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.
Smithsonian Channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$6,370a month
About $76,500 a year, likely $44,800 to $131,000
Low end$3,730
Most likely$6,370
High end$10,900
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$6,370a month
- Long videos3.8M views a month$6,350100%
- Shorts152.6K views a month$200%
- Live streams1,361 views a month$30%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$152 to $379Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 18,959 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
0125K250K
Median 13.9K
May 15Jun 3
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond Stonewall: Exploring LGBTQ+ History Through the Smithsonian Archives 🏳️🌈 Smithsonian Channel | Long video | Jun 3 | 247,211 |
| Fast facts: What we know about Stonehenge | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Oct 10 | 39,936 |
| Crime & punishment in Pompeii | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Oct 3 | 14,967 |
| The stinky reputation of 17th century Versailles | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Sep 26 | 22,766 |
| What was on a royal menu in the 17th century? | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Sep 19 | 10,938 |
| How Ancient Britain warded off demons | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Sep 12 | 10,420 |
| Why plague doctors wore strange masks | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Sep 5 | 21,396 |
| How the American suburbs were made | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Aug 29 | 10,469 |
| These men risked their lives to build 1920s NYC skyscrapers | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Aug 22 | 15,643 |
| The harsh lives of gladiators as told by their teeth | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Aug 15 | 19,236 |
| Why the US government tried to ignore the 1918 flu pandemic | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Aug 8 | 10,983 |
| How the flu pandemic of 1918 spread like wildfire | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Aug 1 | 11,177 |
| Was President Wilson's stroke caused by the Spanish Flu? | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Jul 25 | 11,149 |
| How bees air condition their hives 🐝 Smithsonian Channel | Short | Jul 4 | 19,459 |
| The shell is mightier than the cell | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Jun 27 | 11,426 |
| A maze of 3,000 reindeer! 🦌 | Smithsonian Channel | Short | Jun 20 | 11,731 |
| The Extreme Conditions Needed to Store Beer-Making Yeast 🍻 Inside the Factory | Smithsonian Channel | Long video | Jun 19 | 48,662 |
| Knowledge Knockout: Episode 3 | Smithsonian Channel | Long video | Jun 13 | 12,218 |
| Panda cam highlights! 🐼 Smithsonian Channel | Short | Jun 13 | 22,059 |
| Knowledge Knockout: Episode 2 | Smithsonian Channel | Long video | Jun 6 | 38,226 |
| These savage seal fights can last for over 10 minutes | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | Jun 6 | 10,140 |
| How Paper Wasps ‘Tap’ to Select the Identity of their Larvae 🪰 Into The Wild New Zealand | Long video | May 31 | 59,083 |
| Knowledge Knockout: Episode 1 | Smithsonian Channel | Long video | May 30 | 5,833 |
| Ants build a home with a surprising tool | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | May 30 | 9,908 |
| Making Factory Mashed Potatoes is a Highly Automated Process 🥔 Inside the Factory | Smithsonian | Long video | May 29 | 72,992 |
| Glow Worms Trap Insects With Bioluminescent 'Fishing Lines'🪱 Into The Wild New Zealand | Smithsonian | Long video | May 24 | 37,885 |
| Tapirs love to dive into the water | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | May 23 | 12,795 |
| Seal Pups Venture Away from their Colony for the First Time 🦭 Into The Wild New Zealand | Long video | May 17 | 12,190 |
| Everything about the Goliath birdeater is big & terrifying | Smithsonian Channel #Shorts | Short | May 16 | 12,772 |
| The Microscopic Activity That Produces the World’s Great Cheeses | Smithsonian Channel | Long video | May 15 | 15,789 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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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
4% of views this month
Long 96%Shorts 4%
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.
Holds back
Upload pace: inactive
0 per week
Not enough history to compare yet.
Helps
Views per video are rising
2.21x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
4.7M 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 11, 2026, 17:20 UTC.