Does AdSense make cents?

Recently I added Google AdSense to my Youtube Video UNBROKEN in a effort to help monetize the video. Since the beginning of this month I have made $3.11. I guess that's not bad seeing as the ads have only been clicked 7 times. I was hoping use the pay-per-click money to help pay for production costs of the movie. Does anyone have suggestions on how to improve pay-per-click earnings without harassing family & friends to click on the ads after watching the video? Being an Indie I have to squeeze out every penny I can to realize this beautiful movie. Thanks for any suggestions!

Please help Haiti

You can text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill. Or you can go online to organizations like the Red Cross and Mercy Corps to make a contribution to the disaster relief efforts. Cow Town Film Productions has done so as well as the executive board members. Clinton has put out a statement that this is the best way to help immediately. Will you please join the humanitarian effort? These people desperately need our help.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to All! 2010 brings new goals & challenges for Cow Town Film Productions. What are your goals or resolutions?

The Joys of YouTube & Indie

Today I had the pleasure of learning that UNBROKEN is worthy of a YouTube partnership due to its popularity. This is something that I have been striving for & couldn't be more pleased. However, isn't it strange how they don't tell you exactly how much you will make?

I did quite a bit of (hurried) homework to see the benefits of joining Google AdSense initially, but was then was a bit miffed to learn that:

#1 once you join AdSense, you still need to be approved by YouTube to advertise &

#2 once they allow your advertising opportunity, YouTube AND AdSense take a percentage too.

So in conclusion: I have no idea what UNBROKEN will monetize & I really don't know how much YouTube will take off of that & I really have no way of tracking it or keeping them honest.

I'm sure it's in the fine print somewhere, but for now-I'll settle for being lucky we got the YouTube partnership.

I'm keeping an open mind and hoping the video will make a little money so we can hire someone to help with the web stuff & finish paying for some of the outstanding legal work my wonderful lawyer has done for us.

AND then there's the Ads. Tell us what you think. Are the ads appropriate for the content we have posted? Please visit our Channel: www.youtube.com/cowtownfilmpro

This is just a test..

We have found a formula that we want to test. Currently we have 109 fans on Facebook. (Thank you!) If you refer 10 friends, and they refer 10 friends, and THEY refer 10 friends, that will be 1,211,099 fans. Would you please help us out? We want to see how fast we can make this happen. We are shooting for 2 weeks tops.

We hope this will translate to several new views of the trailer too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgBDei6PfBM

UNBROKEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgBDei6PfBM

UNBROKEN on YouTube

Please view and repost the above link. We are extremely proud of what the team has created.


This trailer is unrated and posted for promotional purposes only. This material was made possible by the following people: Executive Producer- Torrey Loomis, Executive Producer- Christina Marie, Executive Producer- Cow Town Film Productions,LLC, Producer- Christina Marie, Associate Producers- Steven Jeffers, Laura Chick, Ted Tenedora, Chuck Highbaugh, Director/DP-John Jimenez, First AD-Scott MacLeod, First AC-Ethan Ireland, Second AC- Jason Clark, Third AC-Dina Finato, Jib- Mark Maddox, Art Director- Tobija Annis, Sound recording/Engineering-Jimmy Bell, Costumes- Monica Gartner, Editors- Erik Espera, Sketch Sketchly, Special FX/ Compositing- Erik Maddox, Make-up- Jen Williams, Hair- Penelope Denogeon, Electric- Mike Booth, Grip-Kerry Sweeney, Joshua Bluth, Joshua Garner, Machanical Engineering- John McClure, Art Department- Dave Dulac, Aimee Carr, PA-James Valles, John Brocker, James Thornton III, and Vehicles- David Wiant. CAST: Chase Hodge, Christina Marie, and introducing Kashi Gomez as the Fairy. ORIGINAL SCORE by Richard Altenbach. Additional staff-Carlos Hernandez, Kenny Rapadas. Voice Over work provided by: Ruby Sketchley, Christa Bella, Isabella Powers, Galen Howard, Christina Marie. Special Thanks to: The Grace Foundation of Northern California, The Studio Center/Frank Casanova, Dave Bunge/Bunge Electric, Kathleen Dodge, "Scooter" and Jackie.