Free YouTube revenue tool
YouTube Earnings Calculator
Your channel
Four inputs decide almost all of a channel's ad revenue.
About 304K views a month.
Typical RPM band: $4.00 – $12 per 1,000 views.
Advertiser bids vary sharply by market — this is usually the biggest single factor.
The share of views that actually serve an ad. Most channels sit between 40% and 70%.
Estimate
Enter a view count to see the estimate
The estimate covers YouTube ad revenue only — not sponsorships, memberships, or affiliate income.
Enter your view count on the left and the daily, monthly, and yearly ranges appear here.
Estimate what a YouTube channel earns from ads. Enter your views, pick your niche and audience location, and see daily, monthly, and yearly revenue ranges with the RPM behind them.
An ad revenue estimate you can actually check
Most earnings calculators hand back one number with no explanation. This one shows the working: the RPM band for your niche, the multiplier for where your audience watches from, the effect of your monetized playback rate, and the arithmetic that turns those into a monthly range.
That matters because YouTube ad revenue is not a single figure. Two channels with a million views a month can be an order of magnitude apart depending on whether advertisers are bidding for financial-services viewers in the United States or entertainment viewers in a low-CPM market.
What drives the number
04 items
Niche RPM
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Finance and business command far higher advertiser bids than gaming or music.
Audience location
02
Tier-one markets can be three times the RPM of emerging markets.
Monetized playbacks
03
Only a share of views ever serve an ad — usually 40–70%.
View volume
04
Everything scales linearly with views once the RPM is set.
From view count to revenue range
Nothing is sent anywhere — the calculation runs in your browser as you type.
Enter your views
Daily or monthly, straight from YouTube Studio → Analytics.
Set niche and audience
Pick the content category and where most of your watch time comes from.
Read the range
Daily, monthly, and yearly ad revenue, plus the RPM and implied CPM behind it.
A calculator that shows its working
Because an estimate you cannot verify is not worth planning against.
01
Realistic RPM bands
Thirteen niches with published creator RPM ranges rather than one global average.
02
Audience weighting
Adjusts for tier-one, European, mixed, and emerging-market audiences.
03
Monetized playback control
Set the share of views that actually serve an ad and watch the range respond.
04
RPM and CPM together
See both the creator-side RPM and the implied advertiser CPM behind it.
05
Copyable summary
Copy the whole estimate as text for a media kit, pitch, or planning doc.
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Honest about limits
Ads only — the tool says plainly what it does not count.
YouTube earnings questions
How the money actually works, and where estimates go wrong.
How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views?
There is no single rate. Creators typically see an RPM between $1 and $30 per 1,000 views, and the spread comes almost entirely from niche and audience location. Finance, business, and technology channels sit at the top; music, entertainment, and kids content at the bottom.
What is the difference between CPM and RPM?
CPM is what an advertiser pays for 1,000 ad impressions. RPM is what you keep per 1,000 total views, after YouTube takes its 45% share and after accounting for views that never served an ad. RPM is always the lower figure and it is the one worth planning against.
How accurate is this calculator?
It gives a range, not a figure. The bands come from published creator RPM data and the inputs you provide, so a channel that knows its own Studio RPM should use that number instead. Treat the output as a planning range that tells you the right order of magnitude.
Does this include sponsorships and memberships?
No. This estimates YouTube ad revenue only. For most established channels, brand deals, memberships, affiliate links, and merchandise together earn more than ads do, so total channel income is usually well above what this shows.
What are the requirements to earn money on YouTube?
The YouTube Partner Programme requires 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 valid public watch hours in the past 12 months or 10 million valid public Shorts views in the past 90 days, along with an AdSense account and compliance with monetization policies.
Why did my RPM drop even though views went up?
Usually a change in mix rather than a change in rate — more Shorts, more traffic from lower-CPM markets, a seasonal dip in advertiser spend after Q4, or more videos flagged as limited-ads. Check the geography and format breakdown in YouTube Studio before assuming a rate change.
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