Holds back
Niche: Music
$0.80 to $4 per 1,000 views
$0typical $2$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator. We are not sure about the niche, so the range is wider.
Adam Neely
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$1,870a month
About $22,400 a year, likely $11,700 to $39,300
Low end$973
Most likely$1,870
High end$3,280
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$1,870a month
- Long videos804.9K views a month$1,870100%
- Shorts3,054 views a month$00%
- Live streams754 views a month$10%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$2,330 to $5,810Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 290,664 views per long video and typical sponsor rates for this niche.
Views per video
The last 30 public uploads, oldest on the left. Tap or hover a bar for the video.
Long videosShorts
0750K1.5M
Median 128.8K
Sep 24Nov 2
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music is Inherently Political | Long video | Nov 2 | 629,260 |
| 180bpm shred | Short | Aug 6 | 112,581 |
| Adam Neely steals Jaco’s bassline on River People | Short | Jun 26 | 43,269 |
| Joshua De La Victoria agrees with Sungazer Plus | Short | Jun 23 | 36,456 |
| Sungazer Plus Live at the Blue Note (full concert) | Long video | Jun 23 | 161,762 |
| They Teach AI Music at Music School Now... | Long video | May 28 | 463,555 |
| Alfonsina y El Mar solo bass | Short | Mar 30 | 51,473 |
| Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future | Long video | Feb 2 | 1,168,827 |
| Irish 🇮🇪 + East African inspired groove | Short | Oct 8 | 74,723 |
| Cool East African (Tigray) pop groove | Short | Oct 6 | 103,088 |
| Harmonizing in Tucson (with Lau Noah) | Short | Sep 6 | 78,633 |
| Sparkly Quintuplets | Short | Sep 1 | 60,513 |
| The Ludacris song that BROKE my brain | Long video | Aug 6 | 400,127 |
| The Harmonic Genius of Lau Noah | Long video | Jun 30 | 366,826 |
| 🔒Locked🔒 (sungazer live in Tokyo) | Short | Jun 25 | 86,114 |
| Touring in Canada be like… | Long video | May 13 | 129,873 |
| Duet with Lau Noah | Short | May 4 | 70,429 |
| The Ethics of Fake Guitar | Long video | May 2 | 969,068 |
| Everything is in 4/4 if you try hard enough | Short | Mar 25 | 140,093 |
| Mario Kart ahh music | Short | Mar 6 | 50,961 |
| John Myung at home | Short | Jan 12 | 69,055 |
| Sungazer - Paydushko Horo [Bass Play-through] | Long video | Jan 3 | 127,810 |
| The Secret to Better IEM Rigs (for touring bands) | Long video | Dec 31 | 384,285 |
| Sungazer - Hot Saturn [Bass Play-through] | Long video | Dec 5 | 200,398 |
| Why does everyone sing it like THAT? | Long video | Nov 29 | 1,244,791 |
| 4/4, but weird | Short | Nov 20 | 163,301 |
| Debate me about music theory | Short | Nov 15 | 63,525 |
| Can you Improve your Internal Clock WITHOUT a metronome? | Q+A | Long video | Oct 4 | 209,596 |
| Pulse Morphing Technique | Short | Sep 25 | 98,702 |
| Can the audience dance to this? | Long video | Sep 24 | 165,353 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
Helps
Where viewers likely are
100% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in the US). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Neutral
Shorts in the mix
0% of views this month
Long 100%Shorts 0%
Shorts pay about $0.13 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.
Helps
Long enough for mid roll ads
median 10 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Holds back
Upload pace: slowing down
0.08 per week
That is 0.2x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
0.88x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Time to monetize
When this channel can earn from YouTube ads
Can it earn from ads?Yes, already past the barIt meets the thresholds by our estimate and shows signs of earning
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Unlock with ProHow we got this. Views from the last 30 days are rebuilt from each public video's views and age, cut to the views YouTube pays on, then priced with niche, audience and video length ad rates from published creator data. We run this 2,000 times with realistic variation and show the middle half. Data read November 8, 2026, 13:20 UTC.