One of the most exciting things about YouTube is all the
partners building businesses around doing what they love. We now have thousands
of partners who are making video creation a full-time endeavor. And, we’re
listening to feedback and working to improve the process of earning money on
YouTube.
So, in an effort to ensure we deliver our partners the most
accurate and consistent financial performance data for their videos, we are
making some changes in how YouTube interacts with AdSense. Starting April 1,
2013, AdSense will no longer calculate and report AdSense for Content Host
earnings for YouTube partners. Instead, AdSense earnings from YouTube videos
will only be calculated by YouTube and displayed in YouTube Analytics.
What does this mean for
you as a YouTube partner?
First, expect no change in how you are paid. The payments tab
in AdSense will show your monthly YouTube payments as one total amount as you
will continue to be paid via AdSense. Rather, this change means that if you
want to view your YouTube financial performance, you should go to
YouTube
Analytics where you can continue to find a comprehensive view of all
your sources of earnings for your YouTube videos. YouTube Analytics has
improved the timeliness of earnings reporting to within 24 hours after the end
of the day, Pacific Time. You can still view page views and clicks and also
manage ad blocking in the AdSense interface for your YouTube videos. If you use
other AdSense products, their calculation and reports will be unchanged in the
AdSense reporting interface.
Have you ever wondered what the difference between AdSense
earnings and YouTube earnings was? As a bit of background, many YouTube
partners have ad earnings from two sources: auction-sold ads (AdSense earnings)
and reserve-sold ads (YouTube earnings). YouTube serves the optimal ads when a
viewer watches the video. Previously, AdSense calculated and reported the auction-sold
AdSense earnings. YouTube calculated reserve-sold and miscellaneous earnings
and reported both AdSense and YouTube earnings. Now, having only the YouTube
system calculate all your earnings will simplify and streamline your video
reporting.
We take accurate financial calculation and reporting very
seriously, and believe this change will reduce reporting confusion and prepare
all our partners for new ways to grow their earnings.
I'm youtube partner almost 3 years now, my channel is in spanish language, sorry for my bad english, being a youtube partner for me is the same thing if I'm partner or not because I have only 11.000 subscribers and to make some money u need to have millions of subs and I don't have that maybe one day I will. I love youtube and I love the new layout congrats! I hope with my new trailer I can have more subscribers, but I don't know why the number of my viewers are going down well, Im gonna keep making videos no matter what ;) cheers ;)
ReplyDeleteAlfredo Kondraski (El Incoherente) http://www.youtube.com/UruguayoIncoherente
Im Noticing the same problem, But i am going to produce tons of content!
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DeleteHi,
DeleteEveryone I have figured out how to view your earnings for the day in Google Adsnese. Go sign into Google Adsense and at the top there is a link that says "View Full Reports" Click that. Then down at the bottom you will see "Hosted AdSense for Content" that is clickable. One you click that look over to the very right you will see "Estimated Earnings" and presto! There are your earnings for that time! I know its a couple of more steps but its sure a heck of a lot easier to go there then using "YouTube Analytics"
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OMG Thank you so much! You are life saver. Adsense wrote in their article that they were doing us a favor by doing this and were only doing what people wanted. This is such BS its ridiculous. I really don't know why they stopped doing that-- its so stupid and its like a step backwards.
DeleteMust have been taking up too much bandwith or something or extra work.
Sometimes I just don't get GOOGLE ADSENSE-- its like they want you to work for everything and make it as hard as possible on you, for some Godly unknown reason
What is the difference between estimated earnings and TOTAL earnings? I never got that one. Then there is a 3rd one called FINALIZED earnings! ( I guess what you really get)
DeleteTOTAL EARNINGS are a lot higher than both estimated and finalized so what gives with that?
signed
Puzzled
It would be nice to have screenshots within this post so we can begin to understand how it will look.
ReplyDeleteI concur
DeleteThat is going to be beyond annoying. I like to check all my earnings in one go on adsense. I almost never go to Youtube analytics to view my earnings because the reporting is several days behind adsense.
ReplyDeleteFollow adsense earning by doing this:
DeleteAdsense > View full report > click Hosted Adsense for Content > Total earnings / 1,236 = Estimated earnings (auction-sold AdSense earnings)
That's all, everything else remained unchanged.
This gives you Total Earnings, but not estimated earnings; which is not shown on the main Adsense page, but shown there, interestingly enough. But, this number can be gotten by doing VIEWS x RPM. The estimated is not being show; at least in my Adsense panel. I'm going to see how my approx. percentage formula holds up as new data comes in... (posted below)
DeleteWhat about getting daily reports? I like to track my earnings daily, so I can keep on top of things.
DeleteIt is no more... That's what this whole fiasco is all about... :(
DeleteBUT WHY is it no more? Was it too much skin off ADSENSE's backs?
DeleteWhat is couple of extra figures? Many UT Partners love to look at their daily stats, so they can see how they compare to previous days and perhaps make some changes, add or subtract different ideas.
Why does ADSENSE continue to try and make it more difficult to find out this information? What purpose does it serve? After all , Google is getting paid from our hard work too. Would it not make more sense to make it easier, more efficient and user friendly, than to make life hard on us?
No one wins, when things are made to work worse. I don't mind change-- change is good, if it benefits one and makes life better-- this HOSTED content change, however, make NO SENSE for AD SENSE! Opinions on why they did this?
RE: "YouTube Analytics has improved the timeliness of earnings reporting to within 24 hours after the end of the day, Pacific Time."
ReplyDelete-It's 3/27 2am-ish PST now. Estimated earnings in YT/analytics is showing data from 3/24.
The near real-time data for hosted adsense for content is a MUST to be able to gauge traffic/earnings through the day. Like Knittingand, I almost never check yt/analytics due to the unusable lag. I have no problem with consolidating to one place to view reports. But, having those reports be realtime and/or even on-time on a regularly basis is crucial to being able to quickly analyze/access any problems with videos/traffic (do any type of testing) in a usable way. I would go beyond what Knittingand said in describing the future change as "beyond annoying" to just plain "broken." I foresee a lot of going to yt/analytics and clicking refresh 20+ times a day; w/ fingers crossed hoping for any kind of earnings data to appear (in addition to checking adsense for other ad products).
