Best time to monetize?

[Shakycow]

Youtubers who are too small to ever see a paycheck are also too small to significantly influence the price of adverts.

If it were just one or two channels, you'd be right- but when that number is in the millions, it's a whole different story.

If you do as @Shakycow says you will potentially be throwing away hunderds of dollars. For instance, I am not at the level shakycow suggested, and won't be soon, yet I have already received two paychecks.

Your channel has also been around for 10 years...far longer than most are willing to wait for $200 and, with CMP having dropped over the past few years, I'd wager it'd now take far longer to earn that much again.

There is also the argument of how many views have you lost over the years from people clicking away after seeing an ad? ...and, if any have, how much higher up in the rankings would you otherwise be and how many more possible views could you now be getting?


As I said, I understand my view isn't the popular one- but then I also feel that anyone who is serious about YouTube wouldn't be happy with a couple hundred dollars for 10 years of work. At that level I'd also rather more people worldwide watching my work and growing a channel than risk possibly alienating them.

 

[Kelkschiz]

If it were just one or two channels, you'd be right- but when that number is in the millions, it's a whole different story.

Your channel has also been around for 10 years...far longer than most are willing to wait for $200 and, with CMP having dropped over the past few years, I'd wager it'd now take far longer to earn that much again.

There is also the argument of how many views have you lost over the years from people clicking away after seeing an ad? ...and, if any have, how much higher up in the rankings would you otherwise be and how many more possible views could you now be getting?

As I said, I understand my view isn't the popular one- but then I also feel that anyone who is serious about YouTube wouldn't be happy with a couple hundred dollars for 10 years of work. At that level I'd also rather more people worldwide watching my work and growing a channel than risk possibly alienating them.

You make some pretty hasty assumption. Please let me inform you a little. It is true that I created my account back in 2006. But it wasn't a channel back then. If you look at my channel you will see that I uploaded my first video in 2014. And that is not when I turned on monetization either. I turned that on around 2015 when my channel was picking up some steam. So not 10 years, but a little more than one year. Also I have been growing pretty strongly ever since I turned on monetization. Personally I don't believe people will turn away from good content just because the channel has adverts. Most people are pretty used to seeing adverts everywhere.

 

[Shakycow]

...I uploaded my first video in 2014. And that is not when I turned on monetization either. I turned that on around 2015 when my channel was picking up some steam.

Thanks for correcting me- and for showing that you also followed my initial suggestion to activate monetization when you could earn a check within a few months.

Considering that's what you did, I'm curious as to why you're arguing against it...when you simply could have said that my monthly 25k views was a tad high and that you did it when you were closer to 10k.

 

[Fuhn Tyme MC]

Agreed with many of the people here, you want to monetize immediately. Why build an audience that's intolerant of ads? You want to build an audience that tolerates ads.

Yes, that's true because any kind of a huge change like that will turn ppl away since that isn't how you started your channel

 

[Xynudu]

Makes no difference.

If your content is good, people will watch it.

May as well be monetised as not, otherwise you lose, lose, lose.

Plus it's nice to see the cents add up.

 

[MargaretsJourney]

I looked into it yesterday with AdSence and the fact is that if you don't reach the amount to be paid, your amount of money will be carried over to the next month until you will have enough to get paid. So you're not really missing out on anything, it will just pile up till you have enough. I don't see ads as a problem. They are just there, whatever video I'm watching, so it doesn't make a difference to me.