Darius Cooks - what's actually working, and what isn't

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 235 public uploads. One of the recipe youtube channels we track. Visit Darius Cooks on YouTube →

How does Darius Cooks perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 60% of all views, so the median upload (14K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

What is Darius Cooks's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "I made black people spaghetti. The recipe is up on the blog." at 874K views - 63.4× the channel median. The other top performers:

Which titles work best for Darius Cooks - and which flop?

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

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

The title patterns that win here

• Words that show up in winners, not flops: blog some.
• Its winning titles run about 11 words; the ones that flop run 6. It gets away with longer, more descriptive titles.

What keywords does Darius Cooks rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: blog, case, save, need, some, salad, spaghetti, black. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Darius Cooks post, and when?

Darius Cooks publishes about 9.2 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Tue, Fri, Sun, and thin out on Mon. The single best-performing slot is Tue around 21:00.

How long are Darius Cooks's videos?

Typical uploads run about 4 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (29K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

How does Darius Cooks compare to other cooking channels?

At 14K median views, Darius Cooks sits below the typical cooking channel we track (22K) - there is headroom.

Darius Cooks'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, Darius Cooks pulls roughly 545K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $545-$2K a month in ad revenue (about $7K-$26K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Darius Cooks make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Tue, and build titles around its proven words (blog, some). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 14K views.

Darius Cooks stats at a glance

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