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.
VICE News
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$42,600a month
About $512,000 a year, likely $339,000 to $745,000
Low end$28,300
Most likely$42,600
High end$62,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$42,700a month
- Long videos13.5M views a month$42,40099%
- Shorts2.4M views a month$3301%
- Live streams297 views a month$10%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$2,840 to $7,090Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 354,611 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
0500K1M
Median 13.4K
Aug 26Nov 10
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democrats Have Power Again. How Far Will They Go? | Short | Nov 10 | 1,093 |
| Nate Silver: Why the Midterms Look Blue | Short | Oct 31 | 9,958 |
| Who Actually Draws Your Congressional District? | Short | Oct 30 | 5,957 |
| What If the Polls Are Wrong Like 2016? | Nate Silver | Short | Oct 29 | 22,416 |
| Everyone Is Rigging Election Maps. It Could Backfire. | Nate Silver | Long video | Oct 29 | 125,636 |
| Trump's Turn to Russia 🇷🇺 | Short | Oct 21 | 13,176 |
| Trump Is Playing a Dangerous Game | Short | Oct 21 | 13,656 |
| The U.S. Is Committing Superpower Suicide | Short | Oct 21 | 22,984 |
| How America Is Committing “Superpower Suicide” ft. Timothy Snyder | Shane Smith Has Questions | Long video | Oct 15 | 879,581 |
| What does Russia want? #shanesmith #vicenews #russia | Short | Oct 2 | 9,575 |
| They used AI to clone his boss's face. | Short | Oct 1 | 31,507 |
| I Don’t See Anybody in Charge Here | w/Renée DiResta on AI, Election Interference & Propaganda | Long video | Oct 1 | 102,049 |
| States are building their own cyber defenses, and you’re paying for it. #politics #cybersecurity | Short | Sep 24 | 6,903 |
| Are dead people actually voting? Cisco Aguilar explains. #voterfraud #politics | Short | Sep 23 | 7,112 |
| Why Nevada Republicans depend on mail-in ballots. #vicenews #nevada | Short | Sep 18 | 6,521 |
| Why the Supreme Court just rejected Trump's voting restrictions. #election2026 #news #supremecourt | Short | Sep 17 | 7,432 |
| Trump’s Fight to Control the 2026 Midterms w/ Cisco Aguilar | Shane Smith Has Questions | Long video | Sep 17 | 129,008 |
| Autonomous weapons are already here. #technology #future #military | Short | Sep 11 | 24,645 |
| When AI acts on its own. #gemini #tech #ai | Short | Sep 11 | 58,940 |
| The future of AI and why we must say NO to save ourselves. #ai #technology #humanity | Short | Sep 10 | 13,164 |
| “Clipping Is the New Canvassing” | w/Adam Mockler | Shane Smith Has Questions | Long video | Sep 3 | 229,325 |
| Inside the Strait of Hormuz Swimming between Iranian warships and a fifth of the world's oil. | Short | Sep 2 | 8,388 |
| Why did VICE's Syrian TV interview turn into an ambush that left everyone cringing? | Short | Sep 1 | 17,801 |
| A Dalí-designed shopping mall that became the feared secret police headquarters. | Short | Aug 31 | 10,689 |
| Michael Jordan said no, so VICE got Dennis Rodman and the Globetrotters instead. | Short | Aug 30 | 10,735 |
| David vs. Goliath in the South China Sea. | Short | Aug 29 | 7,078 |
| What happens when your government minder tells you he's living in 1984? | Short | Aug 28 | 16,862 |
| "Grifters That Shifted From Crypto to AI" | Short | Aug 27 | 23,682 |
| Behind VICE's wildest story – basketball diplomacy with Dennis Rodman in North Korea. | Short | Aug 27 | 7,551 |
| Catching Frauds on Camera | Short | Aug 26 | 30,343 |
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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
15% of views this month
Long 85%Shorts 15%
Shorts pay about $0.14 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 23 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Holds back
Upload pace: slowing down
3.97 per week
That is 0.66x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.34x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
15.6M 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
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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 11, 2026, 02:20 UTC.