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The Economist

@theeconomist4.2M subscribers1,666 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$12,500a month

About $150,000 a year, likely $110,000 to $200,000

Low end$9,160
Most likely$12,500
High end$16,700

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos4.3M views a month$11,10090%
  • Shorts10.4M views a month$1,26010%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 60,591 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
0750K1.5M
Median 210.3K
Oct 15Nov 7
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VideoFormatPostedViews
Trump economist: tariffs are “a success” | The EconomistLong videoNov 7119
How will the Democrats wield their power? | The EconomistShortNov 714,912
Midterms 2026: is Trump over?Long videoNov 6241,898
Has Donald Trump caused a manufacturing revival? | The EconomistShortNov 625,452
Is this the end of the Trump era? | The EconomistShortNov 559,800
Which voters swung the most towards the Democrats? | The EconomistShortNov 4130,279
Are the midterm polls overestimating Democrats' support? | The EconomistShortNov 329,702
The Kremlin has killed Russia’s last free newspaperShortNov 2110,040
Has Donald Trump made Americans richer? | The EconomistShortOct 31276,654
“Very high risk” Trump will escalate Iran war after midterms | The EconomistLong videoOct 30804,498
Will Donald Trump abandon Ukraine after the midterms? | The EconomistShortOct 30348,353
Should the world fear Trump-Putin-Xi collusion? | The EconomistLong videoOct 2997,300
How important is China for Russia's war in Ukraine? | The EconomistShortOct 2971,251
Republicans are losing their grip on Texas | The EconomistShortOct 281,416,788
What will be the outcome of Israel's election?ShortOct 27120,006
Will AI cause utopia or disaster? | The EconomistLong videoOct 2695,538
Will AI cause utopia or disaster? | The EconomistShortOct 26224,965
Why Saudi Arabia and the UAE can't stop the Yemen war | The EconomistLong videoOct 24426,165
Jair Bolsonaro's son could be Brazil's next president | The EconomistShortOct 2433,709
Why Saudi Arabia and the UAE are rivals | The EconomistShortOct 23171,972
Will France blow up the euro zone? | The EconomistLong videoOct 23425,711
Why the government can't meet the French protesters' demands | The EconomistShortOct 21274,793
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel on Ukraine, migration and Germany’s future | The EconomistLong videoOct 211,444,168
Russia is building its own version of Starlink | The EconomistShortOct 20195,708
Are you about to lose your job? | The EconomistShortOct 19322,826
Alice Weidel on the AfD’s stance on non-traditional families | The EconomistShortOct 17409,832
Alice Weidel: the AfD is “not an extreme party” | The EconomistShortOct 16136,053
Alice Weidel on whether Putin is interested in peace | The EconomistShortOct 16882,597
Alice Weidel: Refugees should “go back to their country” | The EconomistShortOct 151,337,218
Alice Weidel: Europe will have a bond-market crisis | The EconomistShortOct 15337,491

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Neutral

Niche: News

$2 to $5 per 1,000 views

$0typical $3$10

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $3 per 1,000 views to the creator.

Helps

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.

Holds back

Mostly Shorts views

71% of views this month

Long 29%Shorts 71%

Shorts pay about $0.12 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.

Holds back

Videos under 8 minutes

median 8 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

8.63 per week

9.8 before
8.6 now

That is 0.88x the 90 days before.

Helps

Views per video are rising

2.29x

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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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 November 7, 2026, 15:20 UTC.

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