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.
Vox
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$38,500a month
About $462,000 a year, likely $325,000 to $684,000
Low end$27,100
Most likely$38,500
High end$57,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$38,500a month
- Long videos12.6M views a month$37,20097%
- Shorts8.9M views a month$1,2603%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$701 to $1,750Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 87,679 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
0200K400K
Median 25.6K
Oct 30Nov 7
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| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wes Moore to Dems: Move fast on affordability | America, Actually | Long video | Nov 7 | 639 |
| Wes Moore wants to be America’s last “only Black governor” | Short | Nov 7 | 1,150 |
| MAGA chose cruelty. Midterm voters chose decency. | Short | Nov 6 | 9,184 |
| The corruption scandals democrats could pursue in 2027 | Short | Nov 6 | 7,086 |
| The midterms were a youth revolt | Short | Nov 6 | 22,139 |
| Is this the end of MAGA? | Long video | Nov 6 | 161,345 |
| Is MAGA over? | Short | Nov 6 | 26,542 |
| Democrats won big. Now they have to deliver | America, Actually | Long video | Nov 6 | 58,141 |
| Why everyone is embracing populism | The Gray Area | Long video | Nov 6 | 37,155 |
| Who gets credit for the Dems’ midterm tsunami? | Short | Nov 5 | 22,942 |
| Data centers were one of the biggest losers of the 2026 election | Short | Nov 5 | 24,741 |
| How Democrats swept the midterms | Long video | Nov 4 | 244,449 |
| The midterms prove a new type of Democrat can win | Short | Nov 4 | 17,802 |
| Maine finally ran out of patience with Susan Collins | Short | Nov 4 | 88,625 |
| The right’s attempts at a new Red Scare | Short | Nov 4 | 14,770 |
| Why the right can't stop talking about communism | Long video | Nov 4 | 137,177 |
| Three takeaways from Democrats’ blue tsunami | Short | Nov 4 | 84,635 |
| America’s new religious left | Short | Nov 4 | 346,198 |
| Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the blue wave | Short | Nov 4 | 28,660 |
| Why Trump supporters see the president as their midterms closer | Short | Nov 3 | 11,569 |
| Rejection was Dan Toomey’s lucky break | Best of Luck | Long video | Nov 3 | 89,728 |
| Three things to know ahead of election night | Short | Nov 3 | 29,838 |
| What happens to MAGA after Trump? | Short | Nov 2 | 9,892 |
| Why Trump’s base still believes Republicans can win | America, Actually | Long video | Nov 2 | 76,365 |
| Why are we ticklish? Even Aristotle couldn’t figure it out. | Short | Nov 2 | 9,299 |
| How Silicon Valley conquered the business of war | The Gray Area | Long video | Nov 2 | 57,664 |
| Nevada voters say Trump 2 isn’t what they signed up for | Short | Nov 1 | 16,040 |
| Why Nevada is feeling the Trump slump | Short | Oct 31 | 9,096 |
| Nevada tests midterm voter mood | America, Actually | Long video | Oct 31 | 84,346 |
| Fewer Black students are attending Ivies | Short | Oct 30 | 11,875 |
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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
41% of views this month
Long 59%Shorts 41%
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 34 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
18.28 per week
That is 1.35x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
0.81x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
18.9M 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 7, 2026, 15:00 UTC.