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YT-501 YouTube track Year Five YouTube Track

The YouTube Business

Channel P&L, when to hire, format portfolios, longevity case studies.

Lectures
8
Total runtime
4h 1m
Attendance minimum
2h 1m

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. YouTube Partner Program: How to Make Money on YouTube The revenue surfaces a channel actually has, and what unlocks them YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 4 min
  2. Shorts in the YouTube Partner Program: Eligibility, Ad Revenue Sharing & Analytics Why two formats on the same channel earn at completely different rates YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 4 min
  3. Session 5, Part 2: Financial Projections Building the channel P&L: driver-based revenue, cost structure, and defensible projections MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 81 min
  4. Start-Up Compensation and Hiring When to hire, which role first, and how to pay in cash versus upside Stanford Graduate School of Business 2 Peer institution 75 min
  5. Disruptive Innovation Explained Why a format that is working today is the thing most likely to kill you Harvard Business Review 1 Ivy League 8 min
  6. Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma The format portfolio: exploiting the proven show while exploring the next one StanfordLEAP (Stanford GSB) 2 Peer institution 7 min
  7. The Secrets of Longevity: Pioneering Global Beauty with over 150 Years of History Longevity case study: reinventing repeatedly without losing the brand's core Columbia Business School 1 Ivy League 43 min
  8. Practicum · working creator How the YouTube Creator Economy Works A creator who runs several channels and a studio as one business takes the industry's revenue structure apart from the inside: what the advertising line is actually worth, why direct sponsorship and creator-owned distribution exist, and who sets the price in each case. Lecture 1's list of revenue surfaces and Lecture 6's exploit-while-you-explore posture, costed out by someone living on the result Wendover Productions P Practitioner 19 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Wendover Productions — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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