> From what I've read, the base pay (before factoring in some options which raise it
> somewhat) for a million hits is a whopping $100. So either I was told wrong or
> there's no way people are living off it.
Well, http://www.youtube.com/user/kurtjmac quit his job doing web design or whatever it was, with 31 million views over the past two years, and he's not living off the proceeds from his spreadshirt.com store, which nets less than YouTube itself.
http://www.youtube.com/bdoubleo doesn't live off YouTube exclusively, having a wife who works, but he gave up his construction contracting to sit home and talk about the games he's playing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GuudeBoulderfist was doing web dev stuff, but retired from that, dropping clients as he could. He's also got a wife who works, and a child, plus he's been signed with outside networks in the past, though he found them not worth the effort.
Now I look like an infomercial.  But these three actually talk about these things, and they looked at the money they were making, compared to their "real" jobs, and decided to concentrate on the videos.
Not that they say how much they actually earn. Contracts prevent that, probably with rather harsh penalties.
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But these three actually talk about these things, and they looked at the money they were making, compared to their "real" jobs, and decided to concentrate on the videos.
