How much money did my 2 million viewed comic make?

My

comic

has gotten over 2

million

views in the last 2 years. So how

much

money

did you

make

on Webtune Canvas? Hello, my name is Katie. I am an illustrator and

comic

artist and today I am going to talk about my comic Sugar and Swords. and how

much

money

has been made in these last few years, so to start, if you want to

make

money on webtune canvas, you must have at least 1,000 subscribers and 40,000 monthly visits to qualify, then a button will appear where you can request the ad Revenue web Tunes te It will pay out when you reach the $100 threshold, this means that if you earn $20 in a month you won't be able to get that money until you have earned at least 100 for sugar and swords.

It took me 3 months to reach monetization now. I will say that this is very fast for comics on this site and I was very lucky that my other comic Crystallized hasn't hit monetization yet and has been out for five or six months, so don't worry if you're trying to hit that income advertising and you still don't have them. These things just take time. I started making money with sugar and swords in September 2021, so we'll look at 2 and a half years and see how much. money I have now Web Tunes does not have good analytics and will show you the data for the current and last month, so for each month I have been keeping a spreadsheet of my growth and how much money I have been earning, it is not perfect because there are some months where I forgot to record but it's enough to watch so during my first month I earned a total of $87 20 cents it's not much but I think the global monthly views at that time were around 42 50 000 now when I say .

Overall monthly view, I'm just referring to the number of times my comic was

viewed

in that month. I didn't get my first payment until I accumulated $100, which was in January 2022, so it was 5 months before I could get the money during those For 5 months, my monthly views were around 50,000 and I posted comics every weeks after that it took me 6 months to get the next $100 payment so on average from February 2022 to July 2022 I got about $116.66 in money each month with an average of 32,600. views per month I remember my views during this period varied a lot, in some months I got over 50,000 views while in others I got around 20,000 now the only money I've talked about so far is the regular advertising revenue that webtune has during this time.

Tun also had a Creator Rewards program. This was an additional rewards program that lasted from 2018 to 2023, basically depending on the number of views you got per month. Leune would pay you an additional reward, so for every 40,000 views you got a month, you also got an additional $100 for 200,000 views you get an additional $300 for 600,000 views you get $800 and for 1500 views you get $8000 now to get this money you already have to have been approved for the Regular Ad Rewards program during the period February 2022 to July 2022 section I I had a month where I got over 40,000 views, so I reached the additional threshold of $100, so the total so far is $300,200 from advertising revenue and 100 from the bonus program.

At this point, I'm pretty sure my comic appeared somewhere because it really started to grow, it only took me two months to reach the next payment of $100 in August 2022. I got over 200,000 views that month, so I was also able to get an extra $300 from the Creative Rewards program, so my first year making money from my comics. From September 2021 to September 2022 I earned $700, that's not enough to live on, but hey, it's a good start. In October 2022 I reached the next payment of $100 and 2 months later in December 2022 I achieved another payment of $100 in ad revenue. and then during that time I also got another $100 from the Creator Rewards program, so now the total is $1,000.

During this time, I was doing regular comic updates for Sugar and Swords drawing four to five episodes per month starting in January 2023. I stopped doing weekly. episodes and I only post them once or twice a month as you can imagine this affected the amount of money I made and also Web Tunes ended their creator rewards program so there were no more additional rewards so It took me 8 months before I could reach the next payment threshold averaging around 12 dollars a month from January 2023 to August 2023. 5 of the 8 months I got over 40,000 views, my average is now around 50,000 global monthly views.

If Webtune kept its creator rewards program, it would have earned an additional $500. but since they finished it there's not much I can do at least during this time in March 2023 I hit 1

million

views which is honestly still crazy to think about. I think Sugar and Swords was able to get so many views because it had about 80 episodes posted so far and they were all pretty easy to read, especially since each episode is like a short four or five panel joke about video game mechanics or NPC stuff, Now that I think about it, it's pretty similar to how short the content is.

