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According to the website myu2b.com , it looks like Ray William Johnson could be making as much as $2,000 each day from his Youtube channel. Really? 2K per day? Actually the numbers used to calculate what Ray "potentially" makes each day are imprecise. Don't get me wrong, Ray is probably making a great living these days through his main channel, but is he really making as much as $730,000 a year ($2,000 x 365 days equals 730K) just by posting videos onto Youtube? I don't know. Ray knows, and Youtube probably knows, and Ray's accountant and the taxman, too I guess. But how does the website myu2b.com come up with that figure? According to the website and what I've read elsewhere, the figure is based pretty much entirely on 2 factors - traffic to his channel and an average clickthrough rate on the ads. That is where the fuzzy math comes in. The daily traffic (views) is a relatively precise measurement, but the imprecision is the clickthrough rate. Anyone wh...

One of the channels that I have been following recently is the Partners Project with Shira Lazar. She interviews some of the top Youtube Partners and gets some of their back stories and how they became top performers of the Youtube and online community. In this recent video, Shira talks with Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks which is the biggest online news program in the world. I am personally subscribed to The Young Turks who cover everything from politics to sports to the latest in the entertainment world. Their political news is the channel's bread and butter, told with a refreshing honesty. They will not shy away from pointing out the hypocrisy and downright lies that those in the world of politics will try to foist upon an unsuspecting public. But they also are willing to discuss the funny and absurd stories that bubble up on the Internet. You can follow both the Partners Project and The Young Turks on Youtube by subscribing at the links above. You can also follow The You...

I don't know if this guy is deliberating copying Ray William Johnson's format or not (probably is my guess) but if you watch this following video from the Russian language channel called Adam Thomas Moran I think you can see a bit of similarity to Ray's Equals 3: With the quick cuts and the the host jumping around the screen intermixed with video clips, um, yeah. The video is entirely a RWJ clone with a Russian twist. If you look at the channel details, he lists Ray as his influence. And more importantly, he's getting subs, 69,787 to date, which makes him the most subscribed youtuber in Russia. And he's starting to get massive views: more than a million on the video he uploaded 3 days ago and over 2 million from the one posted on Youtube a week ago. He joined Youtube at the end of July 2010 and for the 21 videos he's uploaded he has over 25 million views. Makes me wish I knew how to speak Russian and had thought of copying Ray first. Next step is to get ...

She was one of the first youtubers I personally subscribed to when I joined YouTube and she's still one of my favorites. She's the one and only iJustine and she has hit another milestone, getting her 900,000th YouTube subscriber on her main channel. What should she do when she hits the one million mark? To celebrate, IJ is giving away a free ipad to one of her Facebook friends, and all you have to do to win the ipad is go to her Facebook.com/ijustine page and click like and she will randomly draw the name of one of the 305,000 people who like IJ. My name is on that list some where, but I never win at these things so I won't hold my breath. iJustine In Fast Company Magazine She also mentions that she and another youtuber that I am subscribed to, Mysteryguitarman , are featured in Fast Company magazine in an article called The New Faces of Social Media which you might want to pick up. iJustine Juggles? Since When? It looks like IJ has secret talents she hasn...

This is kinda sad. Ann Spade got dropped from her YouTube partnership for invalid clicking of the ads on her channel. She was searching for computer stuff and only found it on her YouTube channel and clicked it. Now it looks like Google dropped her. That is a big no-no. This is one of those stories you hate to hear about. Ann seems like a really nice person and I've enjoyed her videos to date and I hope this doesn't stop her from continuing to upload because she is talented and just an interesting person. But, I know that you do not want to be clicking on your own ads because there is the possiblity of Google discovering this activity and it has happened to others in the past outside of Youtube - this is the most prominent youtuber I've run across who has lost their account. So take this as a word of warning - you will lose your Google privileges if you violate the terms and conditions of your agreement.

There's an article out stating that in all likelihood, at least 10 youtubers are raking in a minimum of $100,000 a year. Sounds sweet right? Below is the list of 10 YouTube Stars and their estimated yearly income from being in the YouTube Partnership Program. 10. Natalie Tran - communitychannel - $101,000 9. The Young Turks – The Young Turks - $112,000 8. Smosh – smosh - $113,000 7. Mediocre Films – MediocreFilms - $116,000 6. Shay Carl – Shaytards - $140,000 5. Fred – Fred - $146,000 4. Ryan Higa – nigahiga - $151,000 3. Philip DeFranco – sxephil - $181,000 2. The Annoying Orange – realannoyingorange - $288,000 1. Shane Dawson – shanedawsontv - $315,000 Now I just watched Phil DeFranco's latest Vloggity and he thinks there are several holes in the article. Like the fact that Ray William Johnson isn't even on the list. Ray's show, equals 3 gets about 25 million views a month and he's been getting new subscribers at an almost unbeliev...

I always like seeing when someone at YouTube makes partner and one of my youtuber friends just did that a few days ago. His name is youtube.com/adrod (that's as in A for Aaron, D for Dominic and ROD for Rodriguez, not ad-rod or A-drod - it's A-D-Rod!). He's been uploading videos for about 8 months or so and has about 30 posted to date. He has 5,471 subs because he posts interesting creative videos. Yes, he's a weird little dude, but I'm sure he would be the first to tell you that, but aren't we all a little weird after all? So all you other weird little dudes and dudettes, keep posting videos and commenting and maybe you'll become a YouTube Partner too. Or not. Keep making interesting videos because that's what I like to see and I'm sure that's what others want to see too. The video below is adrod announcing he had hit 5,000 subscribers. And don't forget that I do review the channels of those who subscribe and become my YouTube fri...

I always find it interesting when I see someone on YouTube make it into the partnership program. What that means is that the youtuber can submit their videos for revenue-sharing. Some youtubers don't bother to let their viewers know about getting into the program and I just stumbled across UnOriginalTV aka Corey Roehl while stalking another youtuber. According to Corey's channel, he has 3,083 subs (3,084 counting me) and 32K channel views. That's pretty good considering he has only uploaded 27 videos to Youtube since December 28th, 2009. He hasn't had a ga-zillion hits on any of his videos, but considently gets 2,000 to as much as 7-8,000 views, which is none-too-shaby. This is good news for those interested in becoming a Youtube partner. You don't have to get numbers like Shane Dawson or iJustine to make a little coin. The main thing though is that you need to have fun uploading videos and it seems to me that Corey does just that. I've only had a chance to...