I'm truly saddened by this change, but it is what it is. G&YT knows what's best, right? Anyway, as long as payments are on-time, I guess that's all that matters in the end...
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DeleteRE: "...YouTube Analytics has improved the timeliness of earnings reporting to within 24 hours after the end of the day, Pacific Time..."
DeleteEarnings promptness update: Now = 3/28 3:57pm PST; Earnings data in YT = 3/25. 24hrs after end of day 3/26 would be 3/28 at midnight (00:00 PST). It is now 15 hrs 53 minutes after the 'end of day 3/26 +24hrs window'...
...25hrs after the 'end of day 3/26 +24hrs window' and still stuck on 3/25 for estimated earnings in yt/a.
DeleteWhen 3/26 earnings posted, so did 3/27. But 3/27 was still late by the 'end of day PST +24hr' rule. I'm thinking about outsourcing the checking of estimated earnings updates and starting a blogspot that people can subscribe to to know when earnings have updated. What may be worth some adsense monies...
DeleteHey
ReplyDeleteDo I still need an Adsense Accoount then to be a YouTube Partner?
Yes, if you want to get paid! :)
DeleteViewing earnings a day after the fact rather than in real time is not "the most accurate & consistent performance data" ... and I'll believe it when I see it. Analytics is notorious for behind behind - when it's not flat out broken, or making corrections for incorrect reporting. Completely aside from the fact that partners with multiple monetized accounts will have to go through much more work to see what their total earnings look like.
ReplyDeleteAnother issue is for those who have multiple channels and now must log into each Youtube account to see the revenue rather than conveniently being able to view it in one place.
ReplyDeleteDidn't even think about this. Man...
DeleteI concur
DeleteI Have Many YouTube Channels.. Like 20+... Adsense showed all my views combined... Now What..? I used to know what I was making by the hour... Now What..?
Deleteyep. my thoughts exactly
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ReplyDeleteWe will soon have the option to view earnings at either Adsense or Youtbe, it has to be a good thing. Although I will still be going to Adsense for my data....
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with the posts above, the delay in Analytics is a BIG problem, not to mention the fact that Youtube only reports revenue in USD, I don't wan't to convert it manually to euro every time I check my earnings!!
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping this is all a huge April Fools Day joke. Would be an epic one...
ReplyDelete*Fingers crossed*
(for it to be a joke and to see an earnings data update soon)
I concur although I would like a breakdown on earning by each video. Hard to figure which ones are actually earning vs just getting more views.
Deleteand only showing numbers on the top 10? So bad. I guess all the "little earners" aren't good enough to get big boy analytics like the Machinima's of YT...
Delete"I'm hoping this is all a huge April Fools Day joke."
ReplyDeleteUgh ... me, too. This is HORRIBLE for people with multiple YouTube channels. I have to check each one and add them up EVERY TIME I want to know my total earnings ... SMH. Seriously. =(
I concur although I would like a breakdown on earning by each video. Hard to figure which ones are actually earning vs just getting more views.
Delete"You can still view page views and clicks and also manage ad blocking in the AdSense interface for your YouTube videos."
ReplyDelete-so it's going to be like how it is now, but with the most important columns blank? I see what they mean by "simplifying" reports now...
Lol! Exactly. Google's good at screwing up their own products. "Hmmm, how can we make it harder for the people making us money?"
DeleteI really hope you guys will provide a way to check "combined DAILY earnings" for partners with multiple YouTube channels. Because if not then this is no way an improvement. It will become HELL for YouTube partners with multiple channels to check their total DAILY earnings from now on. And I am only asking for DAILY not even REAL TIME like the way things are right now (which is PERFECT).
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you guys did not think of this ... can't believe anyone would let this idea go through. I am sorry but it's unbelievably ridiculous to be honest .....
See my post below... I have no clue what's going on over there...it's either they don't care or just not there...
DeleteYeah.. A group of 'Highly Trained Monkeys' sat around a table and this was their conclusion...!
DeleteAfter getting this notice in adsense: "As of Apr 1, 2013, YouTube Hosted AdSense for Content reporting will be managed at YouTube Analytics. Learn more."
ReplyDeleteI clicked the LEARN MORE, then clicked the HELP to contact support for further clarification about the new changes and concerns about reporting delays as detailed in this blog post's comment thread. This is the response I finally receive...LOL (totally off topic, unhelpful, canned/automated); April 1st and beyond is going to hurt:
Hi,
For information on your view count, please see this recent Help Center article:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=175736.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Team
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You are simplifying earnings reports by not giving us any (until 3 0r 4 days later) thanks a lot.
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DeletePerfect response. I depend on those earnings reports. This is ridiculous.
DeleteExactly! And if you manage multiple channels, it's a nightmare! Really, YouTube. It was fine the way it was. It is NOT fine now.
DeleteThere's the truth of it! You would think YouTube/Google would care about what the people that give them CONTENT to make MONEY off of want.
DeleteThey've made it much harder for us to track what we're being paid and can no longer get any indication of real time earnings. This makes it easier for us NOT to be paid properly.
Surely that's not their intention, is it?
https://www.youtube.com/youtube?feature=inp-vm-jke
ReplyDeleteNice april fools joke, how about now doing some real work and NOT taking hosted adsense for content out of adsense...
omg that's not good idea.... i must check now 2 acc at yt and dont know how much i get money per day at this day because i must wait for refresh analitycs... bad yt bad.
