Holds back
Niche: Music
$0.80 to $4 per 1,000 views
$0typical $2$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Peter Hollens
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$4,460a month
About $53,500 a year, likely $33,000 to $82,700
Low end$2,750
Most likely$4,460
High end$6,890
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$4,410a month
- Long videos2.3M views a month$4,08093%
- Shorts2.4M views a month$3167%
- Live streams7,847 views a month$100%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$7,510 to $18,800Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 938,154 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
0200K400K
Median 126.1K
Jan 4Nov 7
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| You Raise Me Up & More | 27 Minutes of A Cappella | Long video | Nov 7 | 14,261 |
| Epic Halloween Medley 🎃 More Spooky Songs & Disney Villains | Peter Hollens | Long video | Oct 30 | 56,870 |
| Epic Halloween Medley 🎃 Spooky Songs & Disney Villains | Peter Hollens | Long video | Oct 26 | 89,910 |
| For Anyone Who Overthinks Everything | What If – Cody Fry Cover | Long video | Sep 18 | 56,485 |
| Nearer, My God, to Thee (A Cappella) | Peter Hollens | Long video | Jul 24 | 61,636 |
| This Carol of the Bells Drop Is Unreal (Peter Hollens & Friends) | Short | Dec 22 | 53,501 |
| No Drums. Just Voices. 🥁 | Short | Dec 21 | 46,937 |
| Epic Christmas Medley | Short | Dec 20 | 81,031 |
| POV: It’s Christmas Eve and the house is finally quiet... 🕯️✨ #christmashymns #shorts | Short | Dec 17 | 45,717 |
| 1,000 People Singing Together (World Record!) 🤯🎄 #PeterHollens #Shorts | Short | Dec 14 | 56,266 |
| Bet you can’t sing this in one breath... 😤 #ChristmasMusic #shorts | Short | Dec 12 | 51,507 |
| Can I Bring Rock’s Most Epic Anthem to Life A Cappella? 🎸🎤 | Short | Mar 14 | 257,912 |
| Can I Make As It Was Sound Even Better A Cappella? 🎤✨ | Short | Mar 7 | 163,364 |
| Can A Cappella Capture the Magic of THIS Iconic Song? 🎤 | Short | Feb 28 | 194,489 |
| What Happens When Grenade Gets a Full A Cappella Makeover? | Short | Feb 21 | 113,600 |
| Layering Harmonies for The Last Shanty: A Vocal Journey 🌊 | Short | Feb 14 | 215,439 |
| Singing Thunderstruck at 1.25x Speed Was a TERRIBLE Idea 😂⚡ | Short | Feb 7 | 229,759 |
| No Guitars? No Problem. Thunderstruck Goes Full A Cappella! 🎸🔥 | Short | Jan 31 | 182,925 |
| What Happens When Industry Baby Becomes… BApple Sauce? | Short | Jan 17 | 202,465 |
| Can A Cappella Make California Dreamin’ Even More Dreamy? 🎤✨ | Short | Jan 16 | 208,215 |
| How Low Can I Go? Singing All Time Low A Cappella 🎤 | Short | Jan 15 | 171,812 |
| Can I Recreate Eye of the Tiger With Just My Voice? 🎤🔥 | Short | Jan 13 | 301,582 |
| Sea Shanty Fans! You’ve Never Heard Wellerman Like This 🎶 | Short | Jan 12 | 170,558 |
| Can I Sing Thunderstruck Without Instruments? 🎸🎤 | Short | Jan 11 | 133,147 |
| What Happens When I2I Goes Full A Cappella? Watch Me Cook | Short | Jan 10 | 164,860 |
| I Bet You Can’t Guess This Iconic Cartoon Theme! 🔍 | Short | Jan 9 | 119,037 |
| What Would Hobbits Sing at The Green Dragon? A Cappella Edition 🎶 | Short | Jan 8 | 38,738 |
| Can I Make Demons Sound Even Darker A Cappella? Watch This! | Short | Jan 7 | 159,229 |
| Singing Sweet Caroline A Cappella—Can You Resist Singing Along? 🎤 | Short | Jan 5 | 245,006 |
| This Classic Song Will Hit You Right in the Nostalgia 🎶✨ | Short | Jan 4 | 85,227 |
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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
Mostly Shorts views
51% of views this month
Long 48%Shorts 51%
Shorts pay about $0.13 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.
Holds back
Videos under 8 minutes
median 4 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
0.31 per week
That is 4x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.74x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
4.6M views a month
Uploads older than three years, and the ones we did not read, 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
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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, 15:00 UTC.