 Why was I not paid my YouTube red earnings on my channel? Do I need to buy the $10 a month YouTube red subscription in order to get paid for YouTube red earnings? Is a common question you asked in yesterday's video you are paid YouTube red earnings? And if you missed it click that I up there to watch the video because it's important. This video answers that and many more questions that you asked in the comments below. Some other questions you asked are how often do I get paid YouTube red earnings? And is YouTube red going to go away? Is it a temporary thing? Are they just testing it? And how much do I get paid for YouTube red versus advertiser supported revenue? So let's answer all those questions in today's episode of The George Show. So yesterday we had this video. We paid you your YouTube red earnings early this month and we'll continue paying you your and today we're going to read your comments from that video and answer them. So CephasRedVS, CephasRedVersus, asked hey George something isn't clear to me. Do we not have to buy a subscription to YouTube red to gather earnings? So I answered yes that's exactly correct. You do not need to buy a YouTube red subscription to get paid YouTube red earnings. If you want an ad-free experience and Google Play music and the other benefits of YouTube red then go ahead and buy a subscription but don't do it if you think you need to to get paid YouTube red earnings on your channel. Great question. Fortress Bros said hey George will we earn our regular and YouTube red earnings at the end of each month? When will we get paid YouTube red? So as I answered YouTube red earnings will be paid on the same schedule as regular YouTube channel earnings. What is that schedule? See this video. Click that I up there that will explain our payment schedule for those of you who don't yet know it. Will Melbourne asked or said hey George you forgot to mention that anyone using Google Play music gets YouTube red for free which is a lot of people. That's exactly right. Anyone who's already paying $10 a month to get Google Play music which is essentially a Spotify competitor gets YouTube red for free. What that means is you're going to get a portion of that $10 a month for all Google Play subscribers and there's many of them to to you who watch your videos. Now there was also a follow-up question that said for people who get YouTube red then they no longer see ads on YouTube. So am I losing money? Am I going to get paid less if everyone buys YouTube red? And the answer to that is no you will get paid a lot more and I mean a lot more if everyone bought YouTube red and here's why. So there's a great article from Hank Green and the article was asking is YouTube red good for creators? And he said the answer is definitely yes. So how am I so sure? And I'll hide myself so you can see the whole text. So let's take a hypothetical YouTube user. Someone who watches two hours of YouTube, two hours of YouTube every day. That's roughly 400 videos a month. They don't skip ads. They're like the ideal YouTube watcher, the optimal ad viewing person. So they will generate around 80 cents of revenue for YouTube creators per month assuming a standard ad rate of $2 per thousand views CPM. That's another 70 cents going to YouTube and 80 cents going to you. So that's not a very good model. Now look at the advantage if that person had a $10 a month subscription. Now that YouTube red the subscriber is creating easily 10 times more value, 10 times more value, than a non-paying viewer. Probably much much more than that. So the answer to the question is YouTube red good for creators? A definite yes because you will earn a lot more money if everyone or at least a lot of people have YouTube red. And there was one more question here. I think it was, ah here. KratosOrianPlays asked, isn't YouTube red based off watch time, not views? And he's absolutely right. It is not based on how many views your videos get that determine how much of that $10 a month subscription fee you get. It's based on watch time. So if someone watches your video and runs away very quickly you get very little additional revenue from YouTube red subscribers. However if people watch your videos end to end or at least a large portion of them you're going to gain a lot more money from YouTube red subscribers. So this is a general best practice. Create videos that people want to watch all the way through. Don't just create very short videos or videos where people watch a few minutes or seconds and then run away. Okay now there's a few more really important facts about YouTube red that I think everyone should know. So this was an article from Tech Crunch and by the way the link to all these articles that I have along the tabs here up there will be down there in the description beneath this video so you can read the full articles yourself if you wish to. So I'll hide myself again. So Tech Crunch points out that ESPN had to remove most of its videos from all versions of YouTube in the US because its other contracts prevented from being on a subscription service like red. And so ESPN's videos are now disappearing from all ad-supported tiers of YouTube in the US. And the reason for