Some YouTube Stars Make Over $100k

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August 21, 2010 by Dane Carlson | 0 Comments

Yahoo Finance:

There are 10 independent YouTube stars who made over $100,000 in the past year, according to a study done by analytics and advertising company TubeMogul.

From July 2009 to July 2010, TubeMogul used their viewership data to estimate the annual income for independent YouTube partners, which they define as anyone who is not part of a media company or brand.

Here’s how they got their estimates:

Revenue only comes from banner ads served near content (we ignored pre-roll or overlay since we can’t easily isolate by publisher).

Since YouTube banner ads have a two-second load delay, we estimate 2.59% of viewers click away before an ad loads based on separate research.

Ads were served near all videos that loaded (since there are partners, this is generally true).

CPM for the banner ads was $1.50 (Google auctions a lot of this inventory off; we rounded this 2009 estimate down to be conservative).

YouTube is splitting ad revenue with partners 50-50.