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Meat Church BBQ - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 11-min uploads · 1.2M subscribers · started 2013 · ~1.2/week
Est. ad revenue$1K–$5K/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 141 public uploads. One of the cooking youtube channels we track. Visit Meat Church BBQ on YouTube →

In Meat Church BBQ's own words
Meat Church was founded by pitmaster and CEO Matt Pittman. Matt is an expert and respected authority on outdoor cooking. Students travel from around the world to attend BBQ schools in his private outdoor kitchen. Meat Church is about bringing people together to make great memories around good food. Our goal is to get eBased in US

What are Meat Church BBQ's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 46% of all views, so the median upload (161K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

161K
median views
27.7×
top vs median
16%
hit rate (2×+)
46%
views from top 10%

What is Meat Church BBQ's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Smoked Shotgun Shells" at 4.5M views - 27.7× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Smoked Shotgun Shells4.5M
Delicious St Louis Cut Pork Ribs1.9M
Mexican Grilled Chicken - My New Fav Sandwich!1.0M

Which titles work best for Meat Church BBQ - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Smoked Shotgun Shells4.5M
Delicious St Louis Cut Pork Ribs1.9M
Mexican Grilled Chicken - My New Fav Sandwich!1.0M
Texas Style Spare Ribs1.0M
Smoking Tri Tip Like a Brisket Is a Total Game Changer999K
How To Make Juicy Beer Brats!948K
How To Smoke The Juiciest Turkey Ever816K
Craving Burnt Ends? Try This Budget-Friendly Recipe726K
Delicious Party Ribs in 2 hours!654K
Secrets revealed to make Dayne's Craft Barbecue famous Burger!605K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
The biggest Meat Church Party ever!58K
Smoked Turkey Tetrazzini57K
How to boil Crawfish! I made 500 POUNDS for the Dallas Cowboys!57K
How My Brother Watched My Side Hustle Become My Legacy56K
These might be the best fish tacos you'll ever grill!52K
Robert Earl Keen & I cook for Texas Independence Day! #meatchurch #texasindependenceday46K
BBQ & Music at Lone Star Smokeout!42K
Trisket Technique: Why Pitmasters Love This Trick37K
Meat Tweets Ep 5 | Matt Answers to Viewer Comments35K
We Fed a College Football Team Texas BBQ and THIS Happened!32K

The title patterns that win here

  • Its winning titles run about 8 words; the ones that flop run 10. Shorter and sharper wins here.

What keywords does Meat Church BBQ rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: smoked, ribs, delicious, shotgun, shells, pork, chicken, bbq. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Meat Church BBQ post, and when?

Meat Church BBQ publishes about 1.2 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Wed, Sun, Sat, and thin out on Fri. The single best-performing slot is Wed around 15:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
350K
Mon
85K
Tue
127K
Wed
24M
Thu
0
Fri
35K
Sat
205K

How long are Meat Church BBQ's videos?

Typical uploads run about 11 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (186K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
28K
5-10m
173K
10-20m
186K
20m+
73K

How does Meat Church BBQ compare to other cooking channels?

At 161K median views, Meat Church BBQ runs above the typical cooking channel we track (22K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much money does Meat Church BBQ 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, Meat Church BBQ pulls roughly 832K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $832-$3K a month in ad revenue (about $10K-$40K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Meat Church BBQ make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Wed, and build titles around its proven words. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 161K views.

Meat Church BBQ stats at a glance

Subscribers1.2M
Total views136M
Videos published414
Average views / video328K
Engagement rate4.1%
Uploads per week1.2
Typical length11 min
On YouTube since2013 (13 yrs)

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