How much can you earn with tapas?

[Itsjustdrawings]

I’ve kinda recently started posting a comic on tapas and so far it’s going well. Now money isn’t the reason why I make the comic, but I’m still curious, how much can you earn with tapas?
How much do you typically get from ad revenue? And from ink donations?

And for anyone interested, here’s also my comic. Currently 8 episodes are online and I update weekly.

Read It all starts with a picture | Tapas Web Comics

[cherrystark]

Very little. Ink equates to about 0.001 per 1 ink drop. It takes a lot of ink to hit the $25 cash out limit. I've "qualified" for ad rev for a couple years now and haven't made any money from it. No matter the platform you're on, you have to do a lot of leg work before you'll actually start earning money.

[SleepingPoppy]

I think when I was at my most active I could earn around $100 from both ink and ad rev for the year- it’s not super lucrative, but it might pay for a few lunches here and there. But 90% of the time you’re looking at pennys. BUT if you’re at the point where you’re making anything on ad rev and ink, you probably have enough followers to get a patreon going, and you can make a bit off that.

You can get more out on ink if you offer rewards/prizes type things, and pay attention to when tapas has things like inksgiving events.

[darthmongoose]

Over the time Errant has been running (coming up 4 years in September), it's made me a total of a bit over $800. Nothing amazing, but a nice bit of money on the side. For reference, in that time, Errant has built up 2600 subs.

Most of my revenue comes from ink donations, especially around Inksgiving. Ad revenue makes me less than a dollar a month, and really won't be something a person can rely on to make serious money unless they're in the tens of thousands of subs. I also occasionally make a bit off the Creator Bonus Program, but not loads; Errant is unusual in that it was invited to the CBP at just 1600 or so subs, which is a very long way below the 50,000 subs required to apply for it!

It's best to pair Tapas with a Patreon and also things like merch and print Kickstarters. I make about $30 a month off my Patreon to add to the Tapas earnings, and the first print book Kickstarter was successful, raising enough for the print run and making me a few hundred on top.

I'm not going to quit my day job any time soon, but it's doing okay. I think if a person wanted to make their full time living off Tapas, they'd need over 50k subs and also a patreon and other income streams as well to supplement it.

[Kelheor]

Honestly? Expect pennies to a few dollars from ad revenue, literally for years of posting. Maybe if you make it really big, the numbers will be more pleasant
You can get a lot from ink donations, but the amount will obviously depend on generosity of your readers, who may also be able to support you on Patreon and other tipping sites.

[Legendofgenii]

Been on Tapas since 2020 and earnt about £25-ish? It's definitely a hobby.

[VersusVII]

When I first published my webcomic around 2017-18 I was able to reach the payout 2 times thanks to donations from friends.
I gained from the ad revenue a total of 29 cents
I noticed ad revenue became more stingy, in the past around 100 ad views you could get a cent, now even with 200 I get nothing

[NickRowler]

I sort of wonder how it even gets calculated. In March I got about 2k views yet only got $0.03. In April, I had about 1k views yet got $0.

[GodbreakerComic]

[riasrijana]

Can I ask you a few questions about payout? Will Tapas pay for readers who read wuf chapters? Does us watching adds to read chapters also pay? Doe the number of subscribers help creators reach a certain level of security? Or does only ink unlocked chapter payout?

[joannekwan]

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