Helps
Niche: Education
$3 to $15 per 1,000 views
$0typical $7$20
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $7 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Ali Abdaal
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$10,200a month
About $123,000 a year, likely $78,500 to $192,000
Low end$6,540
Most likely$10,200
High end$16,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$10,200a month
- Long videos1.3M views a month$10,10099%
- Shorts753.6K views a month$1451%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$3,880 to $10,300Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 258,715 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
0200K400K
Median 21.3K
Sep 17Oct 23
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| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| My slightly weird hobby... | Short | Oct 23 | 500 |
| Financial freedom vs financial independence | Short | Oct 23 | 1,366 |
| Why your real screen time is higher than you think | Short | Oct 22 | 9,797 |
| If you want to build a business, start a problems list | Short | Oct 21 | 5,310 |
| My one piece of advice for your 20s | Short | Oct 20 | 14,445 |
| How to shift from an employee to an entrepreneur mindset | Short | Oct 19 | 15,833 |
| Doesn't dating get in the way of productivity? | Short | Oct 18 | 15,087 |
| How to expand your personal brand into new topics | Short | Oct 17 | 12,061 |
| Brutally Honest Advice About Productivity in 26 Minutes | Long video | Oct 16 | 221,750 |
| How a plastic surgeon could use AI | Short | Oct 16 | 13,635 |
| Making money is basically a skills problem | Short | Oct 15 | 15,768 |
| Planning feels productive, but it's not | Short | Oct 14 | 17,097 |
| What if your parents want a different life for you? | Short | Oct 13 | 12,637 |
| My 3 pieces of advice for new content creators | Short | Oct 12 | 27,097 |
| One of the most underrated skills: knowing when to ignore advice | Short | Oct 11 | 53,329 |
| How to Learn So Fast People Assume You’re Naturally Gifted (with AI) | Long video | Oct 10 | 373,179 |
| How to actually make money online in 2026 | Short | Oct 10 | 13,203 |
| How to find out what you're actually good at | Short | Oct 9 | 34,518 |
| How much money do you need to feel financially free? | Short | Oct 8 | 107,359 |
| The Business Advice You Won't Find on YouTube | Long video | Oct 7 | 85,153 |
| How do I start earning online while studying? | Short | Oct 7 | 31,358 |
| Don't quit your job to start a business | Short | Oct 6 | 34,102 |
| I spent 8 years training to be a doctor. Then I quit | Short | Oct 5 | 46,905 |
| 5 productivity apps I use every single day | Short | Oct 4 | 40,499 |
| Wispr Flow's Notetaker is Game-Changing | Short | Oct 2 | 18,928 |
| If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this | Long video | Sep 30 | 133,249 |
| I hired an AI employee 90 days ago...here's what happened | Short | Sep 23 | 28,629 |
| What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos | Long video | Sep 21 | 183,993 |
| If you're watching this before Sept 26th .... link in bio :) | Short | Sep 20 | 18,908 |
| I used to think meditation was pointless… | Short | Sep 17 | 23,735 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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Where viewers likely are
93% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in GB). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Neutral
Shorts in the mix
36% of views this month
Long 64%Shorts 36%
Shorts pay about $0.19 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 24 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
3.34 per week
That is 0.52x the 90 days before.
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Views per video are rising
1.41x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
425K views a month
Uploads older than three years, and the ones we did not read, keep getting watched. We count them at half their lifetime average pace, a conservative guess, capped by the channel's lifetime average.
Time to monetize
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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 October 23, 2026, 13:15 UTC.