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Lets Play Thru - what's actually working, and what isn't

Gaming · 17-min uploads · 139K subscribers · started 2019 · ~3.5/week
Est. ad revenue$500–$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 182 most recent of 1K long-form uploads. One of the gaming YouTube channels we track. Visit Lets Play Thru on YouTube →

In Lets Play Thru's own words
HEY GOLF PEOPLE, I'm Gabe, I love golf technology and I'm constantly searching for the perfect golf clubs. I'll take you on course with me as I walk you thru my honest reviews from a mere mortal. If you're more of an average, everyday golfer, and you're looking for someone you can relate to who...Based in US

How does Lets Play Thru perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 43% of all views and its biggest is 40.5× the median, so the median upload (22K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

22K
median views
40.5×
top vs median
19%
hit rate (2×+)
43%
views from top 10%

What is Lets Play Thru's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "How Far Have Irons Come in 40 Years? SHOCKING RESULTS!" at 891K views - 40.5× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
How Far Have Irons Come in 40 Years? SHOCKING RESULTS!891K
Best Game Improvement Irons of 2025239K
I Tried Every Garmin Golf Watch - One is Perfect!177K

Which titles work best for Lets Play Thru - 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 Far Have Irons Come in 40 Years? SHOCKING RESULTS!891K
Best Game Improvement Irons of 2025239K
I Tried Every Garmin Golf Watch - One is Perfect!177K
I Bought EVERYTHING Golf at Costco 2026!166K
New Garmin Handheld is a CHEAT CODE to Better Golf132K
The Best Drivers of 2026...Ranked!104K
The Most Underrated Launch Monitor of 2025?97K
I Tried Every New Bushnell Rangefinder94K
Golf Launch Monitor Tier List 202592K
How I'd Build a Dream Golf Simulator from Scratch82K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
New Drivers are TOO Expensive, But Not This One!10K
Is This the TRUE Adams Tight Lies Successor?!10K
I COULDN'T STOP DUNKING These Wedges!10K
There's a BIG SURPRISE Inside This Box!9K
Is This the WILDEST Putter Design of 2026?!9K
Can This Club REPLACE YOUR ENTIRE BAG?9K
Can these wedges CRUSH THE BIG BRANDS?8K
FINALLY a PERFECT PUTTER from L.A.B.?8K
This Crazy Shape will CURE YOUR PUTTING?!8K
Best Golf Tech of 20258K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 182 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 - Lets Play Thru
Includes a year12% of videos
+110%
Has a number26% of videos
+83%
Best / top / worst / ultimate18% of videos
+68%
Starts How / Why / What5% of videos
+67%
Short title (≤6 words)23% of videos
-29%
Speaks to "you"10% of videos
-27%
The title formula for Lets Play Thru

Lean on includes a year and has a number - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on short title (≤6 words).

short title (≤6 words) drags views 29% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does Lets Play Thru rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: launch monitor, bought everything, everything golf, golf simulator, golf clubs, cheat code, ever tested, zero torque. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Lets Play Thru post, and when?

Lets Play Thru publishes about 3.5 videos a week, most often on Sun.

Views by day of week
Sun
71
Mon
19
Tue
21
Wed
14
Thu
24
Fri
12
Sat
21

How long are Lets Play Thru's videos?

Typical uploads run about 17 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (30K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
30K
10-20 min
20K
5-10 min
13K

How does Lets Play Thru compare to other gaming channels?

At 22K median views, Lets Play Thru sits below the typical gaming channel we track (76K) - there is headroom.

Lets Play Thru'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, Lets Play Thru pulls roughly 331K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $331-$1,324 a month in ad revenue (about $3,973-$15,893 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 Lets Play Thru make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Sun. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 22K views.

Lets Play Thru stats at a glance

Subscribers139K
Total views53M
Videos published1K
Avg views (of 182 analyzed)34K
Engagement rate11.4%
Uploads per week3.5
Typical length17 min
On YouTube since2019 (7 yrs)

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