When do i tell

[beach_boy98]

So my sister and i have a small ish youtube channel with 100 subs and we get on average of 100 views per video. (not telling you guys the name because you will harasser her and see my face,) I run the business side of it and we recently made the decision to become YouTube partners that comes with the benefit of the monetization and scheduling videos. Many of the subs are wondering how we get ads before our videos due to the fact they try to make youtube videos because they are my sisters friends.and stuff. So long we have being playing the "it is on random" card. The audience is mainly 11 year olds who don't understand this kind of thing. Any opinions on what we tell the audience about the adds and monetization; 

 

 

Beach :-)

[Mug]

Well, I wouldn't have ads on your videos unless you are going to make more than £10/mo because it'll help your channel grow.

 

If you're going to though and you've decided, just don't tell them. What does it matter to them if they have to watch a 5 second snippet before they watch you?

[FatPenguin]

just be strait forward and tell them.

[minibois]

wha?

let them Google it themself?

[Crowes]

YouTube money is worth peanuts until you have plenty of subcribers and viewers. I see so many people who put ads on straight away having your viewerbase, and it puts me off, because I know why you're putting ads on.

 

Truthfully, I obviously know why people do YouTube at times: it's a get-rich-quick kind of thing that started by people at the very top of that "Top YouTubers list". But so many people realise the actual time and effort they're going to have to put in before they make one of those "peanuts", and cop out. Why do I know this? Because I was one of those people at one point. Maybe one day, when my PC rig is so overkill that I can do whatever I like, I'll do it as a part-time part-time thing, if you get my meaning.

 

What I'm trying to say is, if you are going to be able to last until you actually will make a decent amount of money, remove those ads. You have to give your viewers faith that you will still provide content for them, and that there's a reason for you to subscribe to them.

 

As an example, there's two YouTubers I like to watch: Unbox Therapy and TheRadBrad - they're both two different channels, but one does something right that another does wrong. Unbox Therapy has joined up on Vessel (nothing wrong with that) and barely puts up videos, and when he does, they're really not worth time that some YouTube vidoes deserve because of the amount of effort put into them, and therefore I unsubscribed to him - I feel like he's just making the sidebuck from me watching ads on his channel. TheRadBrad isn't on Vessel, and puts up video every day (and if he doesn't one day, he'll make up for it) - sure, he's a "Let's Play" content producer, but I have faith that he will play through a game as if I were playing it too, making his content interesting; but more importantly, I stay subscribed to him because I know he will keep putting up videos and will thank me (obsessively?) for doing watching them. He sounds like he enjoys what he's doing, he regularly mentions that he imagines himself as a dad playing games for us viewers - that's the faith that I mention. For all I know, maybe I'll be watching him on the bus to work when I'm a father too, and when I can't or don't have time to play these games myself.

[beach_boy98]

-SNIP

I hear you man. We aren't trying to break our relationships with the audience but the only reason we are havining ads is not for the monetization but the scheduling that allows us to produce a video everyday without being there to press upload. We know we aren't getting rich but we want a platform to do what we want and for me that is management and video editing. As for Unbox therapy that is another matter.

[Blebekblebek]

ads before video isn't that thing is normal for any video?

even my own video has an ads without monetization

[Goussy]

So my sister and i have a small ish youtube channel with 100 subs and we get on average of 100 views per video. (not telling you guys the name because you will harasser her and see my face,) I run the business side of it and we recently made the decision to become YouTube partners that comes with the benefit of the monetization and scheduling videos. Many of the subs are wondering how we get ads before our videos due to the fact they try to make youtube videos because they are my sisters friends.and stuff. So long we have being playing the "it is on random" card. The audience is mainly 11 year olds who don't understand this kind of thing. Any opinions on what we tell the audience about the adds and monetization; 

 

 

Beach :-)

11 Year olds have not install ad block yet.  :lol:

[Sam Z Man]

Just keep saying it's random most of the subs will be to stupid to know.