Runcam don't love me any more (and other news)

g'day welcome back to rc model reviews i've been looking at the numbers looking at the numbers because i guess a lot of people want to know how much money do you make on this rc model reviews channel are you independently wealthy is that a ferrari in your driveway well no it's not i've done some analysts anal analytics analytics because i wanted to know myself exactly where i should be putting on my efforts and the results are quite surprising now my most popular video on this channel is one on ohm's law it's a pretty monday thing there are probably a million videos on ohm's law out there but that video has had 1.7 million views 1.7 million views since it was uploaded and that has earned me six thousand dollars six thousand dollars i earned from that one video considering that video was a whiteboard video with a little bit of bench stuff probably took me a day to make it's not a bad return on investment that's a pretty good return um on an hourly rate there'd be not many people could earn that much money um so great and also that video is quite interesting because i get a lot of inquiries from educational institutions and even companies who request the right to use a copy of that video in their training material and i say go for it sure i mean six thousand dollars it's already paid for itself i don't need more money from that video i'd rather that the information was out there and just an attribution you know the little i see model reviews up in the corner that's all i need to feel happy about that so i freely let people use that under license to to do what you know train other people it's fantastic and it's kind of a it's kind of a reward that people think it's good enough to actually use in professional training material i love it it's great now i want to compare that with the average review and i'm going to look at one of my more successful reviews was the runcam eagle camera it was done some time ago and um it has received a total of 74 000 views nearly 75 000 views that run cam eagle camera review um but whereas the ohm's law video earned me six thousand dollars the runcam eagle review has earned me 177.27 so it's nowhere near as much not as many views and nowhere near as much but the big difference comes when we look at the the figures for last month when i look at the last 28 days on those two videos both have earned a reasonable amount of money one of them certainly a lot the other one you know not too bad um when you look at that in the last 28 days there's a huge difference now in the last 28 days my ohms law video has received 4 000 views and it has earned me 25 it's nothing to sneeze at but the eagle camera review in the last 28 days has had just 28 views one per day and it has earned me five cents and that's the difference between making videos that have what we call residual individual videos that have no residual now the ohm's law has massive residual because ohm's law doesn't change ohm's law was the same 10 years ago as it will be in 10 years time as it is today so that material will always be relevant there'll always be people wanting to learn about ohm's law they'll find that video they'll watch it the ads will earn me a few cents here and there and it'll just keep earning me money over years to come that's a good thing the run cam eagle video it's not going to owe me any more money five cents in a month is you know it's not really a thing and that's the problem with reviews they don't produce residuals now recently i reviewed this the gep rc mark 5 fantastic quad if i was buying a quad tomorrow this is what i would buy because it just ticks all the boxes and that review has had already i think three and a half thousand views three and a half thousand views um and it has earned something i think like about four dollars four dollars three hundred thousand views but it's probably not going to get many more views than that if i'm lucky it might get four and a half thousand views by the time it's basically dropped to zero and that's probably gonna be five dollars something like that five dollars i'll event from that review now i spent over three days i spent probably 20 hours on that review first of all i had to get the products sit it down on the bench have a close look over it see if there's anything i didn't like what i like look at the way it's built and check all the bolts and and then set it up you know activate things and then you know bind it all that sort of stuff then take it out do some test flights make sure it's okay re-tune it because it was way too touchy for my shaky old hands then i had to chase a jet with it then i had to go to the park the next day and do some other flying to to get a feel for it and proximity then when the following day after i made some more tuning changes i went to another park and did some more flying then i had to bring all the footage back and decide what to use what not to use i had to do some talking head to camera video then i had to edit it all up and color grade it and make it look half sensible that was probably yeah 20 over 20 hours of work and i will earn 4.50 from that video and once after the first month i'll probably earn nothing else not like the ohm's law ohm's law video so that video those are the videos i do because i love it i love doing that i enjoy reviewing products like this i really enjoy it i'm certainly not doing these for the money i don't have affiliate links i don't have sponsorships i just want people to know for example in this case this is a really good quad and if it had been a really crap quad you'd have known that too so you would know not to buy it or take it off your shopping list so that's where i provide the service to the community and as my patreon supporters give me the luxury to make reviews that take a lot of time and earn virtually no money it's fantastic because now remember the the eagle review was done back in a time when youtube was actually paying reasonable money per view now it's way way less way way less i get after tax i get about a dollar per thousand views on a review video a dollar per thousand views it's nothing it's really nothing even if i had a hundred thousand views which is an awful lot for review make 100 bucks and 100 bucks is half a day's work in the hands of any professional you know i mean that's only 25 an hour isn't it most people get paid way more than 25 an hour so it's not an economically viable concept to to review products with a view to making a living out of them which is why i make the other videos the informational videos that you've watched and they are actually the most popular videos on my channel owem's law we've got antenna theory we've got um all sorts of stuff like that they are the videos that that are very very popular they still watch to this day and i often get requests for people to use them in their own course materials i like that so i will continue to make the informational videos that enable you to understand how the technology we're using works and why why it works and how