YouTube Money Calculator

They are estimates from real view counts and a typical CPM. What a channel really earns depends on its niche, where its viewers live, how long its videos are and what advertisers pay that month.

CPM (cost per mille) is what advertisers pay for 1,000 ad views. On YouTube it is usually between $1 and $10, depending on the audience and the kind of content.

It reads the channel's total and recent views and multiplies them by the CPM: views / 1,000 x CPM. That is what advertisers pay; the creator's share, after YouTube keeps 45%, is about 55% of it.

To earn from ads you need 1,000 subscribers and either 4,000 valid public watch hours in the past 12 months or 10 million valid public Shorts views in the past 90 days, and you must follow YouTube's policies.

YouTube pays for ads shown, not for views. Most creators earn $0.001 to $0.01 a view, so a video with 1 million views might earn $1,000 to $10,000, depending on the niche and the audience.

The niche (finance and tech pay the most), where viewers live (the US and the UK pay more), video length (longer videos can carry more ads) and watch time.

Make videos in a niche advertisers pay well for, for viewers in high-paying countries, long enough for mid-roll ads. Add sponsors, memberships and your own products on top of ads.

RPM (revenue per mille) is what you earn per 1,000 views after YouTube's 45%. CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad views before it. A $10 CPM means an RPM of about $5.50.

Yes, for any channel, from 100 subscribers to millions. A channel that is not monetized yet sees what its views would earn once it joins the Partner Program.

The biggest channels earn tens of millions of dollars a year, most of it from sponsors and their own products rather than ads. From ads alone, 10 million views a month at a $10 CPM is about $100,000 before YouTube's share.

No. Likes and subscribers earn nothing on their own; they bring more views, and views bring ad revenue.

Through YouTube's Shorts revenue sharing, which began in February 2023 and replaced the Shorts Fund. Shorts earn much less per view than long videos, so they pay off at very high view counts.

Finance, technology and education have the highest CPMs, then health and fitness; gaming has some of the lowest. The table above has the typical ranges.

Until you have 1,000 subscribers and either 4,000 watch hours in 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in 90 days. For many creators that is six months to a year.

Yes, for any channel. Earnings differ by country, though: a channel watched in the US usually earns more than one watched in India with the same views.

Yes. The YouTube video money calculator estimates one video from its views, and the live stream calculator estimates a stream from its viewers and hours.