How to Check a YouTube Channel's Income
Paste any channel URL, @handle, channel ID or a link to one of its videos. The checker reads the channel's public upload feed, takes the median views across its recent videos, multiplies by how often it actually posts, and applies the advertising rates for the country the channel publishes. You get a monthly range, a yearly projection, a per-video figure and the RPM band used to produce them.
Average YouTube RPM by Country
RPM is what a creator receives per 1,000 monetised views, after YouTube takes its 45% cut of ad revenue. It is the single biggest variable in any earnings estimate, and it differs by more than ten times between markets — which is why a calculator that quotes one global figure is wrong for almost everyone.
| Country | Long-form RPM (per 1,000 views) |
|---|---|
| United States | $2.00 – $8.00 |
| United Kingdom | $1.80 – $7.00 |
| Canada | $1.80 – $7.00 |
| Germany | $1.50 – $6.00 |
| Brazil | $0.30 – $1.50 |
| India | $0.20 – $1.50 |
| Indonesia | $0.20 – $1.20 |
| Philippines | $0.20 – $1.20 |
| Pakistan | $0.15 – $1.00 |
| Bangladesh | $0.15 – $1.00 |
These are advertising-rate ranges, not measurements of any one channel. Within a country, niche moves the number again: finance, software and insurance content sits at the top of each band, while gaming, vlogs and music sit near the bottom.
The Numbers Behind YouTube Monetization
- 55 / 45 — the split on long-form ad revenue. The creator keeps 55%, YouTube takes 45%.
- 45 / 55 — the split on Shorts, the other way around, after the music-licensing pool is paid.
- 1,000 subscribers — the Partner Programme threshold.
- 4,000 watch hours in the past 12 months, or 10 million Shorts views in 90 days — the second gate.
- $100 — the AdSense payout threshold. Below it, earnings roll over rather than pay out.
What a YouTube Income Check Can and Cannot Tell You
Every external earnings tool, this one included, works from the same public inputs: view counts, upload frequency and the channel's country. Everything that would make an estimate exact is private to the creator — the actual AdSense dashboard, watch hours, the share of views that were monetised at all, and whether any video is running limited ads.
So treat any tool that returns a single confident number with suspicion. It cannot know. A range with its method stated is the honest form of this answer, and it is what you get here.
If you want to know whether a channel is eligible to earn at all, the monetization checker tests it against the Partner Programme requirements. For the full public picture of a channel — ID, keywords, upload history — use the channel checker.