Almost 3x higher pay per million views, but that specific PH video has less than 5% of the total views of YT
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All you need to know in 1 visual, and yes that's monthly, not yearly :
from https://substack.com/home/post/p-160984454
Compare that to the average teacher in most countries, including countries like Finland or Luxembourg which pay their teachers quite well.
Is that an average/median OnlyFans creator, or one of the ones who are considered successful?
Edit: Oh, that's actually the creator from the post. TBH that seems like really intimate information, in a different way than whatever she's probably doing on OnlyFans.
To compare this to music streaming, I have a couple of tracks with ~4 million listens, and they each made ~$20.
Her name is crossed out in the post, but not her screenshots….
Weird.
Also why we hiding the name of the YouTuber? Presumably they actually want people to find their content otherwise they wouldn't have uploaded it.
This self-censoring epidemic is getting stupid.
good work censoring one of the names
She's literally a public figure posting for money. You can see her name below. Obviously the person who censored it doesn't understand the topics of her content.
Just watched the whole video. She explained chemistry so well
Maybe she'll get flagged for appropriate content.
Hope not, that would be a crushing blow! Since I generally boycott YT, I checked out Zara Dar's What is a Neural Network. It's a good overview, and well presented. Ah, a look there's a part 2. It would be great if she could hit 1M views on ProhNub, as a result of this post. Only 207K over the past year, with 2K updoots.
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omfg i remember running into this video like about a year ago. legit good study material :^] (no but fr better than some of my professors). There are also cybersecurity guides but ehh.. they all stopped posting.
Not available in several states.
Doesn't seem like she is doing this but watching a coding tutorial with a topless girl presenting it would be much more fun. I wonder if there is a market for this
True story.
A while back I needed to learn how to tie a necktie in a double Windsor knot. Looked for some videos.
Found one with a hot girl in lingerie showing me how.
I watched it twelve times, then found another video with an old man demonstrating.
Was the old man in lingerie too?
Narrator: He was
I walked into that one, didn't I?
Take your upvote, you magnificent swine.
Decades ago ago there was a series of videos of girls teaching calculus. For example they had a girl lay down on her back and then described how to use integrals to determine the area of her boobs.
Reminds me of a math rhythm my older brother taught me when we were teens
You subtract the clothes
You add the bed
You divide the legs
And then you multiply
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During the inception of image algorithms all the engineers started to use a playboy model.
And then kept using it for an extremely long time until basically forced to stop lol.
There's a BobbyBroccoli video on the topic, and it's pretty interesting.
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This is another sign of how youtube's story of "we've never made a profit" is bogus. More and more organisations are advertising on youtube, youtube is pushing the limits on the amount of advertising that viewers can stand & at the same time they've started paying creators less.
It looks like they've really started abusing their market position in the last few years: more income and less expenditure. And it's probably no coincidence that there are no financial figures for youtube alone.
If they've never paid taxes then they must never have turned a profit.
Checkmate.
Someone did the math and estimated YouTube would cost $2bn in cloud costs (i.e. no creator payments) if hosted on AWS.
Does that include the storage costs of the existing exabytes of videos, plus the terabytes of new videos being uploaded every day?
AWS is incredibly expensive, if you're hosting something like GitHub or Netflix on them instead of just owning the servers, you're incredibly dumb
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I found an estimate of annual expenditures of 3.25 billion, without content payouts, but with engineering/legal/moderation costs. As 2024 revenue I found back 36 billion from advertising & 14.5 billion from subscriptions. Forbes had an article where Google claimed to have paid out $70bn in 2021-2023 to content creators, this number probably includes subscriptions. In those 3 years youtube had an ad revenue of 89.5 billion, but I have no number for subscriptions. These are all very opaque numbers. Based on these opaque numbers, I'd guesstimate youtube's profit margin at 42%, which I find excessive.
$36bn ad revenue + $14.5bn subscriptions: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/
$3.25bn annual expenditures: https://www.clrn.org/how-much-does-youtube-cost-to-run/
$70bn payed out to creators from 2021 to 2023: https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/youtube-70-billion-creator-payments/
Edit, how I got to my guesstimate of 42%:
36bn ad revenue in 2024. An average of 30bn ad revenue in the 3 years prior. Estimation for the subscription income in those 3 years: 30/36 x 14.5 x 3=36 billion. 73bn expenditures & 126bn income = 53bn profit. 53/126 = 42%.
She's very suggestive in her choice of dress in most of these videos that are on her pornhub though, so there's that.
Oh I just checked her channel on yt and apparently she's an onlyfans creator now, so yeah.
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WTF I had no idea the CPM had gotten that low. $1 per thousand views for however many ads are in each video is practically nothing.
The more resistant to clicking ads we get the less each ad is worth to the corporate ad buyer and the more ads the services want to jam in to get their profits.
The part I struggle to understand is why corporate ad buyers are okay with the fraud that the big tech companies seemingly routinely get caught on. Famous example being pivot to video on Facebook where they just cooked the books to sell the concept.
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Hence articles like this bother me:
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/13/joy-reid-leaving-corporate-media
YouTube, Instagram and TikTok…
That’s the trap. These mega platforms feel like “liberating” creative outlets, but they take basically all the ad revenue and hand out scraps; the absolute bare minimum to keep creators around. And that ratio shrinks as the monopoly grows.
Yet creators, even journalists trained to sniff out profiteering, go in blind to that.
And yes, I get it. “Just don’t use them,” is much harder said than done.
…But they could be a little more critical of their platform, like this lady.
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You gotta get a million views to earn a thousand bucks?!
That has been true for a while. Ever since "the adpocalypse". I'm surprised you missed it because it felt like every YouTube creator was complaining about it for an entire year ( which I'm not really against, I just don't give a shit about YouTube inside baseball).
That's why every video now has " brought to you by... Whatever" in the middle of it.
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