http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/youtuber-pewdiepie-opens-up-about-his-73-million-earnings-from-playing-video-games-10374402.html
This week it was reported that 25-year-old Felix Kjellberg, known online as PewDiePie, has made $7.4 million by filming himself playing video games for his Youtube channel.
I knew they made money on youtube but never could have guessed it was this much.
he's an outlier. There's 239458720349857230498572 other youtube channels not making shit.
Quote from: Pete Dero on July 08, 2015, 11:04:20 AM
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/youtuber-pewdiepie-opens-up-about-his-73-million-earnings-from-playing-video-games-10374402.html
This week it was reported that 25-year-old Felix Kjellberg, known online as PewDiePie, has made $7.4 million by filming himself playing video games for his Youtube channel.
I knew they made money on youtube but never could have guessed it was this much.
Some of them make a living doing it, with a huge amount of subscribers and the commercial advertising cranked to the hilt.
I don't mind having to watch a few seconds at the beginning of a vid and/or a small pop-up ad in the middle, but I've seen some with a full-on ad popping up every few minutes, directly breaking up the vid multiple times. While that person may have had something I was interested in watching, the advert proliferation is just too much in that case and I go find something else. Everyone has limits!
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 08, 2015, 01:59:27 PM
he's an outlier. There's 239458720349857230498572 other youtube channels not making shit.
Exactly this. Only the few who got in early and built up a big audience before there were thousands of competitors are really making bank when it comes to videos. The others make a bit, but nothing approaching millions.
PewDiePie is a huge, annoying tool. I guess the Internet is full of 7.4 million dollars worth of huge, annoying tools too for that idiot to be a millionaire now.
If we did something like this on an official basis, we'd need some kind of schtick to stand out from the other billion nerdy schlebs plying their zit-pus-encrusted fingers on buttons and counters.
I don't even know him. So I don't care.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 08, 2015, 02:57:22 PM
PewDiePie is a huge, annoying tool. I guess the Internet is full of 7.4 million dollars worth of huge, annoying tools too for that idiot to be a millionaire now.
If we did something like this on an official basis, we'd need some kind of schtick to stand out from the other billion nerdy schlebs plying their zit-pus-encrusted fingers on buttons and counters.
I attempted to watch one of his videos once and I couldn't make it through the first 30 seconds.
His 'Let's Play' of Alien: Isolation was the first one of that game that I tried to watch. I think I made it two minutes before I couldn't stand his commentary any more. Finally found one Let's Play of that game with zero commentary and it was wonderful.
One thing I don't get are these YouTubers needing to put themselves into their videos...PewDieTool does that as do many others. I don't want to see your ugly ass...I wouldn't want to see MY ugly ass...so why do they do that? You're covering up valuable screen real estate with your baldingness and 80s searchlight-sized glasses and I really don't need to see your acne scars in glorious 1080p.
I'm sensing disapproval from Banzai_Cat.
Quote from: Huw the Poo on July 09, 2015, 12:27:27 PM
I'm sensing disapproval from Banzai_Cat.
What makes you say that? :P
I saw a lets play of skyrim where a hot british girl was playing and she had a pip of herself, that was good. If it's someone like banzi describes, then leave your mug off the screen.
I've no idea about this person, but I'm sure there is no random crock of gold on Youtube. To make money you must have talent. We here may not think that that this person has it, but they surely do in some form or another. That form maybe self-promotion, but that is still a talent.
I'm just stating my own distaste for him and his bollocks. However, I fully recognize that there ARE people that find him their cup of tea. More power to them. If he can be a millionaire doing Let's Play videos, great. I'll never watch another one of 'em again, personally, but I doubt he'll give much of a crap about that. So win-win.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 09, 2015, 05:05:24 PM
I'm just stating my own distaste for him and his bollocks. However, I fully recognize that there ARE people that find him their cup of tea. More power to them. If he can be a millionaire doing Let's Play videos, great. I'll never watch another one of 'em again, personally, but I doubt he'll give much of a crap about that. So win-win.
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Detective Lawrence 'Morgan Freeman' Appleton: I'm not a Star Trek fan. I don't know very much about other dimensions and all that. I'm an old school Catholic. I believe in Hell. I believe that it's more than just murderers and rapists down there. I believe in demons and worms, vile shit in the grease trap of the Universe. And the more I think about it, the more I think that it's not just some place down there. Oh no, that it's right here with us. We just can't perceive it.
It's kinda like the country music radio station. It's out there in the air, even if you don't tune into it."
I turn ads off on my youtube, I hate the idea of someone watching one of my videos being accosted by an advertisement.
I guess I don't understand how ads work on YouTube. I don't really care because I ignore them...I suppose I'm rather OCD when it comes to this, but when an ad appears, there's a brief moment when the bottom of the video says something about the ad so I immediately mute the video and then scroll down so only the playbar is visible at the top of my screen. I can tell if it's going to be a quickie or one of those obnoxious longer ones with the 'Skip Ad' function. Regardless I let it waste its time (and mine, dammit)...but at least I don't have any idea what it is those a-holes are trying to sell that I don't give two rat butts about. If it's a 'Skip Ad' kind of nonsense (and really, who sits through a four minute commercial? I just don't get it), I'll just scroll up a bit and click Skip Ad immediately.
There's an app called "ScrewAds" that apparently used to work brilliantly and block all their nonsense, but apparently YT found a way around it as it no longer works. :-\
I can only hope YouTube actually can tell when people mute ads.
I suppose if you had a YouTube channel and turned ads on, you get paid for people clicking? I don't get how or why people click on those pop-up ads; I'm there to watch a video, not have something totally unrelated and useless invading my space. But it obviously happens.
God, I hate ads. >:(
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 10, 2015, 09:19:54 AM
I guess I don't understand how ads work on YouTube.
I suppose if you had a YouTube channel and turned ads on, you get paid for people clicking? I don't get how or why people click on those pop-up ads; I'm there to watch a video, not have something totally unrelated and useless invading my space. But it obviously happens.
I don't now if it works like that (paid for clicking). Most videos i watch are in english but a lot of the ads i get are in dutch. This must mean that youtube decides what ads i get based on my country and are not chosen by the channel host.
Guys like Arumba make a living out of gaming (check out his agenda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZVyNc_y3Nw - 7 days a week from noon till late in the evening), but i don't get any ads on his channel except for some small boxes at the bottom of the video you can click away.
I don't think they have any say in which commercials play on their channel.
However, I caught talk about syndication or some such. I'm guessing that's when the bigger commercials & money start rolling in for those with enough subscribers?
When I read about how some are making a fortune like this vlogging of video gaming exploits I get depressed upon the realization that I seriously fucked up my life. I could have made 7.4 million acting like a jackass and playing video games at the same time. Hell, I do that every night after work anyway!!!!
PewDiePie should not feel ashamed of his money and quite frankly if I ever made that much doing what he's doing I'd not apologize for it either. If one can figure out the system and make a shit ton of money off of it through LEGAL LEGITIMATE means then what's wrong with that? Bill Gates owns half the planet and you never see him apologizing for the money he's made.