Neutral
Niche: Tech reviews
$2 to $10 per 1,000 views
$0typical $5$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $5 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Y Combinator
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$4,880a month
About $58,600 a year, likely $37,400 to $91,700
Low end$3,110
Most likely$4,880
High end$7,640
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$4,880a month
- Long videos891.7K views a month$4,79098%
- Shorts540.9K views a month$912%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$1,910 to $4,770Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 95,318 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
075K150K
Median 34.7K
Sep 25Nov 6
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bringing Supersonic Flight To The People | Long video | Nov 6 | 7,529 |
| 10 Habits PhDs Must Unlearn To Build a Startup | Startup School | Long video | Nov 4 | 38,638 |
| Engineers Make Great Founders | Short | Nov 2 | 29,500 |
| The $1B Company Fixing AI’s Software Bottleneck | Long video | Nov 2 | 36,394 |
| What Happens When Everyone Can Build Software | Long video | Oct 30 | 94,065 |
| AI for the Air-Gapped Economy | Short | Oct 30 | 41,181 |
| AI for City Hall | Short | Oct 29 | 22,545 |
| LLMs That Write Well | Short | Oct 29 | 55,130 |
| Vertical Foundation Models | Short | Oct 29 | 28,700 |
| Wall Street for the Physical Buildout | Short | Oct 28 | 39,666 |
| Own Your Intelligence | Short | Oct 28 | 67,473 |
| Plaid for Government Benefits | Short | Oct 28 | 11,605 |
| Data Center Supply Chain | Short | Oct 28 | 29,908 |
| The $15-an-Hour Expert | Short | Oct 27 | 21,571 |
| Robots Made In America | Short | Oct 27 | 13,661 |
| Startups in a World of Abundant Space Access | Short | Oct 27 | 27,207 |
| The New Full-Stack Designer | Long video | Oct 26 | 133,471 |
| Why Inference Matters 12x More Than Training | YC Paper Club | Long video | Oct 24 | 67,135 |
| This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos | Long video | Oct 23 | 63,570 |
| How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs | Long video | Oct 22 | 48,529 |
| AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club | Long video | Oct 17 | 40,602 |
| Demis Hassabis: Put your life force into a problem that matters | Short | Oct 16 | 17,125 |
| Alexandr Wang on what matters in an age of abundant intelligence | Short | Oct 14 | 96,181 |
| What surprised PG about AI | Short | Oct 13 | 25,313 |
| How Jeetu Patel Runs Cisco Like the World’s Largest Startup | Long video | Oct 8 | 33,047 |
| A camera that can see through walls | Short | Oct 2 | 29,482 |
| What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club | Long video | Oct 2 | 76,008 |
| Robotic factories that build robots | Short | Sep 28 | 15,545 |
| Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics | Long video | Sep 26 | 81,752 |
| Rocket cargo delivery anywhere on Earth in minutes | Short | Sep 25 | 14,217 |
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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
38% of views this month
Long 62%Shorts 38%
Shorts pay about $0.17 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 31 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
3.89 per week
That is 0.77x the 90 days before.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.73x
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
Can it earn from ads?Yes, already past the barIt meets the thresholds by our estimate and shows signs of earning
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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, 06:00 UTC.