What Is The Real Value Of YouTube Shorts?

This post is about whether it’s Worth Doing Shorts On YouTube? I’ve been doing shorts on YouTube for a while now, and I’ve learned a few interesting facts about YouTube Shorts. I’m going to share these with you now.

Can You Make Money With YouTube Shorts?

The answer is yes and no. Yes, you can make money but what you earn from shorts is nowhere near as much as you do on your long-term videos. The reason is that YouTube only pays six lousy cents per 1 million views. How do I know that? That’s what this YT creator told me in his short How Much YouTube paid for 1 million views. But that didn’t sound right so I did some math and left him this comment.

I think the maths is all wrong because 1 million x 6 cents is $60,000. So to earn $60 for a million views YT is only paying us 0.00006 cents which is pathetic

However, that may have changed since that particular Short was published so I checked my shorts stats on Laughaholics. My shorts this year have been erratic so when working out the stats I did it for a year. In 2024 my shorts had 34.7K views earning me $3.12. That equates to 0.00009 cents! A bit more than the above Youtuber but still pathetic.

If The Money Is Bad Why Bother With Shorts?

To answer that I’m going to tell you why I do it.

• Subscribers: Since I started doing shorts I’ve grown my subscribers an extra 38 in the last year. Comparing that to the 58 subscribers from my normal video I think that’s pretty good.
• Shorts, for me, are easy to produce and take a lot less effort.
• Shorts can be fun to make.
• Shorts appeal to a different audience which I would be missing out on if I wasn’t producing them.

As to whether or not it’s Worth Doing Shorts On YouTube I feel that will all depend on the individual YouTuber. As far as I’m concerned the answer to whether it’s Worth Doing Shorts On YouTube the answer is yes.

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