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Comment by Garlef | Hacker News Reader

Most interesting number to me is the 90$ per hour. Seems like solid money. And since the channel might grow more this might not be the end.

But I guess it's hard hard work to grow a channel to this size and also not a guaranteed success.

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$90/hour is real nice money, but for some reason i assumed a channel with that many subs would make more money. For every million plus channel, there’s probably a million+ channels with no subs.

Basically have a day job before you go all in as a content creator.

Subs on YT don't mean revenue... they're just people who may watch your videos later. It's more a hueristic than anything.

> Subs on YT don't mean revenue... they're just people who may watch your videos later.

Right on. I always tell people that I can’t pay my employees with subs and likes.

For most videos, an overwhelming majority of views come from traffic suggested by YouTube in some manner (home page, sidebar, after a video). I have millions of subscribers across a few channels. Subscriber notification and feeds invariably account for a very-low-single-digit percent of video views.

And then even if they do watch your video, your topic of choice will strongly affect your revenue per view. For example, a personal finance channel makes a lot more per view that say, a channel about thrift store finds.

It's $90/hour, which is great, but it is also 100 hours per video, and depending on what your release schedule is that could be an insane amount of work. They list 65 uploads, which is a little more than once a month for 5 years.

I think that might be the average hourly rate since they started the channel. I think it would make more sense to calculate it on a monthly basis. It was probably close to $0/hour for the first few years, and it must be much higher now.

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