Good luck guys doing business with YouTube. Just remember don't rely too much on YouTube Adsense, if you ever eligible to. No problem if you doing this for hobby or simply gaining audience.

I was an active youtuber between 2015 to January 2019. I stopped doing it when YouTube decide my videos are not original enough to be monetized. Before this they only demonetize uploaders who get copyright strike. But I guess now they took more proactive role.

Although I have another idea for youtube channel but YouTube behavior lately that like to change policy every few months aren't convince me to keep going. So I left focusing on my other businesses.

I wont share my channel here for the sake of anonymity but I can describe how my videos are copyright-wise: Most of my videos basically a top 10 compilations and you guess it, compiling all materials (image or videos) into one video and slap some subtitles and musics.

I rarely produce my own material. But the things is, I discipline myself by only took CC-BY or public domain materials from vimeo, flickr, and youtube itself. So legally, I never infringe anyone copyrights and, in fact, my channel till today still have zero copyright strike. Just that YouTube decided (probably decided by their A.I) to demonetize my channel last year due to too many contents taken from other videos.

I've tried to reapply for monetization but failed. The only way to get monetized again is by deleting all my compilation videos.

Since my channel got 80K subs, it still worthy to try another genre but this time using my own content entirely. But after a quite contemplation, I decide is not worth a time since YouTube become reckless nowadays by changing their policy too often, and also, I already have few other businesses that more worthy to focus on.

So my channel now is being abandoned just like that.

number of viewers is more relevant than number of subscribers if we talk about revenue.

Revenue mostly based on where your audience from. Viewers from developed countries brings more money per viewers than developing countries.

Since my videos are in English, so most viewers are from US followed by India, UK, few populous countries and then EU countries.
On average, I get 1.5k USD per month. But the number fluctuate like crazy. Usually I gain the most during Christmas and new year period.

from what i heard, other than origin of your viewers; demographics, your video genre, as well as how big your channel also play a role how much you'll gain per view.

If you notice, ads like netflix, pepsi, or movie trailers only appear on big youtuber videos but rarely appear on small ones.
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like i said, i don't think its worthy anymore for me. i rather do other things in my freetime.

For you as long as you use your own content 100% (for music for a peace of mind just use Youtube own free music), you should be safe from getting demonetized. Keep it up. happy youtubing!

This post has been edited by letitsnow: Feb 3 2020, 10:41 PM

For Youtubers who affected by demonetization last year, you guys might want to reapply monetization. I managed to remonetize my channel this morning after it went demonetized in Jan 2019 (see post #23).

All I did was set my entire video gallery to "not made for kids" (for my case) and then reapply.