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Great Art Explained - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 17-min uploads · 1.9M subscribers · started 2020 · ~0.2/week
Est. ad revenue$486–$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 71 most recent of 88 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit Great Art Explained on YouTube →

In Great Art Explained's own words
I'm James Payne, a curator, gallerist, and a passionate art lover. I am on a mission to demystify the art world and discover the stories behind the world's greatest paintings and sculptures. Each episode will focus on one piece of art and break it down, using clear and concise language free of...Based in GB

What are Great Art Explained's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 46% of all views and its biggest is 12.8× the median, so the median upload (374K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

374K
median views
12.8×
top vs median
31%
hit rate (2×+)
46%
views from top 10%

What is Great Art Explained's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained" at 4.8M views - 12.8× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained4.8M
Mona Lisa (short version)i: Great Art Explained4.7M
The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained4.4M

Which titles work best for Great Art Explained - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained4.8M
Mona Lisa (short version)i: Great Art Explained4.7M
The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained4.4M
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Full Length): Great Art Explained3.7M
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained3.6M
Mona Lisa (Full Length): Great Art Explained2.3M
Jean-Michel Basquiat': Great Art Explained2.0M
Salvador Dali: Great Art Explained1.9M
Monet's Water Lilies: Great Art Explained1.8M
Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas': Great Art Explained1.8M

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
The Father of Impressionism: Édouard Manet: Great Art Explained:184K
Caravaggio, Bernini and Pozzo: Great Art Cities: Rome171K
Hunters in the Snow: Pieter Bruegel: Great art Explained166K
Venice Special (Biennale): Great Art Cities Explained:165K
Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan by Ilya Repin: Great Art Explained164K
Vincent van Gogh's Potato Eaters: Great Art Explained162K
Art as Propaganda: Great Art Explained: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David151K
José Maria Velasco: Great Art Explained148K
Jackson Pollock Part Two: Fame, Death, and the CIA145K
Great Art Explained: Man Ray143K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 71 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - Great Art Explained
Uses (brackets)17% of videos
+48%
The title formula for Great Art Explained

Lean on uses (brackets) - they lift views the most on this channel.

What keywords does Great Art Explained rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: mona lisa, length art, hieronymus bosch, bosch garden, garden earthly, earthly delights, edward hopper, gustav klimt. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Great Art Explained post, and when?

Great Art Explained publishes about 0.2 videos a week, most often on Mon.

Views by day of week
Sun
7
Mon
15
Tue
14
Wed
10
Thu
13
Fri
12
Sat
0

How long are Great Art Explained's videos?

Typical uploads run about 17 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (460K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
460K
20 min+
312K

How does Great Art Explained compare to other education channels?

At 374K median views, Great Art Explained runs above the typical education channel we track (23K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much money does Great Art Explained 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, Great Art Explained pulls roughly 322K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $322-$1,287 a month in ad revenue (about $3,860-$15,439 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 Great Art Explained make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Mon. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 374K views.

Great Art Explained stats at a glance

Subscribers1.9M
Total views61M
Videos published88
Avg views (of 71 analyzed)832K
Uploads per week0.2
Typical length17 min
On YouTube since2020 (6 yrs)

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