How Many Subscriber Do You Need Before You Can....

TheKirkyLife said:
Everything above pretty much nails it. All about the views, not the subscribers.
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Everyone is right, of course, but consider this. There is no way to predict how the algorithms will change and no way to know that you will continue to get those views from suggested video sources. That being said, in order to really determine whether you can do this for a living, subscribers isn't necessarily a bad indicator. E.g. On this channel I was getting 150k views/day in 2011 and making a boatload of money (my RPM was ridiculous somehow). That lasted 6 months and then YT decided to make a big algorithm change and pulled the rug out from under me, cutting my views/day by 2/3. On the other hand, if a guy has 500k subs and gets a guaranteed 100k views/per video within a couple days or even a week, that is something that, unless he drastically changes his content, will be a consistent number that he can count on when determining whether he can live off of his channel.

To put it another way, a channel with 1 million subscribers that gets 100k views on the first day of any video it puts out (from subscribers) is worth more to me than a channel that gets 100k views/day that come from the suggested video traffic source. One is just more of a sure bet than another.

If OP said "I get 300k views/day" and we told him to quit his job, and YT changed their algorithm and suddenly he was only getting 150k views/day, we wouldn't feel so good about that.[DOUBLEPOST=1448097674,1448097340][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, it's really hard to predict how the advertiser market is going to go on Youtube. For me, across all my channels, it's gradually been decreasing. I.e. At this time last year my RPM was higher, same thing from last year to the year before.
 
$1 per 1000 views? Well I don't get that so now I'm sad. (I'm joking, I'm fine) anyway, like everyone else has said it varies, particularly when you're not actually allowed to talk about numbers and whatnot. I guess you'll know when and if you get there :D
 
Well alot of people can be doing full time some have 4 million subs some have 100,000 subs but it does have some to do with their view count and how many people watch not just subscribe. Although there is no mark I would think probably around 20,000 - 50,000 subs you could start actually doing youtube full time and make decent money if you have loyal subscribers, but if you want the big bucks I would say 600,000 to 8 million you could start getting really good money and that's also if you have loyal subs and viewers.
 
I still have yet to see any money generated by my channel so I am just going to assume it will always be a costly hobby.
 
Right now I get about 450k views a month. I work a good job for a financial institution, 30 hours a week. If I could get up to a 1million views a month and get the CPM I'm getting now It would be comparable to my job. If I get to 2m views a month, I'll probably leave my job and focus strictly on YouTube.
 
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