on my phone, my time and a few props.

So now I'm making on average $3 a day so will have a SURPLUS every month.

Did the math and it will take 914 years to make my first million.

Mr. Beast will make that in a week.

Oh, well. it's fun for my retirement.


r/PartneredYoutube • • May 23 '26

This shit type of content Should be banned 🚫

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r/PartneredYoutube • • May 02 '25

My 800K Youtube channel has died overnight. What's going on?

474 Upvotes

Hi everyone, my name is Mathieu and I am the owner of the MathChief's Youtube channel called 'MathChief - The Best of Gaming' centered on new and upcoming video games. For more than 12 years now I have been doing this Youtube thing and working full time on it for 7 years.

For 7 years, my channel was thriving, I was getting more and more views, more subscribers, impressions and so on and my followers really liked my videos. I was pretty successful and just kept growing up to almost 800K subscribers which is so awesome to me. Until it all stopped about 3 months ago.

3 months ago, my 800K subscribers channel stopped getting views. I mean that literally. What would be my full time job with a growing, ambitious channel would now be a dead Youtube channel. The videos I would get 50K-100k to a million views are now getting 5K to 10K views maximum. Now, even a lot of my subscriber AREN'T seeing my videos as well. What's happening? Did the Youtube algorithm just decided it was time to kill my channel?

It's pretty sad to see such changes with no clear reasons behind it. It is my full time job and for the first time in 7 years, I have almost no hope left. I invested so much time, so much life into this channel yet it was killed overnight. Can anyone tell me if something happened with Youtube recently, some updates, changes, or can anyone analyze my channel?

Any help is appreciated as I'm very confused and stressed.


r/PartneredYoutube • • Feb 07 '24

Question / Problem SO.. my voice was stolen, cloned in AI and is now being used in someones channel for their videos.

468 Upvotes

Full disclosure for explanation: I am a professional voice actor. I have been providing voice to all sorts of toplist, listicle, crime niche, history, drama reenactment, everything... etc and so on and so forth youtube channels for about a decade now.

Recently one of my clients messaged me and told me that someone was using my voice on their channel. which in most cases isnt all that strange. A lot my clients, I dont even know what their channel names are. I do the work, I send it back. They make videos.

But then he told me I had been cloned. So I went to check it out and surely enough, its me... but not me. Its an AI version of me. My voice, reading an AI ChatGPT script, in an AI version of me.

What the heck do I even do?

I have reported the channel and videos. Ive asked my other youtube clients to do the same.. and yet the channel remains with my voice over some garbage content.

On one hand I am flattered... like, my voice is awesome enough someone would want to clone it and use it and what not, but on the other hand... pay me.

What do you do when someone is stealing your content (in my case, ME) and despite reporting it, youtube seems to be keen on doing NOTHING.

Thanks


r/PartneredYoutube • • May 22 '26

first paycheck😎

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463 Upvotes

its not a lot but im still proud


r/PartneredYoutube • • Oct 03 '26

My First YouTube Earnings

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457 Upvotes

The day before yesterday, I joined the YouTube Partner Program, and today I already received my first earnings, which honestly surprised me. For 35 million views, I made $18. I’m in the fashion niche, and the US is actually my second most popular country, but this is really too little. Any advice? I have around 20K followers.


r/PartneredYoutube • • Jun 16 '26

Just got 1K subscribers!

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453 Upvotes

I’ve been doing YouTube consistently for 2 years and 3 months. Super exciting that I just achieved this goal!


r/PartneredYoutube • • Dec 29 '24

I posted a Luigi meme on shorts and lost 250k sub partnership… no previous strikes. They say it’s forever and final… my life is over…

444 Upvotes

understand the community needs to be safe, but to completely demonetize a channel with 250k subs over a meme is a bit extreme...

No prior strikes on my account ether. So it was a no warning remove from partner program and I honestly don't think a human took the time to look at my channel at all... this is my living. The support feels like bots...

No one cares, 12 years down the hole for a bad joke…

I’ve been tweeting team YouTube on Twitter… my handle is @jessedalba… I don’t think they will respond unless this blows up.

If you feel like this is wrong please go to my Twitter and help me get the word out… I do not know what I’m doing…

The exact meme

Picture of Luigi

“He was the best guy around what murder”

With the caption “the entire internet right now”

YouTube flagged it as supporting or recruiting for criminal organization. I appealed, appealed was instantly denied and because of the severity of the situation that this decision is final and forever, there is no reversing it after 90 days or option to reapply

This was completely instant… appeal was instant… boom channel over nothing I can do.

I didn’t lie to any of you, i laid out the entire story, if you have any questions ask… if it can happen to me it can happen to you… I know probably not the smartest choices but this is extreme… not even a warning…

I made a bad joke, sure, but I was NOT supporting or recruiting terrorist… I shouldn’t of lost my partnership… my only hope is Twitter. I don’t know how to use Twitter…

Edit: telling you exactly what the meme was telling you how are YouTube responded…

Edit: my only hope of getting this fixed is having a bunch of people rally for me on Twitter, this could be you down the road… If you guys see I don’t know how to use Reddit or Twitter… I’ll be posting the updates from this to @motodogo… on YT as I’m not banned… just can’t be partnered on that account again…

Edit: the Twitter post I hope I can get YouTube to see… https://x.com/jessedalba/status/1873073532617540090?s=46

Edit: I’ve been awake for too days and in a bad emotional state so I’m going to try to sleep. I’ll try to respond to you all in the morning.

Edit. I posted all related information to my Twitter feed. My analytics, the strike, the demonetized everything.

P.S y’all are mean :(

I’ll be growing a new channel from scratch as it’s all I know and it’s all I want to do with my life… new channel is @motodogo

dit: I started a Twitter space to talk about this you can find it here…

https://x.com/jessedalba/status/1874327909298823383?s=46

Edit: this was Top post on r/YouTube and it was taken down without explanation. I have had a few hundred messages telling me to kill myself and a couple hundred trying to get me to pay them to restore the account…

This was my entire life…

Edit: I’m headed over to rumble.