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How Much YouTube Pays For 100k Views in 2025
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Let me show you how much YouTube paid me for a video with 100,000 views.
Let’s go to my YouTube analytics on my desktop. Now this is YouTube Studio — this is the video, and it has gotten 13,180 views since it was published. Now let’s look at the analytics more in-depth.
This video is just 9 minutes 37 seconds, as you can see here, and it has gotten an impression of 430,000. It was suggested to 430,000 people and received an impressive clickthrough rate of 16.8%, giving us total views of 13,200. That means out of the 430k impressions, 103,000 people decided to view it, which is very, very good. That’s almost a quarter of the people it was suggested to — a good sign.
Look at the unique viewers — 82,000 unique people tuned into this video. This channel is a movie review channel, and this particular video is about season 3 of the New Girl series, a particular series on YouTube. This video got 82,000 unique viewers and 100,000 total views.
Now let’s go to the Engagement tab. This video got 1,800 watch hours and an average view duration of 1 minute. Now, this is very poor because this is a video of 9 minutes, and the average view duration is just 1 minute. That explains why the watch hours are low compared to the duration of the video.
