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Niche: Documentaries
$2 to $8 per 1,000 views
$0typical $4$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $4 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Free Documentary
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$19,800a month
About $238,000 a year, likely $144,000 to $379,000
Low end$12,000
Most likely$19,800
High end$31,600
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$19,800a month
- Long videos6.1M views a month$19,800100%
- Live streams607 views a month$20%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$3,460 to $9,220Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 230,565 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.
01M2M
Median 88.8K
Aug 7Nov 11
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| When Hurricanes Destroy Everything | Inside the World's Worst Storms | Free Documentary | Long video | Nov 11 | 801 |
| 3,300 Women, Just 20 Guards | Inside the Philippines' Largest Women's Prison | Free Documentary | Long video | Nov 8 | 162,986 |
| The Ayoreo People | Paraguay: Fighting to Remain Uncontacted | Free Documentary | Long video | Nov 4 | 29,316 |
| World's Toughest Cruise Ships | Extreme Voyages: Sailing to the Ends of the Earth | Free Documentary | Long video | Nov 1 | 38,660 |
| A Life at 4,000 Meters | Peru: The Quechua People's Fight for Survival | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 28 | 31,229 |
| 1 Town, 13 Prisons | Inside America's Prison Capital | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 25 | 157,584 |
| The Kichwa People | Ecuador: The Amazon Tribe That Fought Back | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 21 | 79,324 |
| World's Toughest Ships | Deep-Sea Jobs: Working Under Crushing Pressure | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 18 | 101,480 |
| Earth Untold: Tunisia | Hidden Tales from the Crossroads of North Africa | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 14 | 91,613 |
| Prison Girls | MSCC Women's Prison: Surviving the Hardest Days Behind Bars | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 11 | 192,270 |
| World's Largest Ship Graveyard | Bangladesh: Meet the Extreme Shipbreakers | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 7 | 57,892 |
| Casablanca: Inside Morocco's City of Extreme Contrasts | Free Documentary | Long video | Oct 4 | 72,341 |
| The City Without Sewers | Dar es Salaam: Inside Tanzania's Most Toxic Slum | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 30 | 136,022 |
| Prison Girls | MSCC Women's Prison: What Happens When the Cell Door Closes | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 27 | 463,416 |
| America, But Not Quite: Inside Puerto Rico | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 23 | 85,890 |
| World's Toughest Trains | Surviving the Most Extreme Railways on Earth | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 20 | 98,899 |
| World's Biggest Cargo Planes | Flying the Impossible | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 16 | 78,325 |
| Concrete Purgatory: The Ultra-Strict Prison Where Privacy Doesn't Exist | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 13 | 569,700 |
| World's Toughest Flights | Ice Planes: Landing Where No One Should Fly | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 9 | 461,065 |
| The Nenets People | Siberia: Life in One of the Coldest Places on Earth | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 6 | 120,691 |
| Zurich Main Station: How Switzerland’s Busiest Train Station Actually Works | Free Documentary | Long video | Sep 2 | 146,972 |
| The Prisoners Nobody Can Control | A Prison System at Breaking Point | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 30 | 298,333 |
| The Most Dangerous Job in Wrestling | Inside Mexico’s Lucha Libre | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 26 | 109,478 |
| World’s Biggest Car Wash: Secrets of the Giant Cleaning Machine | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 23 | 65,784 |
| The Gateway to the Mediterranean | Marseille’s Iconic Train Station | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 19 | 23,813 |
| The World's Most Impossible Rescues | Survival Against All Odds | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 16 | 38,494 |
| The Inmates We Fear Most | Inside a Maximum Security Prison for Murderers | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 14 | 1,672,057 |
| The Hidden World of Europe's Most Stunning Train Station | Lisbon | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 12 | 35,019 |
| World's Most Isolated Town | Surviving the Last Town Before the North Pole | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 9 | 84,315 |
| Italy's Mega Prison | Rebibbia: Mafia Bosses on Stage | Free Documentary | Long video | Aug 7 | 68,387 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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Where viewers likely are
73% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in DE). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Helps
Long enough for mid roll ads
median 51 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
2.1 per week
That is 0.71x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.54x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
3.3M 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 11, 2026, 17:40 UTC.