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cheese speedrunning - what's actually working, and what isn't

Gaming · 25-min uploads · 94K subscribers · started 2014 · ~0.9/week
Est. ad revenue$99–$397/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 192 most recent of 566 long-form uploads. One of the gaming YouTube channels we track. Visit cheese speedrunning on YouTube →

cheese speedrunning's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 36% of all views and its biggest is 21.5× the median, so the median upload (17K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

17K
median views
21.5×
top vs median
21%
hit rate (2×+)
36%
views from top 10%

What is cheese speedrunning's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "NEW Super Mario 64 120 Star WORLD RECORD in 1:37:50 by Cheese" at 365K views - 21.5× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
NEW Super Mario 64 120 Star WORLD RECORD in 1:37:50 by Cheese365K
NEW 120 Star TAS SPEEDRUN 1:14:04 LIVE REACTION 2026!!! @Games Done Quick113K
Reacting to the GREATEST SM64 Speedrun OF ALL TIME?!111K

Which titles work best for cheese speedrunning - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
NEW Super Mario 64 120 Star WORLD RECORD in 1:37:50 by Cheese365K
NEW 120 Star TAS SPEEDRUN 1:14:04 LIVE REACTION 2026!!! @Games Done Quick113K
Reacting to the GREATEST SM64 Speedrun OF ALL TIME?!111K
These Speedrun Cheaters Thought They'd Get Away With It!!103K
I Can't Stop Laughing at these SM64 Speedrun Fails85K
Cheese Reacts to the History of 16 Star World Records by Summoning Salt83K
I LOST WR!! Reacting to the NEW 120 Star WORLD RECORD74K
A Kid Got The BEST 16 Star Speedrun EVER74K
Cheese Reacts to EVEN MORE Super Mario 64 Fails by Kobrahjer71K
Cheese Reacts to Super Mario 64 Speedrun FAILS (and more)70K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Reacting to Zain's (@Zainssbm) MASSIVE PB in 16 Star!9K
Cheese Reacts to @KoBrahJer SM64 Speedrun Highlights!9K
Where Have I Been?9K
My Next Speedrun Game...8K
Luigi Teaches Mario About Horny8K
TEACHING MY MOM SUPER MARIO 64!8K
I GOT A NEW PB (1:35) in 120 STAR Speedrun! | FULL RUN8K
Cheese Reacts to 'The Hardest Minecraft Modpack You'll Ever Play' by Shivaxi8K
My 120 Star Return got me my 2nd BEST Run EVER8K
I broke my controller...7K

The words that win for cheese speedrunning

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

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 192 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 - cheese speedrunning
Uses (brackets)7% of videos
+150%
Short title (≤6 words)30% of videos
-32%
Asks a question12% of videos
-29%
An ALL-CAPS word61% of videos
+21%
The title formula for cheese speedrunning

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

short title (≤6 words) drags views 32% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does cheese speedrunning rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: super mario, world record, star world, mario star, mario fails, reacting star, reacts super, world records. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does cheese speedrunning post, and when?

cheese speedrunning publishes about 0.9 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
26
Mon
29
Tue
4
Wed
5
Thu
3
Fri
94
Sat
31

How long are cheese speedrunning's videos?

Typical uploads run about 25 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (18K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
18K
20 min+
16K
5-10 min
11K

How does cheese speedrunning compare to other gaming channels?

At 17K median views, cheese speedrunning sits below the typical gaming channel we track (76K) - there is headroom.

What is cheese speedrunning'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, cheese speedrunning pulls roughly 66K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $66-$263 a month in ad revenue (about $789-$3,158 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 cheese speedrunning make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Fri, and build titles around its proven words (reacting). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 17K views.

cheese speedrunning stats at a glance

Subscribers94K
Total views22M
Videos published566
Avg views (of 192 analyzed)25K
Engagement rate2.5%
Uploads per week0.9
Typical length25 min
On YouTube since2014 (12 yrs)

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