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How Much Money Can You Make on YouTube?

Google allows creators to monetize popular YouTube videos by placing advertisements before the video you want to watch. For ultra-popular videos like Gangnam Style, this practice can be lucrative: For a video with 1. Of course, Psy doesn't get to keep all of the money.

Still, that's a figure more than most YouTube sensations make. Six-figure prospects are certainly enough to tempt many a hopeful viral video creator. In , Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times published a piece on how YouTube sensations could monetize their viral status. Creators, she said, aren't limited to YouTube ads for moneymaking; Miller suggested commercial contracts, direct merchandising and TV appearances as other ways of cashing in.

Google: Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Has Earned $8 Million On YouTube Alone - Business Insider

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Psy is essentially a professional clown. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Jeff Yang explains that Psy is part of a corps of entertainers known in South Korea as "gwang-dae," after "a caste of performers traditionally attached to royal households" who had license to skewer those in power.

The founder of a K-Pop database told Yang that today's unofficial gwang-dae -- such as Psy -- are "clown or jester-like," and that unlike mainstream K-Pop stars, they don't have to be sexy to be popular.

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