# Do you own a youtube channel? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444 "2015-10-03T23:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/1 "2015-10-03T23:38:12Z")
I used to own one – I posted a few videos in Russian. I got so few hits that I quit. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/2 "2015-10-03T23:45:06Z")
8,800 subscribers, 4.4 million views. Small beer in comparison to serious YouTubers, but brings me in between £75 and £100 a month in ad revenue. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/3 "2015-10-03T23:47:32Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 8,800 subscribers, 4.4 million views. Small beer in comparison to serious YouTubers, but brings me in between £75 and £100 a month in ad revenue. WOW! WOW! What is it about if it’s not confidential. Mine got 6,000 views over three years. Mostly in Russian about USA. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/4 "2015-10-03T23:55:09Z")
It’s just the video content for my personal website (Atomic Shrimp) Mostly recipes, a few howtos, other stuff. > **[Atomic Shrimp](https://www.youtube.com/user/AtomicShrimp)** > > Atomic Shrimp is about ideas. Ideas that lead to crafts, inventions and recipes, investigations, new skills, and the general appreciation of being alive. > > It's also about looking at the world with curiosity and wonder, appreciating the small things,... ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/5 "2015-10-03T23:57:44Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > It’s just the video content for my personal website (Atomic Shrimp) Mostly recipes, a few howtos, other stuff. > [https://www.youtube.com/user/AtomicShrimp](https://www.youtube.com/user/AtomicShrimp) Thanks – good videos. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/6 "2015-10-04T00:00:37Z")
Doesn’t every youtube account get a channel? I have one with mine. I’ve never posted anything to it. I may eventually record some songs that I perform and post. Still debating if its worth it. Like the OP said. A few hits doesn’t really make it worth the effort to maintain a channel… ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/7 "2015-10-04T00:01:33Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Doesn’t every youtube account get a channel? I have one with mine. I’ve never posted anything to it. No videos. Many channels have only text comments on other videos. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/8 "2015-10-04T00:04:17Z")
I have a Youtube account. I have posted zero videos. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/9 "2015-10-04T00:05:23Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > I have a Youtube account. I have posted zero videos. Most people with Youtube accounts post only comments. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/10 "2015-10-05T10:28:58Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Most people with Youtube accounts post only comments. I am no longer one of those people. It’s nothing special - just a video of a bird flitting about and chattering away - but it means I know the process now. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/11 "2015-10-05T14:21:11Z")
My 11-year-old wanted to make some Minecraft videos so I set him up with a channel under my account. He’s posted about 10 or so. He has 13 subscribers. Not quite up there with the big league Minecraft Youtubers yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ryanmiaku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@Ryanmiaku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryanmiaku)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/12 "2015-10-05T15:26:40Z")
Yeah, I still need to get a decent microphone and webcam before I start recording though. Using the built in webcam and mic on my 2-3 year old laptop isn’t exactly the smartest idea if I want quality. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/13 "2015-10-05T15:51:29Z")
> **[Mahj](https://www.youtube.com/mahj)** > > Take some plastic bricks. Add some electronics and a camera. Stir for a couple of years. Release it on the internet. It’s a channel where I show my Lego creations. My last big video ([a lowrider](https://youtu.be/qRPIWUzAj7k)) took 5 days to film. I have about 8000 subscribers. The ad revenue I get doesn’t really make a dent in the costs of the hobby, but every little bit helps. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/14 "2015-10-05T16:30:35Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 8,800 subscribers, 4.4 million views. Small beer in comparison to serious YouTubers, but brings me in between £75 and £100 a month in ad revenue. I have spent some time over the years on your YouTube channel. Lots of quality content. Some amazing projects. ---
**Author:** ![Lungfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@Lungfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lungfish)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/15 "2015-10-05T19:38:40Z")
I joined YouTube in December 2006 and only uploaded one video in June '14. Currently I have 50 subscribers and 33,000 views :). The vid is the last episode of Blake’s 7, (Series 3, Episode 13): [Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 13 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2j3e9Xc3QM) ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/16 "2015-10-06T21:13:52Z")
I have a channel with about 45 videos - but about 40 of them are private for sharing with the family, and the other handful are videos of plays I was in in high school and some videos associated with my high school class (graduation, senior retrospective). I have two subscribers, and one of them shares a bed with me. I think I might have gone to high school with the other one. No revenue, and most of the public videos are blocked from monetization since they contain copyrighted music, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/17 "2015-10-07T01:33:29Z")
There is a guy on You Tube named “Clay Hayes”. A friend of mine is an executive producer and I have been trying to get him to work with this guy on a show. He told me unless he gets a million hits he couldn’t raise any money for a show. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/18 "2015-10-07T02:48:23Z")
I have a YouTube channel, dating back to 2007 YouTube was not bought out by Google. Of course I have a Google account and hence a YouTube account, but this one I don’t use. I use to have about 52 subscribers for a good number of years, but that has grown since this summer to 198 due to a video. I do plan on uploading one video per week and also personal ones, but it’s not an obsession of mine. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/19 "2015-10-07T20:30:33Z")
I will probably make another account – with videos in Russian and English. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444/20 "2015-10-08T11:19:51Z")
My YouTube channel is a way for me to share videos with friends and family. They all have a handful of views. Except for one video of my gf “drowning”. We are both in the sea, and she is playing around on the edge of a weird riptide thing. She is laughing, but sort of struggling to maintain her position. It has zillions of views. People apparently search for “drowning” videos? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-youtube-channel/733444.md?page=2)