How Much Money YouTube Paid Us in 2020

This week on the channel we tell you how much money YouTube paid us in 2020 and explore how AdSense contributes to a creators income.

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We’re Colin and Samir, creators based out of Los Angeles California. We make videos about the creator economy and the lessons we’ve learned over 10 years of being on YouTube. We also interview creators and try and get to the bottom of what’s working on YouTube and where the creator economy is headed. We are currently working on building education with creators, if you want to learn more, sign up for our weekly newsletter. This show is called The Breakdown.

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0:00 Why We're Telling You This
1:16 Why You Should Take AdSense Srsly
2:34 Mr Beast's Money Making Libary
3:14 Our January 2021 Adsense Check
3:26 Samir calls out Cody Ko
3:54 Why YouTube murders Snapchat + TikTok
4:34 How Much We Made in the beginning
5:52 Our 3 Highest Earning Videos in 2020
7:48 Why AdSense is so unpredictable
8:17 How Much YouTube Paid us in 2020
9:26 Is that number good?
11:16 Watch Time is KING
12:47 Did you buy Dogecoin?

[lukes]

Who else is watching 10 years from the upload date and is realizing you are the reason they still make money

[ColinandSamir]

We should hire Graham every time to ask people to like the video...it's really working.

[CharlieChang]

Huge growth, congrats you guys! Super well deserved

[TommoCarroll]

You guys have found your rhythm, and it's so good to see. Stoked to see that gain over 2019 in all of those metrics lads!

[evancbell]

This is the single most underrated channel on YouTube. Also, btw, I would definitely watch a more vlog-like channel from you guys as well.

[adnankutbuddin]

this is such a great channel and the ammount of work they put in is just unseen .i wish more people watched them

[DavidsonHangOfficial]

Love it thank you for your transparency as I’m trying to document my creator journey.

[RyanPineda]

I love what you guys are doing! Congrats

[saadzain]

Ayee, Colin and Samir back strong with the first breakdown of 2021

[AuthenTech]

Great job guys, keep it up. If you did a breakdown per week 📈📈

[davemasek]

You guys got it. Amazed you don't have more subs/views. You're on your way.

[Pabloman]

absolutely fascinated by information like this, i’ve always wondered how much certain youtubers make, and i love that you guys are so open with it, super interesting! keep it up guys !

[Karamintheworld]

You should make a video tour of your analytics tab! Just go one by one and breakdown what each means. Looking at stats is so addicting! Another great video, well done you guys!!

[CaliWave]

cody so passive and humble Samir is the whats good guys lets link make it happen and your vibes together is perfect true synergy brothers

[ajbbeck]

Yoooo what?!?! My comment made the vid! It's so interesting to see how much different channels are making and the breakdown of the revenue.

[StotakkMC]

main and podcast uploads at the same time, nice.

[absportsman]

you guys are upping your game and it's def not going unnoticed - keep it up gents!! love it

[NASJAQ]

do you have an update on how much money the podcast channel is making? I'm debating between making video essays, vlogs, or sticking to podcasting...

[MichaelJaeYT]

"I like to round down...it motivates me"

[ToniandRyan]

"Better is better than more"

Love this but geniune question ... Is it fair to say sometimes you don't know which ones are going to pop and which ones aren't so by doing more it gives you more opportunities for something to get a bit a of traction. Or is the skill in knowing which ones will do well and only doing those ones?