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Simple History

@simplehistory5.1M subscribers1,421 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$33,900a month

About $406,000 a year, likely $237,000 to $708,000

Low end$19,700
Most likely$33,900
High end$59,000

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos6.4M views a month$33,10098%
  • Shorts3.4M views a month$6112%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 314,996 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
0750K1.5M
Median 57.1K
Oct 6Nov 6
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VideoFormatPostedViews
Strange Secrets of the AK 47Long videoNov 663,973
The Model T of Tanks – Renault FT!ShortNov 55,323
The Gas Masks Designed NOT to Scare Children!ShortNov 48,414
The Deadliest Secret of Unit 731Long videoNov 393,638
AN 94 vs G11 The Hyper Burst Rifle Showdown!ShortOct 3118,233
Weirdest Tanks Ever MadeLong videoOct 30253,083
An AK 47 M16 HybridShortOct 29400,242
'mine was fully armed I was out there shooting coyotes with them'ShortOct 289,746
Weirdest GrenadesLong videoOct 27132,671
Cambodia's 'Frankengun'ShortOct 26188,358
Duct Tape soldiers secret weaponShortOct 2515,639
Weirdest North Korean ThingsLong videoOct 23309,857
Duct tape wasn't invented for ducts It was invented for warShortOct 2343,551
From M1 Garands to attack helicopters what civilians can actually buyShortOct 2210,548
He used an attack helicopter to hunt coyotesShortOct 2123,671
This Gas Mask Has a Rhino Horn, and Changed EverythingLong videoOct 201,085,311
How a surplus loophole put attack helicopters in civilian handsShortOct 1915,664
Ingenious Hidden Firearm Features You Never Knew!ShortOct 1824,061
MAS 36 Bayonet Clever French Engineering Surprise!ShortOct 1712,206
Lucky People Survived the ImpossibleLong videoOct 16194,473
MAS 36 Rifle Ingenious Bayonet Storage and a Hilarious FlawShortOct 1516,434
The Confederacy's Insane 10 shot Revolver ShotgunShortOct 1450,213
Inside the Strictest Gun Range Rules in the WorldLong videoOct 13378,338
The Luftwaffe's Insane 3 Barreled GunShortOct 11292,641
The M3 Grease Gun they built a magazine loader inside the gunShortOct 1146,445
The MAS 36 Hidden Bayonet Inside the rifleShortOct 10126,186
The pink rubber band on this rifle saved more lives than the gunShortOct 916,308
They're building frankenstein guns out of ak 47s and old EnfieldsShortOct 864,518
Why snipers tape over their own lensesShortOct 7195,524
Weird Things North Korea does to Intimidate the WestLong videoOct 6376,025

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Helps

Niche: History

$3 to $10 per 1,000 views

$0typical $5$15

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $5 per 1,000 views to the creator. We are not sure about the niche, so the range is wider.

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

34% of views this month

Long 66%Shorts 34%

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 11 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

6.69 per week

3.0 before
6.7 now

That is 2.91x the 90 days before.

Neutral

Views per video are steady

0.99x

Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

5.8M 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

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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How 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 7, 2026, 13:00 UTC.

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