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Has My Shorts Channel Made Me Rich Yet?
No, but I am happy still and here’s why
4 min readApr 19, 2023
At the beginning of the year, I wrote an article discussing my plan to get rich from YouTube Shorts:
And I know since that has been published, you have all been idly waiting on your phones or computers for my follow-up.
Well, a lot has happened since that article.
One of the first things that happened was the hype of YouTube Shorts began to climb, and it continues to.
A creator by the name of @NanoByteInc uploaded a short expressing his excitement with the shorts program recently. He was able to earn almost $300 from his shorts already.
Now the RPM is fairly low, but I’m sure it grows as the channel ages, and it's not a bad RPM even if it doesn’t.
Let’s do some math.
