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Comment by steve-benjamins | Hacker News Reader

YouTube has been an incredible place for building an audience for me. I started publishing videos in November of last year and growth has been dramatic (for me at least— my content is pretty niche, I review website builders): http://s3.amazonaws.com/sitebuilderreport-assets/images/file...

Facebook on the other hand turned my Facebook "page" into a payola scheme where I had to pay to access my audience. Lame.

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Assuming no new growth, in 10 months you will be able to make money from YouTube.

Do you think the 4000 watch hours in the past 12 months is too high or just right?

I'm probably not a good person to ask. I make money through affiliate links in my video descriptions— so I have no plans to use Youtube's official monetization programs.

If your goal is affiliate clicks, why do views & mins of engagement matter?

Seems like the measure would be which platform generated more clicks that convert.

Pages are horrible money grabs and a waste.

Create a group. They get feed priority from what I've been able to gather.

Also notifications.

All my notifications are groups these days.

Stats go back to 2013, but the oldest video appear be from 2017, what’s the deal?

Back in 2013 I had published a few random, low-quality videos. Removed them when I started taking video seriously last November.

Is that all organic traffic?

41% Youtube suggested videos

31% embeds on my website

19% Youtube search

3% Youtube browse features

3% Youtube channel page

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