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How Much Youtube Paid Me For 4,500,000 Views

A look into a faceless YouTubers analytics

4 min readDec 31, 2021

Let me start by saying I started this Youtube channel as a joke. I saw many other creators in a specific niche getting hundreds and millions of views so I decided to start my channel to see how much I can make myself.

The beginning was rough. I was lacking any motivation to upload the videos I was making. They were boring and I grew tired of them quickly. However, despite being on the brink of giving up the whole channel. I managed to continue uploading.

Every video took about 5–6 hours and I put no commentary over any of them. Only text with a couple of funny clips. I would sit there on my crappy laptop for 5–6 hours a day typing and dragging away.

It was very exhausting.

I will have to say that the comments on every video are what kept me going. To see viewers genuinely enjoying my content gave me the push I needed to upload weekly.

Revenue and Stats

After about a couple of months, I struck gold:

The first month of the video earned me a payout of $4,200. This is because they only pay for each month's views.

While it's interesting to see the potential earnings from YouTube views, this article seems to perpetuate the idea that creating content for YouTube is an easy way to make money. In reality, the success of a YouTube channel depends on a variety of…

i have channel on YouTube, and i have 52+k subscribers, channel named “josef tandi”, but i have problems with views, for that channel 1-2k views from #shorts, it’s not much
and i have question, what should i do for solve this problem?
should i continue with shorts vids, or begin new content and make videos longer?