ReplyDeleteIts Ok but youtube analytics is damn slow even then stats of march had not yet updated and earnings in adsense are always lil higher than in youtube analytics
ReplyDeleteSimplified?! I can only think this can be more simple for YouTube as my certainly isn't more simple for users. I'm grateful now that I don't have a second channel as after reading the commets here I see the problem this change presents. Yet even so now we won;t be able to see accurate earnings until days after plus the YouTube analytics are in US dollars not my home currency of UK pounds so I'll have to open up a site to convert the earnings myself. Simple? lol. Please say this is an April Fools joke
ReplyDeleteSo you've just made it even more difficult to tell when your account is being click bombed... clicks with no payment will no longer be an indicator in the AdSense account. Basically the only indicator we had.
ReplyDeleteEither YouTube needs to make their ststs real time, or we should get a full version of Analytics (with AdSense integration) or you should just leave things along. It difficult enough to tell what's going on with your YouTube account without you removing the only real time data.
So, it wasn't an April Fools joke...
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: So in Adsense, currently, you'll still see 'Hosted Adsense For Content' in the Product Column and corresponding Page Views, Clicks, Page CTR, CPC, and Page RPM. Just no Estimated Earnings (="simplified" [by one very important column]).
So, if you really wanted to know a very, very approximate earnings number, you could do this (theoretically):
Find out your rough "earnings percentage" (ie, your cut) and use that as a multiplier to get at the missing number in Adsense with the numbers you DO have. So, for however far back you want in the Adsense reports for your hosted stuff only, do Clicks x CPC or RPM/1000 x Page Views. This will give you the total Ad money earned ("Total"). Then, take the corresponding "estimated earnings" for that same period and divide it by "Total". Use this "percentage" to multiple by whatever you see at any given time in Adsense reports now to get an approx of estimated earnings (ie, Clicks x CPC x "percentage" OR RPM/1000 x Page Views x "percentage" = approx. of estimated earnings).
I know it's convoluted and crazy, but that's going to be my final word on the situation. Good luck to everyone!
Oh and I hope you get chosen for the best video in the world of all time...pfft...
Happy April Fools Day!
Actually, use RPM/1000 x Page Views vs. Clicks X CPC, it's more accurate...
DeleteAlso, seems like Total Earnings are available in Adsense...(as Daniel posted above) so use that number X your percentage for very approx. estimated earnings...
"Daniel WinzerApril 1, 2013 at 1:37 AM
Follow adsense earning by doing this:
Adsense > View full report > click Hosted Adsense for Content > Total earnings / 1,236 = Estimated earnings (auction-sold AdSense earnings)
That's all, everything else remained unchanged."
this is strange, as its more complicated, we have to log into multiple accounts /cms's and i just checked my earnings in YT are 3 days behind, this is sooo un-real time
ReplyDeleteespecially when you are running a business from YT and have employees.
it was better when it was all in one place, adsense.
This is backward movement Google... Come bring back Adsense to Youtube Partners! It is easier for me to check my revenue at one time on Adsense.
ReplyDeleteI have about 4000 videos on YouTube and 5 websites with AdSense code. I haven't touched the code in probably 5 years. It's all been on auto-pilot. I noticed this morning that no ads are appearing anywhere. My code is still there and I haven't changed my settings. Any ideas?
ReplyDeletegains from youtube or register in google adsense
ReplyDeleteI have two YouTube accounts I earn revenue from, so does this mean I have to check both of them and combine the earnings to see how much I'm at for the day? This seems like more of a hassle...
ReplyDeleteCan you please explain how this is helpful? I thought google was supposed to be an initiative company. This is the most backwards move I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteYoutube this is my humble request to you dont do this backward integration, i will be highly obliged. This will create lot of hassle for Youtube account holders and gives uncertainty to users daily income. Dont do this if you really love us, thnx.
ReplyDeletedoes anyone have a youtube account manager? maybe worth contacting them.
ReplyDeleteI find this backwards move really strange... :s
I have been Partner for a little under a year now and although im not full partner im enjoying making videos.
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/xoxkissablebeautyxox
Does anyone know if we can exactly see how much we are earning on a hourly/Daily basis?
Im just a little confused thats all.
Thanks
Check my post above for a simple way to calculate...
DeleteSarah, what is the difference between a partner and a full partner? i thought it was just once your a partner, your a partner.
ReplyDeleteto answer your question, that is correct we can no longer see earnings on a hourly/daily basis through adsense.
Some people refer to those partnered before april 2012, who still have the banner option, full partners or legacy partners. But with the onechannel design even that is going away so there's no real difference in the "levels" of partnership anymore
Deleteye thats what I thought, the only real difference in banner but with the new channel it does not matter.
Deleteas a side note, I dont get this whole MCN thing.... whats the point joining an MCN?
So, here we are April 1st & what do I see in analytics? Most recent data is from the 29th. So much for "updates within 24 hours" huh? And what do I see in AdSense? Views, clicks, CTR, CPC & RPM ... everything except for the earnings (dumb). Why couldn't we just view it both ways?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I'm hating this. What is the point? Youtube analytics sucks anyways. I want to know what I'm earning in real time not Possibly a 24 hour time frame? What are they gaining by this? Also, I want all my channel earnings reported in one place. Terrible Idea!
ReplyDeletedo you think this is april fools? I dont get how it makes our lives easier? :-s
ReplyDeleteI can only hope that everything will turn back to normal tomorrow .....
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ReplyDeleteI agree! I'm on youtube for half a year now, and the most fun part is checking my earnings every hour or so. I like to see my earnings grow every day and month and every penny more is a big joy for me. In this way youtube and google take out more and more of the fun part for (new) partners. I didden't like the new layout eighter, but this is much and much worse than that! If you have 2, 3 or more channels this is a huge pain in the a**
DeleteI am a YouTube partner and cannot see an earnings report in YouTube Analytics for either of my channels as it is not a menu option.
