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how much money do creators earn from
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YouTube 2024 was my first year being
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fully monetized on YouTube and this was
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a question I always used to ask myself
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well in this video I'm going to be
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sharing exactly how much YouTube paid me
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this year so without further Ado let's
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go for those of you who don't know me hi
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my name is Ally I used to work on cruise
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ships as a professional dancer but after
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sustaining a back injury I transition to
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doing YouTube full- time and honestly I
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was very nervous about this transition
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for a couple reasons first of all up
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until last year YouTube has always been
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something that I did on the side I
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didn't even get monetized until 2023 so
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I've always had another primary source
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of income another thing is I knew that
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transitioning from the cruise Niche
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would be challenging because so much of
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my life and my content revolved around
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cruising I know that's how a lot of
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people found me and maybe why they liked
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my videos so naturally it begs the
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question are people here for me or just
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because they like the cruise content
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which then of course leads to the next
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big question am I going to make enough
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money to do this fulltime speaking for
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myself I love Financial transparency I
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just I hate the taboo that we can't talk
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about money and personally I feel like
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the only people who benefit from being
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secretive is Corporate plus people make
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their life decisions around this kind of
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information so buckle up you guys
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because today I just want to be super
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transparent about my journey and my
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numbers while making banana bread these
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are all the things that we're going to
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be talking about one how YouTubers get
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paid plus their revenue sources an
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overview of my yearly Trends how much
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money my top five videos made comparing
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long form videos to short form videos
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plus the total amount first things first
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how do YouTubers get paid the money's
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got to come from somewhere right first
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of all you can make money from YouTube
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directly but also from external sources
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for the YouTube platform specifically I
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think we're all familiar with just the
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regular ads that you see before and
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during someone's video unless you have
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YouTube premium but YouTube actually has
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a couple different Revenue sources one
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being the ads which we've already talked
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about two is ADS specifically on the
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shorts feed if you don't see the ads you
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have YouTube premium and guess where
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that he goes and on top of that there's
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also super thans and Super Chat for
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those things you as a viewer pay that
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specific creator for their video during
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a live or a Premiere or just in general
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but with all that being said What
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specifically impacts a Creator's video
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and their earnings yes you and the back
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views but my friends views are not
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created equally so even if two videos
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have the exact same amount of views if
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they're about different topics and one
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topic makes more money than the other
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they are going to earn differently this
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is what we call cost per mile or CPM
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some of the highest cpms include
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education and finances whereas some of
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the lower cpms are niches like comedy
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and humor wait but how do those people
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make enough money to survive well
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there's a lot of other ways to make
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money from YouTube without it actually
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being from YouTube naturally this is
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going to be the Creator's preference it
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is up to each individual how they want
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to diversify their income honestly it
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really depends on the Creator but a
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couple of the ways include selling
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things such as merchandise products
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one-on-one coaching calls coures tickets
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to Live Events patreon affiliate links
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and of course sponsorships this is the
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part of the video where a Creator says
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this video is brought to you by insert
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brand name here of course I can't speak
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for all creators but I feel like for me
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something that is important that a brand
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aligns with me and my values so usually
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I reach out to a brand because I
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specifically enjoy their product or they
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reach out to me and I ask to try it out
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first personally I don't like the idea
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of just pushing random products that I
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would never use for example I've worked
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with the company bomb a couple times if
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you haven't heard of it it's a stock
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company and for every pair purchased
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they donate a pair to a homeless shelter
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and even though that sounds great in all
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I did want to like try them out before I
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just started recommending them to people
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that for instance is an example of a
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company who had reached out to me and I
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hadn't tried their products before but
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once I tried them and saw how great they
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were that made me feel like morally
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sound to recommend it to people if
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you've never tried bombos for yourself
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they're very like thoughtfully designed
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in comparison to other socks on their
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ankle socks for example they have like
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little B TAPS in the back so they don't
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slip down and give you some blisters and
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another thing they don't have like toe
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seams here you know those pieces in the
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corners that kind of like Bunch up in
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your shoe it's also nice cuz they do
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also have more than just socks because
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their focus is on giving back to the
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community they mainly have essential
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Goods such as t-shirts and underwear and
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funny enough those two items plus the
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socks make up the top three requested
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items in homeless shelters all their
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items are tested for strength and
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durability and something I just really
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respect about their company is that
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they're always trying to improve
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personally I feel like I can relate to
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this a lot because I'm always just
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trying to be the best version of myself
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and it's just really neat to see how a
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simple yet practical purchase can
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actually make a difference plus with my
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code you can get 20% off if you would
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like to support me in this channel plus
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try a pair for yourselves and make a
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difference make sure to scan the QR code
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on the screen or check the link in my
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description thank you bombas for
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sponsoring this
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video now with all this being said
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because earnings are directly correlated
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with your views as you can imagine it
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fluctuates quite a bit even the most
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popular YouTubers out there won't make
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the exact same amount of income on each
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video Let's Take a closer look shall
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we so something I quite enjoy about
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YouTube analytics is that they are super
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super detailed and I think there's a lot
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that we can learn from these analytics
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yes there is at a glance I think we can
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all see that there are a fair amount of
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highs and lows but there is no denying
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that there are a lot more high points in
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the beginning of the year I wonder why
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that is well I can tell you exactly why
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that is that's when I was still on the
