How much money YouTube and Medium pay me in 2024

Mar 11, 2024

Pretty much all of my online entrepreneurial endeavors run through just two platforms: Medium and YouTube.

Yes, I have some ancillary side hustles like affiliate marketing, publishing on KDP, and a nascent email newsletter, but the bulk of my earnings still come from those two aforementioned places.

There are a few reasons I like to run through my earnings publicly from time to time:

It gives me another opportunity to reflect on what is and isn’t working for me
It can serve as inspiration to others who are interested in starting online content businesses (like it did for me early on)
It provides a realistic picture of what you can actually make as an early-stage creator (as opposed to scammy stories and videos claiming you can make $40K a week in no time)
It provides transparency for the make-money-online content that I write

Now typically I’ll write some articles going over these numbers — you can check out a deep dive into my Month 5 earnings on YouTube here, for example — but this month I decided to record a video because I had a lot to say.

In the one below, I go over what I earned on each platform last month, what I think I did well and could have done better, and what I plan to do next.

I hope you enjoy it!

Hey pals, if you liked that vid, there are 60+ more like it over at my YouTube channel — subscribe for more!

Now, if you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you know I do tops-of-the-waves earnings reviews several times a week as part of my Publish Every Day project as well.

Please see below for the latest update!

A roll of American money on a yellow background. — Earnings reviews can be valuable tools for getting better. (Licensed by the author under the Unsplash+ License)

Publish Every Day project update: Day 136

I’m experimenting to see if I can make enough money to quit commuter life within a year by publishing every day on various platforms and putting my earnings into passive income investments.

How much I need to retire: $250 CAD per day

What I earned on Day 136: $34.86 (writing) + $2.42 (YouTube) = $48.90 total

Publish Every Day project update: Day 136

Publish Every Day project update: Day 136 (day-by-day)

What I’ve published the last few days:

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