 I guess I might as well wear some of my clothes now that I'm probably gonna have to sell them because I'm going broke but today we're gonna talk about how much money I make from YouTube and what that means is specifically ad revenue through Google AdSense and that's basically determined by how many views you're getting it could also include you know donations from live streams. I do want to say I'm very thankful that I've been able to use YouTube as a platform to start some of my businesses whether it's the Frankie's natural products, Frankie's syringe meat, organ supplements, you know the private consultations I do for fitness and nutrition. In regards to that YouTube has been great that I've been able to make some money at least enough money to not have to worry about you know putting food on the table or having a car to drive. That being said I was actually looking forward to YouTube being a much higher source of revenue you know back in early 2019 things were looking much better but let's go back to the beginning and I've been making YouTube videos since summer of 2016 mostly pertaining to nutrition fitness and health and more recently I've touched on current news and I've been kind of all over the place and I mean me telling the truth about certain things talking about certain topics you know and that's part of the reason that I'm not being compensated as much as I could be if I played by the rules did XYZ but I don't want to go into that. One thing that you have to absolutely understand if you're considering YouTube if you're doing any business is the marketing perspective. How many people are going to be interested in what I'm providing and for me fitness health nutrition diet you know the stuff I talk about is basically something that's present or relevant to everyone's life you know so there's no excuse for people to not watch my videos essentially and that's also the way I go about creating a lot of my video topics and determining what I would like to talk about you know I'm not only trying to appease the crowd from an entertainment perspective I'm also trying to figure out you know what would help the most people in regards to health you know what about variety you know you don't want to do the same standing against the static background every day that's how simple stuff that being said you know for the first two years of my YouTube channel before I was monetized where I was you know just doing YouTube for getting out there still working a regular job I only spent maybe you know 45 minutes to an hour every day physically working on the YouTube video you know I just set up the camera talking part of it film didn't write a script I didn't spend a lot of time recording I didn't spend a lot of time editing had no real knowledge about cameras my production quality the audio wasn't that great and even really just now I'm getting to the point where you know that aspect of my videos is is pretty good you know it doesn't really have to be better you know as long as the audio and video quality isn't greatly compromised by poor camera angles or you know really really bad background noise you're basically good to go you know you want to keep it simple and those people that do heavily heavily edited YouTube videos with all these sorts of transitions and effects and really smooth stuff that's you know professional production quality not necessary for YouTube so that period of two years where I wasn't monetized even though I wasn't investing an incredible amount of time you know I was still thinking about video topics you know all nutrition always going through my mind so it really is a lifestyle a lot of my thoughts and my off-time was invested in what I was going to talk about the next day and when I did get monetized you know I progressively started putting more and more effort into my YouTube videos I might not have written a script but I put more money into the camera more money into the audio quality I spent more time editing the video and now it's gone to the point where I'm writing scripts for nearly every single video I'm spending half an hour an hour editing every video so I went from spending no more than an hour per day now I'm at like three four five hours a day of my physical time is invested in making a YouTube video every day sometimes it's more sometimes it's less on average I would have to say between two and three hours and what that entails is writing the script filming the video editing the video and uploading the video just to have that video physically on YouTube every day that's the amount of time it takes you know some days like today I might not have to write a script and it's an unusual video where it takes me only an hour overall sometimes like for those cooking videos I have to film for five or six hours straight and then edit for an hour sometimes it's simple one hour of writing a script one hour of filming one hour of editing could be a vlog could be all these different sorts of things but that's a pretty good estimation of the average time commitment two to three hours so with that two to three hours and day in mind now we can look at the monthly compensation and how it correlates to the effort I'm putting in so my best months that I can remember off the top of my head were when I was getting like 15 to 20,000 views per day on my videos from like January through March 2019 those paychecks from Google AdSense were like between five thousand and six thousand dollars per month which for me you know for the amount of money I've made throughout my life was great you know five six thousand a month I didn't really have the businesses at the time I wasn't doing that great and you know that would still be a lot of money for me now but if you take you know six thousand dollars that's 1500 a week you know if you're working you know three hours a day for a month 90 hours it's pretty good you're getting paid over a hundred bucks an hour now you know that five six thousand dollars was very short-lived and that didn't include my live stream revenue when I was live streaming at that time it might have actually even been a few hundred dollars extra in donations every week from the live streams since 2019 they kind of put like a hamper on my views I don't know what's going on but you know my view count has been steadily going down on my live stream count has gone down to the point where I didn't even care about live streaming last Saturday I just did some extra videos and now we might live stream later tonight I don't know but now donation live streams are basically gone and my Google AdSense paychecks for July I actually wasn't gonna check this before I filmed this video I was just gonna guesstimate because I knew I was getting checks for like thirteen hundred fourteen hundred fifteen hundred dollars a month now so basically making you know fifty bucks per YouTube video which is basically fifteen dollars an hour so I mean I can't complain I have a job I get paid you know fifteen twenty bucks an hour for a few hours of work a day which isn't bad but I saw some paychecks from June and July and I was getting eight or nine hundred bucks which was I honestly probably it's for me it's tough because I've made YouTube videos every day for years and years and I just feel like I'm giving up if I stop now but it is very very discouraging when you know you work harder and harder and harder you invest more time and money and and things just seem to be getting worse and worse so going from you know fifteen twenty thousand views per day and having active live streams that had you know three to four hundred viewers five six thousand a month now you know when I'm getting four or five thousand views a day and I have a hundred active viewers on my live streams on another channel the revenue is drastically drastically lower I mean I wouldn't say it's a sacrifice I've made you know I chose to talk about certain topics and there's people in power that don't want other people to know about those topics as it compromises what other people are saying those other people might be making a video every day that's getting a hundred thousand views and they're basically making you know 30 40 50 times the amount of ad revenue I am and do if I was making that much money per month on YouTube holy crap and that is you hundred and hundreds millions of dollars per year and ad revenue that is that is absolutely insane to me and some people make three or four videos a week they get a million views per video it's a crazy crazy crazy amount of ad revenue and you know we could bring up like a vegan girl who told me for instance that does get a hundred two hundred thousand views per video she'll make a video once or twice a week she'll have a sponsorship that sponsors probably paying her 20 30 thousand just for a video that's another thing we have to talk about I've never really been offered big sponsorships I think people have offered me like 500 bucks to say something about their product but you know when you have those higher view counts when you can get those sponsorships that's why just about every larger YouTube channel is sponsored because all they got to do is throw you know a minute or two of them talking about some nonsense product and they get a check in their bank account for $50,000 it's a lot of money I'm just hoping that I can get my businesses together to some degree and start getting in some revenue before this whole YouTube thing goes completely down the toilet I've had over a hundred thousand subscribers for like quite a few months now I wonder when they're supposed to send me that silver plaque so that I can cook a steak on it and then maybe beat it with a baseball bat but outside of that thank you guys for joining me today if you do want to support me please just share the video on social media like leave me a comment down below if you do want to support me further you can check out frank dash to father calm we've got a couple exciting things coming this weekend next week guys so hopefully towards the end of this week I can announce some stuff outside of that you know some of you guys might not watch my video today or tomorrow that's the case happy Thanksgiving otherwise I will come up with some stuff to talk about