Why Less than 1% of YouTubers Make Money

and how you can be one of them

Mitch Made
The Side Hustle Club

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Photo by Anastase Maragos on Unsplash

Did you know that there are tens of millions of YouTube channels in the world?

Did you also know that only .25 percent are making money on the platform?

That’s right. One-fourth of one percent of channels on YouTube make any money whatsoever.

This includes people making even one penny from ad revenues.

That’s an incredibly low number.

But it’s also not surprising to creators currently earning money on the world’s largest video search engine.

In my 6-7 years on the platform, I can’t tell you how many people I know have started a YouTube channel only to move on to “better things” after a week.

It’s a lot.

Why people don’t last long enough to make money on YouTube

Here are the main reasons I’ve found people don’t last long enough to make any money on YouTube.

They don’t commit

Have you ever watched a movie scene where two people are about to jump off a cliff into the water?

The first person — the adventurous one — fully commits to the jump and lands safely in the water away…

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Mitch Made
The Side Hustle Club

Content expert, master of finance and economics, & award-winning researcher 🧐 diving into anything involving self-improvement, business, energy, and history.