How to use it
- Enter your views A month of Shorts views, or any number. 2M and 250K work too.
- Pick where viewers are It moves the rate more than anything else.
- Read the range Know your own RPM? Add it for a closer number.
How Shorts pay, in one picture
Shorts don’t pay you per view the way long videos do. Ads play between Shorts in the feed. Each month YouTube adds that money up, sets part of it aside for music, and shares the rest among creators in the Partner Program by their share of engaged views: views where people kept watching, not just scrolled past. You keep 45% of your share.
- $100,000 Ads between Shorts this month
- music share set aside
- $90,000 The creator pool
- you had 1% of engaged views
- $900 Your share of it
- you keep 45%
- $405 What you keep
That’s where RPM comes from: what you keep for every 1,000 views, after YouTube’s share. In this made-up month it comes to about $0.41 per 1,000 engaged views. Real months usually pay much less, because the pool and the number of creators sharing it change every month and in every country.
What creators report
YouTube doesn’t publish Shorts rates, so the calculator uses ranges that creators and trackers report. Most of the difference comes from where your viewers live: advertisers pay more to reach some countries than others.
| Where most viewers are | Per 1,000 views | Per 1 million views |
|---|---|---|
| US, UK, Canada, Australia | $0.05–$0.20 | $50–$200 |
| Gulf countries, Western Europe | $0.03–$0.10 | $30–$100 |
| Elsewhere (e.g. Egypt, North Africa, South Asia) | $0.01–$0.04 | $10–$40 |
Trackers disagree, so treat these as a guide. vidIQ puts most channels between $0.01 and $0.07 per 1,000 Shorts views. AIR Media-Tech’s 2025 medians run from about $0.33 for US audiences to under $0.01 for India. Your own rate is in YouTube Studio, under Analytics, Revenue: if you have it, put it in the calculator.
What changes in February 2027
10 million views in 90 days is about 111,000 views a day. For most channels that takes many good shorts, posted steadily. Ads on your long videos and fan funding don’t depend on this floor. Read the full picture in YouTube monetization requirements.
Free · Tool Monetization checker See how close your channel is to each level of the YouTube Partner Program, today and in 2027.Where Shorts really pay off
For someone with long videos, the Shorts payout is the small part. The big part is reach: a short puts you in front of people who would never click a 40-minute video, and some of them go on to watch your long ones, where ads pay far more per view.
So the best use of Shorts is as a door to your channel, not as a paycheck. More on that in do Shorts help or hurt your channel and how much YouTube pays for Shorts.
Sources
- YouTube Help: YouTube Shorts monetization policies (revenue sharing, February 2027 change)
- YouTube Help: how Shorts views and engaged views are counted
- vidIQ: How much does YouTube pay per view (2026)
- AIR Media-Tech: YouTube Shorts RPM by country
- Tubefilter: YouTube’s stricter ad eligibility for Shorts (August 2026)