How much do YouTube Celebrities make?

 Alli-

   I too am addicted to youtube. I mainly stick to a specific set of vloggers, but I am subscribed to 119 channels ranging from failblog to the onion, and including vloggers from all over pretty much every English speaking country, including KevJumba. It's a problem. 

   A quote from your post that stood out was "Want to be famous? Its easy as 1, 2, 3: sign up, post up a video, and if people like it they subscribe. Before you start to criticize Youtubers for making that kind of money, think back to  how many Youtube videos you've watched." This is very true, we may like to think it's unfair but if youtube can afford to pay them that much, there's obviously a huge demand, and all they're doing is filling it. Also I've noticed that youtube partners are very aware of how lucky they are. They all frequently make videos thanking their viewers, and a lot of them give back to the community by promoting charities and fund raisers (especially through the project for awesome), doing crazy stunts if subscribers donate enough money to a specific charity or event like for example shaving their heads or painting themselves purple, or hijacking the music charts in England and donating money made to charity.

   I feel like I've displayed enough nerdy knowledge about the youtube community now, but thanks a lot for your post! The fact that I'm not the only one who watches hours of people talking to cameras is comforting, and it was really shocking to me that youtube partners make that much money. I look forward to more of your posts.

Cassie

 Alli,

I really enjoyed your post. Recently I watched a youtube video of a young boy playing his ukelele and trying to sing the song "I'm Yours" and I started to think about what could come of this video. His video was featured on CNN and had received countless hits on the internet...all for doing something that people find cute. It is interesting to know that his family will probably make money off of this video and its all because they decided to put something on the internet that they found to be interesting. If our parents all posted our funniest or cutest moments on youtube we might all be millionaires by now. 

We should all take a page from the youtube video posters' book and learn how to make money the easy way.

Thanks for your post,

Alex

Alli-

I had never really thought about YouTube fame until 10 minutes ago when I read your post.  It is astonishing to me that you can "make your big break" if you are unique enough on YouTube.  There are even musicians like Colbie Callait, who posted her songs on Myspace, and now she is all over the radio.  The internet has seemed to create a lot of opportunities for many people, especially through YouTube.  Now that I have YouTube on my cell phone, I have become more addicted to searching for these entertaining videos who videotape themselves talking about anything and everything.  Some people may be irritated that these people can sit in the comfort of their own home talking to a computer screen, making six figure incomes.  But these are the people you watch everyday, and laugh for 10 minutes at a time. 

Thanks Alli for making me think about how much I do love YouTube, even if these internet celebs are making a hugh chunk of change.

Alli,

Your post really caught my interest because it really does seem like there are people trying to make 10,000 dollars a year, and there are comedians on youtube making hundreds of thousands more. 

When you say "138 grand for making Youtube videos?!? Some people work overtime and barely make a fifth of what some of these Youtube celebrities make for a few hours in their day to film and post a video" it is astonishing to think about how little work it really does take. There are people out there who probably make up a 3 minute speech or skit that takes only a few minutes to think of and they get the cash for it.  

These Youtube celebs seem to have really figured out what they are doing. It truly is funny to watch some little kid with the worst voice try to sing and do an action along with the signing that doesn't correspond with any part of the song and it is an instant hit. It would be interesting to see how many viewers a group would get if they recorded everything that went on around them.

This post was very good and I am very interested to watch more of these Youtubers and see how the subscriptions go up. It would be very cool to see if your dance videos just took off and became one of these change droppers.

Thanks,

Gordon Warlaumont

Dear Alli,

    I find your post most interesting because this last week me and Alex G have been pondering how much people make per view and or comments. Thank you so much for breaking this down for me. It is so interesting how many people get on YouTube a day to just watch something as simple as opening a beer bottle with paper-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPMtAy2Ebg. But I never thought that someone could get pay so much for doing something so simple. In our world today, if something is funny, or someone has done something cleaver or stupid and put it on video, allot of people love to see this type of stuff. This is where YouTube has succeeded, because there will always be people who want something like what I described above and show it to their friends. And as what you have shown above, someone was smart enough to do something simple and easy but attract allot of people to it, and make money off it. So hats off to Kevjumba.

Great Post!

Sincerely,

Oliver Diamond

 Ali,

I am also addicted to YouTube, and Frankly I think I'm going to cut back. I found disgusting when I read that some people make 138 grand just from stupid videos. I feel like that money should be going to people who really need it, like artists or something. But I do admit that YouTube is really addicting. I have always wondered why that is. Is it because at heart we are social creatures and we enjoy watching the lives of others? I don't know, all I do know is that I think that we should stop wasting so much time on YouTube, and stop giving good money away to people who haven't really done much to earn it. 

However my opinions, I really enjoyed reading your post and I too was shocked on your findings.

Thanks,

Laura Horton