Youtube Superstars: How Much Do They Earn?

Posted by Andrew Goenardi on 17 Jun, 2011 in Featured, General Matters, Headline | 0 comments

I remembered when my friends and I were watching Freddie Wong‘s channel for the first time and our reaction was something like “THAT’S AWESOME!!!”.

And then one of us pop out the question.. “Hey, they must be so rich, they can make awesome videos every week using expensive equipments that cost thousands of dollars”

Really?

Well, apparently it’s the other way round!

How can they make such a good video every week, with that much amount of work… it’s simply because they earn money with their YouTube channels! Apparently, when done right, a YouTube channel is  a cash cow.

The Nigahiga Case

Let’s take a look of NigaHiga.

Nigahiga has about the highest number of subscribers on YouTube. This guy makes funny skits and comedy videos that gone viral.

He reportedly make about $151,000 a year! That’s $12,583 per month, $3,146 per week or $629.17 per day!

Where did he get all that money from?

According to this site, Youtube partners make money from several ways.

The first is from video views. Every 1000 person viewing the video will bring home about $2.5 to $5.

At $2.5 per 1000 views, if you get 3,000,000 views, that’s about $7500 at the minimum! And that’s per video! Let’s imagine these superstars with dozens of video with over 3million views.. how much money do they make? Ka-ching~!!

The most popular stars like Nigahiga will earn $5 per 1000 views, which sums up to approximately $5000 per video he put up (I believe should be more, as he has at least 3 million views per video).

And that, sir, is a good $$$  for something that you really enjoy doing.

($_$)

Still think that’s a modest sum of money? According to the previous site, the second way for people to make money from YouTube is through Channel views.

A youtube partner will make $.01 per channel view. If a channel has 1,000,000 channel views, the person will make $10,000.

Nigahiga got 141 million channel views. So he has made $1,410,000 from channel views alone. One million dollars!

And that’s still not enough to make us common viewers drool. These youtube partners still make money from video ads and sponsors. And they also sell T-shirts if you notice.

So is anyone interested to become a YouTube superstar? Just grab a HD cam like Flip or whatever, record your funny ideas and make it viral!

Aw Yeah!

Posted by Andrew Goenardi on 17 Jun, 2011 in General Matters | 0 comments

Yesterday 2 weeks ago I wrote a post about orang terkeren di Surabaya. Finally made it !

1. Go to Google.com
2. Type “Orang terkeren di Surabaya”
3. Click I’m Feeling Lucky
4. PROFIT

Lol. If you know what the phrase mean, please drop a comment below.

How to Relax NOW

Posted by Andrew Goenardi on 14 Jun, 2011 in General Matters | 0 comments

My friend just posted this on Facebook and I think it is amazing! Go try it now

1. Get out your drink of choice.
2. Open these 3 links on your favorite browser:
   - On the first tab: http://goo.gl/NcPH
   - On another tab: http://goo.gl/uPVMN
   - On the last: http://goo.gl/h1W6r
3. Sip drink of choice.
4. ????
5. PROFIT!!

The Cure of Procrastination

Posted by Andrew Goenardi on 10 Jun, 2011 in Featured, Headline | 0 comments

Procrastination.. I love writing on this topic because this is another way for me to procrastinate my job..

Do you Procrastinate?

I do. Well, not all the time (finger crossed) but now everytime I do, I would remember what my girlfriend told me once:

“If you waste 1 minute every single day, in 1 year you would waste 360 minutes, and that’s 60 hours of wasted time”.

Anyway, let’s just get straight to the point, as time is money.

Here are some “medicines” that you can try to cure procrastination.

Time Management

If you are wasting too much time on Facebook, then set aside some time to only do Facebook. Read your status updates, see those photos, etc all you like during the time. After the specified period of time, close it and don’t ever open it again (and promise yourself to do 100x push-up if you do);  instead, do your work like you are supposed to!

Take a break once in a while.

Chop The Hour

This is something that I learned from a good friend of mine; he chopped his time into tiny block of 10 minutes. I have tried to put this into practice and it worked great. Simply set a timer and for every task that you are doing, try to solve it within 10 minutes.

If the task is a big one, just chop it into tiny pieces.

I adjusted mine to 15 minutes.

Task Management System

Succesful time management always requires a good task management system  a.k.a to-do-list. I don’t care if you are using your phone or simple, plain paper, make a to-do-list and do it. I believe almost every single phone in the world right now has to-do-list application built in, so why not use it?

I found that Remember The Milk is the best at this game.. they can remind you by email and even SMS. You can set to-do-list from your PC  and then get reminded straight to your phone. Also if you are using iOS, they have it as an App too, just search RTM in the appstore. I believe they also have an app for blackberry and android as well.

Read Coffee at Andrew’s

It’s better than procrastinating!!

So that’s my few tips to help reduce wasted time.. Thanks for reading!

Barrack Obama is Sick of His BlackBerry and So Am I!

Posted by Andrew Goenardi on 5 Jun, 2011 in Featured, Headline | 3 comments

Are you using a BlackBerry?

According to Business Insider, Mr Obama wants an iPhone and criticized BlackBerry at a recent event. Now this one is coming from the President of the United States, who was well known of his fondness of Blackberry Phones.

I guess it’s pretty normal that after years of using the same operating system, seeing everyone near you getting the “shiny apple stuff” a.k.a the iPhone, you will be fed up with the berry.

