Holds back
Niche: Gaming
$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.
Summoning Salt
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$3,320a month
About $39,900 a year, likely $23,500 to $65,800
Low end$1,960
Most likely$3,320
High end$5,490
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$3,320a month
- Long videos1.3M views a month$3,320100%
- Shorts4,156 views a month$10%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$26,700 to $100,000Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 3,331,980 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
04M8M
Median 3.1M
Jul 24Aug 27
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tournament That Changed Tetris Forever | Long video | Aug 27 | 3,331,980 |
| The Story Of Mario Maker's Impossible Levels | Long video | Jun 6 | 2,984,980 |
| He did it again... | Short | Apr 27 | 96,131 |
| New Mario 3 world record is insane... | Short | Apr 21 | 241,823 |
| Rainbow Road speedruns are insane... | Short | Apr 18 | 262,937 |
| New Lego Star Wars world record is insane... | Short | Apr 17 | 95,052 |
| New Mario 64 world record is insane... | Short | Apr 15 | 201,452 |
| New Mario Kart record is insane... | Short | Apr 12 | 114,259 |
| How Speedrunners Broke Spyro | Long video | Apr 8 | 2,381,323 |
| YouTube Videos on VHS??? | Short | Dec 19 | 100,362 |
| How a Perfect Speedrun Was Finally Beaten | Long video | Dec 10 | 2,574,863 |
| The History of Cuphead World Records | Long video | Oct 11 | 3,163,829 |
| Melee: The Quest for Sub 3:00 | Long video | Jun 20 | 2,958,067 |
| The History of 120 Star's Early Era [2004 - 2014] | Long video | Apr 11 | 2,812,355 |
| The History of Minus World Speedruns | Long video | Dec 18 | 3,123,176 |
| The History of The Simpsons Hit & Run World Records | Long video | Nov 10 | 5,033,098 |
| The History of the Mario Kart DS World Champion | Long video | Jul 31 | 3,438,191 |
| Mario Kart's Greatest Shortcut | Short | Jun 20 | 246,564 |
| The History of Tetris World Records | Long video | May 14 | 7,334,842 |
| The History of Blindfolded Super Mario 64 | Long video | Mar 3 | 3,637,715 |
| Burrito Speedruns Are Insane | Short | Feb 18 | 5,575,963 |
| The History of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out World Records | Long video | Dec 16 | 6,001,831 |
| Mario: The Infamous History of Level 5-2 | Long video | Sep 17 | 3,357,488 |
| The Quest to Beat jimmypoopins | Long video | Aug 27 | 3,040,487 |
| The Quest to Beat abney317 | Long video | Jul 1 | 5,911,743 |
| The History of Halo 2 World Records | Long video | May 20 | 4,278,953 |
| The History of Super Mario Bros 3 100% World Records | Long video | Mar 12 | 7,773,303 |
| The History of Lego Star Wars World Records | Long video | Dec 16 | 7,500,819 |
| The History of Mega Man 2 World Records | Long video | Oct 6 | 4,237,234 |
| The Hidden Shortcuts of Mario Kart Double Dash | Long video | Jul 24 | 4,971,373 |
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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
0% of views this month
Long 100%Shorts 0%
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 37 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: stalled
0.08 per week
That is 1x the 90 days before.
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Views per video are falling
0.6x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
1.2M views a month
Uploads older than three years 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 8, 2026, 06:00 UTC.