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Chuds BBQ - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 17-min uploads · 472K subscribers · started 2007 · ~2.1/week
Est. ad revenue$571–$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 40 public uploads. One of the recipe youtube channels we track. Visit Chuds BBQ on YouTube →

In Chuds BBQ's own words
Welcome to Chuds BBQ! My name is Bradley Robinson and my goal on this channel is to share everything I have learned so far about barbecue and live fire cooking whether it's butchery, pit building, recipes, how-to videos, or anything else I enjoy doing. I work closely with Leroy and Lewis BBQ in Austin, Texas and have bBased in US

How does Chuds BBQ perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 41% of all views, so the median upload (42K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

42K
median views
10×
top vs median
15%
hit rate (2×+)
41%
views from top 10%

What is Chuds BBQ's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Smoked Texas Style Turkey Breast on a Weber Kettle! | Chuds BBQ" at 419K views - 10× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Smoked Texas Style Turkey Breast on a Weber Kettle! | Chuds BBQ419K
Some Very Tasty BBQ Ribs! | Chuds BBQ271K
Smoked Pork Belly on the Weber Kettle | Chuds BBQ196K

Which titles work best for Chuds BBQ - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Smoked Texas Style Turkey Breast on a Weber Kettle! | Chuds BBQ419K
Some Very Tasty BBQ Ribs! | Chuds BBQ271K
Smoked Pork Belly on the Weber Kettle | Chuds BBQ196K
BBQ Italian Beef! | Chuds BBQ187K
The Best Steak I've Ever Had. | Chuds BBQ142K
How to Make Breakfast Sausage | Chuds BBQ101K
African BBQ Chicken! | Chuds BBQ79K
I Cooked this Brisket in Under 5 Hours! | Chuds BBQ78K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Beef Fat Flour Tortillas!9K
Is Trimming Ribs Really Necessary? | Chuds BBQ6K
Quick & Easy BBQ Sauce!6K
Quick & Cheap BBQ Sandwich! | Chuds BBQ5K
Hawaiian BBQ Chicken! | Chuds BBQ5K
Smoked Pork Belly!4K
Freshly Caught Po Boys! ... & More! | Chuds BBQ4K
Quick & Easy Pickles! #bbq3K

The title patterns that win here

  • Words that show up in winners, not flops: weber kettle chuds.
  • Its winning titles run about 9 words; the ones that flop run 6. It gets away with longer, more descriptive titles.

What keywords does Chuds BBQ rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: bbq, chuds, smoked, weber, kettle, texas, style, turkey. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Chuds BBQ post, and when?

Chuds BBQ publishes about 2.1 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Thu, Tue, Mon, and thin out on Fri. The single best-performing slot is Thu around 13:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
0
Mon
6K
Tue
310K
Wed
0
Thu
326K
Fri
3K
Sat
0

How long are Chuds BBQ's videos?

Typical uploads run about 17 minutes. Broken down by length, its 5-10 min videos perform best (196K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
6K
5-10m
196K
10-20m
42K
20m+
44K

How does Chuds BBQ compare to other cooking channels?

At 42K median views, Chuds BBQ runs above the typical cooking channel we track (22K). It is outperforming its niche.

Chuds BBQ'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, Chuds BBQ pulls roughly 378K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $378-$2K a month in ad revenue (about $5K-$18K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Chuds BBQ make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 5-10 min format, ship on Thu, and build titles around its proven words (weber, kettle, chuds). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 42K views.

Chuds BBQ stats at a glance

Subscribers472K
Total views73M
Videos published608
Average views / video120K
Engagement rate7.7%
Uploads per week2.1
Typical length17 min
On YouTube since2007 (19 yrs)

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