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Zach Star

@zachstar1.4M subscribers274 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$5,140a month

About $61,700 a year, likely $37,000 to $101,000

Low end$3,080
Most likely$5,140
High end$8,420

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos742.1K views a month$5,140100%
  • Shorts10.8K views a month$20%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 227,591 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.

02.5M5M
Median 154.4K
May 24Sep 21
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VideoFormatPostedViews
You (probably) don't have a top 10 favorite moviesLong videoSep 2127,150
When people find out you studied engineeringLong videoSep 5298,586
The algorithm from The Social NetworkLong videoApr 3016,952
How do we know....(these random things) - Earth & Space EditionLong videoDec 2493,682
The guy who invented mathematical logicLong videoDec 7183,869
The guy who invented quantum physicsLong videoNov 26153,984
How do we know...(these random things)?Long videoSep 25502,932
What is cosine similarity (and its applications)?Long videoJul 2830,980
Responding to comments on my flat earth videoLong videoMar 28502,760
When you ask the internet any math questionLong videoMar 14308,137
How to compress an image with (basic) linear algebraLong videoFeb 1367,570
The first engineer (well, not really)Long videoDec 11232,846
The math that proves the Earth isn't flatLong videoOct 17360,022
How big is 1 billion?Long videoAug 3150,447
When your friend asks you to engineer the MatrixLong videoAug 27197,057
Probability is just...really weirdLong videoJul 31109,705
Just 3 questions/puzzles that seem obvious but aren'tLong videoJul 18112,129
The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)Long videoMay 31355,761
When Isaac Newton discovers gravity (and everything else)Long videoMay 24274,674
Probably the weirdest function I encountered as an engineering studentLong videoApr 3079,358
How I wish logistic growth was taught to me in Calc 2Long videoMar 3043,267
The intuition behind the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling TheoremLong videoFeb 29135,866
Why following your compass will (almost) always lead you to the North or South Pole | Math of MapsLong videoJan 3143,122
When you're an engineer in the Star Wars UniverseLong videoNov 15927,261
Why do Electrical Engineers use imaginary numbers in circuit analysis?Long videoSep 9713,924
The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering | The Smith ChartLong videoJul 284,829,883
When you're an engineer for the Titan submersibleLong videoJul 17301,533
Ranking all 22 engineering classes I took in collegeLong videoJun 24154,881
Each point is connected to its closest neighbor, how many connections can a single point have (max)?Long videoMay 3178,478
Why shadows (almost) always trace out hyperbolas (but it depends on where you live).Long videoMay 2462,223

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

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.

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

1% of views this month

Long 99%Shorts 1%

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 11 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

0.16 per week

0.0 before
0.2 now

Not enough history to compare yet.

Neutral

Views per video are steady

1.09x

Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

737K views a month

Uploads older than three years 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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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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How 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, 16:00 UTC.

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