How Much Money Can a Good Tennis Instruction Video Make on Youtube?

[Orson Welles]

I'd be curious to know if anyone has knowledge about what kind of money tennis instructors can make by posting a useful and popular instruction video on Youtube. I'm not talking about situations where Youtube viewers must purchase a video lesson. I'm talking about a free 10-15 minute instruction video that requires the viewer to first watch a 20-30 second advertisement. Let's say that I post such a video and it gets viewed thousands of times for example; does anyone have any idea as to how much money the instructor can make from the advertisements on such an instruction video?

A related question is how does the instructor get the advertisement for his/her video? Do the advertisers come to the instructor/producer of the video once the tip is getting lots of views, or should the producer of the instruction video first contact the advertisers before he/she posts the instruction video? I'd appreciate any advice on this subject because I obviously don't have a clue as to where to start.

 

[Cashman]

Below video will answer all your questions:

Bottom line - nobody is making a living from YouTube advertising unless they’re getting millions of views a month.

There are a bunch of other ways you can make money from YouTube videos - Patreon and product placement are the most common. However, the stuff that internet tennis coaches put up is not meant to make money. It’s advertising to sell whatever they have on their main website.

 

[Ash_Smith]

^^^ You would need to monetise your YT account. Google will place adverts based on views, subscriptions, likes and demographics. I'm not 100% sure what you would receive as the creator in ad revenue, but I know it depends on how much of the adverts people watch or whether they skip them and where they are placed in your content.

Do a google search for monetising YT and ads and you'll get all the info you need.

 

[dominikk1985]

I think generally the rate is like 5 dollars per 1000 clicks or so. There are YouTube millionaires but they are basically posting a multi million dollar views video every week which is hard work because you will lose viewers fast if quality drops off.

If you post 5 100k videos a year you make some money can't you definitely can't make a living from it.

 

[ChaelAZ]

Youtube changed requirements for monetization a bit ago, much to a lot of us smaller producers dismay. I was running a smaller educational channel and was making a bit of pocket change that made it worth while. Had about 600 subscribers and bigger videos where around 50k to 60k views. Lots of thumbs up and good feedback. Not huge numbers by any means, but filled a niche for sure. The new standards require at least 1000 sbuscribers and an average of 10,000 minutes viewed per month, which I don't meet. SO you don't get to just upload a video and start making money. You have to build a community (which I think is a good thing for YT overall).

Odd that Youtbe stated they were trying to improve that quality of content produced for advertisers, but the most popular videos are kids acting like idiots, playing video games and the consumers of those videos of kids with NO discretionary income, or income at all. YT is paying mililions out through advertisers paying millions in, to kids making video of them being stupid, and being consumed by kids who think stupid is entertaining.

Now, there are some legit channels that are really amazing and very worth while too.

Anyway, IF (big IF) you can make decent tennis videos that are getting views in the 10k to 20k range, and you produce at least one per week, you might pay the mortgage, but no other bills. That is why so many YT'ers have so many other revenue channels open for making money.

 

[FuzzyYellowBalls]

I've represented, hired, and consulted with "influencers" and echo what others said. No tennis videos make much money nor will they. You need the million plus subscribers and viewers to get close to a real income. Your target for that many viewers is teenagers early 20s, those that watch more youtube than tv. It's going to be hard to get them to watch tennis. Still worth doing for a hobby or side money or to promote lessons or a product etc.

 

[BetaServe]

You can forget about it. Even Tsitsipas doesn't make good money from his vlogs

 

[Raul_SJ]

I am bombarded with the Florian "Would you like to improve your serve?" advertisem ent. It is practically the only tennis Ad I see. Why doesn't YouTube mix up the ads?

Am I the only one being targeted with this ad?

 

[sureshs]

Google ads will get you money

 

[red rook]

I am bombarded with the Florian "Would you like to improve your serve?" advertisem ent. It is practically the only tennis Ad I see. Why doesn't YouTube mix up the ads?

Am I the only one being targeted with this ad?

Do you like to hit big servessssss? Tennis is much more fun when you hit big serves. Watch me as I use only arms. I averaged 92 miles per hour without using my legs...

 

[heninfan99]

YouTube used to pay more because the supply of content creators was small. Now there's an overload of content creators and the payouts are rather small. Certain subjects make bank but I think the tennis teachers use YouTube these days as an extension of social media to promote their latest training vids or in-person lessons/trips. It's a great marketing & sales tool.

 

[movdqa]

From what I've seen of YouTube creators, you have someone that's good at something move into an area. If the person gets a lot of hits, then competition moves in and the number of viewers gets spread among more creators. You can set up a donation button as well and that works for some and not for others. I've noticed that putting up a list of top donors each day helps encourage other donors. I've seen this in chess, tennis, computer hardware and fitness videos.

I do think that you need good equipment and editing skills and that you need to be regular (as in every day or six days a week) to keep people interested and you need to keep interesting ideas there.

Another approach is Twitch. With Twitch, you have a channel and you broadcast live and people can donate to you. They can also subscribe to you for additional privileges. Subscriptions start at $5 where you split it with Twitch (Amazon). I've seen people that supplement their incomes with Twitch where the amount is decent - these are usually videogamers. There are chess players that supplement their incomes on Twitch as well. The advantage of Twitch is that you can do things live or recorded and there are more payment options including recurring payment.