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@refinery293.1M subscribers3,195 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$4,390a month

About $52,700 a year, likely $31,700 to $84,900

Low end$2,640
Most likely$4,390
High end$7,080

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos1.9M views a month$4,10095%
  • Shorts1.7M views a month$2275%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 7,041 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
0100K200K
Median 2,687
Oct 7Nov 9
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VideoFormatPostedViews
Should your astrology sign impact your fragrance?ShortNov 911
Smells Like: The Cosmos ft. Aliza KellyLong videoNov 9835
Quinta Brunson isn't afraid to let her inner child shineShortNov 72,250
No playing small when you're playing Lenore Dove! 🕊ShortNov 51,924
firstresponsepregnancy + breannainbrooklynShortNov 51,045
Inside Breanna Young’s Dream Brooklyn Loft | Refinery29Long videoNov 542,341
How many rhymes can you find before you run out of time? 🐱🎩ShortNov 41,544
As always, Black women understood the assignment!! #midterms2026ShortNov 42,682
Morgan Spector for Sexiest Man Alive 2027!! 🥵ShortNov 21,139
Morgan Spector for Sexiest Man Alive 2027!! 🥵ShortNov 21,978
When Mother Creature speaks, you listen! #janellemonaeShortNov 22,898
Jax from #LoveIsBlind shares how she felt after her abrupt post-engagement exit.ShortOct 305,055
Raw milk was only the tip of the iceberg.ShortOct 281,357
Monica Style Muse on Grieving Out Loud & Life After Losing Her MomLong videoOct 274,687
For Elinor and Edward in Sense and Sensibility, it’s love at first sight.ShortOct 222,691
Love is Blind’s Wilnie may have some regrets, but falling for Wilson isn't one of them!ShortOct 214,163
A little delusion goes a long way!ShortOct 154,520
Unfiltered Dakota Johnson is our favorite!ShortOct 1539,477
Brenda Song has ICONIC style!ShortOct 152,041
Consider this your reminder: somebody is rooting for you behind the scenes, sis!ShortOct 141,061
Taking Up Space as a Latina Is an Act of Resistance | Johanna ToruñoLong videoOct 135,482
The #ADifferentWorld reboot deserves to exist, period!! 🎓ShortOct 132,311
We are the sum of many people’s wisdom and advice.ShortOct 12675
Taylor Polidore Williams on Finding Her Voice at an HBCULong videoOct 12180,562
OK, now we need to know who this famous actor was, Anne Hathaway!ShortOct 93,998
What If Models Styled Themselves?ShortOct 83,972
The kind of place you almost don’t want to gatekeep.ShortOct 81,215
Inside Gianna Corvino’s NYC Vintage Store, New York Archive | Sweet Digs | Refinery 29Long videoOct 8170,455
Is East of Eden's Cathy Ames a villain? Florence Pugh has thoughts!ShortOct 746,522
What Lupus Can Look Like on Different Skin Tones | Beautycon 2026Long videoOct 74,824

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Holds back

Niche: Entertainment

$0.80 to $5 per 1,000 views

$0typical $2$10

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator.

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

47% of views this month

Long 53%Shorts 47%

Shorts pay about $0.13 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 12 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

4.36 per week

3.8 before
4.4 now

That is 1.14x the 90 days before.

Holds back

Views per video are falling

0.65x

Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

3.6M 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

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 9, 2026, 21:20 UTC.

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