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.
Engineering Explained
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$23,400a month
About $281,000 a year, likely $197,000 to $393,000
Low end$16,400
Most likely$23,400
High end$32,700
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$23,400a month
- Long videos3.7M views a month$23,20099%
- Shorts952.1K views a month$1741%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$11,100 to $27,700Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 554,680 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 625.1K
Jan 16Oct 23
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Fact-Checked Every Stunt in the Tesla Roadster Reveal | Long video | Oct 23 | 2,806,877 |
| Lucid Bought My Car Back, So I Bought A Mach-E | Long video | Oct 9 | 872,077 |
| Are You Buying The Wrong Tires? | Long video | Sep 25 | 915,653 |
| How To Easily Ruin Your Turbocharged Car | Short | Sep 11 | 491,145 |
| Bigger Brakes Won't Stop You Any Faster | Short | Sep 4 | 231,344 |
| 20 Innovations That Changed Cars Forever – Part 2 | Long video | Aug 21 | 173,434 |
| 20 Innovations That Changed Cars Forever – Part 1 | Long video | Aug 7 | 385,640 |
| Porsche's 6-Stroke Engine Is Fascinating – More Power! | Short | Jul 31 | 967,133 |
| Can Ferrari’s Clever Solution Save The Manual? | Long video | Jul 24 | 288,569 |
| Why Downshifting To Slow Down Is Actually Genius – Engine Braking! | Short | Jul 10 | 2,482,468 |
| I Drove the Rivian R2 – Everything You Need to Know Before You Buy | Long video | Jul 3 | 419,657 |
| Everyone Hates CVTs, but eCVTS are Genius! | Short | Jun 26 | 783,128 |
| Ducati's Secret To A Higher Redline — It's Not Desmo! | Long video | Jun 19 | 189,677 |
| 4 Problems With Direct Injection Engines | Short | Jun 12 | 673,534 |
| Ducati V4 Engines Are Different From Everything Else – Here’s Why | Long video | Jun 5 | 333,348 |
| The Most Technically Advanced Inline-4 Engine Ever? | Short | May 29 | 478,478 |
| Lucid Is Buying My Car Back – More Problems! | Long video | May 22 | 843,607 |
| This Car Actually Drives Upside Down! | Short | May 15 | 728,480 |
| I Bought A Shelby GT350 – The Best Mustang Ever? | Long video | May 1 | 570,745 |
| Ferrari Patented a V12 Engine with Pill-Shaped Pistons! | Short | Apr 24 | 965,479 |
| Porsche Actually Solved Wireless Charging | Long video | Apr 17 | 264,058 |
| Ducati's Tiny V4 Engine Makes Crazy Horsepower | Short | Apr 10 | 749,588 |
| Motor Oil Changed In 2025 - Here's What You Need To Know | Long video | Apr 3 | 478,241 |
| Jeep's New Hurricane 4 Engine Is Insane! | Long video | Mar 20 | 867,057 |
| You Can’t Fathom the G-Forces Inside a Turbo | Short | Feb 27 | 517,575 |
| Inline-6 vs V6 Engines: The Clear Winner | Short | Feb 20 | 837,929 |
| I Bought The Wrong Truck – Ford Maverick EcoBoost vs Hybrid | Long video | Feb 13 | 850,312 |
| Audi's Clever Twin-Turbo Trick - Sequential Exhaust Valves! | Short | Jan 30 | 576,664 |
| Don’t Hate — eCVTs Are Genius Transmissions! | Long video | Jan 23 | 1,365,739 |
| "The Grid Can't Handle Electric Cars!" | Short | Jan 16 | 155,061 |
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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
20% of views this month
Long 80%Shorts 20%
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 13 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
0.47 per week
That is 0.5x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.5x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
1.9M 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
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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 10, 2026, 04:00 UTC.