YouTube has been gaining a lot of popularity in South Africa. At first not that many people used YouTube because of the expensive data prices but now that there are cheaper data bundles, people are flooding to YouTube. A YouTube content creator in South Africa needs to have an audience before making money, your audience is the people that subscribe to your channel and watch your videos.
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How many subscribers do you need?
YouTube does not pay for the number of subscribers you have nor does it pay for the likes you get on your videos. The only important factor is the number of views you get on your videos. Now getting a subscribers and video likes will definitely increase the number of views you get on your videos. It’s much easier to release a video to an audience of 500 000 subscribers and get massive views, but not a lot of YouTubers get to that level. YouTube can pay anywhere between 5k – 10k for a 100k views. These sums are in rands.
You need to have between a one thousand to five thousand subscribers for a YouTube channel in South Africa to begin making real money. YouTube is one platform where it’s very possible to make more views on a video than the number of subscribers you have. A person with only 300 subscribers can get around 40k views or even more on a really good video. You need to make 1000 rands before YouTube pays out, You can hit that mark with just about 10k – 20k views on your videos.
