Holds back
Niche: Music
$0.80 to $4 per 1,000 views
$0typical $2$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Rick Beato
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$22,100a month
About $266,000 a year, likely $172,000 to $390,000
Low end$14,300
Most likely$22,100
High end$32,500
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$21,800a month
- Long videos8.2M views a month$18,40084%
- Shorts17M views a month$2,19010%
- Live streams609.5K views a month$1,2106%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$7,160 to $17,900Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 895,532 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 videosShortsLive streams
02M4M
Median 422K
Oct 14Nov 7
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia Trip Recap and What Else Is New | Live stream | Nov 7 | 115,373 |
| Steel Beans on dealing with adversity #drummer #guitar | Short | Nov 7 | 123,176 |
| Bernie Taupin on songwriting with Elton John  | Short | Nov 6 | 185,793 |
| How Did I Miss This? My Take On Gracie Abrams | Long video | Nov 5 | 577,557 |
| Josh Homme playing tricks on your audience #queensofthestoneage | Short | Nov 5 | 537,530 |
| Sheryl Crow on the writing of “Strong Enough” #sherylcrow #guitar | Short | Nov 3 | 143,341 |
| This Didn't Quite Go As I Planned... | Long video | Nov 3 | 499,745 |
| Steel Beans one man band rock fest! | Short | Nov 2 | 2,285,407 |
| Rob Thomas on Matchbox Twenty becoming the most famous faceless band  | Short | Nov 1 | 220,940 |
| Taylor Momsen on working with Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron from Soundgarden | Short | Oct 30 | 102,441 |
| Checking In From Australia! | Live stream | Oct 29 | 285,156 |
| Steel Beans plays his song “Stowaway” The one man rock band! | Short | Oct 29 | 3,176,426 |
| Steel Beans: How The F*ck Does He Do This? | Long video | Oct 27 | 2,030,973 |
| David Kollar creates some incredible soundscapes with guitar! | Short | Oct 26 | 94,513 |
| A hilarious moment from a VH1 show with Desmond Child and Vince Neil | Short | Oct 25 | 155,835 |
| Matchbox Twenty on the mistake at the beginning of “Bent” | Short | Oct 25 | 135,246 |
| I've Never Seen The Guitar Played Like This | Long video | Oct 23 | 701,395 |
| Taylor Momsen on what is a perfect song #taylormomsen #thebeatles | Short | Oct 23 | 651,392 |
| Desmond Child talks about what he learned about songwriting from his mentor | Short | Oct 22 | 164,308 |
| Bernie Taupin discusses writing “Your Song” with Elton John | Short | Oct 21 | 183,532 |
| Inside The Mind of The Most Prolific Songwriter of The Past 50 Years | Long video | Oct 21 | 508,459 |
| Sheryl Crow plays “Old Man” by Neil Young #sherylcrow #neilyoung | Short | Oct 20 | 1,697,263 |
| How Bernie Taupin and Elton John Became The Greatest Songwriting Duo | Long video | Oct 19 | 1,032,098 |
| Josh Homme on finding what makes him different #guitar #qotsa #joshhomme | Short | Oct 19 | 445,276 |
| I Finally Learned THIS Steely Dan Song | Live stream | Oct 18 | 331,082 |
| Bernie Taupin on writing the lyrics to “Rocket Man” #eltonjohn #bernietaupin | Short | Oct 17 | 1,612,162 |
| The Matchbox Twenty Interview | Long video | Oct 17 | 398,639 |
| It’s hilarious listening to Matchbox Twenty with the band! #matchboxtwenty | Short | Oct 16 | 1,177,198 |
| Did Hollywood Copy THIS Video? | Long video | Oct 15 | 800,396 |
| How Aaron Dessner and Taylor Swift wrote “cardigan” #aarondessner #taylorswift | Short | Oct 14 | 147,410 |
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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.
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Mostly Shorts views
66% of views this month
Long 32%Shorts 66%
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 32 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
7.08 per week
That is 0.93x the 90 days before.
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Views per video are falling
0.47x
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
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 8, 2026, 13:00 UTC.