Helps
Niche: History
$3 to $10 per 1,000 views
$0typical $5$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $5 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Extra History
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$9,700a month
About $116,000 a year, likely $81,500 to $170,000
Low end$6,790
Most likely$9,700
High end$14,200
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$9,600a month
- Long videos1.4M views a month$8,21086%
- Shorts7.8M views a month$1,38014%
- Live streams278 views a month$10%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$5,550 to $14,800Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 369,839 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
02M4M
Median 431.8K
Aug 4Nov 5
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of The Thirty Years' War | Best Days in History | Short | Nov 5 | 263,484 |
| Nathanael Greene 2: Logistics of War | | U.S. Revolutionary War History | Long video | Nov 1 | 219,217 |
| Data Centers Decimate your Air and Water | Recently Repeated History | Short | Oct 29 | 1,636,147 |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | Extra History Complete | European History | Long video | Oct 24 | 308,153 |
| Dracula in WWI, For REAL! | U.S. History | Short | Oct 22 | 934,074 |
| Nathanael Greene: The Fighting Quaker | U.S. Revolutionary War History | Long video | Oct 17 | 376,310 |
| Why Food USED to be Safer | Recently Repeated History | Short | Oct 15 | 2,433,440 |
| Ptolemy Butchered His Boy | Worst Dads in History | Short | Oct 8 | 705,209 |
| Kent State Shootings | Extra Context | U.S. History | Long video | Oct 7 | 96,705 |
| The President's House | North American History | Long video | Oct 3 | 404,261 |
| Hoover Haunts Trump's Tariffs | Recently Repeated History | Short | Oct 1 | 1,987,983 |
| Dividing the Middle East | Extra History Complete | Middle Eastern History | Long video | Sep 26 | 548,536 |
| Stonewall Remembrance Removed | Recently Deleted History | Short | Sep 24 | 2,440,617 |
| The Hard Hat Riot | Kent State Shootings 3 | U.S. History | Long video | Sep 19 | 357,873 |
| The Great Stink of London | Worst Smells in History | Short | Sep 17 | 747,393 |
| The History of Perfume: Mankind's Millennia Long Battle Against Stank | Long video | Sep 12 | 449,549 |
| Air Travel Was Terrible | History Had It Worse | Short | Sep 10 | 1,187,660 |
| Four Dead in Ohio | Kent State Shootings 2 | U.S. History | Long video | Sep 5 | 414,080 |
| Elon Musk’s Potato Famine | Recently Repeated History | Short | Sep 3 | 3,616,801 |
| Jewish Pirates | Extra History Complete | Long video | Aug 29 | 329,116 |
| Charles Dickens’ Bad Houseguest | Big YIKES in History | Short | Aug 27 | 906,865 |
| Nixon's War | Kent State Shootings 1 | U.S. History | Long video | Aug 22 | 378,873 |
| “History Happens Every Day” 2027 Kickstarter Wrap-Up Stream | Live stream | Aug 22 | 11,197 |
| How Polio Got Pwnd | Best Days in History | Short | Aug 20 | 1,238,174 |
| Take THAT Potato Salad! | Long video | Aug 15 | 26,858 |
| Weaponizing Motherhood | Caterina Sforza | Best Moms in History | Short | Aug 13 | 1,484,170 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Presidential Corruption | Extra Context | Long video | Aug 12 | 44,060 |
| The Bone Wars | World History | Long video | Aug 8 | 245,045 |
| Mesmer's Quack Magnetism | Weird Dudes in History | Short | Aug 6 | 573,559 |
| 2027 "History Happens Every Day" Calendar Kickstarter Trailer | Long video | Aug 4 | 17,050 |
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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.
Holds back
Mostly Shorts views
85% of views this month
Long 15%Shorts 85%
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 12 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
2.1 per week
That is 1x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
1.89x
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
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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 7, 2026, 12:40 UTC.