Seth Demoor is BACK baby

DGR is a religious cult.

LR should fund the dude. If Seth's channel dies, the blowback is real.

Appears the pinned comment has now changed and has been replaced by someone loving up to Seth

Someone asked in the comments of today's video for a breakdown of the percentages for each revenue stream of Seth's income.

He claims:

- 50% YouTube

- 30% shoes

- 20% memberships

SocialBlade estimates that he makes anywhere from ~2k to ~35k per year from YouTube ad revenue. If that's half his earnings, he is making 70k a year maximum.

Concertmaster, Denver Philharmonic Orchestra (world's smallest violin).

Seth, if somebody can't tell what the purpose of the channel is after watching it for three years, wouldn't that mean you've done a poor job of representing it to people?

From SocialBlade: Last 30 days is 3.7k max, so 44.4k / year. For the last 1-year period it says 44.9k max. So that's about 90k/year max. I think it was higher a year or two ago.

Assuming he's incorporated, after taxes he's probably taking home most of it, so it's not fair to look at this as a "salary." All his race expenses and running purchases are going to be tax write-offs.

Even with the most optimistic interpretation of what he saying / the data, he's clearly still being disingenous about his finances or simply just doesn't understand them.

I'm guessing that he inherited a bunch of money which paid entirely for the new house and all the TV's / new furniture he got. No way did he get that off these supposed income sources.

How inspiring. Seth, if we are all one big family, why don't you send your fans some money too?

They must have nothing in savings

Seth in todays video reminded me of Flanders in the episode where he has a mental breakdown. Forcing out the diddlys and positivity until it overwhelms him and he loses it completely.

He basically admitted he’s financially stuck on this hamster wheel and can’t get off lest the whole house of cards collapses. Ooof what a rhubarb of a pickle of a jam!

He’s also only started engaging more in the comments for about a week, like he was trying to get ahead of all this and lay some tracks. But knowing Seth he will abandon it when something else catches his interest.

Would also like to know the hundreds of running YT channels he subscribes to. The amount he’s speaking of must literally be every single one that exists.

Yeah, unlike the rest of us!!!

I assume you can at least take time off

I was reading an article about Alex Jones and briefly wondered if it was about Seth.

I hear YouTube has a great 401k and benefits plan

Those kids are going to have zero decent vacations while Seth keeps up this racket. Seth has to keep making content, uploading, interacting, be close to a good internet connection every 24 hours, etc. He will never get any kind of time off while he does this. Sounds absolutely miserable.

You know how I know he isn't making good money doing this? He can't afford to take any time off.

Eggxactly. Not to mention the excess income required for vacations for 7 PEOPLE! It’s now like some horrible loop.

I’m certain he made some very poor financial decisions based off the covid bump to his income streams. Bump in views while people were at home more. Online spending was up during that time so he was getting that affiliate cash. Now you have people going back to work along with all these inflationary pressures on discretionary spending, plus an injury with a long healing timeframe limiting the content he can produce and he’s like oh sh*t…

Financial advice. Sell all the shoes and cameras and eggs on EBay and invest in crypto

I do feel sorry for the guy.. Prior to him making this his career, he was driving for Uber. Doesn't Seth have a marketing degree? If you got a college degree and the best you could do was drive for Uber, life did not work out well for you. YouTube is the glue that is holding his life together, he is not going to let this thing fail until the writing is on the wall.

What I don't get is Seth's long term planning. He said in today's video he "diversified," by doing the shoe affiliate thing, and adding premium memberships. But that's not diversification. That's a restaurant deciding to be open at breakfast. It still depends very much on people liking your brand and your general product. If the YouTube channel dies, the rest dies with it. No one is buying shoes from the DGR running store if no one is watching his channel.

What's he supposed to do when vlogging eventually dies for him? He just had a baby, is he really thinking about doing this for 18 more years? He will be in his early 50's. Running is a sport for all ages, but the YouTube audience is predominantly those with massive amounts of leisure time - young people. Are they going to connect to a 50 year old? Is Seth going to understand a 20 year old runner and make videos they would actually watch? Are people interested in watching a 50 year old train when younger runners are way faster and have YouTube channels of their own? What is his plan for growing his audience when he can't even maintain the same level of viewership he had a couple years ago? Based on his replies to the LRC commenter today, it seems when he's faced with hard questions he just covers it up with cavalier optimism, or sidesteps the issue altogether. Unless by some miracle, Seth finds a way to increase his income in a big and sustainable way for the long term, the rest of his life is going to be extremely painful. And he's already closing doors. No coaching. He has zero interest in other runners, so the most lucrative YouTube channel style (podcasting) seems like it's done, too. He would need to be building and fostering those relationships now - shmoozing with pros and developing connections the way Billy Yang and Jamil did. None of it makes any sense, I suspect he's holding out that God is going to make it all work out for him as long as he keeps grinding.

A lot of good points there especially the, as we would say here, Clayton’s “diversification”. He won’t collab with other runners either because he is weirdly possessive about his stupid DGR brand.

And if memory serves me right he is a history major which is why he was probably driving an Uber.

Well said.

What I don't understand is, that anyone can think that Seth needs his youtube income. There is no way that he actually needs that money. He might need the channel as an excuse to get out of the house but he his not financing his big family and a mega mansion with that.