Niche: Documentaries
$2 to $8 per 1,000 views
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $4 per 1,000 views to the creator.
About $47,300 a year, likely $28,200 to $79,800
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
What one sponsor could pay per video
$74,900 to $200,000Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 4,992,332 views per long video and typical sponsor rates for this niche.
The last 30 public uploads, oldest on the left. Tap or hover a bar for the video.
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Survive the Current State of the World | Long video | May 21 | 1,052,481 |
| Halloween in this Economy | Long video | Nov 1 | 753,456 |
| Becoming a Fugitive in Europe | Long video | Sep 10 | 1,896,612 |
| Reading 1000 Books in a Month | Long video | Jan 25 | 1,450,735 |
| The War on AI | Long video | Jan 14 | 2,095,882 |
| BREAKING $100 WORTH OF COOKIES AT TARGET (Roommate Stories) | Long video | Nov 21 | 5,013,867 |
| THE KIDNAPPING | Long video | Nov 16 | 1,353,521 |
| Joining a Military Program | Long video | Sep 26 | 7,701,135 |
| Don't be a Tourist | Long video | Aug 10 | 5,928,319 |
| Lunatics during Quarantine | Long video | Jul 11 | 6,737,081 |
| Getting Scammed Online | Long video | May 5 | 7,191,569 |
| Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide | Long video | Jan 8 | 9,754,671 |
| Sneaking into the Theaters and Regretting it | Long video | Oct 28 | 6,483,128 |
| My Gangsta Relatives | Long video | Aug 18 | 10,308,077 |
| A Strange Day | Long video | Apr 1 | 5,347,076 |
| Buying a Forbidden Pet | Long video | Mar 25 | 10,190,261 |
| Living with Rats | Long video | Jan 1 | 9,358,489 |
| Locked in a Cellar | Long video | Nov 14 | 10,361,036 |
| Being Mute for 3 Years | Long video | Sep 1 | 24,715,803 |
| My Neighbor Tried to Break Down The Door (Roommate Stories) | Long video | Jul 2 | 12,082,593 |
| BREAKING INTO THE ROOFTOP (Roommate Stories) | Long video | May 10 | 14,426,011 |
| Dealing with Kids | Long video | Apr 14 | 7,808,947 |
| MY SCHOOL RIOT | Long video | Mar 5 | 13,425,830 |
| Dramatic People | Long video | Feb 17 | 7,391,950 |
| Failing New Years Resolutions | Long video | Jan 19 | 4,294,630 |
| Meeting an Asylum Escapee | Long video | Dec 9 | 6,057,531 |
| QNA#2, MERCH, INKTOBER + FACE REVEAL | Long video | Nov 14 | 6,066,812 |
| How to Survive a Halloween Mugging | Long video | Oct 31 | 9,498,997 |
| THE ARMY | Long video | Oct 1 | 4,094,066 |
| Unusual Students in My Art Class | Long video | Sep 24 | 11,965,169 |
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Niche: Documentaries
$2 to $8 per 1,000 views
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $4 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Where viewers likely are
100% of US ad 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.
Videos under 8 minutes
median 6 min
Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.
Upload pace: inactive
0 per week
Not enough history to compare yet.
Views per video are falling
0.2x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Old videos still bring views
1.3M 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.
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 10, 2026, 09:20 UTC.