ReplyDeleteIf I try to go to the "Estimated earnings report" page by clicking on a link to it in a Google support forum it loads a page with the message "You are not allowed to see this content or it does not exist". But it certainly does exist as Adsense kindly drop money into my bank account every month! :)
What am I missing here?! Any ideas? :)
I really dislike this change. It makes it really hard to monitor earnings between 5 youtube accounts. Sometimes I want a quick total. I know it's only an estimate but an instant ballpark number of earnings is really nice to have in adsense.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting for April 2nd... hopefully this is just a BIG Joke!
ReplyDeleteI thing google adsense teem is fooling others ,we can waiting for opening the big fun bomb
ReplyDeleteNo, this is a HORRIBLE idea. I dont like the new layout, I don't like the new channels, WHAT WAS WRONG WITH IT BEFORE?
ReplyDeleteWhy fix something that isnt broken? I really hope this is just an april fools joke. Its really cool to track your earnings in real time, just like we did before. It helps us study traffic patterns to upload videos at optimal times for the most views, and the highest earnings, both for us and for Google. Now, we can't do that, and we're missing one of the coolest features of being a partner.
The community has spoken, we want NOTHING to do with this idea. Oh, and thanks for the heads up by the way, an email explaining all this would have been great. I've been a partner since 2010 and while I love the program, this is BY FAR the WORST thing to happen to us partners in the last three years. PLEASE UN-DO THIS!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing the ESTIMATED Earning. I new they were estimates. Would you consider returning them any maybe mark them in RED as estimates. I liked seeing an estimation of what I was earning each day.
My point, I knew they were estimation and in 24-48 hours I would get the firm number. I may be the only person but I like watching the estimations on a daily basis.
Thanks
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Deletewhere can I see YouTube earnings.
DeleteI can no longer check my earnings on my phone or tablet app. This has got to be a joke! Please go back to the old system, at least I could check my stats whenever I wanted and not have to wait 25 hrs or more for estimated earnings.
DeleteSo to clarify. I like seeing the daily ESTIMATES of Earnings. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how this change is of any benefit to us as content creators. The rpms do not match the earnings amounts in any calculated way. We could always count on accurate earning information from adsense. We have always had the ability to see historic earnings through YT.
ReplyDeleteYt analytics are buggy and often a week behind. The claim that it has been fixed is really off base. They have not, and will not be fixed. I have no idea why this change has been done. It is completely useless to content providers.
I keep wishing this was just an extension of the sick YT April fools joke about deleting all YT videos. But that's another post
When I retired last June after 33 years, I was ( and still am ) a youtube partner, and doing nicely. I would tell people being retired is just like Christmas , but I don't tell them is that every morning I wake up , I go and check my earnings, and there is always something there..just like when I used to wake up when I was a kid on Christmas morning, there was always something there, but you were never sure what.....well,lately, its been a lot less exciting getting up on Christmas morning, and having reduced revenues , like it really hurts, and now with this new change, it is a pain to find then estimate, then calculate a rough guess as to your hourly earnings...
ReplyDeleteNot sure what they have in mind with this plan, but it surely is counter-productive to every single partner..
is anyone here loving the new system????
This is beyond awful. I REALLY hope this is an April Fool's prank. Please... please be a prank.
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I'm kinda hoping this is an April fools joke too! ... and my Youtube stats are still 3 days behind!
ReplyDeleteMine is 4. Even 48 hours is a lie.
DeleteEven though i will wait till tomorrow to see if this is just a joke before i go on a hate binge, i am pretty sure even google would not make something so stupid up just to screw with people, as a lot of people make their primary income off of YT.
ReplyDeleteI found the adsense dashboard and reporting system very convenient. I didn't ever log in to YouTube analytics (very badly designed in my opinion), as I was fully covered by adsense. Adsens' real time reporting was also a fairly nice feature, as well. Now I have to get used to a very different (in my opinion) reporting system, plus that the android and chrome apps I use are only compatible with adsense... not to mention the USD to Euro conversion as others said. For God shake's Google, YouTube and adsense are of the same company, what's the deal of making everything so complicated ?
ReplyDeleteAs a YouTube partner I cannot believe this new format. I would check my earnings by the hour with Adsense but now that does not seem to be an option. The new system has zeroed me out since Sunday night and I have no idea how much has been earned for today. Why is Google and YouTube going backwards with their tecnology on this? We expect the same level of service or better - not this disaster!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't have said it better. My thoughts exactly Linda.
DeleteI hate the new system too ... I can not see what I have earned and the total estimated monthly earnings on the youtube analytics page is a lot less than what it says on my google adsense page. I have an app that I loved checking because it provided realtime information.
ReplyDelete75 comments and not one single praise... I hope you're listening YouTube :)
ReplyDeleteit will only get worse for them. if it ain't broke dont fix it.
DeleteI absolutely hate this new system. It makes it a complete hassle for partners with multiple channels. This is definitely a step in the wrong direction. By the looks of it, no one is happy about this. I personally believe Analytics is VERY frustrating to use and it never seems to be accurate. Not to mention there is always some kind of problem occurring with YouTube Analytics. I do not feel comfortable at all with tracking my earnings through Analytics. I very much enjoyed the way it was before. I want to be able to see all of my earnings from all websites and YouTube channels in one place. What is the point of YouTube using Adsense if we cannot see what is happening with our money through Adsense itself? This just doesn't make any sense to me and I sure hope there will be changes made soon.
ReplyDeleteEvery now and then YouTube does something that makes you scratch your head gong.... what were they thinking? This tops all the previous disasters.
ReplyDeleteI hope someone from YouTube is reading this and if you are... then read this. New System SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now 77 comments and not one praise!
Who was they guy who changed the recipe for coke, back in the 80's...anyone old enough to remember that >???
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of that move...( but they switched back )
this is HORRIBLE update. I love to watch daily income, mostly all day long, i check in 4 to 5 times to see how it goes, each day.
ReplyDeleteon youtube, earnings are not in my currency, i can't change that,they are late (2 days) and i don't know how many views i had, how much is the CTR, how many clicks and how much is the click value
I don't see HOW this is is an improvement of the adsense program, this is worse, really worse
please get back to the previous adsense, it was clear and simple and easy.
