How much did I earn in April 2023?
Not so much to report this month, rubbish earnings, an even more abysmal CTR. I had over 130 clicks on epn, but poor conversions about 2%. Not that it really matters much when it comes to EPN anyway since the affiliate earnings are usually poo.
My affiliate earnings for April 2023
| NETWORK | EARNINGS | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|
| Google Adsense | £0.89 | |
| eBay Partner Network | £0.62 | Commision earnings |
| Amazon Affiliates | £0.00 | |
| Awin | £0.00 | |
| Newsflare | £0.00 | Abandoned Youtube, better results with Newsflare |
| Shopping Receipts | £0.75 | Amazon Shopper Panel |
| Amazon KDP | £0.00 |
Total Earnings for April 2023
£2.26
Monthly admin thoughts
I abandoned the Youtube Dashcam channel that I had. I had this for many years but never used it. To be honest, I hate editing Youtube videos, I find it too time consuming. I’m much more a person who likes uploading raw videos, and people can go from there.
The reason I did this is because Youtube keep amending their affiliate criteria. There have been 3 times when this criteria was inplace for affiliate memberships and quite frankly I’m getting sick of meeting their criteria, or them amending it and screwing people up so they can earn more money
- Youtube Affiliate v1
- This was the best, you originally had to have a certain number of subs, good view count, good account standing, if you got it you were one of the priveleged rare people to get it. Earnings were good because there wasn’t competition
- Youtube Affiliate v2
- The next update Youtube decided that anybody could become an affiliate from Day 1, anybody was monetised. This for me was when Youtube started it’s downfall. As people started then joining up and spamming content hoping to get on the “get rich” bandwagon. The constant them what a lot of people did were “reaction” videos, they offered no content. They just used a title of a popular viral video and “reacted” to it then claimed money from it. This drastically reduced the quality of videos
- Youtube Affiliate v3 (Most recent update)
- The most recent affiliate scheme Youtube does, is that you now need a minimum of 4000 hours of watch time and a minimum of 1000 subscribers before your videos can be monetised. However Youtube can make money from your videos from Day 1. Due to the site becoming more popular, I find they plaster adverts everywhere and it’s becoming frustrating to watch anything. So I made up my mind and said sod it. I’m not going to wait and grow traffic to make money, when I can make money from Day 1
I made the switch and decided to use Newsflare. I’ve previously used this site with Dashcam videos, and sold 2 copies of the same video quite quickly on the site. You receive a 50/50 split with the ad fees on the videos each time the videos are used so you get a share depending on how often they’re used. Obviously quick clips only earn you pennies so to speak, but viral videos can earn you £100’s (if not £1000’s) when the big networks want to buy in. What I like about being an affiliate with Newsflare too is that they put out random “requests” for content in certain criteria, and you can submit your own entries for visibility, if it gets published it makes it far quicker to get into the spotlight from there.
I’ve had a seller contact me recently about one of my videos potentially being used on a Dashcam network for a TV production, so I’ll update future posts with any earnings I receive. I know which network it is, but I won’t reveal it as it may not pan out, plus I don’t want to mess up my figures when posting them in case I want to seperate the earnings I receive from a TV network vs other buyers.
I keep track of my earnings to stay within the £1000 limit for HMRC, after this I’ll be registering as self-employed if it goes over this limit
I did try out Rumble, however I personally don’t rate this. It may work for some, although Rumble appears to have changed to be more “Political” posts now which is exactly what Youtube has become. So content has become very selective over time. I’m mainly going to mention Rumble, because it has a facility where you can get paid for “tagging” videos. It could pan out for some.
The reason I don’t like it is because in order to really make money, you have to give Exclusive ownership of your videos to Rumble for the big contracts. With Newsflare you own the video and licenses, you’re just giving them permission to put it out to their network. Plus they’re also bigger.
Anyway, I don’t want to sound biased, but a lot more of my Dashcam videos will be going to Newsflare, and videos in general to try and boost earnings. I’m also partnering up with more dedicated affiliates so I can drop EPN because their cookies suck for giving you money now.
My proof of earnings on Newsflare below – affiliate link above to join the site. I haven’t uploaded a video in over 2 years, so I expect these figures to start changing because this is now my primary video site for affiliate earnings on videos rather than Youtube affiliate earnings.
