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AlanBeckerTutorials - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 13-min uploads · 1.1M subscribers · started 2011 · ~0.1/week
Est. ad revenue$194–$774/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 54 most recent of 67 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit AlanBeckerTutorials on YouTube →

In AlanBeckerTutorials's own words
My name is Alan Becker, most famous for "Animator vs. Animation", a viral video from 2006. Here is where I put my tutorials. I teach animation using Adobe Flash/Animate, and some Photoshop and Minecraft stuff. If you would like to contact me, visit If you are wondering what equipment I use for my...

How does AlanBeckerTutorials perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 63% of all views and its biggest is 50.3× the median, so the median upload (298K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

298K
median views
50.3×
top vs median
37%
hit rate (2×+)
63%
views from top 10%

What is AlanBeckerTutorials's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series)" at 15M views - 50.3× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series)15M
ALAN BECKER - Stick Figure Animation (revamped)9.3M
ALAN BECKER - Animating Walk Cycles3.8M

Which titles work best for AlanBeckerTutorials - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series)15M
ALAN BECKER - Stick Figure Animation (revamped)9.3M
ALAN BECKER - Animating Walk Cycles3.8M
ALAN BECKER - Making Icons Move3.6M
ALAN BECKER - Flash Basics (revamped)3.0M
ALAN BECKER - How to Make Massive Scale Animations (Staying Organized)2.5M
ALAN BECKER - Freeware Alternatives to Adobe Flash2.2M
"The Roller Coaster" - Behind the Scenes - Time Lapse & Commentary1.9M
ALAN BECKER - The most powerful tool in Flash1.7M
4. Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose - 12 Principles of Animation1.1M

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
ALAN BECKER - Gradients115K
ALAN BECKER - Body Parts106K
ALAN BECKER - 3 Step "Quick Fix" in Photoshop93K
ALAN BECKER - Animating Water Splashes93K
ALAN BECKER - Using Masks90K
ALAN BECKER - Multi-layered Explosions77K
ALAN BECKER - Flaming Rip Marks66K
ALAN BECKER - 3D Room Illusion43K
ALAN BECKER - Nested Animation43K
ALAN BECKER - Exporting from Flash31K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 54 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 - AlanBeckerTutorials
An ALL-CAPS word89% of videos
-80%
Short title (≤6 words)56% of videos
-75%
The title formula for AlanBeckerTutorials

Its biggest drag is an all-caps word - worth avoiding.

an all-caps word drags views 80% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does AlanBeckerTutorials rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: principles animation, stick figure, figure animation, behind scenes, scenes lapse, lapse commentary, flash basics, adobe flash. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does AlanBeckerTutorials post, and when?

AlanBeckerTutorials publishes about 0.1 videos a week, most often on Sat.

Views by day of week
Sun
3
Mon
2
Tue
5
Wed
6
Thu
8
Fri
6
Sat
24

How long are AlanBeckerTutorials's videos?

Typical uploads run about 13 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (741K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5 min
741K
5-10 min
648K
20 min+
218K
10-20 min
144K

How does AlanBeckerTutorials compare to other education channels?

At 298K median views, AlanBeckerTutorials runs above the typical education channel we track (23K). It is outperforming its niche.

AlanBeckerTutorials's estimated YouTube earnings

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, AlanBeckerTutorials pulls roughly 128K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $128-$513 a month in ad revenue (about $1,538-$6,151 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 AlanBeckerTutorials make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Sat. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 298K views.

AlanBeckerTutorials stats at a glance

Subscribers1.1M
Total views73M
Videos published67
Avg views (of 54 analyzed)1.1M
Uploads per week0.1
Typical length13 min
On YouTube since2011 (15 yrs)

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