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.
Scotty Kilmer
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$54,300a month
About $651,000 a year, likely $444,000 to $922,000
Low end$37,000
Most likely$54,300
High end$76,900
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$54,200a month
- Long videos9.6M views a month$53,30098%
- Shorts965K views a month$1760%
- Live streams126K views a month$7071%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$2,440 to $6,090Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 121,852 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 videosLive streams
0750K1.5M
Median 87K
Oct 13Nov 10
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why Tesla Is Ending Cybertruck Production (And Why Current Owners Are Screwed) | Long video | Nov 10 | 34,901 |
| Ford Just Betrayed America With a Chinese Truck! (Plus Harley-Davidson's Cheap Imported Rip-Off) | Long video | Nov 8 | 85,758 |
| Stop Buying Cars With Computerized Brakes! (Why New EVs Smash Into Walls) | Long video | Nov 7 | 49,424 |
| Doing This When Parking Will Destroy Your Car’s Hidden Sensors (And Cost a Fortune) | Long video | Nov 6 | 126,583 |
| This New Cheap Truck Scares the Crap Out of Me | Long video | Nov 5 | 180,339 |
| Here’s Why Toyota’s New Tech Will Ruin Driving Forever | Long video | Nov 4 | 51,136 |
| GM Just Got Busted in a $220 Million Scam (And Your Car Is Spying on You Right Now) | Long video | Nov 3 | 69,914 |
| GM Just Lost Their Minds With the New $227,000 Corvette (Plus Test Drive Crash Lawsuit) | Long video | Nov 2 | 88,148 |
| A Scan Tool and ChatGPT Are the New Secret Weapon for Cheap Car Repairs | Long video | Oct 31 | 145,546 |
| This New Sidecar Motorhome Is the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Seen (And GM Is Late to the Game Again) | Long video | Oct 30 | 43,810 |
| Here’s Why Toyota Sales Are Dropping Like a Lead Balloon (And What I Hate About New Toyotas) | Long video | Oct 29 | 513,672 |
| I’m Sitting in the Best Used SUV Ever Made (And Why New Ones Are a Ripoff) | Long video | Oct 28 | 129,186 |
| Time's Magazine Says this Stupid Car is the Invention of the Year And Why PopUp Headlights Are Dead | Long video | Oct 27 | 53,192 |
| This $26,500 Car Gets 60.2 MPG and Will Last Forever | Long video | Oct 26 | 1,157,519 |
| Ford Screws Up Again! (Plus Mercedes' Ridiculous Fake V8 & $0.97 Gas Chaos) | Long video | Oct 25 | 85,125 |
| Here’s Why New Toyota Quality is Crap (105,000 Land Cruisers Recalled Over Cheap Plastic!) | Long video | Oct 24 | 94,234 |
| Scotty Kilmer is live! | Live stream | Oct 24 | 36,479 |
| NEVER Ride in a Robotaxi! Why States Are Banning Them (And Musk Builds a Stupid Track for the Rich) | Long video | Oct 22 | 50,924 |
| Scotty Kilmer is live! | Live stream | Oct 22 | 25,685 |
| The Last Good Volkswagen Van Ever Made (And Why They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore) | Long video | Oct 21 | 113,713 |
| Why Tesla’s $250,000 Flying Roadster Is a Joke (And Why This Other Flying Car Crushes It) | Long video | Oct 20 | 312,319 |
| He Bought This Subaru Instead of a Toyota Camry (Here’s What Happened After 146,000 Miles) | Long video | Oct 19 | 221,135 |
| Brand New Electric Cars Are Self-Igniting at Dealerships! (And Honda’s 1 Million Car Recall) | Long video | Oct 18 | 100,849 |
| 4 Car Smells You Should Never Ignore (And How to Fix Them) | Long video | Oct 17 | 62,246 |
| Scotty Kilmer is live! | Live stream | Oct 17 | 28,382 |
| You can Get 9 Cent Gas!? And GM Just Betrayed America With the New 2027 Chevy Silverado | Long video | Oct 16 | 113,940 |
| NEVER Put This on Your Car Seat (It Just Burned an SUV to the Ground!) | Long video | Oct 15 | 63,750 |
| Scotty Kilmer is live! | Live stream | Oct 15 | 25,711 |
| The Truth About Dash Cams: Which Ones Work and Which Are Total Crap | Long video | Oct 14 | 542,950 |
| Why Nobody’s Buying EVs Anymore (And Detroit Is Losing Too) | Long video | Oct 13 | 304,423 |
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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
9% of views this month
Long 90%Shorts 9%
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 12 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
8.24 per week
That is 2.28x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.8x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
6.1M 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
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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, 04:20 UTC.