Neutral
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.
Jared Owen
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$7,730a month
About $92,800 a year, likely $55,000 to $146,000
Low end$4,580
Most likely$7,730
High end$12,100
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$7,730a month
- Long videos2.1M views a month$7,720100%
- Shorts11.1K views a month$20%
- Live streams3,649 views a month$120%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$43,600 to $116,000Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 2,907,642 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
04M8M
Median 114.7K
Oct 21Nov 6
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| How the Orion Spacecraft works | Long video | Nov 6 | 397,280 |
| Why are Spiral Escalators so rare? | Short | Aug 31 | 62,222 |
| How a Boat-Lifting Wheel works | Long video | Aug 15 | 510,111 |
| How does a Spiral Escalator work? | Long video | Jun 12 | 1,220,604 |
| How did the Lunar Roving Vehicle work? (NASA) | Long video | Dec 26 | 1,884,565 |
| How does a Spacesuit work? (NASA) | Long video | Oct 31 | 7,193,019 |
| Entry Descent and Landing on Mars! #nasa #space | Short | Oct 4 | 196,097 |
| Building the Space Station Truss Structure | Long video | Aug 29 | 1,438,101 |
| Parts Of The Space Shuttle #nasa | Short | Jul 4 | 194,419 |
| A Typical Space Shuttle Mission | #nasa | Short | Jun 20 | 2,281,325 |
| New Shepard Rocket: Space and Back in 10 minutes | Long video | Jun 13 | 1,513,553 |
| How Roller Coasters Actually Work | Long video | Apr 11 | 2,907,642 |
| Journey to the Space Station (Crew Dragon) | Short | Feb 17 | 239,473 |
| What's inside Tower Bridge? (London, England) | Long video | Feb 14 | 2,031,630 |
| Why they built the Vehicle Assembly Building | Short | Jan 27 | 147,615 |
| Space Needle in the 1960s | Short | Jan 21 | 61,691 |
| Mars Rover Perseverance | Short | Jan 14 | 49,584 |
| Parts of an Escalator | Short | Jan 7 | 50,946 |
| Elisha Otis Safety Elevator | Short | Dec 30 | 72,630 |
| Electric Motors and Electricity | Short | Dec 24 | 57,086 |
| How does a Space Telescope work? (Hubble and Webb) | Long video | Dec 20 | 4,528,741 |
| What can a 3D Printer create? | Short | Dec 17 | 81,779 |
| Ingenuity Helicopter | Short | Dec 10 | 53,253 |
| The invention of VHS | Short | Dec 3 | 34,453 |
| Inventing the Elevator | Short | Nov 26 | 33,542 |
| Bowling Pinsetter Machine | Short | Nov 19 | 35,018 |
| Inside The VAB at NASA | Short | Nov 12 | 29,777 |
| Space Needle Walkthrough #spaceneedle | Short | Nov 5 | 32,233 |
| This is a 3D Printer #3dprinting #bambulab | Short | Nov 2 | 35,192 |
| M1 Abrams Tank - how it works! | Short | Oct 21 | 68,877 |
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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
1% of views this month
Long 99%Shorts 1%
Shorts pay about $0.15 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.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
0.23 per week
That is 3x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.48x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
1.1M views a month
Uploads older than three years 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 7, 2026, 17:00 UTC.