How YouTube and Twitch Streamers Actually Make Money

Entertainers at the forefront of new media are making a living on Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. On this episode of Good Money, we examine what it takes, and find out it's not all fun and games.

Featuring:

Austin John, @AustinJohnPlays
James Byrne, @PotatoMcWhiskey
Alex Semantelli, @MrLlamaSC
Ian King, @BloombergTechnology

#GoodMoney #PersonalFinance #Streaming

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[AlexpxThreeTen]

I doubled my viewership in five months. Still at zero.

[holofanlee]

While it is a way to make money it isn't highly reliable and the market is tough.

[nuitNo.]

0:31 Gotta appreciate the lorem ipsum.

[jurgenjurgen]

Ok cool, but where are the graphs and pie charts? 🤔

[Xergecuz]

I'm not buying gamer boomer bath water from that guy.

[JogBird]

maybe 0.01% actually make enough to a make it worthwhile

[JJs_playground]

All these years my parents and teachers told me that playing video games would get me nowhere.

[hellopeople]

Finally the start of a new series that revolves around the unique ways people make a living, keep them coming I'm always interested on how people around the world makes a buck.:)

[dylanakent]

Do a video about signing with those MCN/MCM? agencies, what they do, what kind of contracts they offer and who has survived after a few years and who got screwed and why. That's your actual story.

[schumachersbatman]

I'm passionate about Diablo 2 too! Definitely subscribing.

[QueenetBowie]

This video actually had a lot of interesting info in it, it’s hard to find sources on how much streamers actually make so it’s cool to hear him actually break down the numbers

[williamsmith]

Quicktake, you guys put out great content, thank you!

[Arthur_Kizito]

37 million channels on YT as of 1 Dec 2020 not 100s of millions

[shaanchutoori]

basically grown up man plays video game for money and sells our attention in terms of Ads ?
gottcha

[bestlofibeatstochill]

This video makes me so joyful i feel like I am flying in a spaceship going to the moon

[VernonDaCosta]

That final product placement shot was a nice touch.

[ShaveThis]

2000 views in 2 days. Bloomberg has alot of followers but almost none of them are watching this one.

[elyas]

So likes & subscriptions don't make any money directly?

[MarioMadness]

Subscriptions, bits, ad's, monetized YT videos... and not everyone will make money streaming !! if you only have 10-15 people and nobody donating or subbing then you make a profit of 0$....

[Omilliyo]

If you won't do it if i didn't make money, then don't bother doing it for the money because it's not worth the burden if you are not passionate