How Much Money Does YouTube Pay Per 1,000 Views?
Ballparks, not myths: what YouTube actually pays per 1,000 views, why the number varies so wildly, and how to sanity-check any figure you're quoted.
Fast-paced developer education channel covering programming topics in 100 seconds.
Transparency: Public channel statistics are retrieved using the YouTube Data API. Revenue estimates are independently calculated and are not provided or verified by YouTube or Google.
Estimated earnings
Based on ~24.3M monthly views and an estimated RPM of $10.40 per 1,000 views.
Estimated monthly earnings
$2.5K
$1.5K — $3.8K
Estimated yearly earnings
$30.4K
$18.2K — $45.6K
Sponsorship value (per video)
$141.5K
$84.9K — $226.3K
Estimated RPM
$10.40/ 1,000 views
Estimated CPM
$18.72/ 1,000 views
Estimated Shorts revenue
$2.5K/ month
Independent estimates only. Actual earnings depend on many factors we cannot observe — ad category mix, fill rate, watch time, YouTube revenue share, sponsorship deals, taxes, and more.
Channel stats
Averaged across the 12 most recent uploads.
Average of (likes + comments) ÷ views on recent uploads.
Typical streams for a creator of this size. This tool only estimates ad revenue and sponsorship value.
6:041.7M views · 3 days ago
5:561.5M views · 4 days ago
6:331.9M views · 6 days ago
5:401.2M views · 11 days ago
5:061.8M views · 12 days ago
5:566.6M views · 14 days ago
6:101.6M views · 19 days ago
5:462.9M views · 21 days ago
5:471.9M views · 25 days ago
5:04914.2K views · 26 days ago
5:566.6M views · 14 days ago
5:462.9M views · 21 days ago
6:442.4M views · 28 days ago
6:331.9M views · 6 days ago
5:471.9M views · 25 days ago
5:061.8M views · 12 days ago
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