How Much Money YouTube Pays Me As A Travel Vlogger
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2024
- Going into detail about my UA-cam earnings in Malaysia & Thailand.
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I appreciate your honesty. This is really encouraging me to start a UA-cam channel.
Start as soon as you can! 😁
U r trending! Congrats!
Hope you continue to grow and do well bro
Thanks a lot!
I’m really enjoying your videos, Ben.
I live in Thailand, but I keep my VPN set to the U.S.A., so all ads that I see are U.S.-based. Hopefully that helps with your earned revenue. I also typically allow ads (the shorter ones) to play through. Hopefully that also helps.
Take care.
Sweet I appreciate that. It seems like a lot of vloggers have VPN sponsors or at the very least put some affiliate links. I use a VPN too so it could make sense for me at some point! Thanks
Your content is genuine, I think:
1. if videos were 15 to 20 min length would benefit you alot.
2.Use free AI to help you generate click bait titles.
3. Use something like canva to create thumbnail for your videos.
Hope you find it useful all the best!
Hey Ben! This is Kenny from Malaysia. Love the transparency. Your total payout is so much better than the locals like myself. I think it's because you have audience from your home country, USA that's still following your journey. Tier-1 countries like US and UK have higher CPM compared to South East Asia. And yes, language matters a lot too in determining how much is the payout.
Malaysians in general we love seeing foreigners come and experience our culture and food. Welcome to Malaysia Ben, have a good stay and all the best in your journey.
Hey Kenny, yea the first month was all from Thailand content so I had those USA, UK, Australia and EU viewers mostly. Since then it went down since I don't get many of those viewers now, but the views are really picking up so it's starting to make up for the difference in CPM. Thanks my friend
Yea the language is important for sure. The next biggest factor is definitely video length, those longer videos get way more watch time and so the CPM ends up being much more in my experience
@@benfishermin technically it would be correlating to the number of ads that can be fit into one video, where longer video can have more ads in that video , hence each longer video can potentially get more revenue (provided that people continue watching throughout the length, which is why great youtubers are expert in audience retention hence watch time)
@@SaifuddinRehan Yep, longer video = more ads = higher RPM, so I always shoot to make longer videos. A 60 minute video where people watch 15 minutes ends up being better than a 10 minute video even if people watch nearly the whole thing. Maybe the algorithm will push the 10min video more because of higher % retention but I find UA-cam values actual minutes watched nearly as much, since they can show more ads.
that's minimum wage in Malaysia that you got there buddy. I myself as a freelanceer sometimes can't reach that target. 😅 congratulations to you then.
Yea I'm pretty happy about the earnings, it's tough to live on that minimum wage amount here for sure
For Msian if u hv usd1k its already ok, u can live handsomely😊
Your transparency on income sharing is superb. Not all youtubers wanna share this infor. I never skipped any ads and hope ur subscribers will continue to grow. TQ..Just subscribed! 👍
Love your videos! Keep up the good work and hope you gain more views and sub in malaysia
Thanks a lot my friend I hope so too!
I remember when you had 100 subscribers. Very proud of ur tenacity and raw honesty. Ur a good man, just trying to live his life, and also bring us on the journey with you. I LOVE living vicariously thru your international eyes.
~ Tazzz ~
You can just call me Tenacious B
@@benfishermin lololol, horrendous attempt of a joke. 🤪. Ur not chunky enough to derive from, Tenacious. Ha!
You’re doing it right brother. I think as you keep visiting different countries your outreach and viewership has no choice but to go up and thus growing your subscriber count and channel. Playing the long term game will pay off for you I believe. This was an interesting video and cool to see behind the scenes. Keep it up! 💯
Thanks a lot I appreciate it!
Congratulations Ben. I really enjoy your videos and in particular your style and delivery is very calm, non rushed and informal. Keep up the good work. By the way, I alike your transparency re your earnings. Very refreshing.
Nice to hear that thank you!
Yes, a very polite content n genuine.
Nice one! That’s good going there, hope it continues to grow mate :)
Thanks a lot Jon I appreciate it!
Super interesting video. I have always been curious about how youtube pays. It was cool to get to see behind the curtain.
Great I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙏
HI Ben I appreciate you being honest Guy your good man much respect there is lots of UA-camr that won't Even Tell
No problem thanks man!
That’s why I don’t blame people making exclusive content on patreon. Those 30% cuts are brutal
I agree, my plan is to do extended versions + extra videos on Patreon on the future and having the UA-cam versions be shorter!
Transparency nice 👍🏻
I'm an open book mate
Wow. Apple is so greedy company! Disgusting! 😠
Anyway, tq for sharing, not many would do it.
