Helps
Niche: Science
$3 to $12 per 1,000 views
$0typical $6$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $6 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Real Engineering
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$23,900a month
About $287,000 a year, likely $189,000 to $452,000
Low end$15,800
Most likely$23,900
High end$37,600
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$23,900a month
- Long videos3.4M views a month$23,900100%
- Shorts274.5K views a month$530%
- Live streams650 views a month$30%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$39,900 to $99,700Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,993,605 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
02M4M
Median 580.8K
Sep 10Oct 30
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rise and Fall of the Concorde | Long video | Oct 30 | 552,931 |
| The Plane That's 38% Nose | Long video | Sep 26 | 2,595,456 |
| NASA’s Next Monster Telescope | Long video | Aug 29 | 737,235 |
| How We Could Reach Proxima Centauri B in 20 Years | Long video | Aug 22 | 645,185 |
| Sagrada Familia - Full Documentary | Long video | Aug 2 | 458,081 |
| The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane | Long video | Aug 1 | 661,682 |
| The Forbidden Alloy of WW2 | Short | Jul 2 | 3,841,940 |
| This isn’t the original Statue of Liberty | Short | Jul 1 | 102,957 |
| Reading StarCloud’s Whitepaper So You Don’t Have To | Long video | Jun 27 | 736,281 |
| $1 vs $50 Phone Charger. What’s the difference? | Short | Jun 23 | 169,663 |
| The Dark Side of the World’s Lightest Structural Metal | Long video | Jun 6 | 577,896 |
| The V-22’s prototype was even more dangerous | Short | May 13 | 583,725 |
| Why the Nokia 3310 was so Durable | Short | Apr 29 | 518,128 |
| The Insane Engineering of the V-22 Osprey | Long video | Apr 25 | 1,102,231 |
| How American Tanks are being Destroyed in Ukraine | Short | Mar 30 | 1,010,258 |
| Tank Engines are Weird | Short | Mar 29 | 308,453 |
| How NASA Discovered a Military Base under Greenland | Long video | Mar 21 | 993,703 |
| Why America’s Tank Failed in Ukraine | Long video | Feb 21 | 1,777,939 |
| The ISS would be uninhabitable without this | Short | Feb 3 | 162,387 |
| Dude where’s my space station? | Short | Jan 31 | 197,528 |
| The Weird Orbit of the ISS | Short | Jan 29 | 201,185 |
| The Most Dangerous Space Walk | Short | Jan 28 | 453,007 |
| How We Built the ISS - Part 2 | Long video | Dec 20 | 672,721 |
| How We Built The ISS | Long video | Dec 6 | 1,596,711 |
| Solar Farms in Space - Reflect Orbital | Long video | Dec 3 | 546,362 |
| The Age of Laser Warfare Has Begun | Long video | Oct 25 | 1,871,331 |
| Project Orion: A Nuclear Pulse Rocket | Short | Sep 21 | 377,595 |
| Why Landing on the Moon is Confusing | Short | Sep 21 | 253,432 |
| Earth to Mars in 10 Days | Long video | Sep 20 | 2,279,777 |
| How China is tracking US Submarines | Short | Sep 10 | 336,703 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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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
Shorts in the mix
8% of views this month
Long 92%Shorts 8%
Shorts pay about $0.19 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 15 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
0.31 per week
That is 1x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.38x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
2.1M 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 7, 2026, 10:40 UTC.