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Half as Interesting

@halfasinteresting3M subscribers585 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$26,600a month

About $319,000 a year, likely $195,000 to $506,000

Low end$16,200
Most likely$26,600
High end$42,200

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos5.7M views a month$26,600100%
  • Shorts35.1K views a month$60%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 964,122 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.

01.5M3M
Median 378.9K
Mar 24Oct 30
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VideoFormatPostedViews
The Logistics of the NYC MarathonLong videoOct 30652,503
How Planes Fly Without Air Traffic ControlLong videoOct 191,040,919
The Logistics of IMAXLong videoOct 14576,826
The Logistics of NYC Waste ManagementLong videoOct 7440,961
What is the World's Biggest Hole Humans Have Ever Dug?Long videoSep 30664,256
Why Rolex Won’t Sell You Their Most Expensive WatchesLong videoSep 231,798,242
This Is The Shortest Train in the United StatesLong videoSep 11783,556
These Are HAI’s Worst Mistakes of the YearLong videoAug 31595,773
The Weird, Scary Airspace Over Washington DCLong videoAug 26718,476
Why It’s Illegal to Call a Drug “Stroebenazoline”Long videoAug 21934,710
United and American’s Bitter Feud Over Chicago’s AirportLong videoAug 11609,365
Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One WebsiteLong videoAug 52,529,755
The Missing Island Mexico Desperately Wants to Be RealLong videoJul 28279,170
How Tonga Made $100 Million Renting Space in Outer SpaceLong videoJul 24247,660
The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a PersonLong videoJul 14306,778
Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually UsefulLong videoJun 26247,601
Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018Long videoJun 25178,776
New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFALong videoJun 22375,987
What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?Long videoJun 1286,126
Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative InternetLong videoMay 29280,890
Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail TunnelLong videoMay 28284,391
The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have NaviesLong videoMay 12375,487
How Forensic Linguistics WorksLong videoMay 1201,021
How the Nuclear Football WorksLong videoApr 29252,754
Why This River Doesn’t Reach the OceanLong videoApr 22226,881
The Logistics of 911Long videoApr 11498,335
The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs UseLong videoApr 10456,540
Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are DoomedLong videoApr 8355,996
The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to TurkeyLong videoMar 27381,807
The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower DistributionLong videoMar 24170,913

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Helps

Niche: Education

$3 to $15 per 1,000 views

$0typical $7$20

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $7 per 1,000 views to the creator.

Neutral

Where viewers likely are

73% of US ad rates

0%US rates

Based on the channel's language and country (English speaking audience). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.

Neutral

Shorts in the mix

1% of views this month

Long 99%Shorts 1%

Shorts pay about $0.17 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.

Holds back

Videos under 8 minutes

median 6 min

0 min8 min mark20 min

Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.

Neutral

Upload pace: steady

0.86 per week

0.9 before
0.9 now

That is 1x the 90 days before.

Helps

Views per video are rising

2.44x

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

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

3.4M 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 7, 2026, 11:00 UTC.

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