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.
Saturday Night Live
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$184,000a month
About $2.2M a year, likely $1.36M to $3.42M
Low end$113,000
Most likely$184,000
High end$285,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$182,000a month
- Long videos99.6M views a month$170,00094%
- Shorts82.4M views a month$10,9006%
- Live streams338.4K views a month$5800%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$10,800 to $27,100Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,354,364 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
01.5M3M
Median 360.9K
Nov 8Nov 9
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| he worked really hard on this | Short | Nov 9 | 115,815 |
| from a24 and coulda been records | Short | Nov 9 | 373,997 |
| there’s a time and place | Short | Nov 9 | 294,400 |
| Weekend Update ft. Jeremy Culhane, Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla - SNL | Long video | Nov 9 | 545,774 |
| Post-Election Ad - SNL | Long video | Nov 9 | 2,188,706 |
| Post Election Ad | Short | Nov 8 | 1,768,341 |
| they’re always being real | Short | Nov 8 | 98,196 |
| photoshoot bts 📸 the strokes!!! | Short | Nov 8 | 45,174 |
| druski’s photoshoot bts!!! | Short | Nov 8 | 45,309 |
| bubu mobile has you covered | Short | Nov 8 | 359,175 |
| wrong day, wrong girl | Short | Nov 8 | 216,027 |
| elon loves to joke | Short | Nov 8 | 1,450,716 |
| fitness insights from just pure observational power | Short | Nov 8 | 64,497 |
| she will not | Short | Nov 8 | 173,438 |
| this week on update | Short | Nov 8 | 313,849 |
| people have a lot to say about druski | Short | Nov 8 | 626,053 |
| she can’t deceive druski | Short | Nov 8 | 144,846 |
| Golden Age of Hip-Hop - SNL | Long video | Nov 8 | 1,066,370 |
| The Strokes: Going Shopping (Live) - SNL | Long video | Nov 8 | 362,616 |
| Wedding Photographers - SNL | Long video | Nov 8 | 807,011 |
| Going Shopping - The Strokes | Short | Nov 8 | 31,307 |
| Lonely in the Future - The Strokes | Short | Nov 8 | 27,047 |
| Proposal - SNL | Long video | Nov 8 | 1,602,626 |
| hit after hit | Short | Nov 8 | 204,633 |
| they got the shot | Short | Nov 8 | 588,305 |
| Weekend Update: Two People Who Just Hooked Up on the Midterms - SNL | Long video | Nov 8 | 1,307,159 |
| it’s a no from her | Short | Nov 8 | 407,939 |
| Weekend Update: Elon Musk on His Tough Week After Midterms - SNL | Long video | Nov 8 | 2,591,997 |
| two people who just hooked up are here to discuss what happened on election night | Short | Nov 8 | 211,600 |
| Weekend Update: Bob Dylan Meets with Pope Leo, Martha Stewart Apologizes for Halloween Costume - SNL | Long video | Nov 8 | 1,150,155 |
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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
45% of views this month
Long 55%Shorts 45%
Shorts pay about $0.13 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.
Holds back
Videos under 8 minutes
median 4 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
20.38 per week
That is 3.05x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
0.82x
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 10, 2026, 15:00 UTC.