Tik Tok and YouTube Reals are basically a bunch of short videos or comics that are pretty easy to read one after another. Anyway, as of this moment I do between 0 and 1 episode per month because now my attention has shifted to my other comic, crystallized, however, despite I must have appeared again somewhere because in September 2023 I got over 100,000 views even though there were no new episodes that month and then of course I managed to reach the $100 payout which now totals around 1,200 and then this happened again in October 2023 where I made a new update and then I got over 389,000 views, this is the most views I have ever gotten in a month and this of course helped me reach the next payout which brings us to a total of $1,300 as of this moment. getting pretty regular payments, I got $100 in November 2023 $100 in December 2023 and then I reached the next payment in February 2024 and now with an average of 100 to 200,000 views per month in December 2023, I was able to reach 2 million views, which again seems like It's really crazy to think about, so now we've reached the current date, which means the total amount of money my 2 million comic views made over the last 2 and a half years is $1,600 on average, that is, around $640 a year or $53 a month.

Looking at the amount of money I made each month compared to the number of views I got each month, I think if I do the math right I get an average of 0025 to 5 per view, this is about 50 per 1000 views or just one dollar each pair. out of thousands of views I get with all that in mind, here are my final thoughts, honestly, it's nice to make money from my comics and it helps me pay the bills and get paid, but it's not enough to make a living off of it for more than 90 episodes currently made, each one of them. about 4 hours at Best to earn that's not even close to minimum wage in the US, but at the end of the day I didn't start this comic to earn a full-time income.

I started Sugar and Swords because I wanted to see a comic. about the daily life of an NPC. I wanted to get into the world of creating comics and learn how to tell my own stories and I just wanted to connect with people and make funny little jokes about video games and get better at the art along the way. From how much money I made, I'm still very happy that I created this comic and I will continue to make comics because it's fun now. Yes, of course, I want to make a living from my job and create comics and art full time, that's the goal, but.

I know that ad revenue alone on a specific platform will not be enough. My goal in doing this is not to discourage new comic artists, but rather to show you the reality of publishing a comic on the Webtune canvas specifically and the amount of money you can make. Expect that if you do well, fortunately, there are other ways you can make money from your comic besides AD Revenue. The first is Patreon, which allows people to pay you monthly for exclusive content. I have 25 exclusive episodes of Sugar and Source available on Patreon and I earn between $20 and $30 a month.

The next way to make money from your comic is to create and sell physical books of your work. This is something I did last year and I'll have a video of my own to talk about later. but know that I also get a little money for every book sale I get. If you can grow a lot on Web Tunes, you can also activate reward ads once you surpass the 200,000 monthly views mark. This allows you to lock episodes behind an ad. for a few weeks, meaning if you want a reader to watch the new episode, they can simply watch a short ad that will help increase your monthly payment.

It's quite difficult to achieve this in Web Tunes and I've only just started using this feature so I don't know. how much money it still makes, you can also create an online store selling stickers or merchandise from your comic. Also, if you make YouTube videos like this talking about your comic, then you can monetize that channel and make more money that way, personally. I haven't reached monetization yet, but I thought I should mention it for those who want to know. My point is that if you want to make money from your comics through self-publishing, it would help you create multiple streams of income so that you are not dependent. only one, no matter how much money my comics make.

I'm still very proud of myself for continuing to do it for so long and being able to connect with so many people. I currently don't have many followers on Instagram or YouTube, but despite that I was able to reach hundreds of thousands of people through the comics and I hope they brighten their day with these silly jokes about video games and background characters well that's all I I wanted to say about this matter for now I still have more facts about trigar and swords that I want to talk about later in its own video, but if you are also a comic artist who publishes on tun canvas web and you are curious about how I was able to grow so fast , I made a YouTube video talking about how I got to 10,000 subscribers, honestly.

I think getting past the first 1000 subscribers, Mark, is the hardest, but it's still manageable. If you have a plan, I will create more videos about comics in the future, so I hope you all stay tuned and have a good day.