what's up guys today we're going to talk about how much money i've made as a tiktok creator
with over 200 000 followers millions of views and i've been part of the creator program since
essentially day one and we're going to compare that to how much i make as a youtube creator
with just 5 000 followers average video gets around a thousand views and i've been a part
of it for just a month now literally just almost exactly a month so i got started on tiktok in
june of 2020 it's been essentially one year since i've been on tiktok i started with 30 followers
i didn't have any sort of massive social media following anywhere else just something i started
posting videos on it i had a friend named caleb he had gotten 5 000 followers on tiktok and
it blew my mind i thought at the time i was like caleb's famous you have 5 000 followers you really
encouraged me that i should be getting on tiktok and posting videos as well so i was like well
i got nothing else to do so i started posting videos on t i post videos every single
day it's just talking about like different random business things i was doing different
business tools i'd found pretty soon within like even just like that first month i started to get
some progress they started to take off and my tick tock account just slowly grew and grew and grew
where after the first month i think i was at like 5 000 followers myself for maybe maybe even 10 000 tiktok
followers i don't remember exactly and after that second month i was around 20 000 followers which
blew my mind like i never had anything like that happen to me before so by the time august rolled
around which is about when the creator program started i was already at around 40 000 followers
in august and that's also when i launched the one to one million projects so 40 40 000 followers
i launched one to one million project creator fund comes out i'm like stoked because i'm like
i'm gonna be making some money from these videos like this is gonna be this is gonna be
this is gonna be beautiful creative program launched and i'm making like 10 to 15 cents a day
it was a dismal dismal results not at all what i was expecting but at the same time it's kind of
hard to complain because before that i was making content and wasn't even getting paid so now i was
at least getting paid something which was kind of cool um but it wasn't what i was expecting i
heard about people on youtube and they're making millions of dollars a month making youtube videos
and like i had 40 000 followers i was like this is kind of a lot to me it was a lot i thought
i should be making more than 15 cents a day especially because i was getting a lot of views
that it's not like i would you know had 40 000 followers but my account was dead i was getting
a lot of views i was had videos that were going over a million views i had videos that were going
over 500 000 views so my account was very active i was getting a ton of traffic it just wasn't making
very much money and because it was so little amount of money i don't even know how to speak
in english right now because i wasn't making that much money i never touched it i never like
took the money out and decided to use it because which just was nothing i'm not gonna take like
five bucks out of my tiktok and start going crazy so i i've never touched it to this day
to this day i've never taken money out of my take down account i've just left it in there
so i have the full amount still sitting in there so the first day i started getting paid was
august 18th 2020. i've never taken out or touched my account since then got millions of views since
then and i've grown from 40 000 followers to 217 000 followers and i've made total 426
and 84 cents that is how much i've made total lifetime from tiktok millions of views
okay now let's compare that to what i've made on youtube i didn't really start getting serious
about youtube till probably this year around march march 1st i was like i'm going to start going
hardcore on youtube and just making great content
and to see what happens because i there's like a little thing on your screen that's like a
what am i trying to say there's like a there's like a little gas meter that shows how many hours
you got to get until you can unlock the creator program and start monetizing your videos and i was
getting pretty close and i was like i'm gonna i'm gonna push it the rest of the way i'm gonna unlock
monetization see what happens maybe my channel will grow faster once i can monetize my videos
i started going hard started doing two videos a week finally unlocked monetization i was like yes
monetization unlocked the first day i had monetization unlocked i made nine dollars
and i remember that blew my mind because i was like i i'm getting literally i don't know like
a thousand views a day now i'm making nine dollars for that thousand views which is crazy because if
i was getting paid nine dollars per thousand views on tiktok i'd make over ten thousand dollars a
month on tiktok which would be amazingly better than forty dollars that i'm currently making
so that got me pumped i was like whoa like game changer i need to focus some way more attention on
youtube than i currently am so i started i upped the ante and i took my videos from two a week to
three a week and i started doing way bigger way more uh effort into like dude i am not gifted and
speaking so i started pouring way more attention into my youtube videos i started doing three
youtube videos a week i started really thinking through what am i putting on youtube like what am
