No, but more power to you!  I persoanlly don't want to be commisioned to Brickfilm, because whenever I do art for others, I don't enjoy it like I do when I do it for myself.

Really, 150 pounds? Maybe I should start putting ads on my videos... Photography is my biggest source of income, although that's not necessarily directly related to brickfilming.

Youtube Channel

Yeah…my £150 was from about 200,000 views, which means (I think) that you need 1334 views to get £1. Those aren't precise figures, I'm just estimating.

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

I have made exactly $0.00 dollars off of YouTube. Then again, I'm too young for AdSense, plus I never really ever had an interest in making money off of YouTube. Eventually, I'll probably sign up for AdSense, but I'm not sure.

I have decided to avoid putting ads on my videos because I find them annoying on others videos.

I'm aware of how little you make from YouTube; every time I consider putting ads on my videos, I decide against it because I want to brickfilm for the sake of brickfilming, not for money. Unless I start getting 100,000 views a video, I'll probably never have ads, they are pretty annoying.

Youtube Channel

I made a new channel, and I am partnered with fullscreen. No money has been made...

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLyL_WbNJrL_OBtHR_h5hA

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I was just talking about this with a friend and I thought about this thread.

So far I've won 3 contracts and a plane ticket because of my Youtube videos. In Malaysia, where I am, we were not allowed to monetize our videos before early last year, so we were mostly using our channels as our portfolios. It's a different game we're playing here that involves monitoring trends in Ning, LinkedIn groups and Twitter hashtags to look at who's got the money, and what they want to buy or represent and then doing lots of shameless self promotion. I know a lot of people who've won a lot more contracts (contracts that are much bigger sizes) than I have. 

I have friends who would apply to funders (foundations, trusts, etc.) mostly based in the US and Europe who would fund artistic projects. If you're based in the West, wouldn't it be easier to meet funders in festivals or at their offices to pitch ideas? I know people who would be willing to fly over there just for the chance to submit proposals.

I'm not expecting to make money from Youtube ads but I am putting them up because Youtube's suggested videos algorithms are sometimes not as accurate as they should be and my videos have attracted "the wrong kind of crowd." So the ads are kinda like "are you sure you want to watch this? it's not too late to change your mind... I don't want to waste precious minutes of your life...." reminders.

There's a topic on the same subject in the secret Community forum, so I'll copypaste what I wrote there:

I've been commissioned 3 times for online LEGO PR campaigns. Interestingly, LEGO has two PR teams - one for their actual products, and one for their brand. I was working with the brand PR folks, who don't know a thing about LEGO! They found me through an article in the local paper after I'd had a film shown at a film festival.

The first two - Movie Moments and 2012: A Year in Bricks were kind of a pain to work on. I was just given the task of recreating existing things, and I had to do it in a pretty short space of time. I cut a lot of corners to finish them for the deadlines, and the whole process felt pretty stifling. These were put on YouTube, then the PR folks sent press releases to every outlet they knew telling people to go watch them.

More recently I was contacted by the same people to make a brickfilm about ice skating, and I'll probably get told off if I go into any more details. I was given much more creative freedom, and overall it's been a much more fun process. I've finished animating it, and am waiting on them to send me a list of comments and additions before I can release it. (edit: the changes they suggested involve me starting from scratch... ugggghhhh)

I also made a music video for a LEGO employee who makes music in his spare time. I finished it a couple of months ago and don't know when it's going to appear on YouTube...