Nikkas are really eating off Youtube

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I remember making this video on GTA, Grove st VS Ballas online.. I had 234,000 views, 100 subscribers.. This was in 09 when I was 15 years old at the time. Didn't know shyt about the whole businesses scheme back then. If I had people to help and explain to me this adverting/copy right shyt, I would've eat. Now my video is averting for free, and I ain't getting pay for noting... :dwillhuh::beli:

Wasn't seriously at the time, and I was only using fraps to record my online game play at the time with a shiity computer. I was using editing software to edit my videos and launch it . Still don't know shyt about the business scheme.



Young yutes making money, and I'm still struggling out here. :mjcry:

This yute name Daw ins just started his own youtube channel, and he's only uploading GOOD highlights/clips on NBA players, and he has over 100,000 subscribers. Just by uploading clips/highlights on nba players. That rasta eating, and it's a good idea.




I fail in life... :mjcry:

20 years old now... :snoop:


Neither of those videos are making any money. Youtube has rules as to what videos can be monetized. You can't upload sports highlights and get paid, that's copyrighted content. Same thing with other artists songs. It has to be your own original content in order for you to monetize. Well actually you can hook up with what's called a "multichannel network" who handle licensing rights with different entities that will allow you to monetize certain content, like video games and whatnot.
 

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Neither of those videos are making any money. Youtube has rules as to what videos can be monetized. You can't upload sports highlights and get paid, that's copyrighted content. Same thing with other artists songs. It has to be your own original content in order for you to monetize. Well actually you can hook up with what's called a "multichannel network" who handle licensing rights with different entities that will allow you to monetize certain content, like video games and whatnot.

Really? :ohhh:

Thanks for clarifying it for me.
 

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Really? :ohhh:

Thanks for clarifying it for me.
yeah read up on MCN's. If you wanted to monetize those GTA videos you would have to had a deal with one of them. The top ones are Machinima and Maker Studios. Maker Studios was founded by youtubers who then sold it to Disney for 500 million and that could go as high as 1 billion. Pewdiepie [the top youtuber] used to be with Machinima and he was in a fukked up contract, signed for life. He somehow got out of it and went to Maker but he's said his deal over there isn't that much better. I only mention this because alot of people like to shyt on rappers for having shytty deals and say it's because they're ignorant nikkas for the hood who don't know any better, when that's far from the truth, shyt like that happens in every industry to everyone from all walks of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_Studios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima_Inc.
 

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I've considered making a news YouTube along the lines of The Young Turks, a little Jon Stewart-ish.

Mainly because we don't get the news presented the way I feel we should, as black people.
I would be interested in this how can I get involved
 

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Michelle Phan, founder of Ipsy, at Code/Mobile

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Michelle Phan: From YouTube Star to $84 Million Startup Founder
October 27, 2014, 3:48 PM PDT

By Nellie Bowles

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ARTICLES

Do not underestimate the YouTube makeup-tutorial starlet.

Do not dismiss her “Barbie Transformation Tutorial”; her “Sailor Moon Transformation,” which includes anime contact lenses; nor her alarming “Zombie Barbie.”

Because Michelle Phan — with more than a billion views on YouTube and seven million followers; her own L’Oreal line; lifestyle media network; booming e-commerce beauty startup called Ipsy; and a new book — is teaching more people how to decorate their faces than perhaps anyone else in the world.

The ferocious 27-year-old mogul had a modest start with her family living on food stamps at one point — and now has a company with an $84 million annual sales run-rate. She has 700,000 subscribers who receive her Glam Bags — little sacks of makeup samples — for $10 a month. The makeup business is famous for its high margins.


Today, Phan took the stage at Code/Mobile in Half Moon Bay, Calif., to talk about transforming YouTube stardom into a real-world empire, a now well-trodden path.

Phan came on dancing in a sleeveless blue top and a white skirt with decorative orcas.

Her interviewer, Re/code‘s Dawn Chmielewski, said they chose electric dance music for her entrance because it seemed appropriate. Pham, shimmying, agreed (she is an EDM fan and is starting her own label after an earlier label partnership soured).

Chmielewski asked how it all began.

“The first videos I uploaded on my own personal channel were videos of dogs,” Phan said.

In 2007, Phan was a waitress and couldn’t even get a job at a beauty counter because she didn’t have the sales experience. She was undeterred.

“YouTube was the biggest thing in the college community, and it just made so much sense for me to have a platform,” she said. And so: “Instead of feeling down about it, I opened another door and that door happened to be a laptop.”

