Neutral
Niche: Cooking
$2 to $5 per 1,000 views
$0typical $3$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $3 per 1,000 views to the creator.
SAM THE COOKING GUY
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$7,970a month
About $95,700 a year, likely $66,900 to $138,000
Low end$5,570
Most likely$7,970
High end$11,500
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$7,980a month
- Long videos3.1M views a month$7,970100%
- Shorts27.1K views a month$40%
- Live streams81 views a month$00%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$2,070 to $5,180Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 172,806 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
0400K800K
Median 171.9K
Aug 5Nov 6
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Made a FULL Mexican Dinner for 4 People for Just $25! | Long video | Nov 6 | 105,928 |
| I Can't Believe 4 Ingredients Make THIS! | Long video | Nov 3 | 401,811 |
| I Made the HELLFIRE BURGER… and Immediately Regretted It | Long video | Oct 30 | 194,520 |
| Trust Me on This… | Long video | Oct 27 | 156,672 |
| This Mexican Shrimp Recipe BLOWS Shrimp Scampi Away! | Long video | Oct 23 | 192,372 |
| These Japanese Fries Will Ruin All Other Fries For You | Long video | Oct 20 | 172,376 |
| Give Me $13 and 25 Minutes... I'll Feed Your Whole Family! | Long video | Oct 16 | 146,865 |
| DRUNKEN SPAGHETTI Might Be the Best Pasta I've Ever Made | Long video | Oct 13 | 265,411 |
| This Might Be the Best Steak Sandwich I've Ever Made | Long video | Oct 9 | 220,514 |
| The Only Fish Taco That Matters | Long video | Oct 6 | 180,327 |
| The $25 Slow Cooker Dinner That Blew Me Away | Long video | Oct 2 | 519,134 |
| Most Pancakes Start With Flour… This One Starts With CHICKEN | Long video | Sep 29 | 144,243 |
| This Chicken Dinner Has NO Business Being This Good | Long video | Sep 25 | 272,103 |
| 3 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Make in an Air Fryer | Long video | Sep 23 | 244,705 |
| We Made Dinner… Then Turned It Into THIS | Long video | Sep 22 | 133,505 |
| This Has No Business Being This Good | Long video | Sep 18 | 196,507 |
| The $15 Dinner I Can’t Stop Making | Long video | Sep 15 | 726,380 |
| We Made the Most Unnecessary Breakfast Sandwich Ever | Long video | Sep 11 | 145,029 |
| It’s TOO DAMN HOT… So We Made These | Long video | Sep 8 | 122,180 |
| These Mini Detroit Pizzas Are Absolutely INSANE | Long video | Sep 4 | 477,167 |
| We Made the Most Unnecessary Chicken & Rice Ever | Long video | Sep 1 | 355,147 |
| These Pork Belly Tacos Are Almost Unfair | Long video | Aug 28 | 163,963 |
| You’re Cooking These 6 Vegetables Wrong | Long video | Aug 25 | 79,656 |
| I’ll Never Make Pizza Any Other Way Again | Long video | Aug 21 | 301,052 |
| We Tried Making Chick-fil-A’s Wildest Chicken Sandwich | Long video | Aug 18 | 115,364 |
| 7️⃣ Back to School Recipes #samthecookingguy #food #cooking #recipe #backtoschool | Short | Aug 15 | 25,770 |
| 7 Back-to-School Meals That Make Life WAY Easier | Long video | Aug 14 | 171,494 |
| The Grilled Chicken Recipe I'll Be Making My Wife ALL Summer | Long video | Aug 11 | 121,351 |
| This Might Be the Best Thing We’ve Made All Summer | Long video | Aug 7 | 124,943 |
| Japan Does Food Better Than Anyone | Long video | Aug 5 | 120,840 |
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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
1% of views this month
Long 99%Shorts 1%
Shorts pay about $0.14 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 10 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
2.18 per week
That is 1.13x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
0.84x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
1.3M 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
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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 9, 2026, 02:00 UTC.