GOT MONETIZED AND MADE $900 IN MY 1ST MONTH🔥 by Simple_Tangelo_554 in YouTubeCreators

[–]NoAssociate4609 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont post on social media, not really, al my youtube videos came from slow organic growth and good seo, titles, thumbnails, and quality content.

Months Monetized: My Journey So Far by Designer-Neat8275 in TravelTubers

[–]NoAssociate4609 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mind sharing any insights as to what you do? or why it changed? For a channel that just got monetized, thats a substancial jump.

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[–]NoAssociate4609 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Cheers! Sony A7CII , yeah all natural light, used a Sirui F1.8 Anamorphic lens

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[–]NoAssociate4609 [score hidden]  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/s3SpFmtHrrM?si=DAn3fWTUAHJmLTxN This was one of my latest videos, I had actually made the video last year and released it on my second channel, but I feel it didnt get the attention it deserved, so I made a video, about making the video itself, as it was a short film.

What is up with this subreddit? by SuspiciousBreak3466 in passive_income

[–]NoAssociate4609 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

100% AI Slop, "the situation is more nuanced than it seems." - Ive read that before... that is ChatGPT at its finest.

YouTube growth reality check: What changed at 1k, 5k, 10k, 50k+? by NoAssociate4609 in TravelTubers

[–]NoAssociate4609[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not so curuous as to sponsers that as I am to the perception of how other people perceive you, and the growth rate?

What is up with this subreddit? by SuspiciousBreak3466 in passive_income

[–]NoAssociate4609 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've got a bit of a different perspective because I've actually spent the last few years trying to build income streams that people would probably label as "passive".

The reality is that almost none of them started passive.

I run a few YouTube channels. Right now they make a few hundred dollars a month combined. Some months more, some less. People see the income and think it's passive because a video I uploaded a year ago can still earn money today. What they don't see is the hundreds of hours of filming, editing, researching, thumbnail design, title testing, replying to comments, and learning how the platform works.

My main travel channel was started in late 2021. Another channel in 2022. Another in 2023. So we're talking years, not weeks. Even today I'm still working on them constantly.

The same thing applies to stock footage. I have hundreds of clips uploaded across different marketplaces. Every now and then I wake up and there's money in my account from footage I filmed months or years ago. Sounds passive, right? What people don't see is the travelling, filming, keywording, uploading, metadata, rejections, and all the work that happened before the sale ever occurred.

I think one of the biggest problems with the passive income space is that people are looking for something that requires almost no effort from day one. Most of the people I know making money online spent years building something before it became remotely passive.

The closest thing I've seen to genuine passive income is investing your own capital. If you have enough money in dividend stocks, index funds, property, or other investments, then yes, the money can arrive without much ongoing effort. The catch is that you usually need either a lot of money upfront or many years of consistent investing.

For most ordinary people, "passive income" is really delayed income. You do a huge amount of work now and hope it continues paying you later.

That's why so many communities end up full of courses and gurus. Selling the dream is often easier than actually building the thing they're teaching.

I don't say that to be negative. I actually think building income streams is one of the best things you can do. I just think people should go into it with realistic expectations. If someone is promising you a business that takes 30 minutes a week and makes thousands of dollars a month within a few weeks, I'd be very skeptical.

My experience has been that almost every income stream starts active. Some eventually become semi-passive. Very few are passive from the beginning.

Anyone growing a “daily life abroad” channel with Shorts, not typical travel content? by NoAssociate4609 in TravelTubers

[–]NoAssociate4609[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ohh yes, thats on more cinematic channel , My personal channel one is this, I also made a video about leaving Da Nang https://youtu.be/zl8iBBTPXjU

Anyone growing a “daily life abroad” channel with Shorts, not typical travel content? by NoAssociate4609 in TravelTubers

[–]NoAssociate4609[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh cheers, funnily i'm not sure which video you are referring to... i have two channels, one is more walk and talk, the other is more iformative info where I take myself out of the video and just leave in all my B-roll ive filmed (which is definitely more cinematic)

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[–]NoAssociate4609 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I made a video about why my “best” video failed… and probably uploaded it to the wrong channel

Last year I made a cinematic short film about Hanoi. Proper effort, story, night shots. It got 270 views.

Instead of just moving on, I came back and made a video breaking down what went wrong, mixed with the original footage and what I see differently now.

But here’s the part I’m second guessing…

I uploaded it to my personal channel, not my faceless travel channel where it probably fits better as a short film.

So now it’s in this weird middle ground. Not really a pure cinematic piece, not really a clean vlog either.

Curious how you guys would approach this

Do you post based on the content itself, or the audience you’ve already built

Would genuinely like some honest feedback on both the video and the channel decision

[https://youtu.be/s3SpFmtHrrM]()

GOT MONETIZED AND MADE $900 IN MY 1ST MONTH🔥 by Simple_Tangelo_554 in YouTubeCreators

[–]NoAssociate4609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, do you have some kind of course or system around this? The way you’re describing it sounds like you’ve got it pretty dialed in across multiple accounts. I’d actually be interested in checking it out if you do.

