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Why I Love Shorts And Should You Do Them

Post author:Peter
Post published:January 18, 2025
Post category:How To-YouTube & Tips

Why I Love Shorts

This post is about why I love shorts, and I admit that I always thought YouTube shorts were a waste of time. But now I do them weekly, especially for my Laughaholics channel. If you’re considering starting your own shorts you should read my Is It Worth Doing Shorts On YouTube post.

I love publishing shorts because they’re so easy to do, they don’t take much time to make and some of them get a lot of views as well as add to my subscribers. Although I’ve found growing the subscriber count using shorts is a little slow I believe every little bit counts.

My Popular Shorts

I’ve found folk love Little Johnny and so he appears in a lot of my shorts. Little Johnny Meets The Pastor was only published three days ago and it already has over 500 views.

My most popular joke was How old are you mummy joke. That video has nearly 2k views and boosted my subscribers by 6.

My most popular shorts wasn’t a joke at all. It was a video of my cute granddaughter titled the toddler who could be doing an audition and that short has over 2.2k views and earned me 4 new subscribers. Cute toddlers are usually a good subject for shorts.

Why I Love Shorts Summary

I love shorts because they are easy to make, take very little time, unless I use my cool animation software and they get me heaps of views, which is important if you want to get monetized, as well as help me to grow my subscriber base.

Is It Worth Doing Shorts On YouTube?

Post author:Peter
Post published:December 31, 2024
Post category:YouTube & Tips

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.