Neutral
Niche: Documentaries
$2 to $8 per 1,000 views
$0typical $4$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $4 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Real Stories
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$24,000a month
About $288,000 a year, likely $172,000 to $456,000
Low end$14,300
Most likely$24,000
High end$38,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
- Long videos5.8M views a month$24,000100%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$264 to $705Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 17,632 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.
0400K800K
Median 16.6K
Oct 2Nov 10
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Most Shocking Land Grab in Papua New Guinea’s History | Long video | Nov 10 | 7,511 |
| World's Heaviest Woman: Renee's Battle With Obesity and Her Final Hope | Long video | Nov 8 | 33,913 |
| Teen Exorcists in Ukraine: The Most Bizarre Exorcism Tour Ever Filmed | Long video | Nov 7 | 14,992 |
| Boston Marathon Bombing: As It Happened | Full Documentary | Long video | Nov 5 | 51,231 |
| Surviving The USS Cole Attack: The Tragedy and Al-Qaeda Connections To 9/11 | Long video | Nov 3 | 11,698 |
| The Most Ruthless Presidential Election Power Grabs in US History | Long video | Nov 1 | 10,504 |
| How To Really Win The US Presidency | Long video | Oct 31 | 13,347 |
| What I learned From Growing Up In My Dad's Strip Club: Inside The Manor | Long video | Oct 29 | 48,116 |
| The Greatest Bitcoin Gamble of the Pandemic: How To Fund a Movie With Crypto | Long video | Oct 27 | 10,711 |
| The Dangerous Truth About Propaganda and Censorship in Putin's Russia | Long video | Oct 26 | 15,150 |
| The Most Dangerous Mid-Life Career Move in Combat Sports | Long video | Oct 25 | 10,620 |
| Fear, Money and Death: The Dangerous Life Of Mexico's Narco Pilots | Long video | Oct 24 | 15,855 |
| I Nearly Died Smuggling Cocaine To Pay Off My Student Loans | Long video | Oct 22 | 65,907 |
| Inside The Mysterious Life Of Ukraine's Real Life Barbie | Long video | Oct 21 | 19,828 |
| The Real Sing Sing: The Prison Inmates Finding Redemption and Beating Addiction | Long video | Oct 20 | 29,892 |
| Meet the Man Addicted To Mac and Cheese | Long video | Oct 18 | 22,373 |
| Skyscraper Jails and COVID: Chinatown's Biggest Fight For Survival | Long video | Oct 17 | 16,557 |
| Mason Jenkins Most Shocking Confessions | Long video | Oct 16 | 14,508 |
| Faked Death or Real Tragedy? Inside North America's Biggest Ponzi Scheme | Long video | Oct 15 | 29,026 |
| Why Was Mike Tyson The Most Feared Man on Earth? | Long video | Oct 13 | 27,868 |
| Amos Silver: The Drug Dealer Who Challenged Israel’s Government | Long video | Oct 12 | 16,701 |
| Agnes Tirop Broke A World Record. Weeks later, She Was Dead. | Long video | Oct 11 | 11,053 |
| Why These Palestinians Will Never Give Up Their Homes | Long video | Oct 10 | 20,055 |
| Mark Zuckerberg: How Facebook Changed the World Forever | Long video | Oct 8 | 13,375 |
| Yusuf Hawkins: Inside The Murder That Split New York | Long video | Oct 7 | 250,446 |
| Saudi Arabia's Most Expensive Human Rights Cover Up | Long video | Oct 6 | 12,226 |
| Raw and Uncensored Footage of the Brutal Russia/Ukraine War | Long video | Oct 5 | 672,323 |
| Steve Buscemi Reveals A Past Darker and Stranger Than He Imagined | Long video | Oct 4 | 15,885 |
| Inside Hong Kong's Deepest Media Crackdown | Long video | Oct 3 | 17,863 |
| Christa Pike: The Truth Behind America's Most Shocking Murder Case | Long video | Oct 2 | 258,969 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
Helps
Where viewers likely are
93% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in GB). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Helps
Long enough for mid roll ads
median 54 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
4.9 per week
That is 1.11x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.78x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
5.5M 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
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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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 11, 2026, 18:00 UTC.