Pinoy YouTubers: Are you one of them?

By: Jeremiah V. Monreal

A path to success, fame, or even unexpected fortune!

Many Filipinos are using YouTube as an escape from reality by watching videos that can hype-up your day or even change your future by making your own shot and then upload it just for fun. This “YouTubers’ era” has a lot to say when you talk about making noise or creating new ideas that can make us smile, cry, and crave for something new.

The country’s biggest and meanest YouTubers just fulfilled their dreams of becoming a famed-singer, blogger, or comedian by just expressing themselves in front of their cameras.

Some successful YouTuber namely Lloyd Café Cadena who is known for his hilarious parodies already carved the Filipino’s hearts and laughs; Mikey Bustos, a Filipino- Canadian blogger that created numerous tutorials and parodies and also; Lincoln Velasquez also known as “Cong” in his YouTube channel “CongTV” who already produced funny and cool segments that hooked millions of viewers.

Now let’s talk about the YouTubers’ income when their uploaded video hits per thousand and million views. The videos they’ve uploaded will only earn every 1,000 views like $1 a month. In today’s “race to richest Filipino YouTubers,” teen celebrity Ranz Kyle has the highest earning of estimated Php 290,000/$5,000 a month because of his massive 1.5 million followers.

On the other hand, Lloyd is still earning an estimated Php 30,000/$600, Mikey who earns Php 40,000/$807, and Cong with his Php 36,000/$729 income per month.

Now, you already knew what YouTube can bring to our lives, its capacity to give chances to the people, and its ability to get our expressions up to the site. Just create your channel, think about fancy stuff and ideas, and wait for your turn to make your own spotlight.