If you're anything like me, then your four-you-page is filled with YouTube automation guru's flexing outrageous, outrageous results.

If you're anything like me, then your four-you-page is filled with YouTube automation guru's flexing outrageous, outrageous results. Well, I've been trying it out for myself to see if those results are actually achievable or if it's just too good to be true. Welcome back to the YouTube automation series where I try and launch my own YouTube automation channel from scratch all on my own with minimal financial investment to see if it really is possible. If you haven't seen the other episodes, then head over to my page to catch up. But today, I'll discuss how we're going to move forward with future videos and talk about some problems that have been on my mind. First off, I've been doing some extra research into YouTube shorts and originally I thought the RPM, the amount of money that you made per thousand views was somewhere around 20 cents, but apparently it's much closer to 5 cents. Now, I'm sure this can still vary quite a bit, but assuming the worst 5 cents per thousand views is real low. And seeing as I'm not fully automating the process and I'm doing everything myself, the amount that I can make versus the time that I'm spending to make the videos might not be I would need 40 million views per month just to make minimum wage. Now, if we compare that to long form videos, the lowest RPM is usually somewhere around $2 per thousand views, which would mean I'd only need 1 million views per month to be making minimum wage. And seeing as I have more experience with long form content anyway, I'm thinking about trying out some long form videos, but that doesn't mean I'll be giving up on shorts just yet. It seems like the channel has at least some potential and we learned in the last episode that we can proved the shorts by having better hooks, lying less on AI generated video and making the videos themselves much shorter. The YouTube shorts audience also tends to be a bit younger with shorter attention spans, so I think catering the videos towards this audience a little more would be a smart move. And I'd also like to find a way of automating the process a little bit more to make it a bit more realistic to release regular shorts. But that's the name of the game. You don't have to start perfectly, you just have to start and learn along the way. And that's exactly why I created this to learn along the way and document everything that I learn so that you can learn along with me. And no, I'm not a guru. I don't sell a course and this series will show everything zero gate keeping. So if that sounds like something you'd like to see, then drop a like and comment for the algorithm and press the follow button to follow along with the journey. In the next episode, I'll show some specific examples of the types of shorts I want to be creating and we'll discuss some tactics for how we can start to make some long form content. See you there.