Nah, if you're buying ads the CPM cost is between $4-$10. That's per 1000 impressions. So if you wanted to buy a million ad impressions from youtube it would cost between $4,000 and $10,000. Then youtube only pays 55% of that to the content producer, then 30% of people are using adblock, so you're left with a much more modest $1540 - $3850 for your 1 million view video. This is why people put out a video every week instead of making one video and retiring.

Nah, if you're buying ads the CPM cost is between $4-$10. That's per 1000 impressions. So if you wanted to buy a million ad impressions from youtube it would cost between $4,000 and $10,000. Then youtube only pays 55% of that to content producer, then 30% of people are using adblock, so you're left with a much more modest $1540 - $3850 for your 1 million view video. This is why people put out a video every week instead of making one video and retiring.