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CG Cookie - Learn Blender - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 16-min uploads · 820K subscribers · started 2009 · ~1.3/week
Est. ad revenue$62–$250/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 131 most recent of 1K long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit CG Cookie - Learn Blender on YouTube →

In CG Cookie - Learn Blender's own words
Learn Blender with clear tutorials, quick tips, and project-based training from CG Cookie. We're a small team of professional 3D artists dedicated to helping you build real Blender skills, whether you're just starting out or leveling up your workflow. On this channel you'll find: • Blender...Based in US

What are CG Cookie - Learn Blender's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 58% of all views and its biggest is 73.9× the median, so the median upload (7K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

7K
median views
73.9×
top vs median
24%
hit rate (2×+)
58%
views from top 10%

What is CG Cookie - Learn Blender's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "CORE Fundamentals | 9 essential Courses for Blender | Launch Day Trailer" at 547K views - 73.9× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
CORE Fundamentals | 9 essential Courses for Blender | Launch Day Trailer547K
Introduction to Blender and CG Cookie - BLENDER BASICS (part 0)79K
Blender Tutorial: How to Use Dynamic Paint in 3 Creative Ways75K

Which titles work best for CG Cookie - Learn Blender - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
CORE Fundamentals | 9 essential Courses for Blender | Launch Day Trailer547K
Introduction to Blender and CG Cookie - BLENDER BASICS (part 0)79K
Blender Tutorial: How to Use Dynamic Paint in 3 Creative Ways75K
The Secret to Rendering Vibrant Colors with AgX in Blender is the Raw Workflow70K
Everything New in Blender 4.268K
The Future of Automotive Design Workflow - Odilon Loiez68K
Everything New in Blender 4.5 LTS66K
Mech Robot Short Film made with Blender | "Peacemaker Protocol" | Collab.0351K
Everything New in Blender 4.1 - Important Changes for Modelers and Animators46K
Photorealistic NPR : Replicating 90's cel animation - Chris Boylan43K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Working with Huge Assets in Blender to Promote Borderlands for Entertainment Weekly - Denoise S2 E52K
Pataz Animation: A different way of working together - Daniel Salazar2K
Blending Subjects for Real-World Education - Francisco Mireles2K
Perfectionism and Standing Up for the Story ft. Colin Levy - Denoise S2 E72K
Industry Pipeline and Real World Projects - Sergio Mishchenko2K
Demystifying Add-ons: A Workshop - Spencer Magnusson2K
How We Invest In Blender2K
Weaving Art and Code Together - Spencer Magnusson2K
Ten Thousand Swords: a geometry nodes vertical...slice - Oscar Baechler2K
Blender 3D - LIVE (I have made a breakthrough.)2K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 131 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 - CG Cookie - Learn Blender
An ALL-CAPS word40% of videos
+84%
Uses (brackets)23% of videos
+82%
Has a number53% of videos
+50%
Short title (≤6 words)14% of videos
-43%
Starts How / Why / What9% of videos
-27%
Speaks to "you"5% of videos
-21%
The title formula for CG Cookie - Learn Blender

Lean on an all-caps word and uses (brackets) - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on short title (≤6 words).

short title (≤6 words) drags views 43% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does CG Cookie - Learn Blender rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: grease pencil, odilon loiez, everything lts, draw chapter, geometry nodes, course trailer, pencil draw, precision modeling. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does CG Cookie - Learn Blender post, and when?

CG Cookie - Learn Blender publishes about 1.3 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
7
Mon
6
Tue
4
Wed
4
Thu
48
Fri
53
Sat
9

How long are CG Cookie - Learn Blender's videos?

Typical uploads run about 16 minutes. Broken down by length, its 5-10 min videos perform best (12K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
5-10 min
12K
under 5 min
10K
10-20 min
10K
20 min+
4K

How does CG Cookie - Learn Blender compare to other education channels?

At 7K median views, CG Cookie - Learn Blender sits below the typical education channel we track (23K) - there is headroom.

How much money does CG Cookie - Learn Blender make on YouTube?

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, CG Cookie - Learn Blender pulls roughly 41K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $41-$165 a month in ad revenue (about $496-$1,986 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 CG Cookie - Learn Blender make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 5-10 min format, ship on Fri. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 7K views.

CG Cookie - Learn Blender stats at a glance

Subscribers820K
Total views58M
Videos published1K
Avg views (of 131 analyzed)17K
Engagement rate3.7%
Uploads per week1.3
Typical length16 min
On YouTube since2009 (17 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for CG Cookie - Learn Blender, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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