She began doing makeup tutorials. And people loved those makeup tutorials. Eyeliner technique turned into far more sophisticated lessons like how to look like Lady Gaga in Bad Romance.

“I showed people how they can transform their face,” she said. “[Lady Gaga] really helped put me on the map.”

Meanwhile, large makeup brands like Lancome were struggling to get many good viral makeup video hits. In 2008, a Lancome executive Googled around and found a Phan tutorial in which she was cramped up showing her fans how to do makeup on the plane, while on a plane. Lancome signed her as a spokesperson.


Michelle Phan, Ipsy founder and author

Phan says her shaky bedroom videos appealed to people more than big productions because they felt more authentic: “People need to understand that what makes YouTube so different is that you go on there because you want to connect with someone.”

She talked about her main business, the Glam Bags — curated, luxury sample bags sent monthly — and the month long waitlist to get on the subscription.

Phan turned to the audience: “For ten dollars a month, you can still feel like you’re valued and you can get something that empowers you to try something new,” she said.

Asked about the economics of YouTube, Phan said, “It’s like any medium — you have the subscription but that’s not going to make all the money. You have to bring on sponsors and you have to sell a product.”

And not every viral star has to have seven million followers — there’s a healthy YouTube middle class: “So many of my friends have 200,000 subscribers and they make around 5 to 6 K a month,” she said. “Which is completely cool.”

Chmielewski asked how Phan has noticed desktop and mobile patterns change.

“Last year, 60 percent of traffic came from desktop,” she said. “Today 70 percent comes from mobile.”

And then came what could have been a tense moment — Chmielewski asked about the EDM lawsuit. As Phan described it: she was given permission to use EDM music for her makeup tutorials, which was a nice backdrop for her tutorials and nice publicity for the label.

“Until I started making money,” she said. “And they thought their music was what was making me successful.”

Phan launched her own label with Cutting Edge Music.

She took it as an opportunity to declare herself a defender of “team internet,” which seemed to indicate a stance about more progressive copyright laws.

“We’re living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it’s the internet now. It’s hard to say who owns what,” she said, looking out into the audience. “I believe in team internet and I’m here to protect my fellow YouTubers. … I’m here to fight and stand my ground.”

It was a rallying cry.

The conversation segued into Phan’s new premium lifestyle network on Endemol Beyond, in which she will find viral tastemakers in various categories and build them into “power brands” — like herself. (How large can her empire grown? Larger!)

“Imagine a Michelle Phan who cooks or a Michelle Phan video game player,” she said.

Her role will be as experienced mentor: “It’s very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that’s hard.”

Chmielewski thanked her for coming on, and Phan smiled at the audience, her dramatic eyeliner and glossy lipstick showing no sign of wear.
 

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I would be interested in this how can I get involved

Man, I don't even know if I could do it time wise. But I may take a crack at it.

It'd probably take a lot of work as far as making scripts, coming up with the stories to do, etc. That'd be where I would mostly need help with I'm thinking.
 

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Man, I don't even know if I could do it time wise. But I may take a crack at it.

It'd probably take a lot of work as far as making scripts, coming up with the stories to do, etc. That'd be where I would mostly need help with I'm thinking.
Yeah I hear you I have a dream that a bunch of us can come together and create a youtube channel that is what bet use to be not just for the new but a few other shows like music and sports maybe if there is even a way to show reruns of shows like a different world don't know the logistics of doing this though to be honest not a expert but i will be willing to help.
 

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yeah, but it's not the norm. not saying you cant win, but trynna get in the top 100 is a pipe dream at this point.

one thing i do recommend is supporting black youtubers pages. go to their vids, like em, comment, favorite, it helps boost their ratings and earning potential.

you dont need to be top 100 to make $100,000 a year off youtube.. millions, yeah, but you can make $60-80k a year off youtube being a new youtuber
 

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Neither of those videos are making any money. Youtube has rules as to what videos can be monetized. You can't upload sports highlights and get paid, that's copyrighted content. Same thing with other artists songs. It has to be your own original content in order for you to monetize. Well actually you can hook up with what's called a "multichannel network" who handle licensing rights with different entities that will allow you to monetize certain content, like video games and whatnot.

he woulda made money off the GTA video if he monetized it. But back then you had to be partnered to monetize (things have changed now) and if that was his 1st big video then he wouldnt of got partnered
 
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