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.
Veritasium
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$300,000a month
About $3.6M a year, likely $2.25M to $5.63M
Low end$187,000
Most likely$300,000
High end$469,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$300,000a month
- Long videos35.4M views a month$298,00099%
- Shorts9.6M views a month$1,9301%
- Live streams12.9K views a month$810%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$83,000 to $221,000Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 5,536,391 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
012.5M25M
Median 2.9M
Jun 18Oct 22
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is there something faster than light? | Short | Oct 22 | 603,259 |
| When you lose weight where does it go? | Short | Oct 15 | 1,206,944 |
| The Insane Engineering of Fiber Optics | Long video | Oct 12 | 12,370,133 |
| What is edge dislocation? | Short | Oct 9 | 3,780,351 |
| How Dangerous Are Non-Stick Pans? | Short | Oct 1 | 1,644,272 |
| We're trying something new... | Long video | Sep 30 | 1,398,508 |
| What happens to these balloons when you open the valve? | Short | Sep 24 | 1,526,857 |
| The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine | Long video | Sep 21 | 20,741,452 |
| Heating A Ball Just By Squeezing It | Short | Sep 18 | 940,645 |
| The Scariest Chart In Engineering | Short | Sep 10 | 1,575,316 |
| The Most Dangerous Escalator In Europe | Short | Sep 6 | 7,394,131 |
| A Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong... | Short | Sep 2 | 3,051,630 |
| We Took $10,000 From @mkbhd's Locked iPhone | Short | Aug 26 | 6,040,997 |
| It's impossible to choose a number at random | Short | Aug 24 | 1,945,402 |
| Could identical twins commit the perfect crime? | Short | Aug 18 | 939,391 |
| We sent a camera to space to film the solar eclipse | Long video | Aug 17 | 2,777,905 |
| How do submarines know where they are? | Short | Aug 6 | 2,453,298 |
| Is spider web really stronger than steel? | Long video | Aug 2 | 9,823,839 |
| The World's Heaviest Weight | Short | Jul 30 | 3,724,120 |
| Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life? | Long video | Jul 25 | 6,805,720 |
| The Most Controversial Thought Experiment In Physics | Short | Jul 21 | 1,849,061 |
| Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top | Short | Jul 17 | 6,138,822 |
| The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering | Long video | Jul 14 | 6,602,981 |
| The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong | Short | Jul 13 | 12,672,654 |
| How does light 'know' the shortest path? | Short | Jul 9 | 4,264,561 |
| AD - Why are plants colder than their surroundings? | Short | Jul 7 | 2,123,446 |
| AD - Why do I get this spark when I unplug my hair dryer? | Short | Jun 30 | 3,818,401 |
| Why do these metronomes sync up? | Short | Jun 26 | 1,002,879 |
| We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years | Long video | Jun 22 | 2,701,550 |
| This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever... | Short | Jun 18 | 8,651,869 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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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
21% of views this month
Long 79%Shorts 21%
Shorts pay about $0.20 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 10 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
1.56 per week
That is 0.83x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.69x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
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 October 23, 2026, 13:13 UTC.