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.
Alphonso Dunn
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$1,200a month
About $14,400 a year, likely $8,540 to $24,100
Low end$711
Most likely$1,200
High end$2,010
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$1,200a month
- Long videos181.7K views a month$1,200100%
- Shorts12.7K views a month$30%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$1,030 to $2,730Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 68,367 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
020K40K
Median 16.1K
Aug 26Jun 12
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Secret Path to Mastery? Read in description. ⬇️ | Short | Jun 12 | 6,199 |
| If You’re Not Using Your Kneaded Eraser Like This, You're Missing Out | Long video | Apr 27 | 19,631 |
| Never Skimp On These 3 Drawing Principles | Long video | Apr 7 | 17,103 |
| How to Enjoy Drawing Even When You Feel Your Drawing Sucks | Long video | Jan 29 | 17,101 |
| How to Keep Drawing Consistently (The Approach I Use) | Long video | Jan 16 | 13,716 |
| Do This To Make Your Textures Pop! | Long video | Dec 12 | 13,344 |
| How to Stop Being Afraid of Making Mistakes (4 Best Tips) | Long video | Nov 30 | 16,229 |
| Breaking down the head in simple terms | Portrait Drawing Tips | Long video | Oct 21 | 12,817 |
| 🦩 | Short | Oct 1 | 15,926 |
| Build patiently, stroke by stroke#penandink #portraitdrawing #alphonsodunn | Short | Sep 23 | 21,045 |
| This world needs more love. People sketching with a Lamy vista #fountainpendrawing #peoplesketching | Short | Sep 15 | 10,930 |
| Sketching with a quill pen I made from a feather I found at the park | Short | Sep 6 | 15,159 |
| A hand is still just a prism and cylinders draped with a thin malleable sheet | Short | Sep 2 | 9,878 |
| An important lesson to learn from soft petals that challenge and builds your line drawing skills | Short | Aug 30 | 15,552 |
| I do this when I draw and shade hands #drawinghands #drawingtips #penandinkdrawing | Short | Aug 27 | 12,586 |
| This is why I sketch with fountain pens. #fountainpendrawing #portraitdrawing #sketching | Short | Aug 24 | 24,655 |
| Simple exercises that improves your line drawing skills | Long video | Aug 21 | 24,273 |
| Testing the Ackerman pens Manga G Zebra Classic fountain pen.! | Short | Aug 17 | 30,106 |
| Sketching people with a fountain pen | Lamy Vista | Long video | Aug 9 | 20,686 |
| Filling a Sketchbook page, Lamy fountain pen, & Noodler’s blue. Fun! 🙂 #fountainpen #sketching | Short | Aug 8 | 13,271 |
| Sketching with a custom-made dip pen #alphonsodunn #sketching #penandink | Short | Aug 4 | 12,927 |
| Use this method to sketch people quickly | Long video | Jul 27 | 30,001 |
| Do this before EVERY drawing | Long video | Jul 19 | 23,525 |
| So much fun rendering skulls. Book 3 on the way 🙂 | Short | May 19 | 24,081 |
| Symphony of lines 🙂 | Short | Mar 3 | 10,457 |
| No secrets here, just the basics…stretched, layered, and nuanced a bit #alphonsodunn #penandink | Short | Dec 18 | 14,580 |
| Line: The Swiss Army knife of all the elements. #book3ontheway #alphonsodunn | Short | Dec 13 | 26,619 |
| Building Patience | Short | Oct 20 | 20,822 |
| Texture or Color | Short | Oct 16 | 17,748 |
| August 26, 2024 | Short | Aug 26 | 13,177 |
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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
7% of views this month
Long 93%Shorts 7%
Shorts pay about $0.20 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: stalled
0 per week
Not enough history to compare yet.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.54x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
205K views a month
Uploads older than three years 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
When this channel can earn from YouTube ads
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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 11, 2026, 15:20 UTC.