How do YouTubers make huge fortunes... and when can you rely on YouTube as a source of income?

 If you are aspiring or planning to join the category of “Youtubers”, content makers on YouTube, and in order to achieve large financial returns, you have two conditions, which you must fulfill, the first is that you have more than 1000 subscribers to the channel, and 4000 watch hours, and that So you qualify to start making money directly from YouTube.

As for the second barrier, it is to cross the one million subscribers mark on YouTube, so that your returns will become a “big milestone” as described by the American “Business Insider” website.

And the dreams of Arab social media activists of wealth, recently received stimuli, some of which came in the wake of the Egyptian decision to tax YouTubers on their financial returns, and others, with the repercussions of reports that circulated large numbers of YouTubers' wealth and returns in some Gulf countries.

In its presentation, Saturday, of the requirements of enrichment from the “YouTube” industry, the “Business Insider” report indicated a set of controls, foremost among which are the axioms, that the large financial returns resulting from the ads that are played in their videos, rise with the increase in the number of followers and subscribers in The channel, and that the qualitative change in income starts from the one million subscribers mark, where content makers can rely on YouTube, as a financial source to live comfortably.

The report gave an American example of this with YouTuber Andre Gekh, who has 1.7 million subscribers, generating $ 1.6 million in advertising revenue in less than three years.

Ms. Tiffany Ma, who has 1.8 million subscribers on her YouTube channel, was quoted as saying that she earns about $11,500 per month from advertising on private videos.

Methods of calculating and distributing returns

The report states that to start making money directly from YouTube, a YouTuber must have more than 1,000 channel subscribers and 4,000 watch hours.

Once they reach this limit, they can apply to start monetizing their channels through ads, subscriptions, and channel memberships.

For every 1,000 ad views, advertisers pay a certain price to YouTube, which shares a certain percentage with the YouTuber.

Note that many YouTubers also make money outside of YouTube, as for example with Graham Stefan, who has 3.4 million subscribers, and has his own coffee brand.

The report indicated that the income is collected through ads, subscriptions and channel memberships. For every 1,000 ad views, advertisers pay a certain price to YouTube, and that this amount goes to YouTube 45% of the profits, and the content creator gets the rest.

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