Sith Raid Preview
The Sith Raid will be upon us on 2/28, or in 8 days. Game Changers are supposedly at EA/CG today. Do you think we’ll see preview videos from them or CG this week?
Forum Discussion
"DaWitchIzDed;c-1468486" wrote:"JacenRoe;c-1468475" wrote:
:D :D :D
How much money do you think it costs to take off 3 days from your actual job, buy a plane ticket to California, and pay for food/hotel stay for those days vs. what a YouTube channel about a phone game (a glorified hobby) rakes in?
Most of the YouTubers I know barely pay for their recording equipment if that. Maybe some of these guys make a few dollars in the end (they do good work after all), but I nearly snorted coffee out of my nose laughing at the word, "profit margins."
If you're regularly bringing in over 100k views on a weekly basis, as people like AhnaldT are, all of his videos have ads.
YouTube's CPM is measured & reported on average to be around $7.6 per 1,000 views.
Payment from Adsense for 100,000 views therefore equates to $760. Per video.
Last week Ahnaldt uploaded 5 videos. 5 x $760 = $3,800 per week.
Call it 4 per week for 4 weeks per month, that's $12,160 per month.
I think you can justifiably argue that as a profit margin and also recognise that this amount is considerably greater than the cost of a 3 day trip.
Also, do you genuinely believe that someone drawing in this kind of revenue from making videos is not doing this as a full time enterprise?
"DaWitchIzDed;c-1468486" wrote:"JacenRoe;c-1468475" wrote:
:D :D :D
How much money do you think it costs to take off 3 days from your actual job, buy a plane ticket to California, and pay for food/hotel stay for those days vs. what a YouTube channel about a phone game (a glorified hobby) rakes in?
Most of the YouTubers I know barely pay for their recording equipment if that. Maybe some of these guys make a few dollars in the end (they do good work after all), but I nearly snorted coffee out of my nose laughing at the word, "profit margins."
If you're regularly bringing in over 100k views on a weekly basis, as people like AhnaldT are, all of his videos have ads.
YouTube's CPM is measured & reported on average to be around $7.6 per 1,000 views.
Payment from Adsense for 100,000 views therefore equates to $760. Per video.
Last week Ahnaldt uploaded 5 videos. 5 x $760 = $3,800 per week.
Call it 4 per week for 4 weeks per month, that's $12,160 per month.
I think you can justifiably argue that as a profit margin and also recognise that this amount is considerably greater than the cost of a 3 day trip.
Also, do you genuinely believe that someone drawing in this kind of revenue from making videos is not doing this as a full time enterprise?
Great job. You can use google, and also know how to ignore most of what it says. Like the fact that most videos pay nothing, and that in actual practice maybe a million views makes 2 grand, and then the YouTubers only get a percentage of that.
"Atlas1;c-1468501" wrote:"JacenRoe;c-1468475" wrote:"DaWitchIzDed;c-1468464" wrote:
@JacenRoe
Don't disagree with most of that, although:
"And something else that justified having people buy plane tickets to see in person is still coming."
Do you genuinely believe that they will be out of pocket by paying for their plane tickets? EA aren't hosting them, or that they can't easily pay for it from their YT revenue & then it just generates more, so pays for itself?
Hardly requires any justification.
I wouldn't be surprised if these guys doing the YT vids are much the same as the other YT vloggers who make their living from YT in that they probably have some form of contract with the property licence owner, which is confirmed by them not being able to talk until allowed, they presumably also receive payment for advertising EA's product, then also get the money from all the ppl watching the vids.
I really don't think the vloggers will pay for any of this trip, except for maybe from a slight reduction in their profit margin, which will be easily absorbed by the increase gained from the extra views anyway.
:D :D :D
How much money do you think it costs to take off 3 days from your actual job, buy a plane ticket to California, and pay for food/hotel stay for those days vs. what a YouTube channel about a phone game (a glorified hobby) rakes in?
Most of the YouTubers I know barely pay for their recording equipment if that. Maybe some of these guys make a few dollars in the end (they do good work after all), but I nearly snorted coffee out of my nose laughing at the word, "profit margins."
It depends on their subs and views, but you would probably be floored if you knew how much some bloggers made. A family member of mine is one and she makes six figures. Their trips out there were likely comped by CG.
I'm sure CG has done something to 'ease the burden' on these folks doing free ads for their game. And it's a tiny minority of people making a few bucks at this, let alone a 6 figure income.