Cause today i have no idea how much i won, i will not know it until after tommorow ???!!!
You need to find a way to update the earnings real time inside youtube analytics.
Dear YouTube. If you guys are indeed "listening to feedback and working to improve the process of earning money on YouTube" ... then PLEASE read all the feedback comments on this page and CHANGE BACK to the way things were before. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI have absolutely no idea how much I've earned today...... It's like running a business with no idea about the numbers. CEO-"How much money did we make today?" Accountant "I don't know but we will figure that out later! this is so much better!" CEO - "You're fired!"
ReplyDeletehaha best analogy !
DeleteThat's exactly the problem.
DeleteWe ARE running businesses, and to be successful our earnings MUST be timely and transparent.
This is no way to run your business YouTube. Please say it was an April Fool.
Even the mobile app I use doesn't work properly now.
DeleteThe problem with Youtube and Google is they have too many "engineers" who always have a "better" way to do things, or know of an "improvement" we'll all "love".
I was click bombed once. I would have no way of knowing if I was with this system, not for a while anyway, and you need to report "invalid activity" immediately.
That is what saved me before, I spotted it within minutes of it happening and reported it.
Like many others here, I also manage a few channels. Who beta tests these "improvements"?? Rocks?? No intelligent human would ever say this was a good idea.
This is one of those changes that actually deals a devastating blow to a system that worked. It won't improve over time, this will always be much worse then previous system.
So let me get this straight. Youtube/Google have today removed EVERYTHING that was useful for everybody worldwide ?
ReplyDeleteI now have to login to all my YT channels and total up with a calculator how much I've earned, and THEN convert it from $USD into GBP, and even then I can't do that for the current day because Analytics is never more up-to-date than 1-day behind... ?
This is going to get the most complaints in the history of Google. You may be in the business of making money, but you're here to serve customers. These changes are nothing but a DISservice, and on a global scale.
What a joke. i just last month started making money with adsense and i like to see how much money i average each day with an app on my phone. now its changed just like that? no emails or anything?
ReplyDeletei really hope this is an april fools joke
Has everyone forgotten what date is today? And there is a big clue in the article. April 1. April Fools Day. This has got to be a prank.
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ReplyDeletei really do not care where it is that i they move the calculations to, but we NEED real time and we need an APP.
ReplyDeleteWe’re botching earnings reporting for all partners**
ReplyDeleteI'd like to meet the idiots behind this genius idea!
LOL. I KNEW this was going to happen... An outpour on 4/1. It was like crickets up til now... Oh, big daddy G & YT... See what you done did...?
ReplyDeleteJust as an FYI, again for those that are just arriving on this post on 4/1 and not reading the previous comments from earlier this week...
ReplyDeleteDaniel Winzer (normal YTer like u) commented...
"Adsense > View full report > click Hosted Adsense for Content > Total earnings / 1,236 = Estimated earnings (auction-sold AdSense earnings)
That's all, everything else remained unchanged."
The number is very close. But, doing a percentage calculation (your cut of ads) to multiply by the total earnings; which can be viewed in this thread above, is the better estimation, IMO.
So, basically G/YT wants us to do our own math...
Deletehttps://www.google.com/adsense/app#viewreports/ag=date&d=today&dd=1YproductY1YAFC_HOSTYHosted+AdSense+for+Content&ss=&oc=&oo=ascending&gm=earnings&co=d&sgs=&drh=false&cc=&ct=td&oet=&ert=&se=&uim=d
DeleteMultiply that by your avg. ad share %age to get approx. est. earnings... That's the best we got right now...
le me... tries to view earns for today....
ReplyDelete'You are not allowed to see this content or it does not exist'. - YouTube Analytics
.Tw@ts
Man, the first thing I thought was April fools when I first posted on the 27th. But, doing an Adsense-wide notification and all that convinced me otherwise. Also, I had heard rumors of this in December 2012. But, if it is, it's a cruel/epic one...
ReplyDeleteReally? damn!
ReplyDeleteI was addicted to my AdSense Account. I would check it at 5:40 am when I get ready for work, all day long when I was in front of the computer and at 10:00 pm before calling it a night. This morning I nearly had a stroke when I saw that my account was $00.00. I Then almost started searching frantically for the problem on my Channel - where my ads down? I left late for work with no solution - very upset. Come home to find out that AdSense is now in all practicality a dead tool. My hands are shaking as I am going through withdrawals... I liked bragging to my wife how much money I was making every hour. Now we will need Marriage Counseling as I have nothing to talk to her about anymore.
ReplyDeleteLOL. You can still see total earnings in adsense... which is a bigger number since it's the value before they take their cut. Now, it'll be even more impressive when you tell your wife that number...
Deleteexample: If i close my YouTube channel.. could my Revenue lost ?
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE, please email AdSense with your comments. Whatever you earn on YouTube, Google/YouTube earns almost the same amount themselves. Though we have ZERO support as YouTube partners (Partner support has not answered any of my emails about problems with my accounts for over a year), YouTube makes six figures a year on my account alone. If we ALL email AdSense (not YouTube) and complain about the arbitrary changes, MAYBE someone from Google AdSense will think to check into this. Email adsense-support @ google.com
ReplyDeleteDid this right when I first hear of the upcoming changes...they replied un-promptly w/...(I sent w/in Adsense, so they must've passed it along to yt...or just a robot sending out helpful information to us sheeple partners...)
DeleteHi,
For information on your view count, please see this recent Help Center article:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=175736.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Team
Revert this horrible change. The original post talks about businesses being built on YouTube. I have one. When YouTube destroys things like this ("In addition to having ZERO SUPPORT, you now have a lot less reporting available! And you have to sign in and out of 8 different accounts to look at outdated data that until now, you could look at in ONE SECOND, along with your other revenue."), all they do is push people to alternate revenue streams. They need to immediately REVERT the changes. Fixes to YT Anayltics will not do. NONE of what they say in the original post is factually correct regarding YT Analytics vs AdSense's interface.