to better use it because you understand the principles behind it that's been one of my goals for a long time and i will continue to make the review videos because i like making them they're fun and and i get i get there's something gipassi sent me this and i will be flying the snot out of this and that's interesting because like runcam has sent me a lot of cameras over the years and unlike other reviewers who say oh yeah run cam camera here it is here's the video fantastic buy it link in the affiliate link in the description i use them i have two channels you know i have two channels i have rc model reviews where i take a a critical look at these things then i have xg and if you've been watching my x-j channel you'll have noticed that virtually all the aerial footage is from a run cam camera quite often it's the runcam hybrid 4k i love that camera when i'm flying analog and get the 4k recording and the analog live feed fantastic camera i usually put in the corner of the screen the camera i'm using runcam 4k so people know so when runcam or other manufacturers send me stuff and i use it on my extra channel then they're getting extra promotion they're getting extra value out of that because if it's a product that i choose to use myself you know it's going to be good other reviewers everything's fantastic but you never see them using it you never see them using it afterwards so i like to think that as far as reviews are concerned i offer two levels of review one of them is the the look the way most reviewers work you look at it and you do your best to find the best points and the worst points and you present that but you can't spend six months on a review because for 4.50 it's not worth it so what i do is once i've reviewed the product i might use it i'll use it and i'll fly it so you look at extra you see me flying models quads fixed wings that i've bought and i really really like now i bought the fms super easy and i bought with my own money i reviewed it i said it's a fantastic model and i've been flying it ever since because true to my word it is one of the best models i've got so fantastic you go on to on to extra you'll see super easy's very frequently popping up on that channel the same goes with the little esky sparrow little sky sparrow plane i bought that oh i didn't buy it they sent it to me sorry i must confess they sent it to me and i've been flying the the back side of that thing and now i've given it to bill he wants to fly it at home so i've got him to fly around at home these are the models that we fly we fly ourselves out of choice not because i have to fly out to do a review because they're just so damn good so manufacturers that are looking at getting products reviewed when they send them to me not only do they get the critical objective review on this channel without commercial imperative but then if the product's really good it'll be seen on next year time and time and time again because it's what i use when i want to enjoy myself that's something to think about which is why i'm kind of a little bit disappointed in runcam to be totally honest to be totally honest i haven't found runcam produced many dud products most of their products are pretty good now they're not the best they're not the best i mean if you want the best cube-shaped camera find yourself a second-hand gopro session that is the best that's still way better than than run cam's offering but that's so expensive compared to run cab these things like the runcam 5 i used in this review it's a really good camera for the money for the money and i've i've used this i used run cam cameras extensively mainly because i think they're good value but also because they've sent them to me but other camera companies i've got cadx cameras i've got quite a number of different cameras from different manufacturers that i've reviewed but i use the runcam ones because i think they represent a really good value point a value point so i was kind of disappointed recently i have to say when i saw that all the other reviewers were getting the little eight or nine grand 1080p camera the little one that would fit on a quad like i don't know i can't find one now you know the little oval shaped cameras everyone else has got one they didn't send me one and others seem to be getting a new version of the like the run cam cube camera with with the gyro stabilization i haven't got one what have i done wrong run cam what's what's i'm promoting this not out of your product by actually using it on next year and letting people know that's what i'm using yet i'm not i've fallen out of favor i don't know i i can't complain i have had a good run from runcam um i shall continue to use their products because i think they're good but um i guess now like everybody else i will have to buy them if i want them which okay maybe um i will do so maybe i just stick with what i've got because they work perfectly well um yeah that's ups and downs of the review business and while i've got you here i mentioned it takes a long time to make a video certainly review videos take you know an awfully long time because of all the prep and the the analysis you've got to do but a lot of the time is spent here sitting in front of this computer editing editing is is a very time consuming business now certainly on my exjet channel it's a very time consuming business because i i like to produce what i hope are the best quality videos of model flying on youtube a lot of people seem to agree and i'm happy about that a lot of people pay me very nice comments they say nice things about my videos because i spend hours and hours and hours making them look the best way i can and i'm doing a series of videos on that i've already covered the camera that i use which is an important part of the equation coming up pretty soon will be the how to use that camera because the tool is only as good as the use you put it to and then i'll be doing how to use your editing software to get the best results so if you're interested in those sort of things if you yourself want to make really good videos about models or any other kind of action event then whip over to xgit and subscribe because those videos will be coming up fairly shortly now as i say spend a lot of time front of this computer and a lot of the time is if i'm doing things like re-timing and i'm slowing stuff down or or some complex color grading it can grind the wheels can grind a bit slow to be totally honest because davinci resolve relies heavily on the graphics card that you're using the more powerful a graphics card the better it works and that's certainly the studio version the the free version doesn't use as much of the graphics card but i've paid my money bought my studio version i am a great believer if you're using a tool to earn money you should pay for it and so i do i've got the sony 300 bucks it's really good value but i use davinci resolve studio version and it relies heavily on the graphics card now when i bought this computer three years ago the graphics card was all i could afford it's a gtx 1060 