Liking that retro tv stand. I think you posted it awhile back in the buying thread. It's a tuner no? Something like that.
Hahah, that's a horrible screen cap! "Close your eyes and open your mouth..." That's a Pioneer SX-828 under the TV. Receiver/Amp from the 70's. I've had it for about 5 years but just brought it up to CGQ-HQ recently because the receiver that I was using sucks.
"Yes my channel is monetized, but I have actually never linked a bank account to my YouTube deal, meaning that every cent that the channel has ever earned is just sitting in an AdSense account. "
I am curious as to how much is sitting there. Something tells me you never look. Never know. Could be used for some big purches of a game/item you wouldn't normally spend the money on.
I like that your show is just that. Your show. You don't feel the need to pander to a larger general audience to make it more profitable.
Makes me feel a little bad for other youtubers where their show and to a larger extent their personas have to be marketable and profitable.
Well, things have changed a bit since I posted that. It's kind of funny because it seems like YouTube money is this taboo subject that you aren't supposed to talk about, but whatever.
After I posted the SNES launch video, the channel started bringing in a lot more money. That video got a LOT of views, and my "baseline" daly viewership also went up a lot (and therefore so did ad revenue). You're right that I didn't really pay attention to the balance in that account, but when you have a YouTube channel, it displays your estimated revenue for the last 28 days right on the dashboard, so I could see that more money had to be accumulating. I figured it was dumb to leave it in an AdSense account, so I went to the bank and opened up a business checking account and linked it to my AdSense account.
I'm going to talk about it in the next CGQ&A, but I ended up using a pretty big chunk of the money to buy a new camera for shooting the show. I never thought that the channel would make enough money that I would actually be able to reinvest it in the show, so that was pretty exciting. I have also purchased some other things for the show (like games and accessories that I need for upcoming videos). My only personal rule is that the money should just always be used for that, and not for me to just buy stuff for myself because there isn't *that* much. Just enough that if I need something for the show then I can just go ahead and buy it and not worry about it. For example, right now I am shopping around for a new microphone stand. I have spent quite a lot of my personal money on the show over the years, so it's nice to no longer have to do that. I'm only going to bring it up on an episode of CGQ&A because I am honestly really grateful and humbled to be in that position, and just want to say "thanks" to the people who've stuck with the show.
I won't go so far as to say that I feel bad for people who make their living on YouTube, but I am glad that I don't have to. I can just make what I want, when I want and not worry about it. I don't select topics for the show based on what I think will get more clicks, and I don't have to do awkward paid content. People e-mail me wanting to sponsor the show, or to pay me to review their products and I generally don't do it because I don't want to feel like a sell-out. I accept Everdrives from Krikzz because I was already promoting his products when I was buying them with my own money, and I really do think that they're awesome. If someone else that makes stuff that I already use (and therefore think is awesome) wanted to sponsor the show (like Elgato or something), then that would probably be fine. But I get requests from people making homebrew games that look terrible, and there is no way that I am going to tell my audience that they should spend money on something that I wouldn't personally buy.
