Side hustle & income

AI YouTube Channel Earnings Calculator

Ad revenue is the smallest line for most channels. Sponsors and affiliate links are where the money is — this shows all three together.

Videos per month — 8Average views per videoNicheMonetised views — 70%Ad blockers, kids content and premium viewers reduce this.Videos with a sponsor — 25%Affiliate / product income (USD/month)

Estimated monthly revenue

$886 – $2,068

Monthly views: 96,000
Niche RPM: $9
Ad revenue: $605
Sponsor revenue: $672
Affiliate revenue: $200
Annual (mid case): $17,722
Revenue per video: $185

Revenue per video is the number to compare against your production hours. If a video takes six hours and returns $185, you know your effective hourly rate.

Reading these numbers honestly

RPM is what reaches you after YouTube takes its share, and it varies more by niche than by skill. Finance and B2B software sit ten times above entertainment for the same view count, which is why two channels of identical size can earn wildly different amounts.

Sponsor integrations are priced per thousand views, typically two to four times the ad RPM, and are negotiated per deal. The model assumes you only sell a share of your videos — setting that to 100% is not realistic outside of an agency-managed channel.

AI tooling cuts scripting, editing and thumbnail iteration time, so the practical gain is more videos per month at the same quality. Increase the videos slider, not the views slider, when modelling an AI-assisted workflow.