You earn about 10X less RPM (revenue per thousand views) from YouTube Shorts compared to long-form videos.
Why?
Because the music industry takes 50% off the top of YouTube Shorts revenue, then your views are stack-ranked against all other views in each country and you earn 45% (not 55%) of the remaining Creator pool allocated to you.
In other words, you earn very little from YouTube Shorts revenue, far less than regular video ad revenue.
Chapters
4:03 – Sports car in Dubai (and a house)
4:30 – Freedom! renovating a Dubai villa
8:04 – George’s personal channel
9:01 – Final words by George
12:51 – Freedom! mission statement