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Collard Valley Cooks - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 14-min uploads · 622K subscribers · started 2017 · ~3.8/week
Est. ad revenue$211–$843/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 49 public uploads. One of the cooking youtube channels we track. Visit Collard Valley Cooks on YouTube →

In Collard Valley Cooks's own words
Welcome to Collard Valley Cooks! If you love real country cooking and old-fashioned Southern hospitality, you've come to the right place. I'm here to show you that anyone can cook delicious, comforting meals right in their own kitchen. From our famous High Rise 2 Ingredient Biscuits to award-winning casseroles and crisBased in US

Collard Valley Cooks's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 86% of all views, so the median upload (9K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

9K
median views
290×
top vs median
33%
hit rate (2×+)
86%
views from top 10%

What is Collard Valley Cooks's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Granny's Green Beans - Add Oil and Sugar to Canned Beans - Tastes Like Granny Made Them!" at 2.5M views - 290× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Granny's Green Beans - Add Oil and Sugar to Canned Beans - Tastes Like Granny Made Them!2.5M
10 Minute Peanut Brittle - Old Fashioned Southern Recipes Made Easy903K
How to Make Macaroni Salad - Cream Cheese is my Secret - Old Fashioned Southern Cooking237K

Which titles work best for Collard Valley 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
Granny's Green Beans - Add Oil and Sugar to Canned Beans - Tastes Like Granny Made Them!2.5M
10 Minute Peanut Brittle - Old Fashioned Southern Recipes Made Easy903K
How to Make Macaroni Salad - Cream Cheese is my Secret - Old Fashioned Southern Cooking237K
Lunchroom Peanut Butter Bars - Best Old Fashioned Southern Cooking222K
10 Minute Potato Soup Recipe Beats Every Restaurant Version143K
1970s Watergate Salad Recipe - Old-Fashioned Recipes - Recipes from the Past103K
Chewy Peanut Butter Bars - Old School Lunchroom Favorite - Mama's Southern Recipes49K
How to Make Cherry Cream Cheese Jello Salad - Church Cookbook Recipe49K
2 Ingredient Biscuits Anyone Can Make42K
Best Chicken and Dumplings with Rotisserie Chicken Broth32K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Our Story Like You've NEVER Seen It Before! 🎶4K
Secret Spaghetti Meat Sauce Recipe - The BEST3K
Creamy Sausage Gravy Served over a Hoe Cake - My New Hair Cut1K
Mama's "Secret" Fresh Coconut Cake Without an Oven?1K
How to Make the BEST Chicken Salad1K
How To Make a Southern Corn Cake 👵 Southern Cooking at its Best1K
In Memory of Mrs. Thrasher - Sunshine on a Plate Cake939
Why This Southern Carrot Cake Is a Family Reunion Favorite546
You Won't Believe What's Inside This Ace Hardware - A Boutique Inside?423
How to Make Homemade Cream Puffs 👵 Easy Choux Pastry - Southern Baking414

The title patterns that win here

  • Words that show up in winners, not flops: old peanut fashioned minute cheese lunchroom.
  • Numbers pull the click here: 40% of its winners use one ("3-ingredient", "in 10 minutes") vs 0% of its flops.
  • Its winning titles run about 12 words; the ones that flop run 11. It gets away with longer, more descriptive titles.

What keywords does Collard Valley Cooks rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: green, like, granny's, beans, add, oil, sugar, canned. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Collard Valley Cooks post, and when?

Collard Valley Cooks publishes about 3.8 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Sun, Sat, Wed, and thin out on Thu. The single best-performing slot is Sun around 22:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
51K
Mon
29K
Tue
6K
Wed
29K
Thu
546
Fri
20K
Sat
45K

How long are Collard Valley Cooks's videos?

Typical uploads run about 14 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (18K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
18K
5-10m
2.5M
10-20m
8K
20m+
14K

How does Collard Valley Cooks compare to other cooking channels?

At 9K median views, Collard Valley Cooks sits below the typical cooking channel we track (22K) - there is headroom.

What is Collard Valley 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, Collard Valley Cooks pulls roughly 140K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $140-$558 a month in ad revenue (about $2K-$7K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Collard Valley Cooks make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Sun, and build titles around its proven words (old, peanut, fashioned). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 9K views.

Collard Valley Cooks stats at a glance

Subscribers622K
Total views91M
Videos published1K
Average views / video81K
Engagement rate10.7%
Uploads per week3.8
Typical length14 min
On YouTube since2017 (9 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for Collard Valley Cooks, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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