YouTube Money Calculator

How much could your channel earn on YouTube?

Every creator asks it sooner or later: what are ten thousand views a day worth in dollars? Jood's YouTube money calculator gives you a daily, monthly and yearly estimate from just two numbers: your views and what the channel earns per thousand views.

How to use it

1. Enter the "Estimated Daily Views", meaning the average number of views the channel gets per day.
2. Enter the "Estimated CPM / RPM (USD)". The suggested value is 3.50.
3. Click "Start Now".

Three amounts appear, "Daily", "Monthly" and "Yearly", each with a range below it, from the low estimate to the high one.

How the tool calculates

The formula is simple: views divided by a thousand, multiplied by the revenue per thousand views. With the suggested values, 10,000 views and $3.50, you get $35 a day. The range runs from 60% to 140% of that figure, so from $21 to $49, because revenue varies a lot from month to month. A month counts as 30.4375 days, the average length of a month, and a year as 365.25 days. The month therefore shows about $1,065, and the year about $12,784.

RPM or CPM? The difference matters

• CPM: what advertisers pay per thousand ad impressions, before YouTube takes its share. It only covers ads and YouTube Premium.
• RPM: what you actually earn per thousand views, after YouTube's share, from several sources: ads, channel memberships, YouTube Premium, Super Chat and Super Stickers.

YouTube explains that RPM is lower than CPM, because it is calculated after YouTube's share and includes all views, even those that showed no ad. So enter your RPM, not the CPM, or the estimate will come out too high. You will find your channel's RPM in YouTube Studio, in the Revenue tab of Analytics, once you have joined the Partner Program.

When do earnings start?

YouTube only shares ad revenue with channels accepted into the YouTube Partner Program. Until 31 January 2027, applicants need 1,000 subscribers plus 4,000 public watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days. From 1 February 2027, new applicants will need 8,000 hours or 20 million Shorts views; channels already accepted are not affected.

Why revenue differs from one channel to another

• Where viewers live: advertisers pay much more in some countries than in others.
• The channel's topic: finance, technology and education usually attract pricier ads than entertainment.
• The season: ad spending tends to rise at the end of the year and drop in January.
• Video length: mid-roll ads are only available on videos that are 8 minutes or longer.
• Shorts or long videos: Shorts revenue is calculated differently, and their revenue per thousand views is often lower.

Treat the result as an estimate for planning, not a promise. To estimate a website's ad earnings, use the AdSense revenue calculator.

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