YouTube Channel Earnings Estimator
Estimate how much a YouTube channel could make from public views, niche RPM, sponsorships, affiliates, and products. Use it to value your own channel, research competitors, or sanity-check creator income claims.
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Use public channel views, recent video averages, and a realistic niche RPM. Exact YouTube Studio revenue is private.
1. Get public stats
Use the channel About page, public video grid, or YouTube Data API stats: views, subscribers, and video count.
2. Pick the niche
Finance, software, and business channels usually earn more per 1,000 views than entertainment or gaming.
3. Read the range
The low/base/high range is safer than pretending one public number is exact income.
Most accurate public method
The closest public estimate starts with real channel stats, then applies realistic RPM and monetization assumptions. Public YouTube data can show channel view count, subscriber count when visible, and public video count; it cannot show the creator's private RPM, sponsorship contracts, affiliate conversions, refunds, or expenses.
Use these inputs first: lifetime channel views, recent average views, uploads per month, niche, audience country mix, and visible sponsorship frequency.
Best API route: YouTube Data API v3 `channels.list` with `part=statistics` for public `viewCount`, `subscriberCount`, and `videoCount` when available.
Best no-API route: manually copy public views/subscribers from the channel page, then average the last 10-20 normal long-form videos.
Why not exact?
Exact creator revenue lives inside YouTube Studio and private sponsor/affiliate dashboards.
What is RPM?
RPM is creator revenue per 1,000 total views after YouTube's share. CPM is what advertisers pay before creator share.
What about Shorts?
Shorts RPM is often much lower than long-form RPM. Use a lower RPM preset if the channel is mostly Shorts.