Helps
Niche: Automotive
$3 to $10 per 1,000 views
$0typical $6$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $6 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Rich Rebuilds
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$49,300a month
About $591,000 a year, likely $421,000 to $870,000
Low end$35,100
Most likely$49,300
High end$72,500
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$49,300a month
- Long videos7.2M views a month$49,00099%
- Shorts5,019 views a month$10%
- Live streams66.4K views a month$3291%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$4,470 to $11,200Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 223,721 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
04M8M
Median 1.4M
Dec 14Nov 2
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rivian Built a $100,000 Van You Can’t Fix Without Their Software… So I Bought One | Long video | Nov 2 | 3,453,619 |
| I Bought a Banned Chinese Car From a Rental Company for $2,000 | Long video | Oct 20 | 4,482,894 |
| Lucid Wants My $140,000 Car Back After I Fixed It | Long video | Oct 5 | 4,882,497 |
| I Bought the $100,000 Amazon Van You’re Not Supposed to Own… Now I Know Why | Long video | Sep 22 | 6,348,662 |
| Lucid’s Lawyers Called Me After I Bought Their $140,000 Car for $4,100 | Long video | Aug 25 | 2,422,788 |
| I Bought Amazon’s $100,000 Rivian Van for $10,000… Dealer Said It Needed a New Battery | Long video | Aug 11 | 4,614,991 |
| Lucid Wants $50,000 to Unlock My $140,000 Car | Long video | Jul 31 | 1,884,293 |
| I Bought a $140,000 Lucid for $4,100 Because Everyone Thought Lucid Was Going Bankrupt | Long video | Jul 26 | 1,956,968 |
| The Junkyard Offered Me $10,000 to Give Up My Dead $300,000 Bentley… I Said NO | Long video | Jul 20 | 2,162,298 |
| I pulled a Golden Retriever out of my Mercedes Exhaust | Short | Jul 10 | 119,591 |
| Mercedes Said My $140,000 V12 Needed a Transmission… It Was a $50 Part | Long video | Jul 5 | 856,403 |
| July 2, 2026 | Short | Jul 2 | 92,451 |
| I Bought a Broken $140,000 Twin-Turbo V12 Mercedes the Owner Gave Up On | Long video | Jun 21 | 1,028,846 |
| Dealer Said My $300k "SCRAP ONLY" Bentley Should NEVER be Started... I did Anyway | Long video | Jun 9 | 1,680,241 |
| I Bought a Broken $300,000 Bentley for $5,000… and Fixed It With BABY OIL | Long video | Jun 1 | 1,302,609 |
| It’s time for my annual car wash #chemicalguys #rivian | Short | May 28 | 74,166 |
| A State Trooper Sold Me This $87,000 Luxury Car for $800 | Long video | May 17 | 874,886 |
| America Is Blocking Chinese EVs ... I Flew to China to Find Out Why | Long video | May 12 | 2,196,348 |
| Audi Said My $160,000 S8 Needed a New Engine… It Was a $29 Part | Long video | May 4 | 1,243,503 |
| Audi Said My $160K S8 Needed a $35,000 Engine… They Missed This | Long video | Apr 30 | 1,759,026 |
| Dealer Said This $160,000 Hybrid Twin-Turbo Audi S8 Needed a New Engine… I Bought It for $9,500 | Long video | Apr 20 | 1,482,425 |
| The State Failed My $115,000 RARE Hybrid Lexus… So I Drove It 2,000 Miles Home | Long video | Apr 8 | 1,298,568 |
| Mercedes Wanted $20,000 to Fix This Tesla-Powered EV… I Used a bottle cap | Long video | Apr 1 | 1,829,241 |
| Lexus Wanted $8,000 for This RARE Hybrid Battery… I Fixed It for 12¢ | Long video | Mar 15 | 1,173,205 |
| Everyone Said This EV Was The Worst — I Paid $6,000 For One | Long video | Mar 1 | 783,256 |
| The Dealer Said This $115,000 RARE Hybrid Lexus Was Dead — I Bought It for $2,000 | Long video | Feb 16 | 949,455 |
| I Tried Driving a $100 Junkyard Prius 3,700 Miles Home | Long video | Feb 1 | 876,740 |
| This $100 Prius Was Going to Be Crushed by the Junkyard, I Bought It Anyway | Long video | Jan 17 | 1,637,514 |
| BMW Wrote Off This $50,000 Car for a “13-Hour” Repair — I Fixed It in 30 Minutes | Long video | Dec 27 | 1,258,011 |
| BMW Said This $50,000 EV Was Dead… I Found What They Missed | Long video | Dec 14 | 980,912 |
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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 99%Shorts 0%
Shorts pay about $0.18 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 14 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
0.39 per week
That is 0.56x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
2.11x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
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 10, 2026, 07:40 UTC.