How to Estimate Someone’s Income on YouTube

If you’re trying to estimate how much a YouTube channel earns from ads, Social Blade is the go-to public tool. It analyzes a channel’s publicly visible stats (like views and subscribers) and outputs an estimated earnings range for different time periods. What Social Blade Actually Does Pulls public metrics : total/average views, subscriber growth, upload frequency, and category. Applies CPM assumptions : uses a broad range for ad revenue per 1,000 views (CPM), because CPM varies by audience country, content niche, seasonality, and ad inventory. Outputs a range : e.g., “$500–$8,000 per month.” This is a model-based estimate , not the channel’s actual payout. Important Insight About the Range If a channel is legitimate, has real audiences, and isn’t involved in view manipulation or other policy-violating tricks , the real AdSense income often skews closer to the higher end of Social Blade’s range. Why? Engaged, real audiences tend to generate better ad fill and hi...