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Kristin's Friends Cooking - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 8-min uploads · 217K subscribers · started 2022 · ~5.7/week
Est. ad revenue$800–$3K/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 69 public uploads. One of the recipe youtube channels we track. Visit Kristin's Friends Cooking on YouTube →

In Kristin's Friends Cooking's own words
Hey, friend - welcome to the chaos. I'm Kristin, and this channel is where comfort food meets real life. Think: quick recipes that actually work, feel-good vibes, unfiltered laughs, and occasional cat cameos (okay, constant cat cameos). I share my kitchen, my home, my husband, my chickens - and all the beautifully messBased in US

How does Kristin's Friends Cooking perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 57% of all views, so the median upload (22K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

22K
median views
44×
top vs median
23%
hit rate (2×+)
57%
views from top 10%

What is Kristin's Friends Cooking's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Easy crockpot dinner!" at 951K views - 44× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Easy crockpot dinner!951K
I Made These For A Cookout and Nobody Could Stop Eating Them235K
I Made This For A Cookout And Someone Cried When It Was Gone 😂170K

Which titles work best for Kristin's Friends Cooking - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Easy crockpot dinner!951K
I Made These For A Cookout and Nobody Could Stop Eating Them235K
I Made This For A Cookout And Someone Cried When It Was Gone 😂170K
My Husband Has Requested This Every Single Week Since I Made It 🌮114K
Copycat Restaurant Recipes Live - Watch With Me113K
Everyone At The Party Asked Me For This Recipe Before They Left 🍝99K
Crockpot shrimp scampi!94K
I Swapped Rice Krispies for Ritz Crackers and I'll Never Go Back81K
This Crockpot Taco Lasagna Is Out of Control74K
The Best Strawberry Desserts For Summer, Live!73K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
This Dinner Has No Business Being This Easy And This Good571
This Crockpot Dinner Has No Business Looking This Good And Tasting Even Better 🍝538
I Copied A Famous Restaurant Recipe And It Turned Out Better Than The Original 🥔533
I Made This Once And Now Taco Bell Doesn't Stand A Chance 🌮518
This Is The Dessert I Make When I Really Want To Impress Someone 🍫491
This Recipe Has Been All Over the Internet and I Finally Made It483
I Made Something At Home That Made Me Never Want To Go To This Restaurant Again 🦐473
This Easy Dessert Has No Business Tasting This Good 🍪470
I Made A Pot Roast So Good My Family Finished It Before I Could Even Sit Down 🥩441
This Is The Breakfast Hack That Changed My Entire Morning Routine435

The title patterns that win here

  • Its winning titles run about 12 words; the ones that flop run 14. Shorter and sharper wins here.

What keywords does Kristin's Friends Cooking rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: crockpot, dinner, cookout, nobody, these, live, was, could. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Kristin's Friends Cooking post, and when?

Kristin's Friends Cooking publishes about 5.7 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Fri, Sun, Thu, and thin out on Wed. The single best-performing slot is Fri around 16:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
350K
Mon
213K
Tue
169K
Wed
100K
Thu
250K
Fri
487K
Sat
0

How long are Kristin's Friends Cooking's videos?

Typical uploads run about 8 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (28K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
94K
5-10m
20K
10-20m
25K
20m+
28K

How does Kristin's Friends Cooking compare to other cooking channels?

At 22K median views, Kristin's Friends Cooking runs above the typical cooking channel we track (22K). It is outperforming its niche.

Kristin's Friends Cooking'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, Kristin's Friends Cooking pulls roughly 530K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $530-$2K a month in ad revenue (about $6K-$25K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Kristin's Friends Cooking make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Fri, and build titles around its proven words. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 22K views.

Kristin's Friends Cooking stats at a glance

Subscribers217K
Total views73M
Videos published2K
Average views / video45K
Engagement rate7.4%
Uploads per week5.7
Typical length8 min
On YouTube since2022 (4 yrs)

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