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.
Smosh
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$20,800a month
About $250,000 a year, likely $164,000 to $387,000
Low end$13,700
Most likely$20,800
High end$32,200
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$20,400a month
- Long videos7.9M views a month$15,70077%
- Shorts34.4M views a month$4,66023%
- Live streams2,509 views a month$50%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$6,850 to $17,100Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 856,106 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
02M4M
Median 480.8K
Aug 18Nov 5
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do you believe? | Short | Nov 5 | 30,433 |
| Should we?? | Short | Nov 3 | 93,537 |
| The Smosh Halloween Special | Long video | Oct 30 | 882,714 |
| Would they book? | Short | Oct 29 | 218,551 |
| He's all set. | Short | Oct 27 | 789,329 |
| Michael Reeves showed up?? | Short | Oct 23 | 951,932 |
| Entering the function like: | Short | Oct 20 | 577,558 |
| Bring ‘Em Back (We Want Dinos) - Fred Darts (Official Music Video) | Long video | Oct 16 | 1,840,731 |
| And let's talk about those losers | Short | Oct 15 | 290,500 |
| Please don't tell the restaurant it's my birthday | Short | Oct 13 | 230,720 |
| This brand of TikTok nurse needs to be STOPPED | Short | Oct 9 | 451,419 |
| October is her month | Short | Oct 6 | 810,202 |
| Being a writer is hard | Short | Oct 1 | 157,610 |
| You MUST have heard of Klonk | Short | Sep 29 | 238,442 |
| Me to my mom multiple times a week | Short | Sep 24 | 1,270,570 |
| It's the best part of waking up! | Short | Sep 22 | 303,244 |
| It Was Bit's City In 1974 | Bit City | Long video | Sep 18 | 733,432 |
| I think he needs help... | Short | Sep 17 | 3,811,784 |
| Will we name the same celebrity? | Short | Sep 15 | 795,354 |
| Who can make a word with these letters first? | Short | Sep 10 | 1,162,338 |
| The news reporter pause is the original millennial pause | Short | Sep 8 | 276,376 |
| Don't Let This Summer Stop (Official Music Video) | Long video | Sep 4 | 1,116,684 |
| That's all it takes | Short | Sep 4 | 2,073,237 |
| Can they guess the number? | Short | Sep 1 | 619,428 |
| This reality show reunion went off the rails | Short | Aug 28 | 63,903 |
| Are hot dogs masculine or feminine? | Short | Aug 26 | 300,684 |
| Are these guys okay? | Short | Aug 22 | 150,470 |
| We Made An All Dudes Reality Show. It Was A Mistake | Bit City | Long video | Aug 21 | 510,127 |
| Imagine if you were stuck in the Trojan Horse with theatre kids | Short | Aug 20 | 372,943 |
| He finally addressed the "Elmo situation" | Short | Aug 18 | 198,442 |
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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.
Holds back
Mostly Shorts views
81% of views this month
Long 19%Shorts 81%
Shorts pay about $0.13 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 40 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
2.49 per week
That is 1.04x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
1.39x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
35.0M 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 6, 2026, 21:20 UTC.