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What are my views actually worth?

Enter your views, not your followers. See what each platform actually pays, how it is calculated, and where nobody can honestly quote you a number.

Platform
Your Shorts views this monthMEDIUM CONFIDENCE

~$15

500,000 views at a derived ~$0.03 RPM. The mathematical ceiling is $0.25 RPM ($124), and nothing real exceeds it.

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  1. 200B Shorts views/day x 365 = ~73 trillion views/year (Neal Mohan, disclosed).
  2. Alphabet FY2025 YouTube ad revenue = $40.367B (SEC 10-K).
  3. Ceiling: $40.367B x 45% split / 73T views = ~$0.25 RPM if every ad dollar were Shorts.
  4. Shorts is a minority of that revenue. At an assumed 12% share, ~$0.03 RPM.

The 12% Shorts revenue-share is a stated assumption, the only non-disclosed input. The ceiling is pure arithmetic on YouTube's disclosed view count and Alphabet's SEC filing.

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