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Andy Cooks - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 18-min uploads · 6.2M subscribers · started 2008 · ~4.1/week
Est. ad revenue$13K–$52K/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 the honest read, from 45 public uploads. One of the best cooking youtube channels we track. Visit Andy Cooks on YouTube →

In Andy Cooks's own words
So you want to know a little more about me? I grew up in New Zealand. I think I was about 3 years old when I first put on an apron and started helping my mum in the kitchen. I was a terrible student. So, I unenrolled myself from school in year 10 and enrolled myself into chef school. Fast forward to now, I have cooked Based in AU

Andy Cooks's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel is consistent: no single hit carries it (top 10% of videos = 33% of views), so the median upload of 490K views is the real story.

490K
median views
6.3×
top vs median
18%
hit rate (2×+)
33%
views from top 10%

What is Andy Cooks's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Big steaks are easer to cook 🥩" at 3.1M views - 6.3× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Big steaks are easer to cook 🥩3.1M
5 Easy Dinners for One (No Waste, No Fuss!)1.9M
Korean Fried Chicken - One of my Top 3 favourite fried chicken recipes1.6M

Which titles work best for Andy Cooks - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Big steaks are easer to cook 🥩3.1M
5 Easy Dinners for One (No Waste, No Fuss!)1.9M
Korean Fried Chicken - One of my Top 3 favourite fried chicken recipes1.6M
6 Different Fish - 9 Cooking Methods - Anyone Can Cook1.5M
My Chef's Guide To Week Night Meal Prepping1.5M
3 One Pot Meals That Don't Suck1.4M
7-hour slow cooked lamb shoulder that will MELT in your mouth1.2M
Coconut rice with prawns in ya rice cooker1.2M
Birria Tacos - Tender, Juicy Beef You Didn't Know You Needed971K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
How To Make A Game Day Feast211K
Roast Chicken: There's Only One Method That Works210K
How Chefs Make Cheap Meat Taste Expensive177K
What Is The Best Way To Make Mash?134K
I Tried The 10 Best Sandwiches and Rated Them71K
I Asked Chefs How They Make Chicken At Home57K
Trying Kitchen Gadgets So You Don't Have To48K
Everything You Need To Know About Pasta27K
Every Cooking Method Explained9K

The title patterns that win here

  • Numbers pull the click here: 56% of its winners use one ("3-ingredient", "in 10 minutes") vs 11% of its flops.
  • Its winning titles run about 9 words; the ones that flop run 8. It gets away with longer, more descriptive titles.

What keywords does Andy Cooks rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: one, beef, steaks, big, are, easer, meal, chicken. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Andy Cooks post, and when?

Andy Cooks publishes about 4.1 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Wed, Thu, Mon, and thin out on Sun. The single best-performing slot is Wed around 10:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
373K
Mon
1.2M
Tue
0
Wed
3.9M
Thu
1.8M
Fri
0
Sat
0

How long are Andy Cooks's videos?

Typical uploads run about 18 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (819K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
819K
5-10m
1.2M
10-20m
383K
20m+
625K

How does Andy Cooks compare to other cooking channels?

At 490K median views, Andy Cooks runs above the typical cooking channel we track (22K). It is outperforming its niche.

What is Andy Cooks's net worth and estimated 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, Andy Cooks pulls roughly 8.6M long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $9K-$35K a month in ad revenue (about $104K-$414K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Andy Cooks make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Wed, and build titles around its proven words. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 490K views.

Andy Cooks stats at a glance

Subscribers6.2M
Total views3627M
Videos published1K
Average views / video2.5M
Engagement rate3.2%
Uploads per week4.1
Typical length18 min
On YouTube since2008 (18 yrs)

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