How much does YouTube pay per thousand views?

It is the dream of many young people: upload content a YouTube and make money doing it. Of course, this goal that seems so easy to achieve is actually a real challenge.

First of all, because of the huge number of content creators who have been uploading videos to the platform for years. To make money, you will have to stand out among many of them, which requires a great deal of creativity and ingenuity.

Beginners, meanwhile, have hundreds of websites full of tips to help them stand out in this ocean of videos and in their own lives. YouTube There are plenty of “courses” for to be able to monetize the contents.

The first step, then, is to know How much does YouTube pay for every 1,000 views?one of the requirements to receive a few dollars a month.

YouTube reports that “there are many formats available to create content on YouTube, such as Shorts, live streams, and long-form videos.”

He adds that “the Partner Program (YouTube Partners Program or YPP) allows eligible creators to generate income in different ways and also gives them access to resources, such as Personalized assistance and Copyright Match Tool”.

Of course, uploading a video and getting a few dozen views is not enough to enter the YPP. YouTube explains that “your channel must be in compliance, you must follow all the platform’s monetization policies and live in a country or region where the Program is available”.

Creators living in these countries can apply to the Program and access its benefits. To participate in the distribution of advertising revenue and YouTube Premium the channel must “have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million valid public Shorts views in the last 90 days.”

The company clarifies that “all creators will go through a standard review process after applying to ensure that channels comply with our policies and guidelines.”

The metric that should interest YouTubers the most is RPM (Revenue per Mille)which indicates the amount of money a creator earns for every 1,000 views of their videos. RPM is a form of measure the total revenue generated by a channel: Ads, memberships, Super Chats, Super Stickers, and YouTube Premium.

In the meantime, CPM (Cost per Mille) It only measures the revenue generated by ads that appear at the beginning or in the middle of videos. When a user views an ad, the YouTuber receives a small portion of the money paid by the advertiser.

In Argentina according to Cloud StoreYouTube paga around US$ 0.77 for 1000 views of an ad placed on the channel (i.e. by CPM). It should be noted that the platform keeps 45% of the income as a commission and gives the creators the remaining 55%.

Those who already have a channel and want to calculate how much they will earn can turn to online statistics tools such as SocialBlade.