Here’s what he said (from BusinessInsider.com)

At a Chicago fundraiser Head Obama wаѕ listened mаkіnɡ thе following criticism аbουt hіѕ BlackBerry: “Thе Oval Office, we always thουɡht we wаѕ going tο hаνе unequivocally сοοƖ phones аnԁ stuff. I’m Ɩіkе, c’mon guys, I’m thе conduct οf thе United States. Whеrе’s thе imagination buttons аnԁ things аnԁ thе hυɡе screen? It doesn’t happen.”

Ha! It seems that it’s true that everyone wants bigger screen and Apple logo on their phone.

Blackberry Users Want To Switch To iPhone

According to the very same article, an assessment from researchers on Crowd Science in March 2010 revealed that 39% of current Blackberry owners would certainly switch to an iPhone once their contract expired. They said BlackBerry is too business oriented and lacking the fun things.

Me Too!

So, just like Mr Obama, I too am sick of my blackberry, a Bold 9700. Here’s why:

1. It emits nasty radiation (it becomes very very hot when you use it for couple of minutes),
2. browsing is very slow, and
3. the apps are darn expensive.

Talking about the apps, I invested in few apps that just make this thing perform better.. like network accelerator, memory booster, and stuffs like that.

Heck, why do I have to buy $10 per apps to make this thing run faster? And the clock thingy is still there!

“C’mon phone, don’t freeze up!!”

But I Can’t Let You Go, Baby

However I can’t afford to part with my BlackBerry. No, it’s not about the Blackberry messenger (which you can easily substitute with WhatsApp by the way), but it’s all about the connectivity, namely the push email service.

Receiving emails, reading them, and replying them are so stupidly simple I can even write replies without looking at my phone, thanks to the QWERTY keyboard. As I am dealing with lots of emails on daily basis, this flawless integration is very important to my workflow.

I imagined that I won’t be able to do that if I switch to those giant-touch-screen phones.

Sadly that’s the only positive thing that I can think of my BlackBerry right now, and it still can’t kill my urge to switch into other phone.

So are you using a Blackberry? Do you like it or do you hate it? Drop me some comments below!

Groupon Filed For IPO, Uses Non-GAAP

Posted by Andrew Goenardi on 3 Jun, 2011 in Featured, General Matters | 0 comments

Groupon, the largest and the piooner of social group buying site, has just filed for their initial public offering. This has brought my attention to its financials.

One of the thing they highlighted is they chose to use a non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principle)  by using their own metric called  CSOI - adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income. Groupon disclosed in the filing that CSOI reports the company’s operating income EXCLUDING some major expenses like “online marketing expense, acquisition-related costs and stock-based compensation expense”.

Now, using that unconventional metric, Groupon generated adjusted CSOI of $81.6 million in the latest quarter, and $60.6 million for all of 2010.

But hey, the excluded cost of marketing and acquisition are very important; with $263.2m spent in marketing alone last year, and $203.2m in acquisitions last year.

When calculated using generally accepted accounting principle, Groupon reported a $456.3m loss last year!

Wow.

In a nutshell, I believe that using CSOI method will make make it hard to consider Groupon’s profitability.  Why? Marketing expense for such kind of business indicates their growth (it’s point of marketing is to acquire new subscriber), and ignoring them is simply ridiculous.

Orang Terkeren Di Surabaya

Posted by Andrew Goenardi on 3 Jun, 2011 in General Matters | 0 comments

Tahukah anda siapakah orang terkeren di surabaya? Setelah proses pemungutan suara yang berlangsung selama bertahun-tahun oleh warga hutan , maka telah diputuskan bahwa orang tersebut tak lain dan tak bukan adalah Andrew Prasetya.

Siapa sih Orang Terkeren di Surabaya?

Ya, Andrew Prasetya adalah orang terkeren di Surabaya!

Saya tidak tahu harus menulis apa lagi di sini, tapi kalau anda datang ke blog ini karena mengetikkan orang terkeren di surabaya di Google, maka selamat, anda telah menemukannya! Dan juga selamat datang di blog saya

Foto Orang Terkeren Di Surabaya

Bagaimana sih wajahnya? Berikut ini tampangnya ketika masih muda belia, hehehe:

Syarat menjadi Orang Terkeren Di Surabaya

• Orang terkeren di Surabaya harus manusia, bukan alien atau hewan.
• Orang terkeren di surabaya nama depannya harus dimulai dari huruf A
• Lebih gila lagi, orang terkeren di Surabaya huruf terakhir dari nama depannya harus W
• Huahahaha..

I don’t know what should I write in here, but if by chance you did came here by googling orang terkeren di surabaya, then once again congratulations mate, you have found him! And welcome to my blog

Bagaimana Menjadi Orang Terkeren Di Surabaya Nomer Dua

Oo jadi anda takjub karena saya adalah yang nomer satu? Anda ingin menjadi yang nomer dua? Boleh tapi jangan rebutan ya! Caranya:

1. Add facebook saya dan bilang “saya ingin jadi orang terkeren di surabaya” ketika anda meng-add saya.
2. Tulis status ini di FB anda: “@Andrew Prasetya Goenardi orang terkeren di surabaya loh!”
3. Enjoy, anda officially adalah orang terkeren di surabaya nomer dua.

Tulisan ini tidak bermaksud menyinggung pihak manapun dan hanya dimaksudkan sebagai lelucon dan test optimisasi Google oleh saya. Bila anda merasa tersinggung karena saya telah mengaku sebagai orang terkeren di Surabaya, saya persilahkan anda ‘memukul’ saya dengan cara menge”poke” saya di facebook.