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TED-Ed

@teded23M subscribers2,393 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$113,000a month

About $1.35M a year, likely $840,000 to $2.16M

Low end$70,000
Most likely$113,000
High end$180,000

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos19.4M views a month$113,000100%
  • Shorts145.9K views a month$290%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 683,959 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.

02.5M5M
Median 451.6K
Jun 18Oct 29
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VideoFormatPostedViews
What if you didn’t brush your teeth for a year? - Justin MerrittLong videoOct 29894,288
Scary stories to watch in the dark (if you dare…)Long videoOct 27312,759
5 sneaky ways stores get you to spend moreLong videoOct 22420,452
Why does this animal never age? - Raymond AdkinsLong videoOct 20391,595
3 things to never do with a credit cardLong videoOct 151,094,799
How to present your ideas effectivelyLong videoOct 13304,869
Which is better: Buying or renting a home? - Ella FeldmanLong videoOct 8747,881
Why is Queen Victoria so controversial? - Carolyn HarrisLong videoOct 6478,813
6 ways to be more persuasiveLong videoOct 1305,551
Why are AI data centers using so much electricity? - Sajan SainiLong videoSep 29636,352
Do we actually know how magnets work? - Rachel YangLong videoSep 24498,699
4 ways to fix your attention span - Shannon OdellLong videoSep 224,487,808
Why is it so easy for birds to spread illness? - Benjamin AndersonLong videoSep 17476,550
How to explain something complicatedLong videoSep 15647,682
Why do some people have a better sense of direction than others? - Oliver BaumannLong videoSep 101,587,942
Ever walk into a room and forget what you were doing? - Gabriel RadvanskyLong videoSep 8906,995
What are tariffs, and how do they work?Long videoSep 3780,523
4 ways to tell a great storyLong videoSep 1583,660
Plato’s infamous Ship of State thought experiment - Michael VazquezLong videoAug 25556,222
The Greek myth of Apollo's curse - Iseult GillespieLong videoAug 18250,063
How do Maglev trains work? - Ning ZhaoLong videoAug 11346,925
The fastest way to board a plane, according to mathematics - Rachel YangLong videoAug 4393,520
Red gold: The world's most expensive spice - Carolyn BeansLong videoJul 28323,414
The magical forest realm hiding at the bottom of the ocean - Luka Seamus Wright and Salomé BuglassLong videoJul 21148,896
When did we start using passports? - Kristin SurakLong videoJul 14572,304
How does the space station never run out of oxygen? - Alvaro Romero-Calvo and Theo St FrancisLong videoJul 7426,586
Psychedelics, mind control, radiation-eating: The secret superpowers of fungi - Max G. LevyLong videoJun 30379,637
How a broken heart affects your bodyLong videoJun 25390,590
Why avalanches are most deadly when they stop - Simon TrautmanLong videoJun 23232,110
Should you rinse your dishes before placing them in the dishwasher? - Rachel YangLong videoJun 18313,847

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Helps

Niche: Education

$3 to $15 per 1,000 views

$0typical $7$20

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $7 per 1,000 views to the creator.

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

1% of views this month

Long 99%Shorts 1%

Shorts pay about $0.20 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.

Holds back

Videos under 8 minutes

median 6 min

0 min8 min mark20 min

Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.

Neutral

Upload pace: steady

1.71 per week

1.6 before
1.7 now

That is 1.05x the 90 days before.

Neutral

Views per video are steady

0.86x

Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

16.4M 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

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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How 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 October 31, 2026, 11:23 UTC.

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