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Google Handing Out Six Figure Paychecks to Basement Auteurs

$20k Per Month for YouTube Videos About Your Cat?

         

martinibuster

4:10 am on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Article in the NYTimes [nytimes.com] about basement auteurs making serious money with their content by partnering with Google. This guy [youtube.com] makes $20,000 per month creating content for YouTube. His most popular video is home made video, literally in his home, about his cat [youtube.com].

Well... what do you think?

anallawalla

4:54 am on Dec 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I work in a department where most co-workers are below 40. Such work environments are viral and links to such videos tend to be passed on a lot, since a lot of young people have pets. This is a successful combination of a well-produced video and the right viral topic.

A lot of people have gardens too but their demographics might not be as relevant to YouTube.

timchuma

7:05 am on Dec 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hahahahaha!

One in a million obviously. I thought the New York Times was smarter than that. You can still spend all your spare money on your website and not watch TV and still not make anything from it.

chewy

3:44 pm on Dec 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

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using adwords content for a consumer product, we display on Youtube related sites and the page views per visitor that comes in via these clicks look good enough for me to want to explore and buy more.

Right now it is too soon to tell if these actually convert but since these clicks are cheap, this is worth exploration.

Like all content ppc advertising, you have to be extremely careful and from what I can tell, I can't easily determine or control where (on what YouTube videos) the ads show up.

what I find annoying is that I would like our own original content YouTube videos to be advertisements for our regular sites and we should be able to get those clicks easily and for free and this just isn't as easy as it would seem.

Bewenched

6:56 pm on Dec 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

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It never surprises me how some peeps make millions. Remember the Wacky Wall Walker? Millions. The Frizbee.. Millions.

The best:
Making millions and millions in bonuses as a CEO of a failing company, taking personal loans from the company that if/when you're fired you NEVER have to pay back, then taking a "Golden Parachute" payout when you're fired. (yes ... it happens every day) Saw it first hand of a development firm I worked for that was "bought out" and forced to tank.
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Of course it helps that the cat guy is TOTALLY HOT!

[edited by: Bewenched at 6:58 pm (utc) on Dec. 12, 2008]

aleksl

11:54 pm on Dec 12, 2008 (gmt 0)



More stories like that hopefully will put NY Times out of business sooner rather than later.

“hundreds of YouTube partners are making thousands of dollars a month.”

and

his online profits had greatly surpassed his salary as an administrative assistant for a music promotion company.

and

“I was spending 40 hours a week on YouTube for over a year before I made a dime,”

and

Mr. Buckley said he was earning over $100,000 from YouTube advertisements

- so he barely makes over what was his salary originally as a secretary, which is what...$10/hour? He claims to make over $100K, but per what period is unclear. I take it he's making less than quite a few people on this board.

The other guy's just full of it as well. Probably check comes in every 6 months, that's the month he earns $20k. But I may be wrong too, I wish everyone made $20K filming cats in the basement.

martinibuster

12:03 am on Dec 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

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>>>so he barely makes over what was his salary originally as a secretary

Aleksl, even in your quote it says he greatly surpassed his salary. That doesn't mean barely surpassed, it means greatly, as in a lot. ;)

dailypress

6:28 pm on Dec 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

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nealrodriguez

6:36 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

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nealrodriguez

6:51 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

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so he barely makes over what was his salary originally as a secretary, which is what...$10/hour? He claims to make over $100K, but per what period is unclear.

@ $10/hr he was only making a little over $20k a year; buck's been on since 5/07; so if he's made over $100k throughout the whole time period that's like a $100k for a year and a half or roughly over $66k a year. beats the $20k without taxes 3 times; and plus there's no commuting woes, and he's building his brand.

buck would have had to be earning about $100k a year to get paid what he is making now b4 taxes of course; that $100k would be taxed hard, so he would probably net about $1,500 to $1,600 a week after taxes and b4 other deductions like benefits. plus he would have to commute and worry about getting laid off.

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