Holds back
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.
Vanity Fair
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$13,300a month
About $159,000 a year, likely $94,700 to $261,000
Low end$7,890
Most likely$13,300
High end$21,700
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$13,100a month
- Long videos5.9M views a month$12,40094%
- Shorts5.2M views a month$6785%
- Live streams50K views a month$991%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$2,960 to $7,410Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 370,448 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
01.3M2.5M
Median 76.8K
Sep 9Nov 6
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| A lot of people told Sam Rockwell not to join Charlie's Angels, "they all ate their words." | Short | Nov 6 | 14,398 |
| "The Oscars was such a headf--k." | Short | Nov 5 | 73,713 |
| Sam Rockwell Rewatches Iron Man 2, Charlie's Angels, Wild Horse Nine & More | Vanity Fair | Long video | Nov 5 | 206,327 |
| "I don't think you can be a really great, great actor without a terrific sense of humor." | Short | Nov 4 | 21,101 |
| "Oh my God, the hot priest. I'm having awful thoughts about him." | Short | Nov 3 | 30,046 |
| Inside Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate Campaign Through Trump Country | Vanity Fair | Long video | Oct 30 | 963,752 |
| Olivia Colman & Andrew Scott Reunite 7 Years After 'Fleabag' | Vanity Fair | Long video | Oct 29 | 986,851 |
| Ethan Hawke Rewatches 'The Lowdown' | Short | Oct 26 | 15,318 |
| Ethan Hawke Remembers Philip Seymour Hoffman | Short | Oct 26 | 77,143 |
| Ethan Hawke Breaks Down 'Before Midnight' | Short | Oct 26 | 14,086 |
| 30 Years Later, Ethan Hawke Rewatches 'Before Sunrise' | Short | Oct 26 | 29,744 |
| Ethan Hawke Rewatches 'Training Day' | Short | Oct 26 | 72,521 |
| Ethan Hawke Rewatches Training Day, Before Sunrise, The Lowdown & More | Vanity Fair | Long video | Oct 26 | 120,587 |
| "I remember sleeping in my Malcom X t-shirt, putting the script under my mattress at night." | Short | Oct 20 | 4,919 |
| Nara Smith shows you how she designs a tablescape for a dinner party. | Short | Oct 16 | 71,482 |
| Nara Smith's Guide to the Perfect Dinner Party | Vanity Fair | Long video | Oct 15 | 76,381 |
| Florence Pugh "could not believe" she got a role in Dune. | Short | Oct 13 | 243,894 |
| "I remember the night before, I saw it in my head." | Short | Oct 12 | 203,230 |
| Here's hoping the 2026 Hollywood Cover boys watch 'Primetime' together soon. | Short | Oct 8 | 62,904 |
| Angela Bassett Rewatches Black Panther, What's Love Got to Do with It & More | Vanity Fair | Long video | Oct 7 | 407,304 |
| Florence Pugh spent an entire week her first scene with Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow. | Short | Oct 6 | 26,264 |
| "I'll just let you sit with that." | Short | Sep 29 | 1,594,036 |
| Florence Pugh Rewatches Dune, Midsommar, Little Women & More | Vanity Fair | Long video | Sep 25 | 1,310,138 |
| Tom Bateman's 'The Love Hypothesis' casting was kismet. | Short | Sep 24 | 175,474 |
| Lili Reinhart & Tom Bateman Take Lie Detector Tests | Vanity Fair | Long video | Sep 23 | 2,350,435 |
| Zach Cregger Breaks Down Scenes From Resident Evil, Weapons & Barbarian | Vanity Fair | Long video | Sep 18 | 846,297 |
| Ryan Reynolds & Kenneth Branagh Play Movie Trivia on the Way to the 'Mayday' Premiere | Vanity Fair | Long video | Sep 17 | 31,083 |
| Owen Thiele, Sarah Pidgeon & more @fxnetworks stars tell VF who in their life deserves an award. | Short | Sep 15 | 13,208 |
| David Muir Reflects On Reporting 9/11, 25 Years Later | Vanity Fair | Long video | Sep 11 | 208,071 |
| Alexandra Eala Answers Questions Without Dropping the Ball | Vanity Fair | Long video | Sep 9 | 362,893 |
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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
47% of views this month
Long 53%Shorts 47%
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 16 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
3.97 per week
That is 0.85x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
1.9x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
8.1M 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
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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 9, 2026, 21:00 UTC.