Your hours at what your time is worth, plus the direct spend, against what the video earns. Tells you the break-even view count.
Your day-job rate or a target freelance rate.
Gear, music, stock footage and software, amortised per video.
Ad revenue plus any sponsorship on this video.
From YouTube Studio, or an estimate from the earnings calculator.
True cost $240. Expected revenue $150.
Short by $90 of covering cost.
True cost counts your time as a real cost, not just cash spent. A video that looks profitable on cash alone can still be a loss once your hours are priced in.
Enter the hours a video took, your hourly value, direct costs, length, and expected revenue, and we return a clear profit or loss verdict, not just a bare cost figure.
True cost counts your time as a real cost, not just cash spent. A video that looks profitable on cash alone can still be a loss once your hours are priced in.
Because they are one. Time spent editing this video is time not spent elsewhere. Leaving it out makes every video look more profitable than it is.
No.
From YouTube Studio Analytics, or use the Earnings Calculator here for a rough estimate if you don't have real data yet.