Well said sir. I started Affiliate Marketing (among other things) at about the 250 subscriber mark. Take note of this anyone looking to make money. I don't like to disclose this sort of info but for the purposes of this article I will; I hit 1,000 subscribers in exactly one year... and in that year I was able to collect right at about $5,000 worth of affiliate commissions, Patreon money, goods and payment for services. If you want to make money the first thing you need to do is make YouTube's adsense your least performing revenue source. Pound for pound adsense is nonsense.
In regards to your posting schedule that is really up to you. Some channels do fine posting twice a month (see Dude Perfect and Lucas the Spider). The 'Algorithm' operates with intervals of 1 hour, 24 hours, 72 hours, 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, 90 days and some other tiers past that (there may be others, these are just a few that you will see pop up in your own analytics from time to time). So each one of these stands as a cycle where YT sort of 'moves' your video into a different category of discovery. They serve you out to a different audience with a different set of demographics at each stage, often times dropping the amount of impressions that you get with each. So obviously posting a video once per hour is ideal.
If you want to be realistic though the most significant drop-off in impressions typically occurs after 72 hours and after 7 days. So if you are trying to post content to this schedule twice per week is ideal, once per week is totally fine. Before you commit to any sort of schedule understand that these cycles are merely for discovery... as long as your audience is comfortable with your content schedule you are fine. Mental health and focusing on making great content is far superior than worrying about getting a video out before YouTube drops the number of impressions are you are going to get on your previous video.
