YouTube Channel Earnings Calculator

Estimate monthly and yearly YouTube channel income from long-form views, Shorts views, channel memberships, Super Chat and sponsorships.

Ad views are only one part of a channel's income. This calculator adds up the main YouTube revenue streams — long-form ads, the Shorts revenue share, channel memberships and Super Chat, Super Stickers and Super Thanks — plus money from sponsors and affiliates, and shows the monthly and yearly total with each source's share. It works best with the RPM figures from your own YouTube Studio analytics.

How to use this tool

Enter monthly long-form views and your long-form RPM.
Enter monthly Shorts engaged views and the corresponding Shorts RPM.
Add members and net revenue per membership, plus net Super revenue before the 70% creator share.
Add sponsorship and affiliate income, then read the total and the breakdown table.

Formula

Ad income = Views ÷ 1,000 × RPM (long-form and Shorts separately)

Membership income = Members × Net revenue per membership × 70%

Monthly total = Ad income + Membership income + 70% of Super features + Other income

RPM is revenue per 1,000 views after YouTube's share, so no further cut is applied to ad income. Under the Partner Program terms, creators get 55% of net ad revenue on long-form videos, 45% of their allocated Shorts revenue and 70% of net revenue from memberships and Super features.

Example

A channel with 200,000 long-form views at a $4 RPM earns $800 from ads. Its 500,000 Shorts engaged views at $0.06 add $30, and 50 members each contributing net revenue of $4.99 bring in $174.65 after the 70% creator share. The total is about $1,004.65 a month, or $12,055.80 a year, with long-form ads making up 79.63% of it.

Frequently asked questions

Why is Shorts RPM so much lower than long-form?

Shorts ads run between videos in the feed, and that revenue is pooled and shared by views, with part of the pool used for music licensing. Creators keep 45% of their allocation, compared with 55% of ad revenue on long-form videos.

What do I need to start earning?

For the standard ad-revenue path, current application thresholds are 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 qualified public watch hours in 12 months or 10 million qualified Shorts views in 90 days. Policies, location, account setup, review and accepted monetization terms also apply.

Are sponsorships worth more than ads?

Sponsorships are negotiated separately and are not predicted by view counts here. Enter your own contracted or scenario income, and avoid adding amounts already included elsewhere.

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Last updated: 2026