How Much I Make On YouTube 💰
The creator shares a rare look at their AdSense earnings on a nearly 1 million subscriber YouTube channel, revealing they earned just over $6,000 in the last 28 days. They briefly compare earnings across 2023, 2024, and 2025, noting 2024 was their best AdSense year. Sponsorship income is acknowledged but not disclosed.
Summary
In this short and candid video, the YouTuber offers an unfiltered look at their AdSense revenue for a channel approaching 1 million subscribers — something they note they haven't shared openly in a long time. They reveal that in the past 28 days, the channel earned just over $6,000 from AdSense alone.
The creator then walks through historical AdSense data by year. Looking at 2025 so far, they show the current figures, then compare them to 2024, which they identify as their strongest AdSense year. They also pull up 2023, which they had remembered as a particularly impressive year, but upon reflection note it wasn't dramatically larger than the other years.
The creator briefly acknowledges that sponsorships represent a meaningful additional income stream, describing it as 'good money,' but deliberately chooses not to disclose those figures in this video. They hint that sponsorship earnings might be discussed in a future podcast format. The video is brief and transparent in tone, giving viewers a rare numerical glimpse into YouTube monetization at scale.
Key Insights
- The creator reveals their nearly 1 million subscriber channel earned just over $6,000 from AdSense in the last 28 days, framing this as a rare, uncensored disclosure.
- The creator identifies 2024 as their best AdSense year when comparing annual earnings across multiple years.
- The creator recalls 2023 as a standout year for earnings but upon reviewing the actual data concludes it wasn't significantly larger than other years.
- The creator acknowledges earning 'good money' from sponsorships but deliberately withholds those figures from this video, suggesting the topic may be covered in a future podcast.
- The creator frames AdSense as only one part of their YouTube income, implying sponsorships are a significant and separate revenue stream not captured in the AdSense figures shown.
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Transcript
[0:00] I'll show you what the AdSense looks like on a nearly 1 million subscriber channel. This is the first time in a long time that I've shared this sort of uncensored. In the last 28 days, it's made little over $6,000. Let me show you 2025. For the year, it did this much. 2024. Okay, so 2024 was actually the bigger year. That was a good year. Let me see if I can show 2023 cuz that's where it was like really kind of woah. Okay, so it wasn't that much bigger. I'm not going to get into how much I make [0:30] from sponsorships. I do make good money from sponsorships. Maybe I'll do that on like a…
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