Yea it's not great the cut they take. No problem I don't mind sharing
Thanks for sharing, and welcome to Malaysia.
i hope you stay Malaysia is long timfe. because this is best place , is cheap and more safe is country, no many natura disaster
We grew up on different coasts, in different decades, with very different upbringings, but I'm really enjoying your content, and holy crap, just now looking at your tattoo skills via your IG account, so talented! Will continue to watch for the content and to see you grow!
Glad you're enjoying it, and thanks a lot :D
Keep it rollin 😎
Thanks brother
the growth of your channel is incredible man, I can't wait to see you in Viet Nam my friend, pretty sure that Vietnamese will deffinately love your contents, keep it up !
Thanks I appreciate that. People on the poll I posted seem to really want Vietnam too which is nice to see, because that's where I want to go most from the list. Even though views could be lower I'm just gonna have to try and see how it goes
@@benfishermin so you’re implying that the locations really matter ? My channel cannot reach further than Viet Nam, that’s pretty bad
@@ngatravelvlog Yea it makes a huge difference. As soon as I came to Malaysia and made a first impressions of Kuala Lumpur video, it got around 20k views which is way more than my Thailand videos. And immediately I had around 80% viewers from Malaysia, since they all speak english and can understand my content well. My videos in Thailand I get about 5%-10% Thai viewers only, because they just don't understand what I'm saying as well, so they either exit the video or they don't even click on it. That's why countries like Malaysia, Philippines, or India can be huge to grow the subscribers and views, since it's a huge population and english speaking, and those audiences love watching foreigners in their country, especially native-english speakers. But I never change my own home location in my account, it's always set to United States. So mostly it matters the location you're making the videos. Also in Bali I had much lower views in general and very low audience from Indonesia, since it's also not a huge speaking population.
This video made me a huge fan.
Congrats on your first cheque. Malaysian are proud of their culture. When content creator highlight these culture, u will get traffics. Go off the beaten path. Malaysia is not just the city life. English is 2nd language here. You know the country demographics. Oppurtunity is plenty.
Thanks a lot
Hey Ben.. .Im not skipping any ads on this video alone...
Nice thanks I appreciate it!
@@benfishermin same here, watching from Canada.
Interesting insight... by the way, how much do you pay for the hotel? are you paying monthly? weekly? depending on how much you pay, I probably can suggest alternative places to rent.... oh by the way, you mentioned tattoos... you could make videos related to tattoos for your tattoo-fans... ie: documentary on various tattoo techniques used in Thai, Malaysia etc... tattoo designs and their meaning/mystical belief associated to them...
I go for hotels in the $15-$25 range always. Most important is that there's a comfortable working desk. I find a lot of my audience is not so interested in tattoos but I may end up doing something like that in East Malaysia. Thanks
Congrats Ben! That's awesome. I'm starting to look into maybe doing a channel here in Jomtien (not sure about new proposed Thai taxes on such ventures though)
Now 3.14K subs@ 5/24.
Yea I'm happy about that!
Ty for the insight
Great job Ben! You'll reach 100K subs by the end of this year. You'll get many sponsorship deals and make alot of $$$. You can do it :D
Thanks for the nice words, 100k by the end of the year would be NICE, let's shoot for the moon right?
Well, Malaysia has many festival season. Try to get along with locals. Th9se who loves tattoo you may get along with them pretty well. Malay have the 'inai' stuff that might interests you.
At the end of the day, what makes you more happy is to get around with Malaysian that has diversity of the ethnic group. East Malaysia has much more tattoos for the tribal tattoos.
This would be an interesting as well. 👍 Cheers. Malaysian also do appear on youtube as well. Does not scare them away anyway. ♥️
I'm excited to check out east Malaysia very soon, thanks a lot!
@@benfishermin u r welcome. Two third of Malaysia's Christian population lives in East Malaysia. East Malaysia has little different rules and administration approach compare to west Malaysia. Careful or be considerate when taking West Malaysia expectations or identity to East Malaysia. East Malaysia is a different vibe especially for road sign and education. Very very very small amount of Malaysian Indian due to the background history. You would be surprised. ♥️👍visiting different vibe from different historical background of the East and West Malaysia.
Thanks for sharing
You're cpm is really good man, mine is heaps lower right now. Awesome brother good to see that! Keep up the good work
Thanks mate. It definitely seems the RPM is all over the place with my videos, some is $1 and some closer to $2. I do believe that KL videos versus more smaller town areas give a higher RPM, and Penang too gives a good RPM. I did a Malaysia vs USA quality of life video which is about $1.7 RPM, and when I put Thailand in the title for a comparison type video it also gets close to $2 RPM. At this point I'm happy just to get closer to $2 than $1, I do miss the RPM in Thailand which was more like $5-$9 because of so many US viewers and Aus/UK/EU. What are you earning per 1000 views for your stuff in Malaysia?
