Is It Worth Doing Shorts On YouTube?

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.

Is It Worth Doing Shorts On YouTube

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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Why YouTube Closed Captions Matter

How Important Are Closed Captions

Are you wondering about how necessary captions are for your YouTube videos? Will captions bring you more views?  

Interestingly enough, Digital Discovery Network did a study that showed that captioned videos bring in 7.32% more views. That alone should encourage most YouTubers to start adding captions. And there is more.

Why YouTube Closed Captions Matter
Professional Captions Using VidCap One Of Many Apps Found On Setapp.

What Is Metadata &How Crucial Is It?

We all know how crucial metadata is to YouTube, including your title, descriptions, and tags! TechTarget says that “Metadata is data that describes other data, providing a structured reference that helps to sort and identify attributes of the information it describes.” YouTube reads this data relating to your video, and it’s all taken into account when running their algorithms. Captions are part of that metadata, and not having that can be detrimental to the views that you could be getting.

How To Caption Your Videos

There are several ways you can caption your videos. You could do it manually and then upload them, but that is so time-consuming, I tried it once and decided life was too short to waste my time when it could be used to do other more constructive tasks.

You can let YouTube do it for you and I can tell you I’ve tried that too but YouTube does a pretty poor job of it. I reckon you’d be lucky if the captions YouTube provides you are more than 60-70% correct. Then you have to go into the captioning area and edit YouTube’s captions. Not correcting YouTube’s faulty captions means you’re presenting the wrong metadata and giving the wrong information about what your video is about.

More Important Than Metadata

Something even more important than metadata is that 36 million people in America alone are deaf or have trouble hearing. Let alone the other countless millions that live around the world. Then some people don’t have hearing problems and watch YouTube videos with captions because they don’t want to bother the people around them.

There are countless of times when I wish a video had captions because I couldn’t understand what was said. In cases such as this, captions have proven to increase comprehension. 

Best App For Captioning You Videos

I’m writing this post is to let you know that I have found an app that makes captioning a cinch. That app is called VidCap and is part of the Setapp arsenal of hundreds of quality apps, all at the low subscription price of $9.99/month. You can read all about Setapp in my Is Setapp Worth The Money post or watch my video Is The Setapp Subscription any good?

Watch my video Does Setapp’s VidCap Captions Work to see VidCap in action.

All in all, captioning is going to help your channel, making it more accessible to a lot more people. YouTube knows this, which is why they include it in their metadata. Personally, I’m going to go through all my videos, adding captions to those that I believe need it.

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Exposing YouTubes Viral Videos How To Tips

I think that ‘Exposing YouTubes Viral Videos How To Tips‘ is a brilliant heading for this post. As a YouTube Creator, I’ve always wanted to know what made a video go viral. To satisfy my desire to produce viral videos, I researched YouTube to find out exactly what makes a video go viral.

Exposing YouTubes Viral Videos How To Tips

It’s a pretty impossible task considering how many videos are out there. While some of the viral video tips posted by Creators who have had a video go viral, most of them are struggling Creators trying to make a name for themselves.

Viral Video Tips

Exposing YouTubes Viral Videos

Although it took me ages, I finally managed to put a video together, which I called Why Does A Video Go Viral. In that video, I discussed the following points.

  • The importance of Thumbnails
  • Will ranking first on YouTube lead to a viral video?
  • The Snowball effect
  • Playing to people’s emotions
  • The length of viral videos

Best YouTube Tools

These are just some of the points I cover in my Viral Video Expose. You’ll also see in the video how I use TubeBuddy to help me rank better on YouTube.

Because of the importance of Thumbnails, I use The YouTube Graphics Creator. It helped me to design the thumbnail for my video on what makes a video go viral.

Why not hop over to YouTube and check out my Viral Video Exposed video. While there you should check out my Laughaholics. There are some hilarious videos there that I know you’ll get a kick out off. You’ll especially love my latest Funny Blonde jokes video. While you’re there why not join my growing YouTube Channel. As you know I’m always looking for new subscribers so why not consider subscribing to my My Bonzer Channel. 

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