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Michael Jay - Value Investing - what's actually working, and what isn't

Finance · 16-min uploads · 69K subscribers · started 2017 · ~0.2/week
Est. ad revenue$25–$99/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 72 long-form uploads. One of the finance YouTube channels we track. Visit Michael Jay - Value Investing on YouTube →

Michael Jay - Value Investing's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 47% of all views and its biggest is 15.9× the median, so the median upload (19K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

19K
median views
15.9×
top vs median
32%
hit rate (2×+)
47%
views from top 10%

What is Michael Jay - Value Investing's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Create Your Own Stock Tracker: Beginner Google Sheets Tutorial" at 302K views - 15.9× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Create Your Own Stock Tracker: Beginner Google Sheets Tutorial302K
Michael Burry Predicted the Financial Crisis. This is His Stock Portfolio Now285K
Michael Burry Predicts Another Market Crash. The Index Fund Bubble Explained.228K

Which titles work best for Michael Jay - Value Investing - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Create Your Own Stock Tracker: Beginner Google Sheets Tutorial302K
Michael Burry Predicted the Financial Crisis. This is His Stock Portfolio Now285K
Michael Burry Predicts Another Market Crash. The Index Fund Bubble Explained.228K
Ray Dalio Just Made a Dire Stock Market Prediction. This is His Portfolio Now.197K
Ray Dalio's All Weather Portfolio: How To Properly Diversify Your Investments And Lower Risk172K
How to Invest in Bonds for Beginners | Bonds 101166K
Stock Portfolio Tracker - Google Sheets Spreadsheet Tutorial (Step-by-Step with Code)162K
Forget the Big Short, Michael Burry Just Went All-In on the BIG LONG. This is His Portfolio Now.145K
Peter Lynch: How To Deal With a Falling Stock (Explained)140K
Michael Burry Just Bet EVERYTHING on These 7 Stocks. This is His Portfolio Now.129K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
My 3 Step Plan to Protect My Investments from Inflation6K
Robinhood Is Selling Your Data to High Frequency Traders | What Should You Do?6K
How to Pick Your First Stock (Stock Market for Beginners)6K
Peter Lynch: How To Deal With Stock Volatility (Explained)5K
Should You Invest or Pay Off Debt? (Full Analysis with Google Sheets Calculator)5K
Tax-Efficient Fund Placement: STOP Paying Unnecessary Taxes and Increase Your Investment Returns4K
Stock Buybacks, Explained (and why many share buybacks are bad for long term investors)4K
Top 10 Cognitive Biases That Cause Investment Mistakes4K
Will The Federal Reserve Cause The Next Stock Market Crash?3K
3 Stock Market Risks You Need To Know3K

The words that win for Michael Jay - Value Investing

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: portfolio his burry ray dalio tutorial.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 72 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 - Michael Jay - Value Investing
An ALL-CAPS word17% of videos
+250%
Asks a question18% of videos
-50%
Speaks to "you"19% of videos
-50%
Has a number32% of videos
-45%
Uses (brackets)21% of videos
-40%
Best / top / worst / ultimate7% of videos
-32%
The title formula for Michael Jay - Value Investing

Lean on an all-caps word - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on asks a question.

Surprise: asks a question costs this channel 50% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Michael Jay - Value Investing rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: stock portfolio, ray dalio, google sheets, his portfolio, his stock, create own, own stock, beginner google. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Michael Jay - Value Investing post, and when?

Michael Jay - Value Investing publishes about 0.2 videos a week, most often on Sat.

Views by day of week
Sun
22
Mon
10
Tue
0
Wed
1
Thu
3
Fri
6
Sat
30

How long are Michael Jay - Value Investing's videos?

Typical uploads run about 16 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (26K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
26K
10-20 min
17K
5-10 min
6K

How does Michael Jay - Value Investing compare to other finance channels?

At 19K median views, Michael Jay - Value Investing runs above the typical finance channel we track (12K). It is outperforming its niche.

What is Michael Jay - Value Investing's net worth and estimated 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, Michael Jay - Value Investing pulls roughly 16K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $16-$65 a month in ad revenue (about $196-$784 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 Michael Jay - Value Investing make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Sat, and build titles around its proven words (portfolio, his, burry). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 19K views.

Michael Jay - Value Investing stats at a glance

Subscribers69K
Total views3.6M
Videos published72
Avg views (of 72 analyzed)49K
Uploads per week0.2
Typical length16 min
On YouTube since2017 (9 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for Michael Jay - Value Investing, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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