Hank Green
medium.com/@hankgreen · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Hank Green, a YouTube creator, writes on Medium about online video, ad models, Facebook video views, and trademarks.
What HN saysHN links his post questioning Facebook's video view counts, with commenters noting it was seen as a dishonest way to count views.
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jasode · 2017-10-06
>On average you should be able to get $5-$10 per 1000 YouTube video views if it is on your own monetized channel. So that 35 million views probably generated around $245,000 dollars for someone.
Not disputing your numbers but just putting it out there that Hank Green estimated $2-per-1000.[1] That calculates 35m views to be ~$70k.
Google also recently changed its engagement algorithms and everybody's views and monetization went way down. I'm not sure what the latest 2017 cpm estimates would be. That Hank Green estimate was from 2015.
[1] https://medium.com/@hankgreen/the-1-000-cpm-f92717506a4b
Ralfp · 2016-11-18
And it was considered dishonest way to count views since then too:
https://medium.com/@hankgreen/is-facebook-lying-about-video-views-4fc4…