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Let's Drone Out

Reconstructed from the producers' own running-cost spreadsheets plus the Patreon/YouTube creator-payout records.

Lifetime Income & Expenditure

Ultimately, finances were neither the driving nor the limiting factor of LDO - but are laid out here for all to see.

Net Income – $16,081 total

Patreon – $10,385 Direct donations – $4,501 YouTube – $1,196

Expenditure – $16,081 total

Editing – $9,718 Online recording – $1,822 Licenses – $1,451 Website hosting – $1,221 Podcast hosting – $1,115 Giveaways/SFX – $428 Web domain – $236 Equipment – $90

Licenses – Patreon's own platform/processing fee, PayPal fees, AdSense fees, Google One (cloud storage for edits etc). Equipment is some recording gear from the early days.

Editing started being paid 7 May 2016. Online recording (Streamyard) started being paid 22 Aug 2019 and ballooned in cost.

Cash balance

−$200 $0 $200 $400 $600 $800 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 3 Sep 2015 (pilot episode): $0.00 ~Feb 2016: −$100.00 ~2017: $700.00 17 May 2019: $494.71 27 Nov 2020: $300.00 2021: $300.00 21 Dec 2023: $10.97 14 Aug 2025: $0.00 – cash at bank/in hand hit zero $0 – 14 Aug 2025

Giveaways/SFX – superchat-funded fireworks

The superchat tiers of fireworks, stickers and badges had giveaway costs: blue ($2) through magenta ($100) tiers, against unit costs for the on-air effects it funded – party poppers (£0.13), mini sparklers (£0.24), a cake fountain (£0.44), a giant party popper (£2.00), candles (£0.16).

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