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EatMee Recipes - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 2-min uploads · 57K subscribers · started 2017 · ~1.1/week
Est. ad revenue$40–$161/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 87 public uploads. One of the best cooking youtube channels we track. Visit EatMee Recipes on YouTube →

In EatMee Recipes's own words
EatMee Recipes was founded by Denisiya Hemraj, a South African food blogger. Every recipe has step by step instructions to make your life easier in the kitchen. (https://eatmeerecipes.co.za) To make things even simpler, we have now started videoing the Recipes provided. Hope you guys enjoy watching our videos...Based in ZA

How many views does EatMee Recipes actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 52% of all views, so the median upload (6K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

6K
median views
58.5×
top vs median
28%
hit rate (2×+)
52%
views from top 10%

What is EatMee Recipes's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Welcome to episode 3 of my pie series - today we are making these creamy chicken and mushroom pies ✨" at 329K views - 58.5× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Welcome to episode 3 of my pie series - today we are making these creamy chicken and mushroom pies ✨329K
These butter chicken pies are sooo good!!! | #food43K
Matilda Chocolate Cake for my husband's birthday ✨42K

Which titles work best for EatMee Recipes - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Welcome to episode 3 of my pie series - today we are making these creamy chicken and mushroom pies ✨329K
These butter chicken pies are sooo good!!! | #food43K
Matilda Chocolate Cake for my husband's birthday ✨42K
Soft Easy Roti Recipe | My Late Grandmother's Foolproof Method | #roti31K
Welcome to my pie series - today we will be making Burger Pies ✨ | #food26K
Spicy Mince Lasagna for your Valentine 💕 | #food24K
I bought it so you don't have to! | #shorts21K
Chicken Neck & Giblets Curry | #food20K
Chicken Peri Peri Pies that bring the heat in every bite! #shorts19K
Layer upon layer of golden joy. Banana Puri also known as Khaja - perfect for your Diwali boxes 🪔19K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
✨ Our tiffin has just arrived ✨ | #food3K
Perfect Marble Loaf Cake Recipe - Soft, Moist & Bakery-Style Chocolate Swirls3K
Comfort in a bowl - rich, warm tomato soup 🍅🥣 | #shorts3K
One-Pot Bibimbap in an Instant Pot Rice Cooker | Easy Korean Rice Bowl Recipe3K
Catch Phrase Clothing Unboxing | Sustainable Fashion & Self-Expression3K
Instant Pot XL Wide Unboxing & First Look | 7-in-1 Multi Cooker3K
South African Sweet Rice Made Easy in an Instant Rice Cooker #recipe2K
Nail rituals with intention ✨ STIKD x Melanie Bala | #shorts2K
Chicken, Spinach & Sundried Tomato Orzo #shorts2K
Inside a South African Artisan Snack Box 😍 | Local Roots Unboxing #southafrica2K

The title patterns that win here

  • Words that show up in winners, not flops: pies pie series today.

What keywords does EatMee Recipes rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: chicken, pies, today, pie, series, welcome, are, these. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does EatMee Recipes post, and when?

EatMee Recipes publishes about 1.1 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Tue, Fri, Mon, and thin out on Sun. The single best-performing slot is Tue around 13:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
24K
Mon
191K
Tue
407K
Wed
87K
Thu
87K
Fri
215K
Sat
66K

How long are EatMee Recipes's videos?

Typical uploads run about 2 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (6K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
6K
5-10m
4K

How does EatMee Recipes compare to other cooking channels?

At 6K median views, EatMee Recipes sits below the typical cooking channel we track (22K) - there is headroom.

How much does EatMee Recipes make? (estimated)

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, EatMee Recipes pulls roughly 27K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $27-$106 a month in ad revenue (about $324-$1K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like EatMee Recipes 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 (pies, pie, series). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 6K views.

EatMee Recipes stats at a glance

Subscribers57K
Total views12M
Videos published882
Average views / video13K
Engagement rate3.3%
Uploads per week1.1
Typical length2 min
On YouTube since2017 (9 yrs)

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