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cruise ship oh bye muffin how odd muffin
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doesn't really seem to care about the
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analytics anyway fun fact it is actually
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the oneyear anniversary from the day
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that I got injured on the ship and if
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you guys were here through that whole
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process I actually took the time to
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really tell the story all the way from
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January until about April I think living
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and working on a cruise ship while
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simultaneously getting injured in a
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metal floating box it's kind of
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interesting but naturally that is not
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the only content that I've posted since
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then so you you may be wondering then
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what are all these other little Peaks
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throughout this past year I've
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definitely been taking the time to
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experiment with my style of videos the
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content in my videos trying to see the
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things that I find interesting but also
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you guys find interesting too but
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something that is unique about YouTube
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content is that it is Evergreen if
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you've never heard of the term Evergreen
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basically as long as the topic is
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applicable to someone's search it will
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still pop up even if it was from many
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many years ago so while on platforms
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like Facebook and Instagram and Tik Tok
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things will pop up that are a bit more
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recent youTube is still a search engine
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so when I post something like a cruise
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ship cabin tour even though I posted it
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last year it is still continuing to make
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me money this year and because of this
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concept my top five earning videos
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throughout the year were actually a bit
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surprising for me starting off with
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number five you guessed it is the cruise
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ship cabin tour I actually didn't even
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post this last year I posted it 2 years
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ago during the summer so the fact that
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this is in the number five spot is
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actually crazy to me this video is
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actually my most popular video on
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YouTube currently it has
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925,000 views and even though I posted
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it 2023 it was 2024 where the views just
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really skyrocketed and at this point I
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think those views are just going to
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continue to increase if you are part of
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the cruise world you may have heard that
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there's a new policy with royal where
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you're no longer allowed to post your
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cabin you no longer can post anything
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behind the scenes so honestly that just
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continues to give potential for my past
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videos anyway during 2024 specifically
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this video made
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1,46 up next we have number four which
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was my cruise ship question and answer
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so I actually filmed this video in
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January of 2024 but I didn't release it
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until a month or so later after I had
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already left the ship but alas it is
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more Cruise content although some of the
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more personal related questions are not
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as relevant anymore a lot of the job
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related questions will kind of always be
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relevant so maybe that'll continue to
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grow we'll see for now in 2024 that
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video made
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$1,531 and then up next after that we
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have third place which you guessed it
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another cruise ship video um this one
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was how much I made on the ship I
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basically shared all the money that I
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made while working on board in addition
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to YouTube Revenue like I mentioned
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before I really enjoy analytics and pay
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transparency so while that video is no
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longer applicable to me anymore I do
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feel like it's still pretty interesting
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I also posted that one after coming back
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from the ship and I made
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$1,593 so far I feel like these numbers
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aren't varying too much all right now
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we're coming into second place surprise
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surprise another cruise ship video so
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this particular video was I left the
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cruise ship for good I did this was
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basic my story of how I got injured and
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again I'm not really surprised that it's
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done pretty well I posted that video in
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early 2024 and it has made
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$166 but we still have first place so I
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posted this video in 2023 but in 2024 it
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got the majority of its views currently
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in total it has 530,000 views but in
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2024 it received 400,000 of that views
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so that is a large majority it is my
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cruise ship's expectations versus
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reality it is currently my second most
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popular video and in 2024 alone it made
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$2,289 another thing that I find quite
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interesting is that back in 2023 right
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after I got monetized I kind of shared
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my first 6 months on YouTube similar to
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this style of video and it was super
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interesting at the time comparing short
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form Revenue to long form Revenue at
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that time my shorts were doing super
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well it was actually split pretty evenly
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but this year I feel like it's not even
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close so during my first six months on
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YouTube there was about a $1,000
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difference between the shorts and the
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long form content so even though shorts
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can go viral a bit more frequently than
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long form videos or at least for me they
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don't usually do as well as long form
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videos when it comes to earnings for
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example in 2024 alone my shorts got 40
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million views whereas my long form
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videos got 4 million views however my
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shorts earned
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$587 Meanwhile my long form videos
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earned $ 23,93191
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total and the banana bread so the grand
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total of all of my earnings this
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includes watch ads shorts ads YouTube
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premium and the supers in 2024 I
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officially earned $
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31,798
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M this is good so what are our thoughts
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about all this first of all I will say
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this is more than the previous year so I
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would say that that's a plus now is this
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amount of money enough to live off of I
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guess that just depends on personal
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lifestyle choices but another thing
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thing for me is that this is not my only
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stream of income I do have multiple I
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feel like that's a whole other can of
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worms and maybe a video for another day
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but honestly I'm loving life right now
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even 2 years ago I never would have
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believed you if you told me that this
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was my life right now I just feel so so
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incredibly thankful I know that there
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are creators out there who are making
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more than me but I try my best not to
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compare I truly believe that comparison
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is the thief of joy and I am so thankful
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and happy of where I'm at with that
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being said as I and this channel
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continue to evolve I do want to adapt
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and also hear what you guys have to say
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so I really would love to know what kind
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of videos you'd love to see from me in
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the future ideally finding where my
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passions and also the things that you
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guys enjoy watching intersect that would
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be the goal but for now thank you guys
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so much for watching if you have any
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questions comments or suggestions leave
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them down in the comments Below in the
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description I'm going to leave the link
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to this banana bread recipe bomb it is
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also vegan and gluten-free as well as
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the link for bombas have a great day and
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I'll see you guys next time bye
