Helps
Niche: Automotive
$3 to $10 per 1,000 views
$0typical $6$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $6 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Jay Leno's Garage
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$28,500a month
About $342,000 a year, likely $238,000 to $500,000
Low end$19,800
Most likely$28,500
High end$41,600
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$28,500a month
- Long videos4.3M views a month$28,20099%
- Shorts1.5M views a month$2681%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$8,690 to $21,700Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 434,449 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
0750K1.5M
Median 68.9K
Oct 6Nov 9
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Leno’s First Drive Where Nobody Drives, meet the Tesla Model Y L | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Nov 9 | 214,937 |
| Unfamiliar Names | Assess and Caress with Donald Osborne | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Nov 5 | 117,821 |
| Nethercutt's Lincoln V12 | Too Radical for Edsel Ford | Last Car Judkins Built | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Nov 2 | 224,264 |
| The Models A | Assess and Caress with Donald Osborne | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Oct 29 | 136,422 |
| Jerry O’Connell Paid $12K for This 1979 Cadillac Seville on Craigslist | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Oct 26 | 659,021 |
| First and Last | Assess and Caress With Donald Osborne | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Oct 22 | 263,683 |
| The Cirrus Vision Jet's Most Unique Feature | Short | Oct 21 | 35,740 |
| From Idea to Running Hypercar in 9 Months | Short | Oct 21 | 22,980 |
| Jay Leno Takes Off in the Cirrus Vision Jet | Short | Oct 20 | 20,087 |
| 400+ Pieces of Chrome on One Hudson Hornet | Short | Oct 20 | 50,607 |
| Sneak Peek: 2029 Hennessey Blackbird an 850 HP Hypercar, No Turbos or Screens | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Oct 19 | 471,697 |
| The Company Behind Cars It Can't Talk About | Short | Oct 18 | 47,538 |
| The Smallest Jet Engine in General Aviation | Short | Oct 18 | 82,720 |
| The Hudson Hornet's 308 Six and the NASCAR 7X | Short | Oct 16 | 84,063 |
| RML Builds a Battery for a Supercar They Can't Name | Short | Oct 16 | 22,531 |
| Pick Your Flavor | Assess and Caress with Donald Osborne | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Oct 15 | 230,255 |
| The WWII Gun Sight Detail on a 1947 Buick Roadmaster | Short | Oct 14 | 49,743 |
| This Jet Weighs Only 1,500 lbs More Than a Tesla | Short | Oct 14 | 64,129 |
| The Ladies Still Love a Hudson Hornet | Short | Oct 13 | 73,680 |
| Every Scoop on the 920 HP RML P39 Has a Job | Short | Oct 13 | 42,149 |
| Travis Barker’s 1959 Impala Looks Stock Until You Floor It | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Oct 12 | 1,122,670 |
| Jay Pulls a 45 Degree Bank in the Vision Jet | Short | Oct 11 | 569,411 |
| Jay's $1.98 J.C. Whitney Catalog Accessory | Short | Oct 11 | 124,391 |
| You Don't Need a Radio in the RML P39 | Short | Oct 9 | 23,943 |
| Why This 1947 Buick Roadmaster Looked Years Ahead | Short | Oct 9 | 36,287 |
| Analog or Digital | Assess and Caress with Donald Osborne | Jay Leno's Garage | Long video | Oct 8 | 233,847 |
| Jay Spots an In-N-Out From the Cockpit | Short | Oct 7 | 30,046 |
| A Hypercar You Can Drive to the Track Without a Headache | Short | Oct 7 | 26,227 |
| The Hudson Hornet's Hidden Backup Brake | Short | Oct 6 | 59,618 |
| If the Pilot Can't Fly, This Jet Lands Itself | Short | Oct 6 | 20,674 |
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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
26% of views this month
Long 74%Shorts 26%
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 29 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
5.6 per week
That is 1.5x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
0.88x
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 10, 2026, 07:00 UTC.