How to be annoying and make over $9000 a month on Youtube!

[FelixDeCat]

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticke...-making-100000-plus-per-year-yftt_535349.html

Meet The YouTube Stars Making $100,000 Plus Per Year

1. Shane Dawson – $315,000
Shane Dawson is so popular that he is three different YouTube channels. His most popular channel consists of his comedy skits and music video parodies. Dawson created a second channel as a vlog and for a separate series called "Ask Shane," and his third channel only has videos taken from his iPhone.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 431,787,450

2. The Annoying Orange – $288,000
The Annoying Orange is a comedy web series that takes place in a kitchen and is about talking fruit. Dane Boedigheimer is the mastermind behind the series and is also the voice of Orange.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 349,753,047

3. Philip DeFranco – $181,000
Philip DeFranco uploads a new video onto YouTube every Monday to Thursday for his show – The Philip DeFranco Show. His video blogging topics range from politics to pop culture.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 248,735,032

4. Ryan Higa – $151,000
Ryan Higa makes comedy skits and is a video blogger who turned into a viral star with his "How to be Gangster" and "How to be Ninja" videos. Even though he doesn't upload as many videos as his fellow YouTube celebrities, Higa is still the top dog at YouTube with over 2.6 million subscribers.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 206,979,909

5. Fred – $146,000
Lucas Cruikshank plays "a lonely six year old named Fred" who uses his mom's video camera and posts videos on a YouTube channel. As the second most subscribed to YouTube channel, Lucas Cruikshank's immensely popular Fred character even has a movie coming out backed by Nickelodeon.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 200,656,150

6. Shay Carl – $140,000
As a radio DJ, Shay Carl started making comedy skits and put them on YouTube for the world to see. He claims to have held 20 different jobs before settling down with his DJ and YouTube gigs.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 192,309,247

7. Mediocre Films – $116,000
Greg Benson created Mediocre Films initially for a sketchy comedy TV series called "Skip TV." The show lasted for one season, and now Benson makes low budget comedy videos for the web.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 159,030,703

8. Smosh – $113,000
Smosh is the comedy duo of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, and with over 1.7 million subscribers, they make up the 5th most popular channel on YouTube. They first shot to viral fame with their "Pokemon Theme Music Video" which became YouTube's most viewed video in Spring 2006. However, due to copyright reasons, the original video was removed from YouTube.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 154,936,876

9. The Young Turks – $112,000
The Young Turks is a political talk show that also airs on Sirius Satellite Radio. Founded and hosted by Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks talk show and their vast viewership has proven that the Internet can be a viable broadcast platform.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 153,807,362

10. Natalie Tran– $101,000
Under the user name of communitychannel, Natalie Tran is the most subscribed to YouTube user in Australia. Like most others on this list, she is a video blogger and occasionally uploads comedy skits.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 138,871,829

I cant say I dont blame them for doing this full time, but its a lot of work. I have one ad supported vid with about 15k views from January 2010 that has made a laughable $8.50 in revenue (you need $10 before you get paid). I have made other vids but none have garnered the same attention. So I know this is not that easy unless you have the talent, budget and NO SHAME.

Ironically I dont watch or subscribe to any of the above as I find most of them to be very annoying.

 

[BassBomb]

I watch shaycarl, but how do they get this money? What about taxes?

 

[Anubis]

ive never heard of any of those people or their shows/vids

 

[FelixDeCat]

I watch shaycarl, but how do they get this money? What about taxes?

They are paid directly by google. When I was approached to be ad supported and signed up I agreed that I would supply a social security number for tax purposes once my revenue reached $10.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i thought that dude ray william johnson would be on there.

 

[khon]

Good for them. They're creating a product that people like, and getting paid a decent amount of money for it.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

If only ATOT had more members
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2094397

 

[BUTCH1]

I always wonder if vids posted there that get a ton of hits just because of the title but are a complete joke generate revenue for the poster, here's an example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Of-aqKO2s "horrible coaster accident" turns out to be some lame girl crying on a coaster for a few minutes but because of the title has over 7 million hits, maybe they should bring back the stars rating system after all..

 

[FelixDeCat]

If only ATOT had more members
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2094397

Ive found the best way to get views is to be a bit controversial. But at least your vids are all now +1 view.

 

[ShawnD1]

I don't really like Shane Dawson's videos, but they certainly have some appeal to them. He clearly puts effort into his videos, so good for him. He makes entire skits where he is every character, and there's something amusing about that.

Annoying orange makes me so angry that I want to kill people, but I can at least understand the appeal. Annoying orange is something typical office retards would forward to each other a million times. The creators of this deserve the money.

Fred sucks. Anyone who subscribes to him is a retard. This is a fact.

I like TYT. It's a typical news show with a more light hearted approach. Cenk is the one of the few liberals who attacks almost every stupid policy Obama tries to push. This is how objective news works - bash the hell out of politicians when they do stupid shit, regardless of which political party they are part of.

 

[polarmystery]

I watch Phillip DeFranco. I like his show as I think he's funny.

 

[goodscoolxh]

Is it really ? i really want to know how do they get those money ?

 

[ShawnD1]

Is it really ? i really want to know how do they get those money ?

They make ad-suported videos. Example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lg6Cu5GUI

Then people rant about media whores getting ad revenue from this bullshit.
end impotence :awe:
archfiend ranting about ijunstine

 

[Koing]

I watch Phillip DeFranco. I like his show as I think he's funny.

Same here.

Never heard of the others but I like Phillip DeFranco's stuff.

You can get his iphone App btw

Koing

 

[n7]

I knew they made good money, but no idea it was that much.

Wow...

 

[AnonymouseUser]

The Annoying Orange is the only one I'm familiar with, and I've only seen a handful, if that. I disable all ads on Youtube, even those annoying ads that pop-up during the videos, so they aren't making anything from me.

 

[JoPh]

how do u disable them?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

how do u disable them?

These are the urls blocked when I visit Youtube:

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/*
http://s0.2mdn.net/*
*.doubleclick.net/*
http://youtube.com/adsense_script.html

 

[slayer202]

all these people have zero talent. its unbelievable that people actually watch them on a regular basis. sad for america and the world

 

[BassBomb]

all these people have zero talent. its unbelievable that people actually watch them on a regular basis. sad for america and the world

I don't watch shaycarl for his skit videos, I watch for his vlog's with his family because they are entertaining some of the time so he doesn't need talent

 

[abaez]

I don't watch any of these except for shaycarl and Natalie Tran (community channel). Both over a year now. Shay tries too hard sometimes (the scripted stuff he does is not great), but it's a great vlog that exposes you to family life and raising kids and all that.

And Community Channel is fucking awesome. She's witty and funny.

 

[her209]

Surprised that Peter Chao guy isn't on that list
http://www.youtube.com/user/pyrobooby

Also TimothyDeLaGhetto (a.k.a. TraPhik)
http://www.youtube.com/user/TimothyDeLaGhetto2

 

[Tristicus]

Shay Carl and Mediocre Films (Greg) are seriously awesome. Shay has a great family.

Others are good too, but people like The Young Turks should be shot in the head.

 

[darkewaffle]

If it wasn't for my ex-girlfriend making these poor excuses for comedy her life's obsession I would be proud of not having heard of any of them.

None of them are interesting. At all. There's talent on youtube, not much admittedly, but it certainly isn't here.

 

[Malak]

So you really can work from home and make loads of money. I think it is time I started a channel on youtube.