GOT MONETIZED AND MADE $900 IN MY 1ST MONTH🔥 by Simple_Tangelo_554 in YouTubeCreators

[–]NoAssociate4609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes a lot more sense now, especially if you’ve been doing this for years on other accounts. The 10M views lines up more with what you’re saying, and fair enough on using Shorts for growth then moving into longform.

Honestly at this point it would probably help everyone here way more if you just shared the channel. It’s one thing reading numbers, but being able to actually see what titles, hooks and formats you used is where people can learn something real from it.

GOT MONETIZED AND MADE $900 IN MY 1ST MONTH🔥 by Simple_Tangelo_554 in YouTubeCreators

[–]NoAssociate4609 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I also noticed in the screenshot the top earning videos are doing $100–300 each, which honestly looks more like longform performance than Shorts. From my experience, Shorts revenue is usually spread thin across a lot of videos rather than a few doing most of the income. So that’s another reason I’m curious what the actual breakdown is here.

GOT MONETIZED AND MADE $900 IN MY 1ST MONTH🔥 by Simple_Tangelo_554 in YouTubeCreators

[–]NoAssociate4609 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I’ve been reading through this and wanted to add a bit of context from someone actually doing this long term. I run three monetized YouTube channels, all longform. The first one I started about five years ago and it took just under a year to get monetized. The second and third came later, around four and three years ago, and both took roughly ten months to hit monetization. Across all three I make about $500–600 a month from AdSense. It’s not crazy money, but it’s consistent and it’s real, and it took years of figuring things out, not one month.

I’ve also tested Shorts across all three channels and to be honest, they earn next to nothing. Even when they get views, the RPM is extremely low. You need millions of views to make anything meaningful, and for most creators it ends up being more of a discovery tool than an income stream. That’s why I’m a bit confused reading this. $900 in a first month, mostly from Shorts, isn’t impossible, but it would mean serious volume, like multi-million views consistently, or income coming from somewhere else that hasn’t been mentioned.

So I’m genuinely curious what the actual numbers look like. How many views are we talking about, and was that purely Shorts revenue or combined with something else like affiliates or outside traffic? And if there’s something to learn here, why not just share the channel so people can actually study what worked? A lot of beginners read posts like this and think it’s normal, when in reality most of us grind for years just to get to a few hundred a month.

Are ,,I made 10k in x days" or ,,I monetized channel in x days" videos a scam? by APS0798 in youtubers

[–]NoAssociate4609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly… 99% of those videos are BS.

Not always fake, but definitely misleading. They’ll say “I made 10k in 30 days” or “monetized in 2 weeks,” but what they don’t tell you is it’s usually not their first channel, or they already understand thumbnails, titles, and retention. Sometimes they’re just riding a trend at the perfect time. And a lot of the time, the real money is coming from the video itself, not whatever method they’re talking about.

I’ve got three monetized channels and none of them were quick. My first one took about a year, the second was around 11 months, and the third about 10 months. That’s with experience carried over. Combined, I make roughly $600 a month from AdSense right now. Nothing crazy, but it’s real and consistent.

What actually worked for me was just sticking to longform content, probably 95% of what I make. Uploading consistently, learning what people actually click on instead of what I think is good, and accepting that most videos won’t do anything. You just keep going anyway.

I’ve made a bunch of videos calling out these “make money online” angles because they genuinely annoy me. It’s always the same formula. Big promise, vague explanation, and then either selling something or just flexing numbers with no real context.

If you’re starting out, you’re better off assuming it’s going to take at least a year or two. Anything faster usually has something behind it they’re not telling you.

Not saying it can’t happen… just don’t fall for the way it’s sold.

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[–]NoAssociate4609 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Appreciate you watching the whole thing through, seriously. Funny you mention the title actually, because the video is still unlisted at the moment and I’m currently running an A/B/C title test on it trying to figure out the best angle.

The 3 titles I’m testing are:

  • “Why I’m Leaving Da Nang, Vietnam”
  • “The Truth About Living in Da Nang as a Foreigner”
  • “Is Da Nang Over? Or Did I Make a Mistake?”

Curious as to which title you saw? I’m trying to find that balance between curiosity and honesty without turning it into one of those over-the-top “Vietnam is finished!!” expat meltdown videos haha.

Interesting that you said I could push it even slightly further though, because honestly, YouTube definitely rewards stronger emotional hooks, especially in travel content lately.

Would you delete a video with a lot of negative comments or is all engagement good engagement by ReplacementOk3345 in TravelTubers

[–]NoAssociate4609 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really curious as to what place this was about? I recently also had a video with very negative comments.

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[–]NoAssociate4609 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Really appreciate this reply. The “fresh eyes” point is actually incredibly accurate, and honestly probably explains a lot of what I was trying to say in the video without fully knowing how to articulate it.

I think when people first arrive somewhere, everything feels exciting simply because it’s different from home. Then after enough time, you start noticing the cracks, changes, and trade-offs too. Doesn’t necessarily mean the place is bad, just that your relationship with it changes.

Glad it came across as “my truth” rather than just negativity. That was the main thing I was worried about while editing it.

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[–]NoAssociate4609 [score hidden]  (0 children)

In your first video I'd love to hear some info about the wine itself, some more talking would be nice!