i going to build my youtube channel out into and i've just put a lot more focus into my youtube
channel since then and as of literally today it's been one month since i have been monetized
in the partner program on youtube and after one month of being on youtube i've made 275 dollar
and 1 cent compare that to the 400 on tick tock that i made in over nine months so essentially in
one month of being on the partner program i've made almost as much as i've made on tick tock
in almost 10 months of being on tiktok and i've done it with a much smaller audience i've done it
with getting only around a thousand views a day and not really putting that much effort
into it until this last month and i understand now why so many people put an emphasis on youtube
above all other platforms because it's just so much more lucrative as a content creator to be
on the youtube platform than anywhere else now i will say this i used to do youtube back in 2010
you shall not pass
and i actually had built up a solid a solid audience okay um i did more like freddie w
uh corridor digital style videos you guys probably don't even know who those people
are but they're legends okay so i just want to say that uh but i did i did more videos
like that they were like more like live action like like you know video game oriented videos
and we just did them for fun and back then i would get millions of views on youtube and i had an
audience of like i don't know like 15 000. i think today that channel has like 25 000 subscribers but
keep in mind i haven't posted on it in over a decade and uh it's pretty it's pretty dead uh
i tried rebooting that channel at one point like three years ago and uh it just didn't
work because it's been over 10 years so most of those people they're either dead accounts or
they've just moved on with life they don't use youtube very often but back then making getting
millions of views on youtube i didn't make very much those were the early days of youtube and
they didn't pay you very much either one of the videos has over 14 million views one of them has
1.8 million views and i think over the lifetime of that channel i made around 500 to 4 000 so
back then they didn't youtube didn't pay that much money to its creators either in fact back then the
partner program looked way different you had to be picked up by an external company like machinima
full screen there was all these different companies that you would kind of partner with
and they would share a portion of your revenue and they would promote you know to advertisers is is
way weirder than it is today way more complicated my point is that tiktok is in its early days
too right now so there's really no telling what tiktok might evolve into although today it's
not extremely lucrative for creators had i stuck around and i kept working on my youtube channel
till today i mean i would be making millions of dollars and although i made a horrible mistake
giving up my channel in 2011 today i'm not gonna make that mistake again and i'm not stopping until
i hit a million subscribers and eventually i'm gonna be making a video saying how much i make
with a million subscribers on youtube uh but my point is tiktok is in its infancy okay there's
no telling how big and how much tiktok will change in the coming years they still are figuring
out their whole ads they're still figuring out how they're monetizing their platform and as they
begin to make more money and they begin to kind of lock that down then their creators will inevitably
also make more money so it's just the beginning stages for tiktok and i have confidence
in the next five to ten years you tiktok creators are gonna be making a lot more money than they are
today uh but how much is anyone's guess for the time being i'm gonna still be going hard
on tick tock but my focus is going to be on my youtube channel growing it so if you have some
stuff you want to see on this channel let me know in the comments below
uh what kind of content you like watching on here what you want to see help me grow by telling me
what you want to watch i just want to grow my youtube channel guys just want to grow my youtube
channel i want to see it blossom right now it's like a little seed but i want to see that seed
sprout i want to see it blossom up and some sun to shine on it and it's a little rain to kind of
rain on it and then i wanted to see it just blossom into a giant oak tree
of awesomeness so that i could just like you know climb it maybe shelter under it kind of like in a
little shade and uh and you guys could be in the branches and you're like the little owls
in the branches like hoot and then like you got some like maybe some of you guys are birds
it'll just be amazing and you guys know it's gonna be amazing i know it's gonna be amazing
my mom knows that's gonna be amazing everyone believes in me that counts and so i'm just excited
i'm excited to make this video a year from now and and tell you now how much i'm making a year
from now for my youtube channel after going hard for an entire year because i'm gonna i'm gonna go
hard on youtube because here youtube doesn't even know what it's gonna it's gonna happen to it it's
gonna be like waking up in the morning be like what just happened i'm gonna be like i happened
welcome to your future youtube it's gonna be amazing i'm excited to have you guys along for
the ride along for the journey new videos come out every single week and i'll see you next week