Neutral
Niche: Travel
$2 to $5 per 1,000 views
$0typical $3$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $3 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Peter Santenello
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$13,000a month
About $156,000 a year, likely $105,000 to $218,000
Low end$8,760
Most likely$13,000
High end$18,200
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$13,000a month
- Long videos3.7M views a month$13,000100%
- Shorts9 views a month$00%
- Live streams466 views a month$10%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$13,900 to $27,700Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,385,998 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.
02M4M
Median 1.5M
Dec 20Nov 7
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| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why Americans Choose to Live on this Isolated Island | Long video | Nov 7 | 684,800 |
| Inside America's Forgotten Timber Country | Long video | Oct 17 | 1,239,251 |
| Road Tripping to the Edge of America | Long video | Oct 10 | 1,491,416 |
| Seattle - What's It Really Like Now? | Long video | Oct 3 | 2,008,669 |
| Inside Old School Italian-American New Jersey (with my cousin) | Long video | Sep 19 | 1,902,106 |
| Inside America’s Most Shocking Wealth Divide - Fairfield County | Long video | Sep 12 | 1,843,223 |
| Flint, Michigan - What's It Like Now? | Long video | Sep 5 | 1,428,573 |
| Solo in the Most Remote Corner of the East Coast | Long video | Aug 15 | 2,293,255 |
| Inside Maine’s Forgotten Company Town | Long video | Aug 8 | 841,852 |
| Inside Old Maine With a Sixth-Generation Lobsterman | Long video | Aug 1 | 1,007,378 |
| Inside the Most Dangerous City in America's Safest State | Long video | Jul 18 | 1,345,392 |
| Maine - First Impressions (Portland) | Long video | Jul 11 | 1,072,877 |
| Inside Philadelphia - What It's Like Now | Long video | Jul 4 | 970,102 |
| Inside Memphis’ Most Dangerous Hoods | Long video | Jun 27 | 1,073,342 |
| Inside Memphis - What the Media Won’t Show You | Long video | Jun 20 | 1,334,476 |
| Inside the Deep South’s Poorest Region | Long video | Jun 13 | 1,489,183 |
| Solo Deep in the Ozarks | Long video | Jun 6 | 2,632,741 |
| Inside Wealthy Arkansas | Long video | May 16 | 1,562,467 |
| Inside America’s Fastest-Shrinking City | Long video | May 9 | 3,225,596 |
| Inside Arkansas - First Impressions (Little Rock) | Long video | May 2 | 1,226,762 |
| Inside Colorado’s Extreme Wealth Divide (100 miles apart) | Long video | Apr 18 | 1,759,927 |
| Roadtrip to the “Wickedest” Town in the West | Long video | Apr 11 | 1,606,493 |
| Old Florida - The Last Outlaws of the Everglades | Long video | Apr 4 | 1,257,899 |
| He Built a Better Way to Live Off-Grid (40 Acres) | Long video | Mar 21 | 1,706,865 |
| Three Islands, Three Different Worlds on Georgia’s Coast | Long video | Mar 14 | 1,552,681 |
| The Savannah Tourists Don't See | Long video | Mar 7 | 1,146,133 |
| I Went to Florida's Remote Prison Towns | Long video | Feb 21 | 1,650,273 |
| Solo in the Florida Tourists Never See | Long video | Feb 14 | 1,615,760 |
| Life Deep in the Florida Swamps | Long video | Feb 7 | 2,875,938 |
| Life Inside a Town Owned by One Company | Long video | Dec 20 | 1,909,281 |
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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
0% of views this month
Long 100%Shorts 0%
Shorts pay about $0.14 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 32 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Holds back
Upload pace: slowing down
0.62 per week
That is 0.8x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
1.03x
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
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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 10, 2026, 00:40 UTC.