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How Much YouTube Paid Me for My 1,000,000 Viewed Video
A video I dubbed into another language outperformed the original. In 2025, you won’t need to be bilingual to do this, thanks to a new YouTube feature.
After making YouTube videos for 3 years, finally, one of them reached 1 million views.
People often ask me how much money I make on YouTube. Although I’m not constantly checking how much money I made from every YouTube video, I have to admit that for this particular video, I did check the stats, and even did an analysis to find some insights about the YouTube algorithm and earnings per video (as a data analyst, I couldn’t resist the temptation!).
What sets this analysis apart from other ‘How much YouTube paid me’ articles is my use of a multi-language strategy. This approach involves dubbing a video to boost views and earnings.
In the past, if you spoke:
- Many languages, you could dub your videos yourself (as I did)
- One language, you could pay someone to dub your videos (as MrBeast does)
But thanks to a feature YouTube was quietly testing, you will be able to automatically dub your videos in 2025.