The author of the excellent Micro 4\/3rds Photography Blog reveals the numbers behind his blog – and with blog ads, commissioned sales links and Youtube videos with\u00a0ads, the\u00a0combination earns\u00a0very little money.<\/p>\n
Source: Micro 4\/3rds Photography: Blog economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Most of the top video channels on Youtube got started very early back when it is alleged most channel creators\u00a0gamed the system to increase viewership [1]. While some recent arrivals have achieved viewer success, it\u00a0may take years to achieve a reasonable following, or money spent on promotion. It is said that even for the successful Youtube channels, the creators most creators must also sell ancillary products (notably music but also t-shirts, hats, etc).<\/p>\n So why blog or produce Youtube videos? For many of us, do these as\u00a0a hobby. We enjoy sharing helpful information with others. For example, I publish a popular tutorial blog on programming in App Inventor (See App Inventor 2: Learn to Code!<\/a>). Other reasons include emphasizing one’s credentials in the subject, to advertise one’s skills to potential clients, to be involved in a social web of people with similar interests, perhaps to sell related products and services, and more.<\/p>\n Footnote – The “old” way Youtubers Got Views<\/strong><\/p>\n [1] Many Youtubers figured out the way to get viewed – and obtain subscribers – was to generate lots of fake views to jump up high on the “Most Viewed” lists. In the early years of Youtube, it was easy to do this: copy the video player embed code 100 times on an HTML page and just keep reloading the page! \u00a0(This “feature” was disabled long ago!)<\/em><\/p>\n Appearing on the\u00a0“Most viewed” lists increased visibility and views rapidly. Others say that nearly all of today’s successful channels, which started in the 2005-2008 first three years of Youtube, got there by manipulating view counts.<\/p>\n In 2012 or 2013 Youtube seems to have made changes in the search system that caused viewership of minor channels to fall. Starting about 2 years ago, views of my own videos fell sharply – and I no longer post much on Youtube, having instead migrated to Flickr (Flickr supports videos too!) On Flickr I often get\u00a0as many views in a day as I would see – ever – on Youtube \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The author of the excellent Micro 4\/3rds Photography Blog reveals the numbers behind his blog – and with blog ads, commissioned sales links and Youtube videos with\u00a0ads, the\u00a0combination earns\u00a0very little money. Source: Micro 4\/3rds Photography: Blog economy Most of the top video channels on Youtube got started very early back when it is alleged most … Continue reading Blogging and Youtube videos unlikely to earn much income<\/span>