YouTube Money Calculator
Estimate your YouTube channel's ad revenue in seconds. Adjust your daily views, niche, and audience location to see daily, monthly, and yearly projections, with full CPM and RPM breakdowns.
2026 benchmarks. Estimates assume YouTube's standard 55% creator revenue share and a typical share of monetized views. Actual ad revenue varies by audience location, niche, watch time, seasonality, and ad rates. It also excludes sponsorships, memberships, and merch.
YouTube earnings, explained
The how and why behind the numbers above.
How does the YouTube Money Calculator work?
Set your daily views, pick your content niche, and choose where most of your audience is located. The calculator multiplies a niche-typical CPM by your audience-location rate, then applies YouTube's 55% creator revenue share and a typical share of monetized views to estimate your daily, monthly, and yearly ad revenue.
What is the difference between CPM and RPM?
CPM (cost per mille) is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions. RPM (revenue per mille) is what you actually keep per 1,000 video views after YouTube's cut and accounting for views that don't show ads. RPM is the number that maps to your real payout, which is why both are shown.
How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views?
It varies widely by niche and audience country. Finance, tech, and business channels can earn $10+ RPM, while gaming, entertainment, and music are often $1 to $3. A US audience pays far more than a worldwide one for the same content.
Are these earnings guaranteed?
No. These are 2026 industry-benchmark estimates for ad revenue only. Real income depends on watch time, seasonality, ad rates, and audience quality. Most full-time creators also add sponsorships, memberships, and merch on top of AdSense.
What our 15 million+ users are saying about Simplified
Rated 4.6/5 across 5,008+ real reviews
The BEST for Social Media Scheduling...And I've Tried Them All
"This has been the only social media scheduler that I haven't ran into a million problems with. I appreciate that I can create content, upload and schedule it and not have to worry about whether or not it's going to actually post."
My ultimate solution to content rewritting and generation.
"Simplified. It's my ideal go-to tool when I need to generate content for my blog around specific topics. Their calendar scheduler also comes in handy."
Simplified is both the name and the perfect description
"Simplified makes it easy to manage a brand - or multiple brands. Within its 'simplified' interface, the social media management and scheduling lets you go directly from idea to implementation with a few intuitive clicks."
Simplified for Scheduled Posts
"Scheduling Posts through Simplified is one of the best features. It bypasses LinkedIn Scheduled Posts and enables easy delivery. Video addition features delineate platforms."
Not The Jack Of All Trades, The Master!
"Simplified is an AI writer, graphic design tool, video editor and social media scheduler. Four tools in one, streamlining my workflow and allowing me to unsubscribe from various other tools - saving me tonnes of cash."
An Innovative All-in-One Solution for Productivity and Engagement
"Simplified Platform's integration with marketing and social media tools streamlined my campaign management. The seamless connection to popular platforms allowed for efficient scheduling and posting of content."
The social media planner is so integrated
"The video editor saves me so much time. I love the social media planner especially because it's so integrated into the entire Simplified system. You can't find this anywhere else!"
All the gadgets a marketer needs
"It's so intuitive and streamlined that I actually started to believe I had superpowers myself. From social media management to data analytics, this app has all the gadgets a marketer needs."
Turn those views into a real content engine
Plan, create, and schedule your videos with Simplified's AI social media suite, and grow the audience these numbers are built on.