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Chitra Murali's Kitchen - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 3-min uploads · 835K subscribers · started 2015 · ~11.9/week
Est. ad revenue$489–$2K/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 242 public uploads. One of the best cooking youtube channels we track. Visit Chitra Murali's Kitchen on YouTube →

In Chitra Murali's Kitchen's own words
Simple and easy way of cooking, Cooking VlogsBased in IN

What are Chitra Murali's Kitchen's average views?

This channel is consistent: no single hit carries it (top 10% of videos = 29% of views), so the median upload of 6K views is the real story.

6K
median views
6.6×
top vs median
23%
hit rate (2×+)
29%
views from top 10%

What is Chitra Murali's Kitchen's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Tamil New Year Special | Badam cashew Payasam | Mangai Pachadi | Paruppu vadai | vazhaikkai curry|" at 42K views - 6.6× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Tamil New Year Special | Badam cashew Payasam | Mangai Pachadi | Paruppu vadai | vazhaikkai curry|42K
Tiffin recipe | Protein Rich Recipe | Garlic Chutney | Protein Rich Dosai40K
Indraya samayal | Lunch menu | Paruppu Urundai Moor kuzhambu| Vazhaikkai curry30K

Which titles work best for Chitra Murali's Kitchen - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Tamil New Year Special | Badam cashew Payasam | Mangai Pachadi | Paruppu vadai | vazhaikkai curry|42K
Tiffin recipe | Protein Rich Recipe | Garlic Chutney | Protein Rich Dosai40K
Indraya samayal | Lunch menu | Paruppu Urundai Moor kuzhambu| Vazhaikkai curry30K
|Lunch Menu & Tiffin combo | Evening Snacks30K
Best side dish for curd rice, Sambar Sadam, Idly, Dosai, and Chappati etc. | Mangai thokku29K
Ugadi Spl29K
Lunch combo|| Karima podi28K
Best side dish for Puttu, Appam, idiyappam,dosa , Chapati, and rice25K
Best side dish for Sambar Sadam and Thayir Sadam24K
Summer collection| Daily wear cotton sarees | Apavaranam #saree #shortsvideo24K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Aadi Perukku Spl3K
Polycot sarees | Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K
Semi Raw silk sarees | Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K
Semi Mulberry silk sarees | Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K
Semi Matka Sarees| Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K
Semi Matka silk sarees| Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K
Mercerised cotton sarees | Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K
Fancy soft Silk sarees| Apavaranam| #shortsvideo3K
Semi Banarasi sarees| Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K
Soft Tussar sarees | Apavaranam| #shortsvideo #saree3K

The title patterns that win here

  • Words that show up in winners, not flops: rice side curry lunch dish.
  • Its winning titles run about 8 words; the ones that flop run 7. It gets away with longer, more descriptive titles.

What keywords does Chitra Murali's Kitchen rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: apavaranam, saree, sarees, rice, lunch, side, dish, curry. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Chitra Murali's Kitchen post, and when?

Chitra Murali's Kitchen publishes about 11.9 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Wed, Fri, Thu, and thin out on Sun. The single best-performing slot is Wed around 7:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
51K
Mon
339K
Tue
377K
Wed
423K
Thu
377K
Fri
399K
Sat
99K

How long are Chitra Murali's Kitchen's videos?

Typical uploads run about 3 minutes. Broken down by length, its 5-10 min videos perform best (16K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
6K
5-10m
16K
20m+
6K

How does Chitra Murali's Kitchen compare to other cooking channels?

At 6K median views, Chitra Murali's Kitchen sits below the typical cooking channel we track (22K) - there is headroom.

How much money does Chitra Murali's Kitchen 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, Chitra Murali's Kitchen pulls roughly 324K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $324-$1K a month in ad revenue (about $4K-$16K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Chitra Murali's Kitchen make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 5-10 min format, ship on Wed, and build titles around its proven words (rice, side, curry). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 6K views.

Chitra Murali's Kitchen stats at a glance

Subscribers835K
Total views268M
Videos published4K
Average views / video74K
Engagement rate2.3%
Uploads per week11.9
Typical length3 min
On YouTube since2015 (11 yrs)

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