Skyrim mod rewiews and mod creators.

[evaldas994]

it's not secret that Skyrim mod reviewers make a big fame on youtube and earn a lot of money, while moder's get nothing. what I want to say that the reviews shud be controlled and YouTuber shud pay 50 percent share for creators. and the best way to do that is to make Nexus Skyrim mods channel and share profit with creators by uploading mods 1 or 2 weeks before their release. nexus gets profit moder's get profit. everyone is happy.

[DoctorKaizeld]

We cant do that due to Bethesdas TOS. Also a majority of youtube mod showcase makers like MXR (i dont see him as a mod reviewer) do not make a lot of money off their videos.

[drewsbrew]

I have a YouTube channel (two of them, in fact- one is active, the other not so much) and though I don't currently do mod reviews on either one, what I can tell you with certainty is there is a LOT of misinformation out there about how much money YouTubers make. The reality check is that YouTubers don't make that much money-- at least not from the ad revenue of their videos anyway. I don't care what website has something to say to the contrary, either. It's important to remember that any time you see an actual number put to how much a given YouTuber makes, or 'YouTubers' in general, it is an estimate, and probably an inaccurate one at that because there are so many variables that factor into ad revenue earnings that it makes it nearly impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy how much a given YouTuber makes. Even if you use apps like TubeBuddy, or check websites like Social Blade that will try and put a dollar amount number to what a YouTuber makes, that number is an estimate only, and probably a high ball one at that.

 

Not only that, running a YouTube channel (especially a successful one) is a hell of a lot of work, it's not enough to just make videos, how are you going to get those videos in front of people's eyes? For that, you need some sort of marketing strategy, and you probably have to learn a fair amount about SEO and how the YouTube algorithm works. You probably also need to network with people, you need to have a sense of what people care about and will watch, and you need to be entertaining enough that people actually will watch. Titles and thumbnails are also very important; it wouldn't hurt for you to know a little about graphic design for that as well. These are just some of the basics. In short, it's a lot more work than most people realize, and YouTubers generally don't make that much money, despite popular belief.