As part of my Program Arcade Games web site I have a lot of tutorial videos. I've got about 2,000 subscribers and a half million views total on my video channel. Was that worth any money? Last Christmas I enabled advertising to find out.
The results:
| Start date: | 12/23/2014 |
| End date: | 4/8/2015 |
| Days advertising was active: | 106 |
| Total views: | 81,165 |
| Total earned: | 103.25 |
| Amount earned per day | 0.9741 |
| Amount earned per view | 0.0013 |
You need at least $100 in revenue to get paid. I ended the experiment to see once I got over $100. Quite frankly, $100 doesn't seem worth it to annoy people for 106 days and 81,000 views.
Keep in mind you only get paid if someone clicks on the ad. So a person isn't paid on a per-view basis. The results varied a lot on a per-day basis. This is what the analytics looked like:
