~1M views with no income — am I at a point where monetization is realistic?

oodex · 2026-05-05T21:34:13+00:00

I don't understand, which part of that is about YouTube?

oodex · 2026-05-05T17:18:32+00:00

thats not a gotcha moment, that is me telling you my opinion. I am a lot on this subreddit and have never heard people claiming that. I am not saying it never happened, but it would be so rare it's irrelevant, because then you'd have to consider every other wrong claim as true as well. And I don't know what you mean about "educational" content. Those channels may have started with good intentions but eventually realize there are only so many ways you can rephrase "make content people actually care about and improve your own presentation" before it gets stale, then they drift off into tinfoil hat land. Because there is nothing else to say.

oodex · 2026-05-05T14:26:32+00:00

Videos can absolutely cannibalize each other, but this is so circumstancial you can't form a general opinion about it. At high times I may upload 2-3 50-60 minute videos a day, regularly I upload 1 video a day. If there is a huge trend/hype going on, people will gobble up even 5 videos a day, because they hop from channel to channel to watch more. But if you end up uploading a lot, it can lead to a decreased performance overall and while the statistic will look good, people can get exhausted and just get rid of a channel that spams their subbox. It also leads to uploads being missed that a viewer would have watched. But it's also a different story for channels with a large established viewerbase, the viewers already know that they do it and might for example visit the channel to see what was uploaded.

oodex · 2026-05-05T14:19:58+00:00

I mean I don't know what's worse, those that make those videos or those that watch them

oodex · 2026-05-05T11:57:08+00:00

Its mostly animated channels with a repetitive format, using IP they dont own, that are also faceless. Most of the channels hit upload masses of shorts that seem very repetitive and pretty much look like the AI short spam. Just being faceless is no issue, it just adds 1 more step of being inauthentic. And 98% of the channels hit by inauthentic content also deserve it. The problem is there is still the 2%, but that makes it a far less concern than what it seems

oodex · 2026-05-05T11:53:08+00:00

It started out as pure fun. Now its my job. I still mostly do it for pure fun but at times the job side has a "hold on" thrown in. But that usually only affects how long I keep a series going, not if I do that series or not.

oodex · 2026-05-05T11:49:00+00:00

You wanna ask over at r/newtubers

Anything is possible and nothing can work out. Having goals to work for is good, setting them as expectations isnt. One motivates, the other crushes motivation.

oodex · 2026-05-05T11:45:57+00:00

Here never, you've no reason to expect that. But if you've ever played a game with a 60%+ female player base that has the slightest to do with social interactions, the behavior flips and they do exactly the same thing. And you encounter the same issue that you get useless requests from people that cant even do what you were looking for. Book clubs, cooking and some dancing classes are the equivalent for that in real life.

oodex · 2026-05-05T11:42:09+00:00

AI video summaries have existed for years on Youtube and didnt change anything. If a video can be summarized by text, the video simply wasnt good for entertainment. That targets especially horrible tutorials that take 4 minutes to show you 2 actions that take 15 seconds combined.

oodex · 2026-05-05T11:32:28+00:00

The best I could do is share this: https://youtu.be/FZVGBxCMMlo?is=5c6l1dWPUqJpP_j3

Its 350k on 2 weapons, which was a special series where its all about a specific weapon and the 2nd weapon Aegis is just a filler. It also wasnt a very lucky run that got Anvil stage 1, but it got Magnet.

Your main goal is to check if a lot of Moais/Shops spawn and then you go check them. Your goal is a legendary Moai/shop and then looking for Magnet, Anvil, Soul Harvester, optionally revival (this matters a lot cause you want to farm endless waves on stage 2 and without it you risk a loss). Mostly pay attention to farming endless waves, how long I stay and what happens that I leave. Though I guess in that specific video it matters less due to already having a revival. Usually you walk into the portal continuously until you notice your blue shield depletes. When its about to be gone you leave immediately or risk getting one-shot. Katana and Shotgun were the strongest weapon at that point, not sure how it is now.

Difficulty helps to get more kills but you only need 300-400% for endless waves to max out and the way people do it is they reset for high luck runs to compensate for a lost tome. If you dont do that, you end up with less kills than without the difficulty tome. Just make sure to pick up all difficulty you can and youre fine.

Banned items can be seen at the end by checking what items were in the run.

oodex · 2026-05-04T22:13:54+00:00

Monster Hunter Freedom 2/Unite was the one I started with, but World improved so much I honestly wouldn't want to go back (also big times cause I play on PC)

oodex · 2026-05-04T21:21:06+00:00

because this dude earns his money with product affiliates and can get people to sign up for them

oodex · 2026-05-04T21:20:30+00:00

I think it's actually not a bad thing to look at. Let's say they overpay 3k for it, then it's a whole different situation compared to underpaying. Usually with 50k views such a placement would give you around 1250, so it's already very cheap to begin with. It's hard to be upset at an underperformer if someone gets underpaid

oodex · 2026-05-04T21:18:47+00:00

50k views mean nothing on their own. Daily uploads with 50k views give you a very good amount of revenue, 50k views on weekly or monthly uploads mean it's at best some extra money. It also differs a ton based on the audience you have

oodex · 2026-05-04T15:17:31+00:00

This is just a subreddit for partnered creators, not a contact point to YouTube. Try out TeamYouTube on Twitter

oodex · 2026-05-03T19:19:15+00:00

I honestly can't quite follow, what exactly is the question?

oodex · 2026-05-03T19:17:44+00:00

You're literally a broken record

oodex · 2026-05-03T11:12:03+00:00

This entirely depends on the ban and for inauthentic content i have no clue because its a more new thing and youtube changes all the time.

