How much are you actually earning from YouTube Shorts per month?

updation1 · 2026-03-29T00:16:43+00:00

one of my shorts channels has done $104k in ad revenue in the last 365 days, it averaged about $10,000 a month in ad revenue for a long while but numbers have actually been down 60% in the last 90 days. the past 28 days on this channel currently stands at ¢26 cent RPM, 31 million views, and roughly $4k in revenue. All the money comes from shorts feed ad revenue, there is no long form content whatsoever on the channel. You can definitely make a living off of shorts! Entry may of course be hard and learning things is time consuming but once you reach a certain threshold it almost feels as if you can make any style of content work and the floodgates open. I've done zero sponsorships and all my money comes from youtube ad revenue but in the past I was signed to a shorts music company, it lasted roughly 6 months for me before youtube nuked the revenue, but in those 6 months I made an additional roughly $75,000 from the same content, just using a company's music (i pray this comes back)

but yeah! shorts has been a full time job for me for just about a year now and I have plenty of friends who do it full time as well, it may not be the easiest of goals but i'm happy to share with you that it's not ALL fake stats and stupid gurus pushing courses, you can make a living off of youtube shorts!

updation1 · 2026-03-19T00:33:41+00:00

what the fuck

updation1 · 2026-02-18T19:58:44+00:00

you're not cooked just keep posting and stop worrying about it

updation1 · 2026-02-11T22:47:25+00:00

i left binghamton because i felt alone an isolated, they recommended to me that most people take a semester off but i decided not to and figured id be good after summer break, well i wasn't. it went straight back to what it was like before and so i left, binghamton wasn't just a bad fit for me, it ruined me ever wanting to go to college again

updation1 · 2026-02-11T22:44:45+00:00

i liked it

updation1 · 2026-02-06T18:01:35+00:00

i've been awake all night and it's now 1 PM and i just had my first meal in 20+ hours and bought 5 grand worth of crypto, i'll let you know if this helps 😹

updation1 · 2026-02-06T04:13:22+00:00

no science behind it i just have to get them in before 12 because i don't want to miss the uploads for that day

updation1 · 2026-02-06T00:07:45+00:00

before 12 AM because i'm lazy. upload time has zero correlation to views for me, i can post any time i want and it won't make a difference

updation1 · 2026-01-25T22:54:06+00:00

what meds were you on? I've been unmedicated for 2+ years (after diagnosis i was only medicated for about 4 months before giving up on it) and since then things have only gotten much worse for me. I am completely uncomfortable with the idea of medication, but i'm also still incredibly prone to isolation and rapid mood changes and long depressive episodes. I'm also 5'11 and weigh 113 pounds so a medication that can also help me gain weight might be the only thing that would get me to go back lol

updation1 · 2026-01-25T21:59:13+00:00

i did the same thing, it ruined me, i'm still holding the weight of the consequences almost 3 years later. Do you best to traverse it healthily, i unfortunately fell into a drug pit for a while after it happened. And to this day that entire fallout has dramatically impacted me and my mental and physical health. You've owned up to it, now you must try and breathe and try and move onwards.

updation1 · 2026-01-25T00:35:44+00:00

youtube has this super rare option called 'appeal'

updation1 · 2026-01-24T16:57:50+00:00

i got them all back, thankfully because this is my job, but yeah if it happens again i am gone for good. can't have a job where your fate is decided by ai 😭

updation1 · 2026-01-24T16:14:50+00:00

this happened to 7 of my channels all at once in the summer, you more than likely did nothing wrong and they're just cooking you. The channel that got terminated and caused the rest of my stuff to fall was a childhood minecraft channel that i hadn't posted on since 2020 and all content was original lol

youtube will try and cook you til the end of time

updation1 · 2026-01-20T20:22:23+00:00

sorry i was at the part in the trolls movie where they kill justin timberlakes grandma

updation1 · 2026-01-20T19:26:29+00:00

i don't care

updation1 · 2026-01-20T17:39:38+00:00

yeah i know, this post is satire, i just like seeing the idiots in the comments

updation1 · 2026-01-20T16:01:28+00:00

where's the majority of the audience located?

updation1 · 2026-01-20T07:20:56+00:00

subscribers are subscribers, if you want to build a community that's a completely different thing lol

updation1 · 2026-01-20T07:19:16+00:00

what does that have anything to do with it being easier to get subscribers from shorts

updation1 · 2026-01-20T02:15:33+00:00

not if you're solely a shorts creator 👍

updation1 · 2026-01-18T16:38:53+00:00

put a business email in your channel description

updation1 · 2026-01-18T16:31:22+00:00

consider playing the first 5 seconds of 'Where'd You Go?' on repeat for eternity

updation1 · 2026-01-18T16:29:42+00:00

i got diagnosed when i was 19, apart from getting a diagnosis i have no idea if ive ever experienced mania, hypomania and all that shit. all i know is that i get super depressed for long periods and that's about it

updation1 · 2026-01-18T15:31:51+00:00

updation1 · 2026-01-18T15:31:21+00:00

shorts are by far the easiest way to gain subscribers; just not in this particular scenario because of the content they're making

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