that is because YouTube required everyone to agree to sign its new revenue share deal for YouTube red ad-free subscriptions which means you don't have the option to opt out of YouTube red. You as a content creator must accept YouTube red on your channel. If you don't then all of your videos will be hidden from public view on both the ad-supported and ad-free tiers. So this may seem like a heavy-handed approach by YouTube and tell me if you think so down there in the comments below but in my opinion it's actually a good move because as you saw just now you can earn 10 times more money than you can from an ad-supported user a free user. If everyone had YouTube red everyone would be making 10 times more money according to that calculation by Hank Green. So that's a good thing. Now people in general human nature is afraid of change. If you tell someone hey do X it's good for you but it's different from what you're used to. Most people will not do it because they don't know if it's good yet. They don't believe it's good yet. So in this case I really do believe it is good but I know many if given the choice would say I don't know that thing about the red I'm just going to opt out and wait to see what happens maybe in a few months I'll opt in. But then what about people who buy YouTube red? Sometimes they would see ads in those channels that didn't opt in and sometimes they would see no ads in the channels that did opt in it wouldn't be a consistent user experience. So what would happen? They would cancel their YouTube red subscription likely because they're not getting the ad-free experience they were expecting. So I think YouTube did the right decision by forcing everyone to accept YouTube red because it is good for everyone. Now there's some negatives like ESPN which has contracts which forbid its videos to be on a subscription service but YouTube has said that 99 percent somewhere in here nearly 99 percent of the content watched on YouTube doesn't have that problem that ESPN has so it's not going to remove nearly anything and most of it will stay there. Now there is a very funny joke I thought it was funny quote from Star Wars I'm altering the deal pray I don't alter it any further. Good old Darth Vader by the way who's seeing the new Star Wars and who's seeing the new Darth Vader very young guy huh everyone in that new movie is very young it's like this is the teenage version of Star Wars where there are no adults well there's some adults of course from the the characters from the original Star Wars make a reappearance in the new Star Wars but yeah it's Star Wars the new generation or the next generation okay so what else can we talk about YouTube red so there's one more wired article that I would encourage you to read for those of you who really want to understand YouTube red and how it affects everything again the link is down there in the description beneath this video and in this article wired really goes over all the creator concerns how the shift to a paid world is generally good because people are used to getting everything for free on the internet and this changes people's habits to not feel like everything needs to be free they get used to the idea of paying a monthly subscription fee which is actually a much better for content creators because you earn a lot more money and talking about YouTube's unique content and why YouTube is the biggest video library in the world so it's a good article I encourage you to read it so thank you for watching this episode of the George show focused on YouTube red the facts answering your questions giving you all the details if you still have questions ask me down there in the comments below and I'll do my best to answer them and who am I I am George Papa George as some of you call me I'm the CEO and founder of Freedom and Freedom is a YouTube MCN a family oriented MCN that helps you grow faster because we help each other grow we have great communities like www.community.tm with over 110,000 members over 110,000 of you have signed up to our community forums community.tm where we help everyone grow faster together and I will hide myself so you can see this number as you can see right here we have 110,972 members and the latest member is skeletongames.br so join the community introduce yourself in our here introduce yourself forum and let's see who's recently introduced themselves 13 minutes ago so Shadi who is this are you a kid or a teenager well these videos might be just for you hey guys my name is Tene Parnaik and I'm from New Jersey America hence my youtube channel named Jersey Gamers so you can see we have an active community that we get every introduction gets a welcome hey welcome to freedom hey I'm new here too welcome to freedom my man so do introduce yourself and I promise you you will have a very active experience there's a lot of posts posts every day on these forums a lot of activity where you can get reviews of your channel you can get feedback to help you grow faster all on community.tm so I am George and you've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together so grow with us and partner with freedom that play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started