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.
Matt D'Avella
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$5,040a month
About $60,500 a year, likely $36,100 to $98,300
Low end$3,010
Most likely$5,040
High end$8,190
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$5,040a month
- Long videos1.4M views a month$5,030100%
- Shorts48K views a month$70%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$5,010 to $13,400Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 334,102 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
01.5M3M
Median 510.7K
Apr 7Oct 31
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| They sold us a lie (and it’s still working) | Long video | Oct 31 | 275,917 |
| A professional stylist rebuilt my minimalist wardrobe | Long video | Sep 27 | 1,208,548 |
| This is everything that's wrong with consumerism | Long video | Sep 1 | 889,503 |
| Where did all the minimalists go? | Long video | Jul 7 | 698,953 |
| I ran 1 mile every day for 30 days | Long video | Jun 9 | 379,289 |
| I tried to optimize my life. It made it worse. | Long video | Apr 30 | 425,566 |
| I tried zone 2 training for 30 days (what I learned) | Long video | Mar 30 | 849,557 |
| The biggest self-help lie | Long video | Feb 27 | 217,402 |
| I meal prepped 46 boring lunches to be healthier | Long video | Jan 30 | 271,344 |
| The most life-changing advice I ever got | Long video | Jan 13 | 566,584 |
| The water bottle trend has gone too far | Long video | Dec 11 | 634,874 |
| The problem with self-help gurus | Long video | Oct 28 | 664,418 |
| How social media fuels useless products | Long video | Sep 30 | 511,297 |
| Hustle culture lied to you (here’s a better way) | Long video | Sep 2 | 889,103 |
| Why everyone is quitting social media | Long video | Aug 21 | 2,689,451 |
| How the 1% stole minimalism (then threw it away) | Long video | Jul 31 | 1,044,641 |
| The psychology of how brands influence you | Long video | Jul 17 | 510,161 |
| Why I'm still a minimalist after 14 years | Long video | Jul 2 | 484,360 |
| I tried to master espresso in 30 days (with zero experience) | Long video | May 21 | 1,012,280 |
| The only workout I do now (takes 40 min) | Long video | Apr 30 | 563,951 |
| I cut my training by 70% (and got better results) | Long video | Apr 24 | 843,267 |
| I tried mobility training for 30 days | Short | Apr 15 | 301,630 |
| I timed every task for 30 days | Short | Apr 14 | 60,634 |
| I swapped lives with a night owl | Short | Apr 13 | 54,203 |
| I tracked my mood for 1 year | Short | Apr 12 | 236,488 |
| I tried yoga for 30 days | Short | Apr 12 | 122,468 |
| This book helped me become a happier person | Long video | Apr 9 | 822,280 |
| The 5 Minute Rule | Short | Apr 9 | 60,042 |
| My wife tried minimalism. | Short | Apr 8 | 176,348 |
| I used a flip phone for 30 days | Short | Apr 7 | 162,145 |
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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
3% of views this month
Long 97%Shorts 3%
Shorts pay about $0.15 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 10 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
0.23 per week
That is 1.5x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.76x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
717K 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 8, 2026, 17:20 UTC.