Neutral
Niche: Travel
$2 to $5 per 1,000 views
$0typical $3$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $3 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Drew Binsky
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$23,900a month
About $287,000 a year, likely $194,000 to $414,000
Low end$16,200
Most likely$23,900
High end$34,500
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$23,900a month
- Long videos6.9M views a month$23,70099%
- Shorts1.1M views a month$1591%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$18,400 to $36,800Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,839,074 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
010M20M
Median 336.7K
Jul 4Nov 3
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| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Took The World’s Shortest Man Shopping For Clothes | Short | Nov 3 | 39,227 |
| I Drove 100 Miles Along The Iran Border | Long video | Oct 31 | 1,500,362 |
| I Crashed A Stranger’s Wedding On The Iran Border | Short | Oct 30 | 60,733 |
| People Pay $700 a Month to Live Like This in Paris | Long video | Oct 17 | 3,665,033 |
| 3 Shocking Things About The World’s Narrowest Island | Short | Oct 16 | 138,545 |
| He's Been Living Alone In Isolation For 17 Years | Long video | Oct 3 | 3,338,162 |
| Inside America’s Most Expensive Grocery Store | Short | Sep 23 | 95,877 |
| I Tried 3 Most Extreme Treatments In The World | Short | Sep 21 | 121,601 |
| Entering The World's Narrowest Island (Philippines) | Long video | Sep 19 | 4,197,880 |
| 24 Hours in Mexico's Most Feared Neighborhood | Long video | Sep 13 | 5,077,118 |
| He Speaks 5 Languages But Can't Afford Food | Short | Sep 11 | 1,244,584 |
| I Investigated America's 3 Strictest Religious Groups | Short | Sep 9 | 592,600 |
| I Have A Huge Announcement! | Short | Sep 2 | 96,627 |
| This American Town Is 36 Miles From Russia | Long video | Aug 29 | 17,007,918 |
| World’s Largest Family Home (800 People Live Here!) | Short | Aug 28 | 173,153 |
| People's Names In This Village Are Songs | Short | Aug 24 | 129,349 |
| I Met The World's 3 Most Extreme Religious Men | Short | Aug 21 | 110,810 |
| 3 Crazy Rules North Korean Children Have To Follow | Short | Aug 19 | 768,800 |
| This Is The Most Painful Bath In the World | Short | Aug 17 | 232,185 |
| This Is The America You Never See (Rural Virginia) | Long video | Aug 15 | 10,926,807 |
| 3 Places I Felt The Most Unsafe As A Traveler | Short | Aug 12 | 200,680 |
| Entering Libya | Africa's Most Dangerous Country | Long video | Aug 1 | 3,711,016 |
| The World’s Oldest Toilet | Short | Jul 30 | 131,581 |
| This Market Only Sells What They Find In The Trash | Short | Jul 24 | 260,774 |
| 3 Real Superhumans Doctors Can't Explain | Short | Jul 20 | 344,488 |
| 5 Days in Madagascar | World's Poorest Island | Long video | Jul 18 | 3,329,900 |
| He Was A Bodyguard In North Korea | Short | Jul 16 | 328,824 |
| My 3 Scariest Travel Moments In Active War Zones | Short | Jul 13 | 383,883 |
| My Travel Nightmare In The Philippines | Short | Jul 11 | 294,157 |
| I Spent A Day With Kim Jong's Actual Bodyguard | Long video | Jul 4 | 7,587,421 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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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
14% of views this month
Long 86%Shorts 14%
Shorts pay about $0.14 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 22 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Neutral
Upload pace: steady
1.63 per week
That is 0.91x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
1.34x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
1.8M 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 November 9, 2026, 23:20 UTC.