You might make it big, and you might even have millions of fans. So the estimates here are approximate. But they’re still depressing enough to convince any sensible person hoping for a career as a YouTube star to start looking for a Plan B. And it’s steadily getting worse. Infor instance, the cann 3 percent got 86 percent of the views. Maybe you think you can make it to that level—you’ll be posting really great content every day and sharing it with your large social media following. Great ,oney But even at 1. How many? Nobody knows. Even the total number of YouTube partners who qualify for ad revenue isn’t published by Google.