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Gabriel Traveler - what's actually working, and what isn't

Travel · 31-min uploads · 619K subscribers · started 2008 · ~4.3/week
Est. ad revenue$475–$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 that read, from its 180 most recent of 3K long-form uploads. One of the travel YouTube channels we track. Visit Gabriel Traveler on YouTube →

In Gabriel Traveler's own words
Gabriel Traveler (Gabriel Morris) has been wandering around the world for over three decades, visiting six continents and more than ninety countries. He is author of "Following My Thumb", "Gabe's Guide to Budget Travel" and several other books available on Amazon.com. He posts videos regularly...Based in US

What are Gabriel Traveler's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 25% of all views and its biggest is 8× the median, so the median upload (17K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

17K
median views
top vs median
7%
hit rate (2×+)
25%
views from top 10%

What is Gabriel Traveler's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "DAY 4 of the War | Escaping by Land Across the Desert" at 136K views - 8× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
DAY 4 of the War | Escaping by Land Across the Desert136K
DAY 3 of the War | Can the Embassy Help Get Me Out?89K
The Full Story of My Escape Across the Arabian Desert77K

Which titles work best for Gabriel Traveler - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
DAY 4 of the War | Escaping by Land Across the Desert136K
DAY 3 of the War | Can the Embassy Help Get Me Out?89K
The Full Story of My Escape Across the Arabian Desert77K
The Moment of Truth | Will I Get Out of the Middle East?60K
We Crossed the Border Into Oman in the Dead of Night56K
If the Interceptor Missiles Run Out, It's Game Over55K
DAY 6 of the War | An Oasis of Peace in the Chaos54K
What the Heck Happened to TULUM? It's Cheap & Quiet44K
The US Attacked Iran...I'm Stuck in Qatar41K
DAY 2 | Trapped in the Middle East During the War40K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Ko Sichang | The Closest Island to Bangkok, Thailand13K
Thailand Fancy Resort Tour + My $55 Haircut Experience13K
Amazing Places in INDIA That You Never Hear About13K
I Was in India For the End of the World (Twice)13K
How Expensive is Budapest? The Capital of Hungary13K
How Expensive is FRANCE? The Journey to Paris13K
This is Literally Crazy...13K
Do I Ever Just Relax? One Day on the Mexican Riviera13K
Did You Know There Are Nice Beaches in South Korea?13K
$68 Flight Across India to a Mystery City13K

What keywords does Gabriel Traveler rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: middle east, greek island, cape verde, south korea, trapped middle, east during, during war, always good. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Gabriel Traveler post, and when?

Gabriel Traveler publishes about 4.3 videos a week, most often on Tue.

Views by day of week
Sun
27
Mon
21
Tue
37
Wed
29
Thu
30
Fri
17
Sat
19

How long are Gabriel Traveler's videos?

Typical uploads run about 31 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (17K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
17K
20 min+
17K

How does Gabriel Traveler compare to other travel channels?

At 17K median views, Gabriel Traveler sits below the typical travel channel we track (38K) - there is headroom.

How much money does Gabriel Traveler make on YouTube?

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, Gabriel Traveler pulls roughly 314K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $314-$1,257 a month in ad revenue (about $3,772-$15,088 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like Gabriel Traveler make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Tue. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 17K views.

Gabriel Traveler stats at a glance

Subscribers619K
Total views159M
Videos published3K
Avg views (of 180 analyzed)21K
Uploads per week4.3
Typical length31 min
On YouTube since2008 (18 yrs)

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