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. We are not sure about the niche, so the range is wider.
Vsauce
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$4,250a month
About $51,000 a year, likely $36,200 to $75,500
Low end$3,010
Most likely$4,250
High end$6,290
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$4,130a month
- Long videos501.3K views a month$75418%
- Shorts31.5M views a month$3,38082%
- Live streams312 views a month$00%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$78,400 to $196,000Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 9,805,607 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.
012.5M25M
Median 4.9M
Jul 2Nov 3
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Tape Number 10 | Short | Nov 3 | 2,519,709 |
| Thunder Tubes | Short | Oct 30 | 797,927 |
| We Used To Think The Sun Was Cold | Short | Oct 27 | 6,045,197 |
| The Magic Octagon | Short | Oct 22 | 5,837,720 |
| The Disturbing Sound The FBI Used At Waco | Short | Oct 19 | 6,175,256 |
| POV: I'm Your Trip Sitter | Short | Oct 16 | 2,869,192 |
| A Spooky Mathematical Coincidence | Short | Oct 10 | 2,633,617 |
| The Biggest Hug | Short | Oct 8 | 2,788,629 |
| Making My Perfect Pencil | Short | Oct 2 | 5,176,070 |
| The Ruler Of The Universe | Short | Sep 29 | 4,055,361 |
| How To Fix ROCK HARD Brown Sugar | Short | Sep 22 | 5,937,104 |
| The Ontological Status of Phenylalanine In Sugar Free Sodas | Short | Sep 20 | 13,207,226 |
| Who Said The First Bad Word On The Moon? | Short | Sep 16 | 10,576,527 |
| The Ambitrope Coin | Short | Aug 27 | 3,472,724 |
| Audio Palindromes | Short | Aug 26 | 18,993,524 |
| The Singularity Disc | Short | Aug 22 | 5,857,253 |
| How Many Letters Are In The Answer? | Short | Aug 21 | 2,792,768 |
| Some Obscure Sorrows | Short | Aug 17 | 2,552,955 |
| I Built A "Swing Thing" | Short | Aug 14 | 2,166,107 |
| Can I Crack This Lock? | Short | Aug 12 | 21,458,590 |
| What You See When You Look Away | Short | Aug 10 | 2,838,919 |
| One Dimensional Balls | Short | Aug 5 | 3,557,325 |
| This Is Not Yellow | Short | Aug 3 | 1,068,203 |
| Butt Head Doublers | Short | Jul 29 | 8,708,741 |
| The Hockney–Falco Thesis | Short | Jul 25 | 4,838,595 |
| I Just Committed NOT A Crime | Short | Jul 23 | 15,386,088 |
| Only One English Word Has This Property | Short | Jul 17 | 10,198,649 |
| My Best Friend Wrote A Book! | Short | Jul 9 | 4,963,692 |
| The Vista Paradox | Short | Jul 7 | 11,175,061 |
| I'm Full Of Bones. ... Or Am I? | Short | Jul 2 | 2,987,218 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
Neutral
Where viewers likely are
73% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English speaking audience). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Holds back
Mostly Shorts views
98% of views this month
Long 2%Shorts 98%
Shorts pay about $0.11 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.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
1.63 per week
That is 2.1x the 90 days before.
Helps
Views per video are rising
2x
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
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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, 09:00 UTC.