Hi Ben, It's interesting to see how money is made from UA-cam. I'm looking forward to when you compare Malaysia to the Philippines as I plan to move to one or the other this year. All success to you.
Thanks I'm curious to see too, I think at least the views will be quite high in the Philippines, probably similar earnings per 1000 views as Malaysia though, let's see
You should try in Indonesia and Philippines due to their large population
Philippines I will definitely have to visit very soon, I know the english speaking audience will be huge as well, and Manila especially brings a lot of views. Indonesia I'm very interested in exploring more of as I have only spent time in Bali. Very curious about Bandung, Yogyakarta, Lombok. Even though it's not an english speaking audience I would really like to go, especially since the summer/dry season is just starting.
@@benfisherminyou could do very well if you try India and Indonesia..the tips is praised more and don't talk negative about them in fact the other places also do react quite similar you just need to make yourself likeable
I would NOT rely on UA-cam/Google - they constantly move the monetary goalposts further and further away from creators in their own direction + you need to be VERY CAREFUL what you say or you get shadowbanned or banned completely. Ultimately you need your own website BUT travel sites (the pics etc) will suck up alot of hosting bandwidth & that can get expensive... There is a global traveller who has a Substack - harder to monetize for travel stuff but he's also selling pics in addition to subscriptions...
That blows my super thanks you only got a fraction of what I sent ..Thx for letting me know my bro ..I’ll have to do it through buy me a coffee moving forward..?
Yea crazy right? With the Buy Me A Coffee donation it's way less fee, around 5% from them + Stripe fee which is a few %, but this is far better! Still your donations were very helpful anyways so much appreciated.
Good for you
Thanks
No matter how many more Malaysian subscribers you have, Malaysian audience will stop watching as soon as you leave Malaysia😂, eventhough your videos show up on their feeds. They are as notorious as filipino and indonesian viewers.
Notice what happened to your Songkran video? Every other Songkran video was a big success for other youtubers but yours is stuck with the Malaysian viewers who have no interest in other cultures.
Yea that's just how things work, it's part of travel vlogging. The Songkran video I posted was not great, very low effort and it still made $20 with only 2,000 views.
We call you Mr. Ben Ang Mo or Encik Ben Mat Salleh from now
Brother can’t wait to meet!
Sure we gotta make it happen
Keep it going young King, you will grow much more. Your viewers adore you bro. HINT: Love your videos watching you buy your meals. It shows the real prices. Hang in there.
Sweet thanks a lot for the nice comment my friend
Hey, bro try to get interviews with locals n visitors. Maybe get involved with local events or festivals.
That's true, thanks for the ideas!
Congrats. It's not that much, but if you convert it to RM, it's quite a lot, it's better than nothing, to start monetize from your videos.
Yea for me it's huge, a big % of my total income still so I'm very happy
@@benfishermin Wonderful. 😁
You'll probably get a good RPM on this video.
In India, you'll get a lot of views and subscribers, but very low RPM. Quite a few big travel UA-camrs built their base in India.
That's what I'm thinking, this kind of video should be a much higher RPM since it's more finance / make money niche! Let's see, I'll be doing these every few months if that's the case
My bro where is the buy me a coffee link .?? I’m still just seeing the Thanks
Just in the description here you go buymeacoffee.com/benfishermin - thanks a lot Tommy!
Interesting
Thanks
I would try to use landscapes / text as thumbnails and not always your face. People aren’t going to click on a video to see YOU if they don’t know you. They’re looking for videos of a place , not necessarily you… until they know you. Look at the most viewed videos and mirror their style. Just my thoughts. Appreciate this video. Thanks.
Thanks for the comment
The Apple pro 13 is a good phone. I'm not saying sell it. I'm just saying in the future you might want to save some money. The pocket 4 must be really good. I saw a guy here in Japan with a film crew doing UA-cam stuff for people working on one film and he was really liking the pocket. Osmo.. It's like a gimbal too.. but the action for does look a little tougher, especially for what you're doing. I think you can be rougher on the osmo 4 take care ben
Yea I feel you, I don't know I'll ever get another iPhone at this point. That osmo pocket 4 looks incredible, watching some vloggers review it seems like it's so good, and the internal mic is strong too. Only problem like you said is it's not so durable and not water proof. Can't wait to get this or the action cam.