ReplyDeleteThis change might be the worst move by Google. Adsense was a central hub for everything. It displayed real time earnings and clicks, it was a great way to view earnings for multiple accounts, ect. Please tell me this is an April Fool's joke (I really hope so) or else there are gonna be some upset people.
ReplyDeleteLike most of you, I also liked to check my earnings throughout the day with a single click. Why change something that had value to something that seems backward?
ReplyDeleteI bet this is an April Fools joke and the reports will be back to normal tomorrow. I sure Hope!
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ReplyDeleteI found one person on twitter... Patrick Pho...
Deletehttps://twitter.com/dmbosstone/status/317003355971002368
That's one confused person...
Or he works for Big Daddy G or YT... LOL.
DeleteI think we know who came up with the idea now. God I hate this. What exactly is to keep GoogleYouTube from skimming off of our labors more than they already do?
DeleteClass action lawsuit anyone?
i HATE this method
ReplyDeletefirst of all... google has terrible support for its users. all automated q/a !! then this damn thing came up !!
ReplyDeletewhen u become big corporate then you stop caring ab general people's needs !!
ReplyDeleteGoogle: "And you thought the Load More button was the dumbest thing we could dream up. Ha hahhahahaha!!!!"
ReplyDeletegoogle's orkut sucks, G+ sucks, now youtube partner with adsense sucks too
ReplyDeleteI have two questions:
ReplyDelete1) Is there a way to check or calculate the amount of money you are making during the day?
2) Is there a way to see the total earnings or do you need to calculate the sum of all earnings?
Regards,
Squirrelmonkeycom
Check out my comments above regarding approx calculations using avg percentage of past est earnings/total earnings...
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ReplyDeleteThere's no way to get into Analytics on a mobile device, so far as I can tell. I used to be able to check my earnings on Adsense on my phone, but now I have to wait until I can get to a desktop computer to log into Analytics (and then only for data that's at least a day old). There's nothing about this that is in any way good for the users. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Youtube doesn't care and isn't going to respond to any of these complaints.
ReplyDeleteplease un-do this w e all are like the way before
ReplyDeletewhat you have problem to showing our earning on both way
please do this
youtube and google team
UPDATE: Confirming it WASN'T an April Fools Joke...
ReplyDelete4/2/13, 12:38 PST - I gots Page Views, Clicks, Page CTR, CPC, and Page RPM, but NO Estimated Earnings!
Woohoo! Happy April Two, Everyone!
I'm really not one to complain but this was a bad move. Analytics takes more than 24hrs to update it takes days. That's why I don't use. What also scares me is missed data and altered data in the supposed 24hour down time period. Its is way to much down time...who knows what views are being lost (which has happen lately with the mobile views) and revenue being lost. I don't think we should be forced or at least perfect the system before forcing use to take it. I hope adsense/google don't start ebaying us (making changes and not telling us and just posting it on boards and forums)
ReplyDeletevery bad change !
ReplyDeleteThis is terrible, i have more than one account! I want to watch my totals go up!!! Qtf!
ReplyDeleteI Thought Is an Error in My account, But Thank fully is a Change from Youtube and Google Adsense, But Actually I more like the Google adsense Viewing Method Rather than Youtube Analytics :-)
ReplyDeleteExactly how can you call this an improvement ? We're not stupid! Going from a realtime system to a system with a 24 hour delay (at best) is *not* an improvement no matter what way you spin it.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore we can no longer view earnings in our local currency.
Well, next is to see if they can deliver on on-time estimated earnings in yt/a as promised in this post. So, for estimated earnings for 4/1/13, 24 hours after end of day PST would be 4/3/13, 12:01 AM PST.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait!
Very bad Change...
ReplyDeleteAdsense used to change it from $US to £UK now unless I know the exchange rate I have no idea what im getting
ReplyDeleteThis is the worst change EVER! If this is an april fools joke then it it no in the slightest bit funny!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am a YT partner since 2011 with 930+ videos, 43 Mio. views and 50000+ subscribers. I can tell, that the numbers shown in YTanalytics have never been accurate/correct. Views are behind for days (usually 1 week and more), earnings are lower than Adsense (always). 24 hours? 48 hours? Are you kidding me?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was invited to join a style-channel, I asked the partner support, what's their opinion about. They told me to consider, that there may be very little support. Gave me a good laugh...
My worst nightmare came true: YT is changing it's rules over night - and your business gone.
And you really think, they did not consider the consequences for us partners? Oh yeah, they did! They are working on it for months: How to obscure the earninigs instead of making them more transparent... Delaying the reporting for a few days gives you plenty of time to manipulate the numbers...
eliZZZa13
So Many comments but there is no reply from google :'( its proved that everyone hates this system. Please Google switch back to old system
ReplyDeleteWhy does youtube think this is a good idea for content creators? For one now I can't view any of my earning via mobile like I could before on adsense mobile. Youtube doesn't have a mobile version of analytics. Secondly if the 24 hour rule of updating is now in effect, why do the estimated earnings page on analytics still state that it could take up to 7 days to post earnings? -1 for google/youtube on this change.
ReplyDeleteEvery update Youtube become ugliest, count less views and seems to be less user friendly. Is that a plan to sink the boat ? Seems so obvious things are going wrong is there someone onboard with some common sense ?
ReplyDeleteI was really hoping that this would be an April fool's joke.
ReplyDeleteSadly it's not.
This change must be easier for someone, but it certainly isn't the YouTube channel owners. Adsense reporting has always been superior to YouTube reporting. To have to rely on YouTube reports is a nightmare.
Please consider returning the reporting to Adsense.
We would be grateful.
I can not believe that Adsense did not send me ONE SINGLE message about this change. I heard about it on facebook from a friend. I thought the $0.00 earnings was an April fool's day joke (a bad one, because joking about someone's livelihood is not funny).
