Youtube is a media giant that brings in hundreds of millions of dollars, but we all know about Youtube. Youtube is a website that is free to use, so how does it make money? Youtube brings in revenue through the means of advertising. It is possible for a youtube content provider to get a slice of this advertising revenue. They can do this through the Youtube Partnership Program.
The youtube partnership program started in may, 2007. There are over a million members of the partnership program. There are different forms of advertising and each partnership is a little bit different. One form of advertising on Youtube is the pre roll advertisement. The pre roll is the advertisement video that plays before the video. In 2013 this usually cost advertisers around $7.60 per 1000 views, earning Youtubers $2.60 per 1000 views. A video with 200,000 views will earn the youtuber $520.
There is certainly a lot of money to be made off of youtube. Some youtubers make over a million dollars, but that is very few. The website Social Blade shows a list of the top youtube users and their views. If you click on their name it will show you more information, like an estimate of how much money they make. There are so many different kinds of partnerships and each deal is a little bit different, so its hard to figure out exactly how much people make from their youtube videos. There are other options for partnerships on youtube through other organizations like Full screen.
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Youtube offers great opportunities to creators and advertises. The insentive for creators to constantly be uploading are awesome, and people are taking advantage of this. The amount of people that visit this site daily make Youtube and amazing place for advertisers.
Grayson Seguin 