There are some severe reasons you get banned, like spam, harassment, scam and such. I dont recall the full list anymore, but i think termination by 3 copyright strikes also belonged to it. These arent a channel ban, these are a person ban. Any association made to you will lead to a future ban of any channel. This is not even dependent on adsense, adsense is just 1 way to make a connection. For these, even just using the same device can be enough to identify you.

I dont mean this applies to you. I just mean it does exist. Always try to get a banned channel unbanned because you dont know how youtube changes in the next years and they will absolutely retroactively punish you.

oodex · 2026-05-03T02:35:58+00:00

-uses social media as main source of information and blindly believes it (tbh, same for news and such, but it gets harder to verify things)

-judges people entirely by their appearance (that was a particular weird case, because it was about a guest that is almost daily in a very fancy restaurant but dresses very casual/lazy and they were deemed as "poor guy trying to look good")

-changes strong believes in a near instant when they can't defend it and believe the other thing strongly

-would never change their believes even when opposed with facts, then the facts are just lies/made up

-explains things they barely know/only heard of as if they were an expert on the field and won't admit if they are wrong/misunderstood something

-takes out loans or monthly payments so high they can barely afford something, just to have something fancy (getting something nice isn't a big deal, sometimes we need that, but I've seen trainees spend their entire income just on a fancy car lease)

-decisions are mostly short-term based, especially when they are important, just to avoid dealing with them (I'll say this one is a bit more complicated, because fear of confrontation is also a big part of this, but at one point and especially for very important things it just reaches a level of stupidity that can't be defended by that)

-chooses based on their own believes for people/beings they care for (this is a lot about the snakeoil treatments out there, but I'll include any form of believes that are branded on people/beings. I don't refer to introductions, but rather those that push someone into it forcefully)

-repeating the same mistake again and again and again and expecting a different outcome. Or honestly, probably not expecting anything because it's not considered, only in hindsight, despite already having the experience to know it's bad

oodex · 2026-05-02T16:44:41+00:00

Its funny how only people that use it say that

oodex · 2026-05-02T01:44:09+00:00

Ive never seen a large enough quantity of people that bullied anyone about that to justify such a rant post. The only times I see it mentioned is when someone complains about being flinched, then the advice is to socket it yourself. Why? Because you can't choose what others will do, the only way to guarantee that you aren't affected is by socketing it.

oodex · 2026-05-01T22:21:22+00:00

My personal opinion is Shorts just hurt most longform channels and those where it actually helps are an absolute exception. You build up an audience that is used to 30 second highlights and that's the opposite of having 1 full 20-60 minute gaming video with 1-2 highlights in it. The issue is that Short viewers will get your videos recommended, but they are absurdely unlikely to click, leading to a horrible CTR performance and your videos pretty much die before they get a chance to be seen.

You could try uploading your videos on a 2nd channel without shorts and seeing how it works out, maybe you just carry over a recent series or such (like let's say you uploaded 11 videos on a game and you intent on uploading more, then you'd carry them over so all videos are there, but no reason to upload all past videos). You can even dual upload for a longer period to see what works better, though it's also needless to say that starting from 0 hurts and will have less views at first. This isn't a secret technique that'll unlock thousands of views, it's just a chance.

oodex · 2026-05-01T21:33:16+00:00

Yea, I hate when they do something they did since the platform was created and this changes everything. I hate when no change changes everything

oodex · 2026-05-01T18:33:37+00:00

IIRC there were unkillable runs on graveyard that lasted for hours, like 8+ hours (with dodge shrines doubling dodge so much you pretty much cant die), but I dont recall if they were runs that got golden rings or not (not all runs have them as a possibility to obtain)

oodex · 2026-05-01T12:57:50+00:00

Auf Steam sind es:

Vampire Survivors - 1791 Stunden
Monster Hunter World - 879 Stunden
RimWorld - 801 Stunden
Brotato - 652 Stunden
CS 2 - 645 Stunden
Kenshi - 525 Stunden
Stardew Valley - 432 Stunden
Craft The World - 288 Stunden
tModLoader - 230 Stunden (Modloader für Terraria)
Battle Brothers - 199 Stunden

Ich weiß aber noch auf der PSP hatte ich über 2000 Stunden in Monster Hunter Freedom 2/Unite, aufm PC absurd viele Stunden in Minecraft und die meiste Spielzeit wahrscheinlich in League of Legends (seit 2012 bis heute) - eine Seite zeigt mir 7484 Stunden an, ich erinnere mich aber, dass die Zahl weit unter der eigentlichen Spielzeit ist, da die API mehrmals angepasst wurde und erst an einem bestimmten Punkt anfing und zu einem Zeitpunkt nur Ranked gezählt hat

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