ReplyDeleteHow did my video affect my earnings yesterday? NO CLUE, because the totals for April 1 are not available yet today on analytics.
My account is currently 4 days behind updating on youtube analytics(so no google currently your 24 hour update is not working for me), also my current currency is Euros, having no means to change from dollars to Euros in the analytics is bad for non dollar users. Please give us this option google! I along with others liked and needed the live estimated earnings option that adsense offered. I find this change to be pretty bad and backwards and also painful for those of us that relied/were used to the old system that worked. If we're going to be told 24 hour updates then that should work, hopefully this is just due to it being the beginning of the month! Basically with your change google, I've lost the right to check most of my results live, can't get my earnings in the currency I use locally, have to wait 4 days to get updated analytics. I also have no way to knowing if I'm getting fraudulent clicks or that there is a problem with my account with such a large delay in earnings updates. As well as it's silly to have to log into both my youtube accounts to get information I could get in one place before. If this new system is to stay in place I want some(if not all) of these problems fixed.
ReplyDeleteFlummoxed,
Jen
Please bring back google adsense page because I don't really like analytics it is too confusing for me. With the old page I could tell in a few seconds what I was making for the month and in real time.
ReplyDeletePlus I don't think April Fools Day was the best day to pull the switch, just saying.
Please bring back google adsense page because - true !
ReplyDeletethis is a joke! youtube only offers you your earning in dollars $$$
ReplyDeleteIm from the UK! so i have to figure out all this math to get an average and then convert it from dollars to pounds £ which is also another estimate
bring youtube and adsense back as one, not happy at all!
Glad I found this information. I did well for the month of March and was very upset yesterday with $0 and then again today when I woke-up. The lag is not optimal, but I will be ok as long as my money is not messed-up.
ReplyDeleteI'm with everyone else here who is NOT happy with the change. Adsense/Google/YouTube, get this resolved, this change makes no sense whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteIt was nice having it all in one place.
ReplyDeleteThis update makes us jump through hoops in order to see earnings. I am from the UK thus use £'s, means I need to convert. On top of this the Youtube analytics are renound for being unreliable when acquiring accurate data.
DeleteMight be worth tweeting this guy @andystack. He's the Product Manager from YouTube who posted the article on the You Tube Creator Blog about this change.
ReplyDeleteI just tweeted him!
DeleteI think this change is TERRIBLE!
ReplyDeleteAs it is now, there is N/A in yesterdays analytics or put another way zero $ dollars.
Yet there was about 100 clicks I saw tally up yesterday.
So at best its not real time as it was before, hoping that it is just delayed.
At worst Google is doing a "Bail-In" and will just steal all the ad revenue.
Either way this is a TOTAL FAIL by Google.
It was fine the way it was.
Come May, after giving you 30 days to work out this new fiasco I will just remove the adsense, no point in being a "partner" for $0.
The people has spoken... GOOGLE, fix this terrible mistake! bring us Adsense back to what it was!
ReplyDeleteits a good way to make people chicken at the end of month !!
ReplyDelete2 days delay in my analytics ....
ReplyDeletei have no idea how much i won yesterday, neither today ... please get back to adsense like it was before, it was perfect the way it was, why did u changed it ????
no one will hear us or care what we say....its all their discretion. My advice...if U r not satisfied, move on to other partnership like RPM or something else.
DeleteThe YT Analytics estimated earnings from 3 channels provides a combined total that exceeds the amount reported by Adsense for the same period of March 2013. That means that the individual video earnings is innaccurate on YT or Adsense is under-paying. one or the other. This has always been the issue and now we only have the inaccurate YT data that does not match Adsense totals paid. Any good accounting would show a final "posted" total for earnings not "estimated". I can understand the word "estimated" being used up to the point of reconciliation. Please fix.
ReplyDeletegoogle knows everything....but they dont care....thats why they have no support except some damn automated Q/A !!
Deleteim new to this whole adsense stuff , but how do i withdraw my payments now , i was just letting the earnings build up and would remove it all in due time, but if its move over to youtube then how will i withdraw it from there?
ReplyDeleteif u r new..let me tell u another problem.....its Address verification. Before 1st April, since earning was being updated in adsense balance almost real time basis... we could know when we r reaching 10usd. when we reach 10usd, then adsense sends address verification letter. but now...since no balance is showing up there...so..no verification process of address till a month completes. SUCKS !!
Deletethanks im still a little hazy on this month for example at the end of the month will just a figure appear in my bank account or do i have to withdraw from yt analtics ? how do i do this as well
Deletebank acc from adsrnse
DeleteHi Joseph,
DeleteYou can't choose when to get paid nor can you let it accrue. Once it reaches threshold ($100) or higher, the payment process begins and your earnings are either snail mailed, or deposited into your bank account.
It's entirely automated.
My question is if a channel of mine disabled on 29th day of month. Then could we get our deserved money via Adsense?
ReplyDeletedoes this mean all our money made via adsense is now gone and we cant get it?
DeleteThis is awful. How can I get global stats on the go now? the adsense app worked great.
ReplyDeleteThis is not simplifying any report because I manage more than 5 YouTube Channels and I will need to check each of the channels to see the performance, and even WORST; 2 days later to see earnings from previous days. Come on YouTube, you can do more than that! Adsense used to display data almost every 10 minutes in real time earnings.
ReplyDeleteI do not like this at all! This is terrible for a guy like me who has several YouTube channels. Now, instead of logging into adsense to see an overall overview of my earnings, I have to log in and out of every single YouTube account and try to calculate what I'm owed through YouTube ads. I hate this idea! Stop changing things on us!
ReplyDeleteThis certainly isn't a simplification. If anything it's a cope out on google's part. I like many of the others on here have multiple partnered/monetized accounts, and liked being able to see how they were all doing at once in Adsense in more or less real time. Just because the people that run Youtube are incompetent doesn't mean that needs to extend to the rest of the google-verse.
