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PBS Space Time

@pbsspacetime3.5M subscribers464 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$19,000a month

About $227,000 a year, likely $122,000 to $404,000

Low end$10,200
Most likely$19,000
High end$33,700

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos2.3M views a month$18,50097%
  • Shorts2.5M views a month$5223%
  • Live streams1,095 views a month$80%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 962,303 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 755.5K
Feb 19Nov 5
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VideoFormatPostedViews
So You Want To Understand Black Holes...Long videoNov 5230,504
The Hidden Structure of The UniverseShortNov 4105,916
Can We Turn The Solar System Into A Spaceship?ShortNov 2200,802
String Theory Explained In Two Minutes!ShortOct 29196,594
We Found Galaxies Too OLD For The Universe!ShortOct 26185,837
Ghost Particles Are Exposing Hidden Black Holes. They Just Won a Nobel Prize.Long videoOct 22962,303
How Many Times Can Space Be Divided?ShortOct 21136,949
There Are 1 Quadrillion Stars Behind This Grain of SandShortOct 19110,075
Is There Only ONE Electron In the Universe?ShortOct 151,466,853
Why Does -1/12 Keep Appearing Everywhere In Physics?Long videoOct 8825,579
Is a Moving Arrow NOT Actually Moving?ShortOct 7153,666
Are You Made of Light?ShortOct 5123,751
Are You A Disembodied Brain?ShortSep 30125,967
What If You Travel To The Edge of The Universe?ShortSep 28249,302
The Universe May Have Just Revealed the True Nature of Empty SpaceLong videoSep 241,866,070
So You Want to Understand Quantum Mechanics…Long videoSep 102,384,215
JWST May Have Discovered a New Cosmic Object: The Black Hole StarLong videoAug 272,800,649
There's Something Massive Hiding Behind the Galaxy's Strangest StarLong videoAug 13869,911
We Thought All Black Holes Came From Stars. We May Have Been Wrong.Long videoAug 4880,018
The Universe Has Been Expanding Since the Big Bang. Just Not How We Thought.Long videoJul 16583,117
The Quantum Experiment That Breaks TimeLong videoJul 2523,293
We Thought Black Holes Created Event Horizons. It Might Be the OppositeLong videoJun 181,058,428
We’ve Been Searching for Aliens the Wrong Way. That’s All About To Change. . .Long videoJun 4808,197
We Thought Black Holes Ended in Singularities. They Might End In a Frozen Big Bang.Long videoMay 212,254,557
We Found Galaxies Too Old for the UniverseLong videoApr 301,580,712
Earth’s Core Should Be Impossible. A New State of Matter Explains It.Long videoApr 161,089,452
Something Disturbing Happens When You Solve Einstein's Equations This WayLong videoApr 21,446,753
Martian Soil Is Deadly. And That's Why It Might Support Life.Long videoMar 19490,602
Most of Reality Is Invisible. We May Finally Be About to Reveal It.Long videoMar 5702,788
The Universe Is Racing Apart. We May Finally Know Why.Long videoFeb 191,102,909

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Helps

Niche: Education

$3 to $15 per 1,000 views

$0typical $7$20

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $7 per 1,000 views to the creator. We are not sure about the niche, so the range is wider.

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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

Mostly Shorts views

53% of views this month

Long 47%Shorts 53%

Shorts pay about $0.21 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 16 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

1.4 per week

0.5 before
1.4 now

That is 3x the 90 days before.

Neutral

Views per video are steady

0.84x

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

Can it earn from ads?Yes, already past the barIt meets the thresholds by our estimate and shows signs of earning

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How 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, 10:00 UTC.

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