How Much Money Small Channels Make on YouTube From Ads | Small Game Dev YouTuber Income Revealed

My YouTube channel has been monetized for about 2 months now, and in this video I share how much money my small game dev channel makes from YouTube ads.

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It's been a while since I last made a video about my income, and at the time my YouTube channel wasn't monetized, so I wasn't able to cover that. I love learning how much money other YouTubers make—especially smaller channels to see what's possible, so I figured in this video I would share how much money my small channel makes on YouTube from ads.

There's tons of videos out there of YouTubers sharing their income, but since ad revenue can vary so wildly from niche to niche, it's not super "applicable" information unless your channel is in the same niche as the creator you're watching. The only other game dev YouTuber who shared his ad revenue seems to be Blackthornprod (that's based on titles in search—his video's was the only one mentioning YouTube revenue), so I figured I'll add to that.

I know a lot of people would love to make a bunch of money through YouTube ads, and although it's perfectly possible, I think it's more difficult in the game dev & tech niches than elsewhere. I've noticed that comparatively few of my views are being monetized, and this seems to be the case for Blackthornprod as well. My best guess as to why this might be is that people who subscribe to game dev channels are quite likely to be more technologically savvy than the average YouTube viewer, and so many of you have ad blockers installed.

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[tomweiland]

Do you make videos? What niche are you in? If you're monetized, how do your views compare to your monetized playbacks? Let me know 👇

[michaelzhao]

Thanks for being so transparent! When you get to 100k subs, don’t stop making these type of videos pls! 😍 These kinda videos are so inspiring for small youtubers like me who also post devlogs

[DanielLochner]

Really informative video Tom! Thanks for sharing! Also, I’m pretty sure you’re spot on when you spoke about niche tech-related channels seeing a higher number of adblock users... I’m seeing the same with my monetized playbacks as well... 😂😅

[dmtuan]

Youtube spitted out this video on me after me watching your latest Unity multiplayer Riptide series. It's wonderful to see your channel grow. And I hope things are just gonna keep getting better and better! Best of luck, Tom!

[BigToeDev]

This is really inspiring man! I'm really close to getting monetized so this helped a lot :D

Keep up the great work, you're so close to 10k!

[xzippyzachx]

Very interesting. I personally didn't know much about the monetization of YouTube before this. I am just making videos for fun currently anyway. But maybe some day I will get monetized and now I know a bit more about how it works! Thanks Tom!

[antounkassouf]

I personally don't skip ads on your channel, since you don't add 1000 midroll ads in a 10 min vid, nor do you stretch your vids. You're a very respectable YouTuber. And BTW your so close to 6k

[SM-zrjc]

Great video! Super transparent, and very inspiring.

[TonsOfHunStudios]

Nice breakdown! It's cool to see the metrics and what each term actually means. I didn't know about the different ad types and when you get paid. Thanks for sharing Tom!


And I don't use ad block I promise :D

[developerjustin]

Just for you, I watched the ad at the end.

[eugene-d]

Very well laid out the structure of money involved. And a lot of useful info in general.
Thanks!

[rafante]

Very honest, sincere, humble and intersting. Liked it. And I don't have adblocker. Although I think you should try to attract other kinds of public: the gamers themselves. Maybe with a special playlist to make them want to play your game instead of just luearning from you. Don't get me wrong, the videos of you teaching how to do such hard tasks help me a lot and it's hard to find goog content just like yours, but you have bills to pay and you will need money eventually.

[blumedia_marketing]

Nice! Just want to show your page some love and support! 😀

[arin_faraj]

I've been using ad guard but replaced it with AdBlock to be able to whitelist certain channels on youtube for the sake of this video
it's a cool thing also love ur content

[KalechippsDev]

This video inspired me to turn off my adblocker on Youtube, lol. How am I going to run a channel and want to make money off of it without supporting the channels I'm watching? I didn't know about the crappy monetized view ratio for game dev content :(

[anonymouscommentator]

Improved lighting, great editing and amazing content, keep it up!

[Deniz]

Don't worry about money.
You do what most ppl don't do
You actually use ur smart brain + ur active and ur staying focused.
Ur future will be awesome ☺️

[MariJadeWrites]

I am a small YouTuber, not yet monetized. I am making art speedpaints :) thank you for sharing this information!

[hayjaydee]

Comment for the Youtube algorithm. Hope you will get more money soon 💰💰💵💵💵💵

[Tornadoally]

I turned off my adblocker for your videos, may not be much, but hopefully you get the extra money!!