Neutral
Niche: News
$2 to $5 per 1,000 views
$0typical $3$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $3 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Johnny Harris
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$20,000a month
About $240,000 a year, likely $174,000 to $334,000
Low end$14,500
Most likely$20,000
High end$27,800
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$20,000a month
- Long videos6.3M views a month$20,000100%
- Shorts278.4K views a month$380%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$27,400 to $68,500Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 3,423,397 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 634.5K
Apr 1Nov 6
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| How the Nile created a civilization | Short | Nov 6 | 45,240 |
| The REAL reason China built so much | Long video | Oct 15 | 5,779,103 |
| What I've been working on all year | Long video | Oct 8 | 1,152,043 |
| The world's most extreme places, explained | Long video | Sep 24 | 771,171 |
| I don't get democracy | Long video | Sep 10 | 3,684,745 |
| How Money Actually Works | Long video | Aug 13 | 3,717,560 |
| Meta glasses? Woof. | Short | Aug 3 | 145,015 |
| I can put stuff on a page. Iz makes it work. | Short | Aug 2 | 46,461 |
| Not ~the headlines~ again | Short | Aug 1 | 39,886 |
| Can’t wait to show you this journey with @drewbinsky | Short | Jul 31 | 34,547 |
| I pushed Google Docs to its limit | Short | Jul 30 | 339,265 |
| The American war machine, explained | Long video | Jul 30 | 3,421,356 |
| This is not a Taco Bell ad | Short | Jul 20 | 70,292 |
| Why making things calms my brain | Short | Jul 18 | 57,380 |
| Your brain wasn’t built for this | Short | Jul 17 | 109,822 |
| The REAL reason the US can’t beat Iran | Long video | Jul 16 | 6,531,822 |
| How the rich stay rich | Short | Jun 19 | 243,368 |
| The Miami briefcase heist | Short | Jun 18 | 251,374 |
| Oligarchy is worse than you think | Long video | Jun 18 | 4,329,928 |
| The secret wall protecting islands 🌊 @circleapp #ad | Short | Jun 17 | 161,145 |
| We just won another Emmy | Short | May 29 | 630,683 |
| The Real Story Behind the Mormon Church | Long video | May 23 | 1,284,280 |
| Why we need more silver | Short | Apr 22 | 870,129 |
| China’s Dirty Money Problem, Explained | Long video | Apr 16 | 4,551,011 |
| Why We Still Have 12,000 Nukes | Short | Apr 10 | 553,911 |
| What stops countries from using nukes? | Short | Apr 8 | 638,409 |
| CATS EVERYWHERE | Short | Apr 6 | 700,990 |
| When the government isn’t the government | Short | Apr 3 | 623,030 |
| Three hours to get gas in Myanmar | Short | Apr 3 | 768,910 |
| The price of being poor | Short | Apr 1 | 1,030,246 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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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
4% of views this month
Long 96%Shorts 4%
Shorts pay about $0.14 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 23 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
0.47 per week
That is 1.25x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
1.17x
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, 11:20 UTC.