Helps
Niche: Science
$3 to $12 per 1,000 views
$0typical $6$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $6 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Steve Mould
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$22,500a month
About $270,000 a year, likely $177,000 to $413,000
Low end$14,700
Most likely$22,500
High end$34,400
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$22,500a month
- Long videos3.8M views a month$22,400100%
- Shorts238.4K views a month$420%
- Live streams3,814 views a month$180%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$20,600 to $51,400Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,027,938 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
02.5M5M
Median 1.4M
Jan 23Oct 31
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Material Sorts Itself | Long video | Oct 31 | 1,408,602 |
| This Device Turns Anything into a Suction Cup | Long video | Sep 30 | 1,699,879 |
| Hooded Seals are Really Weird... | Short | Sep 10 | 1,435,481 |
| The "Perpetual Motion" Pump That Actually Works | Long video | Aug 31 | 4,319,879 |
| Hooded Seals are amazing! | Short | Aug 28 | 212,738 |
| This Device Goes Past Equilibrium | Long video | Aug 22 | 2,125,986 |
| The Euler Disc Is The Wrong Shape | Long video | Aug 1 | 1,303,027 |
| The Arm Spin That Stops a Fall | Long video | Jul 9 | 4,455,684 |
| Why clouds and foam are white | Short | Jul 3 | 330,463 |
| The disappearing ink that isn’t ink | Short | Jun 26 | 161,046 |
| The Anti Trampoline Effect | Long video | Jun 25 | 2,778,220 |
| What chilli is actually doing to you... | Short | Jun 19 | 186,087 |
| This structure feels impossible to move | Short | Jun 12 | 2,084,672 |
| This zipper is really weird... | Short | Jun 8 | 2,378,052 |
| Why doesn’t the ball stay inside? | Short | Jun 5 | 568,364 |
| This Stone is Flexible? | Short | Jun 4 | 770,036 |
| Steel Absorbs Gas Like a Sponge | Long video | May 31 | 1,462,576 |
| Why won’t this ball go under the table? | Short | May 29 | 277,637 |
| This image changes when you flip it | Short | May 22 | 317,272 |
| Why are some rocks dumbbell shaped? | Short | May 20 | 172,941 |
| Optic Fibres Are Weird... | Short | May 15 | 1,075,119 |
| What AI actually does with your prompt | Short | May 15 | 269,937 |
| This image started as pure noise | Short | May 8 | 550,276 |
| Turning a rainbow back into white light | Short | May 1 | 415,243 |
| You've Never Seen a Real Photo | Long video | Apr 30 | 2,204,876 |
| A New Type of Levitation | Long video | Apr 20 | 3,279,073 |
| Surely it Breaks The 2nd Law | Long video | Feb 28 | 2,450,087 |
| Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for bolognese | Short | Feb 18 | 2,295,679 |
| Can You Turn a Rainbow Back into White Light? | Long video | Jan 31 | 494,129 |
| The Liquid Hammer Toy You Can't Buy | Long video | Jan 23 | 4,032,886 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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Where viewers likely are
93% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in GB). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Neutral
Shorts in the mix
6% of views this month
Long 94%Shorts 6%
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.
Holds back
Upload pace: slowing down
0.47 per week
That is 0.38x the 90 days before.
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Views per video are rising
1.87x
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 7, 2026, 10:20 UTC.