It will be interesting to see if your Malay audience will watch your content in other SE Asian countries. The Filippinos will also subscribe to your channel in high numbers, but they are notorious for only being interested in Philippines related content.
I think only a very small % will watch and they'll mostly watch when I come back to Malaysia. Maybe certain countries they'll tune in but somewhere like Thailand they are not exactly fond of the culture so I think they won't watch
@@benfisherminu were right, bcos some philipinos want to know much about news content in Msia as their comrades many working in Msia.
@@kamrulz659 Interesting, maybe philippines and malaysia viewers will watch videos from each others country, since they're neighbors too
Telling you Ben you must watch some UA-cam videos comparing pixels to apples. Even the Apple people agree and these are the sales people. There are some situations where Apple takes better pictures and others. Pixel takes better pictures but overall you can trade in your phone twice as much and get way more for your money like that. One day I was watching you and you were worried about the water on the iPhone pixels. You can submerge them in the water. You do not have to worry about water and the pixel 9 is out and that blows the 13 away and even the 8 beat the 13. The pro Max some of the apps were better and there are more gadgets for 13s that I will give it.. You like me both need the action 4 DJI.. And is the translation any good on the pro Max?. Google does magic with translation and I can just point it as a sign and it will translate it.
The thing is that I already have the iPhone. It’s carrier locked to the US so I just use it as a camera. The pixel has the exact same water resistance as the iPhone 13 Pro Max, they are rated the exact same in that regard, it’s called an IP68 rating which mean it can go underwater for up to 30 minutes up to 6 meters. But that doesn’t mean you should do that and it’s still possible to damage either phone, especially if the water has salt or dirt in it, although it will usually be just fine. I just can’t see realistically selling my iPhone to get a Pixel since I only use it for a camera, and my main phone for actual use is an Android. But I’m not a mega apple fan either, I just happen to have this phone already and I’m happy the camera + mic is quite good on it. The next upgrade like you said will be the DJI, either the osmo pocket or the action. The osmo pocket looks really solid too
this is a financial video... the rpm pay is higher for this niche.
Yea way higher!
From the very little I know about all this, buy me a coffee, you get the revenue not you tube Phil
Buy Me A Coffee is better, way less fees and can be paid out to the bank account weekly. For the super thanks donations through UA-cam it's added to the earnings and much higher fee to UA-cam/Apple
Try put USA in your video title.
The video where I put NYC in the title had around $2 RPM which is definitely better than $1
@@benfishermin i am guessing it improved the algorithm too.
Ben try learn language bahasa melayu,mandarin
Using AI for clickbait willresult in diubtful netizens who eventually loose interest in your vids.Stay true and original in your efforts.
why it is your earning in Msia vs Thai videos are a bit disconnected. ??
Why does RPM varies according to countries? Is it keyword specific?
I’m guessing it’s audience specific. Thailand content gets more western audience simply because of name recognition
It depends on where the viewer is located, and the niche that you're in mostly. It can change based on the title and video content but more than anything it's the viewers location + niche.
Philippines not really safe maybe (some places) your device will snatch from thief if you do walking with phone.
I presume doing this sort of thing, is classed as a taxable income? How do you go about declaring that? With travelling etc etc. doesn't sound easy. Sounds complicated.
Yea it's all taxable income and needs to be claimed as self-employment income. I have a tax person which files for me to make it easy and do the deductions/expenses properly.
@@benfishermin very sensible Ben.
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maybe they pay more to beginning content creators with less subs just to help get you started. crossed my mind anyway.
why would the commercials be different? hmmm.
Nope the amount they pay is based on where the viewer is located and the niche you're in. They pay much higher for someone in the US for example because the advertisers pay way more, they show different ads to them. Since the salary and likelihood of them buying something is much higher, they can pay more for those viewers.
@@benfishermin If like that, we should start to watch your video using VPN n set up the location as Kuwait since Kuwait hv the highest currency even compared to US or EU. Hence, the ads would pay more if u view from there. lol
Why would anyone use Apple devices if they are taking 30%? Get a Samsung Galaxy s22-24. The camera is at least as good if not better.
I should have clarified better that it only matter what device the person is using that donates. So if they donate on their iPhone / Macbook / iPad to me then Apple takes the cut
Hi Ben, what a revelation about iPhone, no wonder content creators are using other mobile/camera devices! Are u just using your iPhone? Do u carry a pocket wifi? Your videos are very clear & sharp. Wondered about your beautiful hotel(Oriental) in Penang, reminded me of the Raffles in Singapore! Keep filming what is unique in your travels! Banyak sucess! Looking forward 2 more videos, especially tattoo talk/art with locals!
