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.
David Bennett Music Theory
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$2,060a month
About $24,700 a year, likely $15,200 to $38,300
Low end$1,270
Most likely$2,060
High end$3,190
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$2,060a month
- Long videos1.2M views a month$2,050100%
- Shorts71.2K views a month$80%
- Live streams109 views a month$00%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$1,580 to $3,940Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 196,928 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
0500K1M
Median 83.5K
Aug 6Nov 5
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Oasis chord progression is masterful | Short | Nov 5 | 21,955 |
| Songs That Use 5 Bar Loops | Long video | Nov 3 | 140,686 |
| Guess The Beatles song from the Key Change | Long video | Nov 1 | 59,311 |
| The Beatles Ripped Off This Chuck Berry Song | Short | Nov 1 | 13,514 |
| Queen's 2nd weirdest song | Long video | Oct 24 | 116,599 |
| McCartney's most amazing chord progression | Long video | Oct 20 | 159,745 |
| The military hid Morse code in this pop song | Short | Oct 20 | 14,238 |
| Did GTA 6 Rip Off "Money For Nothing"? | Long video | Oct 17 | 414,584 |
| We Are The Champions is more complex than you thought | Long video | Oct 14 | 92,942 |
| Dexy’s Midnight Runners run away with the tempo | Short | Oct 7 | 14,733 |
| Did Olivia Dean Rip Off "Just The Two Of Us"? | Long video | Oct 2 | 686,323 |
| Riders On The Storm at the Rhodes Piano factory | Short | Sep 30 | 17,399 |
| the deep cut samples of "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim | Short | Sep 29 | 969,591 |
| How Stevie Wonder uses Jazz Harmony | Long video | Sep 28 | 61,448 |
| Stevie Wonder's most complex song | Long video | Sep 24 | 79,693 |
| The Sir Duke chord EXPLAINED | Long video | Sep 21 | 209,672 |
| One Of The First Pop Song Lawsuits | Short | Sep 14 | 17,528 |
| Top 10 Rhodes Songs of All Time | Long video | Sep 9 | 422,047 |
| Answer Me by David Bennett (live in the studio) | Short | Sep 4 | 5,660 |
| Pink Floyd's "Money" is in 21/8 time | Short | Sep 2 | 87,248 |
| Songs that use the Blues Rock Chord Progression | Long video | Aug 31 | 260,738 |
| Answer Me | David Bennett (feat. Miles Goodall) | Long video | Aug 28 | 24,546 |
| Pop music has a new favourite chord progression | Long video | Aug 24 | 455,340 |
| Why 13/4 time is rare | Short | Aug 20 | 19,810 |
| Songs that use the 4-3-2-1 Chord Progression | Long video | Aug 18 | 91,288 |
| Jealous Guy was a Beatles song | Short | Aug 18 | 13,030 |
| When John Lennon used 6/16 time | Short | Aug 12 | 78,969 |
| Why DJs renamed the Circle of Fifths | Long video | Aug 10 | 125,195 |
| The Lennon piano lick | Short | Aug 10 | 43,096 |
| Why Revolver was revolutionary | Long video | Aug 6 | 413,413 |
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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
6% of views this month
Long 94%Shorts 6%
Shorts pay about $0.12 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 13 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
2.18 per week
That is 1.33x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
1.8x
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, 13:40 UTC.