<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmuso</author><text>How do you deal with “talking to the void” at the beginning? I speak publicly fairly regular and I get a lot of energy from people in the crowd. I’ve done some YouTube and converted that to podcast format. I can’t seem to get motivated to do it as I can’t see&amp;#x2F;interact with people. People I know in my niche community will tell me they watched my video or listened to the podcast, I think “oh that’s nice I guess” and I go back home to stare at a camera and I can’t seem to connect making a video with audience interaction. Is this a thing? How do you think I could deal with it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mwidell</author><text>I run a channel with 85k subscribers and around 10k views per day. My monthly income breakdown is roughly this:
- Youtube ads $900
- Affiliate links $2500
- Brand deals $3000 (equates to one sponsored video per month)
- Patreon $350&lt;p&gt;Took me around 5 years of posting a video a week to get here. Now I finally make a living. Started working full time about a year ago. Before that 15-20h per week for years. I talked to some other youtubers, and I think my &amp;quot;path&amp;quot; to making a living from youtube, and my income breakdown, is pretty standard.&lt;p&gt;Key takeaway here is that youtube is a looong game. You will be unlikely to succeed unless you love making the videos so much, that you are happy to do it almost for free, consistently, for years. And the money is not in adsense, but in brand deals and affiliate links (which are often part of brand deals).&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s my channel if anyone is curious: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;MicaelWidell&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;MicaelWidell&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?</title><url>https://blog.bassemdy.com/2023/05/06/content-creation/youtube/experience/growth/monetization/income/revenue/how-much-you-really-make-creating-content.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>naavis</author><text>I went to check out your channel just to realize I was already subscribed. Well played!</text><parent_chain><item><author>mwidell</author><text>I run a channel with 85k subscribers and around 10k views per day. My monthly income breakdown is roughly this:
- Youtube ads $900
- Affiliate links $2500
- Brand deals $3000 (equates to one sponsored video per month)
- Patreon $350&lt;p&gt;Took me around 5 years of posting a video a week to get here. Now I finally make a living. Started working full time about a year ago. Before that 15-20h per week for years. I talked to some other youtubers, and I think my &amp;quot;path&amp;quot; to making a living from youtube, and my income breakdown, is pretty standard.&lt;p&gt;Key takeaway here is that youtube is a looong game. You will be unlikely to succeed unless you love making the videos so much, that you are happy to do it almost for free, consistently, for years. And the money is not in adsense, but in brand deals and affiliate links (which are often part of brand deals).&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s my channel if anyone is curious: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;MicaelWidell&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;MicaelWidell&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?</title><url>https://blog.bassemdy.com/2023/05/06/content-creation/youtube/experience/growth/monetization/income/revenue/how-much-you-really-make-creating-content.html</url></story>