One of the things I’ve been thinking of doing, on and off for the past several years, is creating a video channel for income.

For various reasons, I’ve never taken the plunge (mostly technical ineptitude), but now that I’ll probably get fired one day for resisting the jab, I’m revisiting the idea.

My content would not be primarily religious (though I suppose that would trickle in indirectly), but more of a general “old school” channel, featuring anything from various prepper themes, hunting/fishing, game processing, bushcraft, self-sufficiency, pre-industrial technology, pipe making, marksmanship etc., etc.

One thing I wondered, before I start taking time to do it, is: Can you really make enough income this way to support a family in what is probably a rather nitch market (particularly if I want to avoid YouTube, and try Rumble or Bitchute, and the much fewer clicks one gets on those platforms)?

I notice there are also options to censor advertising from those platforms, and only allow approved advertising, which is great, but further erodes clicks/revenue.

Is it worth it?

I'm pretty sure that all the revenue for those things comes from advertising.  If you get a lot of subscribers, likes, etc. ... then you may get a certain amount for companies to put ads up on your site.  I don't know whether or not you can control who's allowed to inject adds into your content.

You can't monetize videos on Bitchute, Rumble, Odysee, due to the nature of the platform and the protocols behind them. Youtube is really the only place, or Vimeo, but hardly anyone uses Vimeo except independent film makers and docuмentary makers. 

Personally, I don't think there is really a market for those type of videos you mention because there's already a ton of channels like that on YouTube, you'd get lost in a sea of people already doing the same thing. Not so say it *couldn't* work, but you probably wouldn't make very much.