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Adventure Chasing - what's actually working, and what isn't

Travel · 30-min uploads · 210K subscribers · started 2021 · ~0.5/week
Est. ad revenue$896–$4K/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 74 long-form uploads. One of the travel YouTube channels we track. Visit Adventure Chasing on YouTube →

In Adventure Chasing's own words
I'm Kyle McClelland with Adventure Chasing and welcome to our channel. Come with us into some of the wildest places across North America. From remote islands and frozen Great Lakes, to grizzly country and untamed mountain rivers, we push deep into the wilderness year round. Whether by canoe, boat...Based in US

How many views does Adventure Chasing actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 29% of all views and its biggest is 7.2× the median, so the median upload (276K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

276K
median views
7.2×
top vs median
12%
hit rate (2×+)
29%
views from top 10%

What is Adventure Chasing's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Michigan Fall Camping & Hunting Adventure" at 2.0M views - 7.2× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Michigan Fall Camping & Hunting Adventure2.0M
Michigan Hunting & Winter Camping Adventure835K
Whitetails and Steelhead- CAST AND BLAST ADVENTURE803K

Which titles work best for Adventure Chasing - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
Michigan Fall Camping & Hunting Adventure2.0M
Michigan Hunting & Winter Camping Adventure835K
Whitetails and Steelhead- CAST AND BLAST ADVENTURE803K
Michigan Fall Colors- 7 Day Camping Adventure765K
10 Days Camping & Fishing in Canada's Wilderness724K
100 MILE Float Hunt- 5 Day Camping Trip713K
180 Mile Solo Float Trip- 6 Days Camping, Canoeing & Fishing in Michigan700K
Camping & River Fishing Michigan's Upper Peninsula686K
3 Days Alone on a Remote River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula 618K
8 Days Camping in the Great Smoky Mountain Wilderness530K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
5 Days Hot Tent Camping & River Fishing in Michigan 160K
Winter Hot Tent Camping & Fishing Lake Superior157K
Ice Fishing, Winter Camping & Exploring Michigan's UP153K
Ice Fishing Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Winter Camping)138K
7 Day Ice Fishing Adventure on the Great Lakes 137K
3 Days Ice Fishing & Snowshoeing Lake Superior's North Shore 136K
Winter Camping & Fishing on Lake Superior132K
Solo Winter Camping & Fishing with my Dog129K
Backcountry Fishing Adventure in Michigan's Upper Peninsula127K
3 Days River Fishing and Exploring Alaska124K

The words that win for Adventure Chasing

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: fall hunting.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 74 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - Adventure Chasing
Uses (brackets)12% of videos
-26%
The title formula for Adventure Chasing

Its biggest drag is uses (brackets) - worth avoiding.

uses (brackets) drags views 26% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does Adventure Chasing rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: fall camping, camping fishing, upper peninsula, michigan fall, lake superior, ice fishing, winter camping, fishing michigan. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Adventure Chasing post, and when?

Adventure Chasing publishes about 0.5 videos a week, most often on Sat.

Views by day of week
Sun
3
Mon
6
Tue
2
Wed
5
Thu
6
Fri
25
Sat
27

How long are Adventure Chasing's videos?

Typical uploads run about 30 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (278K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
278K

How does Adventure Chasing compare to other travel channels?

At 276K median views, Adventure Chasing runs above the typical travel channel we track (38K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much does Adventure Chasing make? (estimated)

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, Adventure Chasing pulls roughly 593K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $593-$2,374 a month in ad revenue (about $7,121-$28,483 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like Adventure Chasing make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Sat, and build titles around its proven words (fall, hunting). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 276K views.

Adventure Chasing stats at a glance

Subscribers210K
Total views24M
Videos published72
Avg views (of 74 analyzed)337K
Engagement rate15.3%
Uploads per week0.5
Typical length30 min
On YouTube since2021 (5 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for Adventure Chasing, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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