Rumble - monetizing my videos outside of YouTube??

To put this article in context, I was watching one of my friends videos over on YouTube His channel is called Ferintosh Farms Photography. Lanny Ross's video with Remi's question is available if you take this embedded video with a button on the bottom right during playback to actually watch it on YouTube, or you can simply stay here, watch the video, and get great detail for how my dealings with Rumble have begun. Rumble is my copyright manager for my content on YouTube and it's a way of dealing with monetization when currently my channel doesn't have the 1k required subs. Recently they up'd the 10k views to 4k hours of watch time a year. Gratefully, I've been blessed with some viral content and the watch-time is not a problem, but the subs are.


Hi Remi. I'm only a few weeks into having videos on Rumble and getting paid, or having $1.20 towards my first $50 feels a lot like starting over on YouTube. At least YouTube's minimum of $100 is beat by 50% by Rumble for when they'll pay out. Remember, I would be getting nothing right now. So this money is in despite of YouTube and their new requirements. I was excited at first at half that money in my Rumble account, but in the next week or so when there was no new money, I was starting to get depressed about it all.

Suddenly today it jumped up 50 cents to the money I told you. The reason? Rumble's stats on YouTube are slower. That was two weeks of catch up. Now realize, I've only had about 1k new views since Rumble has copyrighted some of my stuff and YouTube is slow to recognize the copyright, and then they may be (intentionally as it feels) slow on putting ads up because maybe they don't want it easy to work around their rules.

So far, and analytics are tough because I've had 100k views according to rumble in March, when really, the stats are confused as Rumble got the rights to an older and more successful video. See, when someone successfully claims your content they can see the analytics from YouTube on it and copyright owners have the right to just watch a channel and see if they grow and then tell the ads to turn on if they wish. I believe some of them are thinking, it's not worth telling YouTube to turn on the ads as it'll detract from their content being seen more if it's small change. If your channel and their content takes off, they'll most likely turn the ads on and YouTube may be a lot more quick to cash in and help Rumble with the video as well. Now if my guesses are right about only having 1 to 2 k new views since Rumble's copyright's, then this is similar pay to YouTube, 50kish views being worth about $35 in my experience says that 1-2 k views for $1.20 is either poorer pay, or about the same with all the issues of communication and speed between Rumble and YouTube to actually get those ads running again. Now IF, a big if, Rumble had all my content. Too much work for too little gain, plus Rumble and YouTube worked out having the ads on, then I'd really know for sure what it's worth to me for Rumble to have my content copyrighted for me. Plus, holding back half my income through YouTube is probably worth it. Sure, it just paid small bills, but I don't want to risk it all in rumble yet 1, and 2, unpopular videos are just as much work to copyright with Rumble as popular ones. (Even very sparingly viewed videos or at least the videos not in my top 15 are possibly worth 1/3 to 1/2 my YouTube income.)

I'm holding back a video I expect to go viral until I have 1k subs so I can manually go through and turn ads back on for everything. At that point, I'll really see what Rumble is worth. I think how it'll work is when YouTube sees the copyright and I make sure ads are on, the Rumble income will go up. Rumble or YouTube is slow to both recognize the copyright and turn ads on...if they weren't my mil value could be higher than a dollar, but it may be only 50 cents....gain, tough to understand the analytics with years of views being mixed in for the last month. Forgive my long response to your questions, but now I think it will be an article instead. Sorry Lanny, I don't want to be in your spam box, but I'll have to link this article to your video and ask you do the same back. It'll grow us both and give us more traction with search engines.

If you're interested in Rumble, be sure to use my referral Rumble link as Rumble will throw me 5% on top of whatever you make. You get 100% this way and I'd get another 5% out of Rumble's take after that. Good luck and happy video making!

by AutoBravado now on YouTube as DE Nichols!

I'd be proud to have a YouTube logo mixed in with my ASE patch, lol. :) Let me explain:

Eric, for years, this has been my absolute favorite, talkative, automotive YouTube channel. ETCG1 is where Eric talks about cars instead of showing automotive repairs. Personally, I pretty much do cars, and I've started to dabble in motorcycles with my YouTube channel (DE "AutoBravado" Nichols)..., but still, this video and community is the place for the best discussions (I know, I know, you have a lovely forum, lol, but I like it here).

I'm a legitimately a certified ASE technician. I picked a couple of the harder ones to certify in even though I'm competent in easier ASE's (yikes, haven't touched transmissions though!)...anyway, I digress like I love that you do too...when I saw this, I wasn't thinking arm chair mechanic, I was also thinking about me. Without YouTube I would have become a competent professional much slower, and I certainly wouldn't have thought A8 Engine Performance, was easy. (I got brakes certified too, because even though they're often easy to fix up, knowing deep stuff that you need for an ASE could seriously save someone's bacon! (aka life)).

I certainly didn't put it on my resume, but if I was close enough to someone running the shop I worked at, I'd tell them honestly, "I know most of this thanks to YouTube."

The conversation could continue like this: sure, I study, I read professional articles, I talk to professionals, and I even study for the ASE tests because the engineers that make those tests are brilliant people. The master tech at my first shop knew one of them. Seriously smart man he'd say, though I forgot how he said it.

I recently made a video about tips on how I got my ASE certifications. It isn't popular. It seems like most people online aren't worried about getting certified when they learn on YouTube, for whatever reason that is.

But yeah, I'd be proud to have a YouTube logo mixed in with my ASE patch, lol. :)