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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.
The Daily Show
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$215,000a month
About $2.58M a year, likely $1.64M to $4.1M
Low end$137,000
Most likely$215,000
High end$342,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$214,000a month
- Long videos98M views a month$201,00094%
- Shorts96.3M views a month$13,0006%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$8,080 to $20,200Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,010,023 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 770.5K
Nov 4Nov 10
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| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Maddow on the Midterms & Examining the DOJ in “Department of Fate” | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 10 | 969,453 |
| Americans leaned on ChatGPT for voting advice, and Grace Kuhlenschmidt sees NO downside to this! | Short | Nov 10 | 58,212 |
| Trump Hopes for Heaven on "60 Minutes" & Stephen Miller Becomes Chief of Staff | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 10 | 3,576,234 |
| Precap: The Midterms Have Desi Lydic Feeling the "Opposite of Despair" | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 10 | 277,432 |
| 2028 is right around the corner, so Klepper asks MAGA who they've got their eyes on for president | Short | Nov 9 | 347,048 |
| Min Jin Lee discusses “American Hagwon,” her novel about a Korean family living in the diaspora | Short | Nov 9 | 43,025 |
| Reporter Teddy Schleifer weighs in on how far billionaire dollars can go in a midterm election | Short | Nov 8 | 649,324 |
| What would Jon be doing if he didn’t go into comedy? Not working for his brother #AfterTheCut | Short | Nov 8 | 675,034 |
| What Would Jon Stewart Be Doing if Not Comedy? Not Working for his Brother | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 8 | 837,620 |
| "Civil Resistance" author Erica Chenoweth on how the 3.5% rule helped Democrats win the midterms | Short | Nov 7 | 641,828 |
| Sure, the Republicans got stomped in the midterms... but have you heard the news about Guam? | Short | Nov 7 | 576,144 |
| Jon Stewart and The Best F**king News Team Cover the 2026 Midterm Elections | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 7 | 3,044,404 |
| Elon spent half a billion on the midterms? That's like three days of child support for him! | Short | Nov 6 | 933,341 |
| Democrats won BIG in the midterms, but let's not forget about the few Republican survivors | Short | Nov 6 | 2,139,059 |
| Kudos to JD Vance for bravely coming out against the war one day after 70 million voters did | Short | Nov 6 | 2,939,132 |
| Voters Stay Misinformed with AI, Elon Floats Flying Car & Robot Bodyguards Kick Ass | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 6 | 795,534 |
| Teddy Schleifer on Elon Musk’s $500M Election Flop | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 6 | 493,898 |
| GOP Turns on Trump & Rep. Constantino Blasts "A**holes" | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 6 | 4,503,189 |
| Trump is responding to the midterms by addressing America's biggest issue: the ballroom #DailyShow | Short | Nov 5 | 2,591,045 |
| Good news for JD Vance: he's got name recognition. The bad news? His name is JD | Short | Nov 5 | 1,385,727 |
| "Democrats didn't just win the midterms yesterday; they made the midterms their bitch" #dailyshow | Short | Nov 5 | 117,129 |
| Trump Reacts to Midterm Defeat by Focusing on the Ballroom | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 5 | 1,142,156 |
| Erica Chenoweth on the 3.5% Rule & Nonviolent Resistance | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 5 | 337,176 |
| Midterm Blowout: Dems Batter GOP & Elon Musk Is Out $500 Million | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 5 | 3,521,710 |
| This MAGA voter supports the "war in Iraq"? Someone tell him he's about 10 seasons behind on America | Short | Nov 4 | 400,623 |
| Michael Lewis on why he's optimistic about government reform despite the damage done by Project 2025 | Short | Nov 4 | 153,369 |
| Either this woman in labor really cares about democracy, or her baby REALLY wanted to vote illegally | Short | Nov 4 | 745,413 |
| Midterm Anal-a-Zone: So Long, 2026 Midterms & Hello, 2028 Presidential Race! | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 4 | 2,446,958 |
| Min Jin Lee - Family, Education & Sacrifice in “American Hagwon” | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 4 | 341,749 |
| Election Day Features Voter in Labor, Hot Dems & Don Jr. Warning of Ohio Statehood | The Daily Show | Long video | Nov 4 | 3,547,904 |
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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
50% of views this month
Long 50%Shorts 50%
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 12 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
26.83 per week
That is 0.97x the 90 days before.
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Views per video are falling
0.49x
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
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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, 15:40 UTC.