HOW much do I earn for 1 MILLION views in Taiwan?

How much money do I earn from 1 million views on my channel? That's what we're going to be answering today. So welcome back to the channel, everybody. My name is Alan. This is my life in Taiwan. And I am so happy that you have chosen to click on this video and spend a few minutes of your day here with me. Anyway, yes, YouTube, money, YouTubers, Lamborghinis, Ferraris. We've all seen how rich and successful YouTubers can be. What's up, guys? We have tons of money right here, like $20,000. So when a recent video of mine hit a million views, I can't believe I'm saying it, a million view video. How much money did I make? And of course, as well as explaining that to you today, I'm also going to be taking you through some of my YouTube analytics, letting you see behind the curtain a little bit as to how YouTube actually works, how they pay me, where my money comes from, and some other interesting things that you may not be aware of. First thing I need to do is pull myself all the way down here into the corner, and you'll see behind me my computer home screen, which is where we're going to open up the internet, go to YouTube, where you'll see a relatively familiar-looking homepage, something similar to what you have. If I click up here in the corner and go to this menu item, YouTube Studio, it's going to bring us to my information page, what's known as my channel dashboard. And on the dashboard, we have some pretty general figures. My current subscriber number, which is 170,000, thanks to all of you who have subscribed. My views for the past month, which is 644,000, pretty good for me. And then my watch time, which means how long people have actually been watching my videos. Let's get into some of the figures. Here you can see my latest video performance, which was the Holmes Taiwan vs. UK. And YouTube actually gave me a really interesting or useful menu, which gives me my top 10 performing videos over the same time frame that that video has been released. So I released that video six days, 17 hours ago, and at the moment, it's sitting in third place. And 81.7K views is pretty good. Thanks to everyone for watching that. I think that's everything I wanted to show you on the dashboard, because what I really want to get into is my audience. You guys, I want to share with you who you are, what kind of people are watching my videos. So we'll take a quick look at this. First of all, this is something I need to discuss with you guys. My watch time from subscribers. Only 18% of the people watching these videos are actually subscribed to the channel. 82% are not subscribed. I don't know what's going on. Why haven't you subscribed? All you need to do is click that subscribe button, and you're part of the team VVVIP. It doesn't cost you anything. It's not a magazine subscription. So what I'd really like to see is this 18% overtaking this 81%. So at least more than half of my viewers are actually subscribed to the channel. So I'm asking you nicely, please subscribe to my channel. It would be really nice if I can boost that subscriber number up and up. Now, let's look at the typical person that watches my video. 24% of my viewers are female. I would love to see more of a balance on my channel, more females, just because it would mean that I'm making videos that appeals to more people. Now, let's take a look at the age of my viewers. 13 to 17 years old, 0.5%. I don't think I'm your typical teenager's content creator, but the large majority of my viewership is right here in these three categories. 25 to 54 years old. And then here on the right hand side, you can see the top countries that are watching my videos. Of course, my videos are very Taiwan centric. So 90% of my viewers over the last 28 days have been from Taiwan. So what does this tell me about my viewers? The average viewer on my channel is male. 35 to 44 years old. And Taiwanese, the Taiwanese version of me. Middle-aged man looking for some kind of interesting content on YouTube. But that's not what we're here to see. We are here to take a look at how much money a 1 million view video makes us. So what we need to do is organize them by views. Here you go. Here you can see my top four or five most popular watched videos. Number one of which is Taiwan safe with 1.1 million views. Let's take a quick look at the revenue. Okay, I just remembered something I wanted to show you. CPM. Cost Per Millet. Which means for every 1,000 views, how much money did I make? Now, this is a very important factor when it comes to making videos and earning money from it. Because not every YouTuber has the same CPM. According to the country in which people watch. So here you can see for Taiwan views, for every 1,000 views I get, I will earn $2.61 US. If we take a look at the US, it's $4.47. And the reason that it's different for every country is because how much we get paid all depends on how much an advertiser will pay to have their video shown. If Coca-Cola want to advertise on YouTube, they will bid. They will use an auction system. And they will say, okay, for every 1,000 views, we will pay $5 US. If Pepsi come along and they say we want to pay $5.10, then YouTube will show Pepsi's ads and charge them $5.01. They just go above the minimum, the maximum price that Coca-Cola were prepared to pay. So what that means is that advertisers that want an American audience will pay much more. In Taiwan, I feel like that advertisers are not yet fully trusting YouTube as an advertising media. Okay, so back to Is Taiwan Safe? Revenue for the past 28 days, $4.72. Now what we're going to do is take a look at lifetime revenue. Since I uploaded this video, how much has it earned? 806 US dollars. Not bad, right? What does that mean for my channel? Does that mean I'm super rich? Well, no, basically not. My channel itself has 9.8 million views. So about 10 times of this video. So you can kind of get a good idea as over the past three years, how much money I've actually made. And one more thing I should have mentioned that I didn't really mention yet. This video with a million views is 9 minutes, 19 seconds long. I made this about a year after I started making videos. And even after a year, I didn't even know that if your video is 10 minutes or longer, you can put more ads in the middle, maybe make a little bit of extra money. But basically, unless you're making 2, 3, 4, 5 million views a month, then YouTube is by no means a lucrative career. I think a lot of YouTubers in Taiwan are a little bit sensitive about talking about this kind of thing, because maybe they worry that Taiwanese people will judge them or think we're only doing it for the money. I'm 100% not in this just for the money. My dad always told me, if you can find something that you love to do, and it provides you some money, then you found the perfect thing. And I really think that that's what YouTube is for me. I absolutely love this journey that I'm on and sharing my life with you guys. Maybe sometimes I share a little bit too much or not enough. It's always difficult getting that balance right. But I've definitely enjoyed making this video. I hope it doesn't upset any people that I'm actually telling you that I make some money from this. Everybody on YouTube is doing the same thing, whether it's $10 or a million dollars. It's nice to be rewarded for your hard work. And I really think that you or the 90% of you, those Taiwanese people, I think you can appreciate that sometimes hard work does deserve a little bit of financial reward, especially those of you who have kids such as myself. Food on the table and shoes and school uniforms don't come cheap. So this is just helping me to provide for William. And I'm sure most of you will appreciate that. But if you don't, if you think I'm a mercenary here to out to steal money and take advantage of people, then I'd love to get your opinion in the comment section too. Thanks so much to you guys for watching. It's been really good sharing with you. Yeah, stay safe. Look after each other. Stay home. Don't go out. Wear a mask. I've kind of changed my opinion on that. But that's a video that's coming in the future. Anything else I want to say? William, I love you, big boy. Hopefully this money will buy you some new Lego or something. Now I'm waffling. This is what happens when I don't have a script. I just talk crap. So yeah. Comments down below. Subscribe. Bye bye.