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French Cooking Academy - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 13-min uploads · 870K subscribers · started 2014 · ~1.9/week
Est. ad revenue$915–$4K/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 42 public uploads. One of the cooking youtube channels we track. Visit French Cooking Academy on YouTube →

In French Cooking Academy's own words
LEARN CLASSIC FRENCH COOKING WITH MEBased in AU

How many views does French Cooking Academy actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 64% of all views, so the median upload (74K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

74K
median views
44.7×
top vs median
33%
hit rate (2×+)
64%
views from top 10%

What is French Cooking Academy's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "How to prepare, cook and cut Beetroot - French cooking techniques" at 3.3M views - 44.7× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
How to prepare, cook and cut Beetroot - French cooking techniques3.3M
The French Butter Sauce That Elevates Any Fish Dish (Beurre Blanc)1.7M
Chicken Chasseur: Master This Timeless French Recipe.1.3M

Which titles work best for French Cooking Academy - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
How to prepare, cook and cut Beetroot - French cooking techniques3.3M
The French Butter Sauce That Elevates Any Fish Dish (Beurre Blanc)1.7M
Chicken Chasseur: Master This Timeless French Recipe.1.3M
The ULTIMATE French Brown Stock Recipe (Escoffier's Secret) | How To Make Beef Stock From Scratch672K
How to Make Pie Crust by Hand - Great for Pies & Quiches615K
Lautrec style French garlic soup.499K
Cream of mushroom soup (in the style of Auguste Escoffier)489K
Deliciously Simple One Pot Braised Chicken in Mustard Sauce with white Wine416K
Soupe aux Choux ( cabbage and pork soup) : Easy and healthy French soup for winter412K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
The Provence Eggplant Secret You Need to Try15K
Traditional Pâté de Pâques Recipe (Authentic French Easter Pie)15K
How to Cook Fresh Sardines in the Oven (No Smell, 10-Minute Recipe)13K
Easy Passion Fruit Tartlets (Silky Passion Fruit Curd Recipe)8K
The Boozy "Gin Butter" That Will Transform Your Seafood6K
Slow Cooked Lamb in Red Wine with Garlic Toast | French Cooking5K
The World's Richest Mac & Cheese? Trying Paul Bocuse's Macaroni's gratin4K
A 10-Minute French Pasta Side Dish Every Home Cook Should Know3K
The Reason Most Cooks Struggle with Baking (And How to Change That)2K

The title patterns that win here

  • Words that show up in winners, not flops: soup sauce chicken style french.
  • Numbers are not the hook here - its flops lean on them more (22%) than its winners (0%).

What keywords does French Cooking Academy rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: french, prepare, cut, beetroot, techniques, sauce, fish, chicken. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does French Cooking Academy post, and when?

French Cooking Academy publishes about 1.9 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Tue, Fri, Wed, and thin out on Sun. The single best-performing slot is Tue around 13:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
2K
Mon
0
Tue
88K
Wed
5K
Thu
0
Fri
22K
Sat
0

How long are French Cooking Academy's videos?

Typical uploads run about 13 minutes. Broken down by length, its 5-10 min videos perform best (78K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
615K
5-10m
78K
10-20m
44K
20m+
220K

How does French Cooking Academy compare to other cooking channels?

At 74K median views, French Cooking Academy runs above the typical cooking channel we track (22K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much does French Cooking Academy 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, French Cooking Academy pulls roughly 606K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $606-$2K a month in ad revenue (about $7K-$29K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like French Cooking Academy make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 5-10 min format, ship on Tue, and build titles around its proven words (soup, sauce, chicken). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 74K views.

French Cooking Academy stats at a glance

Subscribers870K
Total views69M
Videos published527
Average views / video131K
Engagement rate4.5%
Uploads per week1.9
Typical length13 min
On YouTube since2014 (12 yrs)

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