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Donut

@donut9.4M subscribers1,921 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$94,300a month

About $1.13M a year, likely $755,000 to $1.68M

Low end$62,900
Most likely$94,300
High end$140,000

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos15M views a month$93,600100%
  • Shorts2M views a month$3640%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,198,647 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
01.5M3M
Median 248.6K
Aug 7Nov 5
Show as a table
VideoFormatPostedViews
Why the VW Beetle Became the Baja OriginalShortNov 561,029
We saved this junkyard bug and raced it 500 miles in the desertShortNov 324,711
Buying and Fixing a Wrecked Baja Bug!Long videoNov 3696,767
Porsche Build Finale [Part 1]ShortNov 3145,131
TINY R34 doing burnoutsShortOct 3123,914
Come see us at SEMA!ShortOct 3043,494
Junkyard Beetle vs MexicoShortOct 2936,153
Send It!!ShortOct 2729,260
$32,000 vs $100,000 Nissan S15 Build | HiLow Finale!Long videoOct 27770,190
$2,000 vs $15,000 paint jobShortOct 20129,596
Cheap vs Expensive Paint Jobs! | HiLowLong videoOct 20924,080
$300 vs $3000 Body Kit | HiLowLong videoOct 13917,757
Cheap vs Expensive Drift Upgrades! | HiLowLong videoOct 6810,991
$800 vs $6000 Car Interior | HiLowLong videoSep 29752,451
Cheap vs Expensive Turbo Kits | HiLowLong videoSep 22997,600
Rebuilding my Porsche engine never endsShortSep 18304,024
JapanmaxxingShortSep 1543,524
$500 vs $10,000 Drift Training | HiLowLong videoSep 15578,434
Meet our $48K S15 ⬆️ShortSep 1239,090
Meet our $18K S15 ⬇️ShortSep 1252,354
NEW HiLow JDM Out Now!ShortSep 840,565
Cheap vs Expensive JDM Imports | HiLowLong videoSep 82,204,503
We Made a Flock-Proof CarLong videoSep 12,569,505
These brothers made Adam cry 😭ShortAug 3134,101
I Crossed America on Backroads OnlyLong videoAug 251,044,336
We built a tiny R34 GTRShortAug 20126,881
We Built a Tiny Fake GTR (full build)Long videoAug 182,735,036
[PART 5] Rebuilding my Porsche EngineShortAug 14223,911
We Drove EVERY Nissan ZLong videoAug 11373,198
[PART 4] Rebuilding my Porsche engineShortAug 7273,203

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Helps

Niche: Automotive

$3 to $10 per 1,000 views

$0typical $6$15

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $6 per 1,000 views to the creator.

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

12% of views this month

Long 88%Shorts 12%

Shorts pay about $0.18 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 18 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

2.18 per week

2.7 before
2.2 now

That is 0.8x the 90 days before.

Holds back

Views per video are falling

0.7x

Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

15.5M 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

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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How 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 10, 2026, 03:00 UTC.

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