Oops I should have made it more clear, you can film on the iPhone that won't matter but if the person donating used an Apple device while making the donation then Apple will get the cut. I use the iPhone 13 Pro Max for all of the filming for now, until I get a DJI camera is the plan. And yea I have an Android phone which I carry as well and use for hotspot to my US carrier locked iPhone. I shoot in 1080p so it could be even better with 4K, but the files are just too big and the editing lags too much on my laptop, so I just do 1080p. Yea the hotel in Penang is beautiful and way out of my actual budget lol, highly recommended though.
@@benfishermin Thanks 4 info. If i buy u a coffee on my apple laptop, then they take 30%....
@@lizcarlyle2477 Buy Me a Coffee it's much better only like 5% fee + Stripe fee to get paid out is another few %, so much better than super thanks through UA-cam!
Get an Android phone. Or a GoPro. Apple's cut would pay for it.🤑
Do you have to do a video on the hotel as part of the comp?
Apple takes a cut of the person donating uses an Apple phone, it won't matter if I use an iPhone or not. Nope I don't need to do a video on the hotel since they didn't want to pay, I just needed to mention it.
What actually make the difference in per thousand pay? Is it your geographic or the viewers'? I think the language plays a big role in viewers number. Maybe english is not as widely use in thailand compared to malaysia, thats why you get more views and subscribers.
Honestly, i don't think malaysian youtubers are making enough depending only on the views payout..
It just depends which country the user is located in. It won't change based on where I am personally only the viewer. Yea in Thailand I have 5%-10% Thai viewership and in Malaysia 80%+ Malaysia viewers because of the language
@@benfisherminso does that mean for example westerners from USA are more interested in videos about Thailand than Malaysia? My worth to you as a viewer is higher now I'm watching from Australia rather than when I was watching you from Thailand? It's very interesting. I have premium UA-cam so that's another factor but the where I'm watching from is very interesting. Does the number of subscribers add value to you or only the number of views per video?
@@AuntyJack123 Yea Thailand got extremely popular now with westerners, both for trips and also moving there. Malaysia is still more of an underrated and lesser traveled place for us compared to Thailand. And since Thailand is way less english speaking, I just don't get much of a Thai audience there. Yea should be higher value now watching from Aus compared to Thailand for sure. If someone watches who has youtube premium we get some $ amount too, otherwise it's if someone actually clicks an ad, we don't get anything if someone just watches it through. Views actually matter much more than subscribers in the end. More subscribers can mean more views of course but not always, so sometimes it's more of a vanity metric, but it does have value when it comes to sponsorships, since a lot of companies value subscriber count more than they really should. A lot of channels build a huge subscriber count with shorts which doesn't translate at all to more views on long-form content. Actually it can hurt views because those subscribers from shorts don't end up watching the long-form videos, so youtube takes it as people not being interested and then shows to less people. So you end up seeing people with 50k+ subscribers getting less views than me for example since they built their subs with shorts
@@benfishermin thanks Ben for the explanation. I'm glad it helps I have premium plus viewing from Australia. Perhaps with the changes, especially re taxation, in Thailand more people will see what a gem Malaysia is.
Does using a VPN effect the RPM
?
I believe if someone is using a VPN and clicks an ad it will count from the country the VPN is based in yea
Now if you learn Malay language and start doing content about Malaysian, you will get more views. Trust me. Lol
You're right I should at least start throwing some basic words into the mix, it could help a lot. Thanks
@@benfisherminIn Msia we normally mixed around english n malay words together esp in communicating with one another.Good try to make content in mixed language😊
As an artist why not try graffiti or streetart or maybe painter
I dont have money😭😭😭
Start a UA-cam channel!
crappy commission !!!!
Ha yea it could be higher, I guess I just need to 10x the views to make up for it
Don't buy the iPhone...no more!
My next phone will probably be an android to be honest
i started to follow you as i was interested in your life in Thailand, to be honest i am not at all interested in Malaysia, so i hardly watch your content since, but i hope you will return to Thailand soon...
do not forget the channel growth almost is exponential for almost all content creators once the algorithm picks them up.
I'll be spending some time there soon and making content for sure
it's because msians are tech savvy and they use adblock lol.
I'm sure some do yea, but even those who don't UA-cam just doesn't pay much for Malaysian viewers/clicks
@@benfishermin not "some" thats for sure
I'll be honest with you, I'm one of your US viewers that liked your Thailand content. Once you left Thailand, I lost interest and maybe so did others. That's probably why you are seeing lower "RPM" views in Malaysia
Thanks for sharing