ReplyDeletei really dislike this change.
ReplyDeletei hope youtube fixes this to make it easier to see at a quick look how much money i make each day.
i get a nice paycheck $$$ each month from youtube
and i like to keep tabs on my daily earnings,
but now it is hard to figure that out.
:(
Zona Films
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZonaFilms
I can't believe it wasn't an April Fool's joke. This is by far the WORST decision that could have been made.
ReplyDeleteActually the worst decision was monetizing all the youtube accounts, by doing away with the partner program allowing everyone to monetize videos, flooding the system with ad spaces, which resulted in existing vetted yuutube partners to earn less.
DeleteTerrible...Terrible...Terrible...Terrible
ReplyDeleteI have 5 YouTube Accounts.
ReplyDeleteSo now I have to check all 5 account's analytics, then add them up just to see what's happening?
Yeah, thanks Google Adsense.
That makes it so much easier! :GRRR:
There about 100 or so comments against this change. I don't see one supporting it. I see by their silence just how much they care how we feel.
ReplyDeletehere is video that shows how to view youtube earnings in adsense... after 1st april. it works
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JbLcqi_nsI
Hello everyone. I sent them an e-mail and got a reply saying they are working on a way to change this - adding the ability to view all earnings at one place. Waiting eagerly for this update. =)
ReplyDelete"Thanks for writing in and for expressing your feedback about the recent YouTube reporting changes.
We hear you! We've received an extremely high influx of feedback regarding the change, for many of the same reasons you stated. We understand that AdSense was a convenient way for publishers to see an aggregate of reporting from all their channels. Unfortunately, the old reporting system was flawed; it often resulted in inaccurate reporting and over-payments. As such, the best short term solution was to move all reporting over to the YouTube infrastructure to ensure accuracy.
We're paying close attention to the pain points that this report change has caused, and are escalating all of these concerns to the engineers on both the AdSense and YouTube products. Rest assured that it has definitely caught their attention! They'll be working hard to figure out a better long term solution for you, a system that will ensure both accuracy as well as convenience.
We're very sorry for the inconvenience these changes have caused. Please bear with us in the short term as we work to figure out a better long term solution. Thanks for your understanding and patience."
Even if they do improve how we view out earnings, why not wait till they have this new system in place before taking away our adsense data?
DeleteIts like if a car manufacturer came round to your house and slashed all your tyres and when you complained they said "dont worry, we're working on a rocket car!"
I noticed this change on AdSense on April 1st and I hopped it was an April Fool's Gag... I no longer get paid anything for my YouTube content. Really simple; you keep all the money but I still have ads on my videos...
ReplyDeleteThis is the opposite of "simpler." this is both crazy over-complicated and also, not even working.
ReplyDeleteAs of April 1st, I don't get paid anymore. AdSense shows ZERO, YouTube Analytics is NULL! It doesn't even have ZERO! Just plain nothing after April 1st.
AdSense showed me everything up to the minute. Now you're just keeping all the money to yourselves while I still have ads all over my videos.
Splitting for every channel, making people log in and out dozens of times, and on top of that, the data isn't accurate, old, or just plain doesn't exist at all... How is this better for anyone except you; keeping all our money.
If YouTube Analytics is supposed to show this data, you might want to have it actually show something... How much money did I make yesterday? All tools available say NULL or ZERO. Why would you screw up so badly and call it a good thing?
Curious as to what the solution is going to be that they said they are working on .... love the bit about "over-payments" which is probably the real reason the switch was made. I also notice they did not mention a solution for real-time reporting.
ReplyDeleteThis is horrendous and ridiculously unreasonable. this only means either you want to discourage youtube partners or some major goof up has happened from your end. and you would never be fool to make over payments since at the end of every month, your system goes through a thorough check before checks are made. The problem is not just the indefinite delay in reporting. the difference between total earnings and estimated earnings has also become much more. CPC has also gone down suddenly. Plain simple the earnings seem to be 2/3 or even lesser with same amount of views and clicks... this is not done at all specially when livelihoods depended on it. this is cunning, evil, stupid and bogus.
ReplyDeleteQuote "prepare all our partners for new ways to grow their earnings" perhaps the next step will involve rentals? There has to be someform of method in this madness.
ReplyDeleteThis really isn't what I expected as far as improvement, it is a change we have to face. The benefit is seeing more metric about our viewership, precise metric which arrives late about localization and a deeper reading into subs and like ratios, etc.
ReplyDeleteThis will take some time to get a hold of, hopefully they will unify all accounts into one single dashboard (if this is possible) and allow for national currency conversions, and real-time estimated earnings. These seem to be the top 3, VERY important items that were still left off the shelf. Since this is a conversion that was too soon to be made, these glitches are expected; they only want us to have a robust reporting and analytic tool we just have a hard time getting used to an unfinished product.
You CAN however still see your DAILY estimated earnings through AdSense. You can do this:
1) Login to your AdSense account
2) Click on Performance Reports (top navi bar)
3) Click on Products (left navi bar)
4) Under product click on 'Hosted AdSense for Content' (this will soon change to Hosted AdSense for YouTube).
5) You'll see your regular, daily, estimated real-time earnings. Done.
It seems like a few more clicks, but it works and its a decent work around until they complete the transition and migrate us to a better platform. (not that I think this one was ever broken.).
I trust what they are doing, I can see both benefits and cons but to say the least they absolutely rolled this transition out too soon without taking care of real time reporting, multi account and currency conversions.
I am certain this will be resolved, and soon hopefully.
Thanks,
Ilan Patao
This is so confusing. So I click on View Full Reports, then Click on "HOSTED ADSENSE FOR CONTENT". I decided to check yesterday's take.
ReplyDeleteEstimated Earnings show 0, and the Finalized Earnings show another amount. I suppose Finalized Earnings is what I actually made yesterday?
This change makes no sense whatsoever. They complicated something that was simple... what for?