Enter your views and pick your niche to get an earnings range based on real Shorts RPM bands — not the inflated long-form numbers most calculators quietly use.
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How It Works
Monthly Shorts views, or the views on a single video.
RPM varies enormously by subject — finance pays several times what entertainment does for identical views.
A low-to-high estimate, because real RPM moves with season, audience geography and advertiser demand.
Shorts revenue works differently from long-form. Ads run between videos in the Shorts feed rather than on any single video, and the money is pooled. Creators are paid from that pool in proportion to their share of total Shorts views, after music licensing is taken out — so your earnings depend on the whole feed's performance, not just your own ad impressions.
The practical consequence is a much lower RPM. Long-form YouTube commonly runs $3-10 per thousand views; Shorts typically lands between $0.03 and $0.15. That is not a typo and not a penalty — it is what pooled revenue across an enormous view volume produces.
Niche and geography move it more than anything else. Finance, business and software attract advertisers paying multiples of what entertainment or general comedy commands, and views from the US, UK, Canada and Australia are worth several times views from lower-CPM markets. Two channels with identical view counts can differ by 5-10x in revenue on those two factors alone.
Why Use This Tool
Uses the bands Shorts actually pays, instead of borrowing long-form numbers that overstate by 20-50x.
Because a finance channel and a gaming channel with the same views do not earn remotely the same.
Real RPM moves constantly. A single number would be a more confident lie.
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Reference
Revenue per thousand views. Wide ranges because geography and season move these substantially.
Typically $30-150, depending on niche and audience geography. Finance in the US sits at the top of that; gaming with a globally distributed audience sits at the bottom.
Different mechanism. Long-form runs ads on your video and shares that revenue with you. Shorts pools ad revenue across the whole feed, subtracts music licensing, and distributes by view share. Pooled economics produce much smaller per-view figures.
YouTube Partner Programme membership — 1,000 subscribers plus either 10 million Shorts views in 90 days, or 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months.
Yes. Finance and business RPMs commonly run 3-5x entertainment. Combined with geography, two channels on identical view counts can differ by an order of magnitude.
Rarely. For most channels, brand deals, affiliate income and their own products dwarf Shorts ad revenue. Shorts are usually better understood as the top of a funnel than as the revenue itself.
It is a range based on published RPM bands. Your actual figure depends on your specific audience geography, the season, and advertiser demand in your niche that month.
At any RPM, revenue is views times rate — and views are a function of how much you publish. The ceiling on most channels is not ideas, it is the hours per clip. ShortsHero removes the hours.
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Estimated earnings
$30 – $80
Midpoint
$55
Per million views
$55
At these settings
Shorts revenue is pooled across the whole Shorts feed and divided by view share after music licensing, which is why RPM here runs around $0.03–$0.25 rather than the $3–$10 of long-form. For most channels, brand deals and their own products earn several times what Shorts ad revenue does — treat this as the floor, not the ceiling.