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@espn14.6M subscribers116,165 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$110,000a month

About $1.32M a year, likely $809,000 to $2M

Low end$67,400
Most likely$110,000
High end$167,000

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos41M views a month$104,00095%
  • Shorts28.3M views a month$4,0404%
  • Live streams372K views a month$9271%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 60,796 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 videosShortsLive streams
075K150K
Median 13K
Nov 8Nov 9
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VideoFormatPostedViews
'Joe Burrow is in the MVP conversation' - Kyle Brandt ✍️ | SC with SVPLong videoNov 912,226
Caleb Wilson tried it 😭ShortNov 931,833
What an entrance πŸ‘ShortNov 98,811
'He's playing at an MVP-level' - Herm Edwards on Brock Purdy πŸ”₯ | NFL on ESPNLong videoNov 947,533
NJIT’s coach after his team made the game-winner 🀣ShortNov 925,073
Tennessee got ANOTHER big winShortNov 93,721
South Carolina proving they're No. 1 😀ShortNov 913,818
The King giving back to the fans πŸ™ŒShortNov 920,848
FROM HALF COURT FTW πŸ”₯ShortNov 97,482
North Carolina Tar Heels vs. South Carolina Gamecocks | Full Highlight | ESPN College BasketballLong videoNov 937,550
Louisville Cardinals vs. Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles | Highlights | ESPN College BasketballLong videoNov 810,286
Ohio State is in a DIFFERENT spotShortNov 82,658
A movement started 😭 (via ashleymariaserrano/TT)ShortNov 87,492
Coach was so confused 😭ShortNov 86,549
His reaction 😳 (via kaitlyn.b0506/TT)ShortNov 811,604
John Calipari back at SEC Media Days πŸ˜‚ (via @razorbackmbb)ShortNov 84,207
Catch or no catch for Miami?ShortNov 81,045
Texas Longhorns vs. Vanderbilt Commodores | Full Match Highlights | ESPN College VolleyballLong videoNov 818,542
Third quarter was delayed to capture the corgi πŸ˜‚ (πŸ“Ί CBS)ShortNov 835,528
Duke Blue Devils vs. FAU Owls | Full Game Highlights | ESPN College BasketballLong videoNov 89,539
North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Pitt Panthers | Full Match Highlights | ESPN College VolleyballLong videoNov 810,432
Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Virginia Cavaliers | Full Game Highlights | ESPN College BasketballLong videoNov 880,403
NFL Countdown gives thanks to service members for Veterans Day πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈLong videoNov 89,307
'IT'S UNFIXABLE IN DALLAS!' 😳 - Tedy Bruschi on Cowboys | NFL CountdownLong videoNov 825,832
Where does Ohio State go from here?! SVP reacts to bad Oregon loss | SVPodLong videoNov 824,268
β€˜HAD to have it’: Notre Dame takes down No. 1 Miami ☘️ | SVPodLong videoNov 826,418
Big 12 After Dark πŸ”₯ShortNov 88,828
CFB Week 10 REACTION! Notre Dame WINS, Alabama & Oregon ROLL | SVPodLive streamNov 8105,385
This celly from Steph πŸ˜…ShortNov 846,315
Lost his hat too 😭ShortNov 820,812

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Neutral

Niche: Sports

$1 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.

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

41% of views this month

Long 59%Shorts 41%

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 11 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: new

54.44 per week

0.0 before
54.4 now

Not enough history to compare yet.

Helps

Views per video are rising

1.42x

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

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

30.6M 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 9, 2026, 12:40 UTC.

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