Neutral
Niche: Tech reviews
$2 to $10 per 1,000 views
$0typical $5$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $5 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Lex Fridman
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$21,000a month
About $252,000 a year, likely $155,000 to $403,000
Low end$12,900
Most likely$21,000
High end$33,600
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$21,000a month
- Long videos3.7M views a month$21,000100%
- Shorts1,959 views a month$00%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$17,500 to $43,800Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 876,734 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
02M4M
Median 1.2M
Aug 13Oct 26
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #503 | Long video | Oct 26 | 1,389,250 |
| Taiwan: The Most Epic Night Market Experience w/ Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman | Long video | Oct 13 | 1,563,349 |
| Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung | Lex Fridman Podcast #502 | Long video | Sep 17 | 1,230,624 |
| DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 | Long video | Aug 26 | 2,342,735 |
| Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football | Lex Fridman Podcast #500 | Long video | Aug 12 | 2,193,780 |
| Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499 | Long video | Jul 28 | 1,141,240 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498 | Long video | Jun 30 | 1,307,087 |
| Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497 | Long video | May 29 | 902,632 |
| FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496 | Long video | May 6 | 365,383 |
| Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495 | Long video | Apr 9 | 1,456,390 |
| Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494 | Long video | Mar 23 | 1,441,502 |
| Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 | Long video | Mar 11 | 962,028 |
| Lex trains w/ Khabib Nurmagomedov | Exclusive Footage at UFC PI | Short | Mar 3 | 66,829 |
| Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492 | Long video | Mar 1 | 511,044 |
| Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE | Long video | Feb 25 | 1,031,464 |
| OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 | Long video | Feb 12 | 1,350,003 |
| State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490 | Long video | Jan 31 | 943,038 |
| Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489 | Long video | Jan 13 | 1,440,757 |
| Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multiverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #488 | Long video | Dec 31 | 793,776 |
| Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah's Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487 | Long video | Dec 12 | 2,092,479 |
| Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #486 | Long video | Nov 30 | 1,001,241 |
| David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy | Lex Fridman Podcast #485 | Long video | Nov 17 | 625,458 |
| Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484 | Long video | Oct 31 | 2,071,291 |
| Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex | Lex Fridman Podcast #483 | Long video | Oct 14 | 431,970 |
| Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482 | Long video | Sep 30 | 3,215,239 |
| Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481 | Long video | Sep 19 | 1,168,773 |
| Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480 | Long video | Sep 4 | 1,475,372 |
| Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories | Lex Fridman Podcast #479 | Long video | Aug 29 | 285,603 |
| Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #478 | Long video | Aug 24 | 794,087 |
| Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477 | Long video | Aug 13 | 876,734 |
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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.
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Shorts in the mix
0% of views this month
Long 100%Shorts 0%
Shorts pay about $0.17 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 149 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
0.39 per week
That is 1.67x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
1.33x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Time to monetize
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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, 06:00 UTC.