Holds back
Niche: Gaming
$0.80 to $5 per 1,000 views
$0typical $2$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Northernlion
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$17,500a month
About $210,000 a year, likely $123,000 to $326,000
Low end$10,200
Most likely$17,500
High end$27,100
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$17,500a month
- Long videos8.8M views a month$17,500100%
- Shorts8,926 views a month$10%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$659 to $2,470Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 82,419 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.
0200K400K
Median 103.2K
Oct 25Nov 7
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| It's long and full of sailors (S.O.N.A.R: Submarine Operators Not Actually Ready) | Long video | Nov 7 | 28,618 |
| Ricky with the shades is a menace (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Nov 7 | 43,723 |
| Even Bench can't help us here (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Nov 6 | 75,394 |
| Get stumped (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Nov 5 | 101,274 |
| The poets came to play today (Miscellaneous) | Long video | Nov 4 | 64,184 |
| I'm just gonna play my cards man (Slay the Spire 2) | Long video | Nov 4 | 128,963 |
| Just you wait till I use my bench (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Nov 4 | 99,647 |
| This year...I'm giving up trivia (Miscellaneous) | Long video | Nov 3 | 99,169 |
| One percent of the Banks get one hundred percent of the goals (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Nov 3 | 119,938 |
| Greatest achievement in my gaming career (Rat Game) | Long video | Nov 2 | 94,547 |
| 3 is all we need (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Nov 2 | 105,211 |
| Best emote wheel in friendslop history (Rat Game) | Long video | Nov 1 | 160,004 |
| So you wanted a hit (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Nov 1 | 168,414 |
| My god it's full of draws (Slay the Spire 2) | Long video | Nov 1 | 136,504 |
| They are using evil and unfair powers (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Oct 31 | 118,349 |
| We need to play respectably again (Slay the Spire 2) | Long video | Oct 31 | 114,009 |
| It's got dice, cards, and chips...it might be perfect (The Zibbo Show #ad) | Long video | Oct 30 | 126,626 |
| OK, turns out the streets have hands (Punch Upon A Time) | Long video | Oct 30 | 33,771 |
| I didn't say A24 made it, I said it WAS A24 (Miscellaneous) | Long video | Oct 30 | 80,926 |
| We need a goalie, not a dude that's moldy (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Oct 30 | 122,339 |
| There's no shame in losing to the best (Punch Upon A Time) | Long video | Oct 29 | 44,855 |
| Be careful who you call boring (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Oct 29 | 136,907 |
| I can beat the tutorial I swear (Punch Upon A Time) | Long video | Oct 28 | 56,901 |
| Bro thinks he's the Mike Richter of hockey (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Oct 28 | 178,262 |
| It would have been a good scheme though (Miscellaneous) | Long video | Oct 27 | 81,844 |
| Is this a gondola? Because it's Peak to Peak (Tape to Tape) | Long video | Oct 27 | 371,069 |
| Can you feel the power? (Slay the Spire 2) | Long video | Oct 27 | 132,546 |
| Volleyball will be ours (Switch Sports Resort) | Long video | Oct 26 | 75,598 |
| I'm sick of the net (Chained Beasts) | Long video | Oct 26 | 52,254 |
| They nerfed my 2007 technique (Switch Sports Resort) | Long video | Oct 25 | 111,807 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
Neutral
Where viewers likely are
73% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English speaking audience). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Neutral
Shorts in the mix
0% of views this month
Long 100%Shorts 0%
Shorts pay about $0.11 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 55 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Neutral
Upload pace: steady
19.21 per week
That is 0.95x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
1.45x
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 8, 2026, 05:20 UTC.