which is a good graphics card it's the most popular card out there according to i think it's steam or whatever when you look at the graphics it is the single most popular graphics card in the world even today but it's reaching its capacity it's only got six gigabytes of ram video ram and sometimes when i'm doing complicated stuff like noise reduction and rescaling and color grading it runs out of ram so it says gpu full and you've got to do it in multiple passes slows you down again so i got a new video card so that i can do it all more easily without the hassles and streamline that process so i took them on my patreon money thank you patreon supporters you make it all possible because obviously those 4.50 reviews don't do much i took that um some of that money and i bought the best nvidia graphics card i could afford fantastic look at this look at no that's not it no that's a g that's a 1030 no that's old i got 30 60 rtx 3060 which is twice as powerful as the 1060 that's in there and has twice as much video ram so it means i can streamline my process a little bit more i can get more out of every hour which is really important because i want to keep the level of content up and the quality of content as well both from a informational perspective and from just the production value end of things everything should look nice so hopefully that will do now so just again letting you know you people are instrumental in making sure i can keep this flow of content information and entertainment coming to you i thank you so much for that now another thing i've been doing on next year is news news things happening in the in the hobby that we need to know about or in the industry we need to know about and i'm wondering if i should shift that over here because this has always been the information channel and xgit has always been the fun and entertainment promotional channel news is kind of more information than fun so i may tell me what you think go down to the comments but down there but be careful please um and just tell me should the drone or the model flying news be on rc model reviews or on x-jit which which is the best fit no but to give you an idea the kind of stuff that i'll be covering i notice that in seattle usa the state of seattle no it's not a state it's seattle's in the state of washington excuse me in the state of washington i'll cut that out you'll never see that in the state of washington in the usa the state government has decided that they want drone operators to register not only with the faa but with them with the state government at least if you're going to do commercial stuff if you've got a part 107 the the washington state government want you to register with them as well as the faa uh what so you're gonna have to pay two lots of registration fees twice the bureaucracy twice the overhead it's interesting isn't it i saw that come up in the news feed yesterday i haven't heard anyone else mention this but it's a really important thing if you're even if you've just got a youtube channel with monetized videos you may have to register and you live in washington you must have registered with your state government as well as the faa yeah something to think about and so i as again there's a kind of newsy stuff that i want to bring across but it's it's kind of important that it goes in the right place because some of the newsy stuff is about regulations and i'm very i'm a great advocate for less regulation is better and that's not the place for me to get all ranty and sit on a high chair and tell you what i think that's exjet but then again just general news and information isn't entertaining or we can't say it's kind of mid-ground isn't it i don't know what to do about that you tell me go there tell me tell me where should it be where should the news be and in other news apparently hd0 will be releasing their own video goggles sometime well they're going to do testing in march or no may or june in may or june they'll be doing the field testing of their first set of actual video goggles hd0 it'll be interesting to see and if you want more information on hd0 dji digital or anything in the dji world go to mads rc the channel i've mentioned before on rc model reviews fantastic place to get that information ian mads rc does a really good job of giving you that information so if you're not if you're a dji user and you're not subscribe you need to subscribe if you're an hd0 user and you're not subscribed you need to go and subscribe i'll provide you with information but he's the expert he's the man he these are the fields that he focuses on and he does some really good work so do that go there now you know click write it down there'll be a link in the description down there by the comments you know where to go right and finally i have a video coming up pretty shortly in which it's a very important video because this changes everything yeah that's a cliched clickbait headline but in this case you will see a video on this channel soon saying this changes everything and i'm not kidding this isn't a poor attempt to try and lure you into something that's absolutely boring this actually really is a game changer which absolutely changes everything in the hobby it's already started to change things and it's going to continue to change things in a very positive way so it's important you're aware of this and that you lobby manufacturers to get on board because this is something that really is going to make huge changes to everything in the hobby and uh yeah i've got a bag here from beta fpv stuff i'm reviewing this is part of it this is part of the change that is making such a difference to our hobby and making things cheaper making things better so stick around for that i'm not going to give any more clues that would be terrible and you wouldn't watch the video but you will watch the video because you you have to it's it's so important it really is so important so that's it for my little chat today hope you've enjoyed maybe you've learned something i don't know and i think my patreon supporters because it's because of you that i can afford to indulge myself and do reviews within four dollars and as i say i'm always open to suggestion go down there rattle around and tell me everything i should know and i will be doing some live streams i've threatened before but with the new video card it makes it easier for me to do live stream so i'll be doing some live stream stuff we'll get maybe a regular stream and we'll start talking about stuff and getting a bit of to and fro more interaction with the community i'd really like that it'll be great i go on so many other people's live streams maybe it's time i really did start doing my own for obvious reasons in the meantime thank you for watching and bye for now it's time to get back to work

Channel: RCModelReviews

Views: 15,567

Keywords: RC plane, model aircraft, aeromodelling, hobby, flying, FPV, first person view, RC planes, drones

Id: iJblnQlwaqU

Length: 17min 59sec (1079 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 23 2022