How much is 1 view worth on YouTube?

Nida Imran
ILLUMINATION
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2 min readDec 20, 2020

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HOW MUCH A SINGLE VIEW IS WORTH TO A CREATOR ON YOUTUBE?

In this topic, most people get it wrong or have no idea what they are talking about which is why we are talking about it.

Yes, YouTubers do in fact get paid from their YouTube channel. However, it is extremely hard to do because you need to pull in a decent amount of monthly views on your channel. The question is how many views, how many likes, how many subscribers, and how many comments? Well, contrary to popular belief subscribers mean almost nothing when it comes to getting paid for YouTube. It’s all about the views which hopefully all of you know since that is why you are reading this.

So YouTubers get paid from numerous revenue sources. However, I am going to be talking about ad revenue today, not YouTube ad revenue donations, sponsorships, merch sales, etc. Just how much money does a single view generate for YouTubers when someone watches an ad on their video? Now people always break it down by how much a YouTuber makes per 1000 views but no, I am doing it by a single view today because it makes much more of an impact on us.

I have done a case study where I took monthly add revenue from 3 different YouTube channels and divided it by the amount of monetized playbacks, so basically by the number of ads that were played that month. I then took this information from these 3 channels and averaged them together. So again, while this number I am about to give you isn't 100% accurate for every single channel in YouTube, it’s pretty dang close to what most YouTubers are making.

ALRIGHT,…….

DRUM ROLL………………………….

On average when a viewer watches an ad on YouTube that specific YouTube content creator of that video makes a whopping

= $0.0029

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Nida Imran
ILLUMINATION

I am a women who lives in a small town with the mind full of creativity and happiness, who is healthy and loving.