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Tangerine Travels - what's actually working, and what isn't

Travel · 16-min uploads · 295K subscribers · started 2018 · ~0.9/week
Est. ad revenue$544–$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 180 most recent of 546 long-form uploads. One of the travel YouTube channels we track. Visit Tangerine Travels on YouTube →

In Tangerine Travels's own words
We're Jordan and May, an American/Mexican couple living in Mexico with our dog Laska. We're making videos about our life here in Querétaro, México as well as videos about our travels around the country. Tangerine Travels is a combination of Mexico travel vlogs, travel tips, videos about living in...Based in US

How does Tangerine Travels perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 46% of all views and its biggest is 28× the median, so the median upload (93K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

93K
median views
28×
top vs median
23%
hit rate (2×+)
46%
views from top 10%

What is Tangerine Travels's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "My HUGE MEXICO HOME is the price of a SHACK in CALIFORNIA" at 2.6M views - 28× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
My HUGE MEXICO HOME is the price of a SHACK in CALIFORNIA2.6M
LAS VEGAS - 60% Chance She's A SEX WORKER (+ MORE TIPS for Newbies)2.0M
The DARK TRUTH about why AMERICANS LEAVE MEXICO1.2M

Which titles work best for Tangerine Travels - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
My HUGE MEXICO HOME is the price of a SHACK in CALIFORNIA2.6M
LAS VEGAS - 60% Chance She's A SEX WORKER (+ MORE TIPS for Newbies)2.0M
The DARK TRUTH about why AMERICANS LEAVE MEXICO1.2M
This LUXURY MEXICO HOME is the price of a SHACK in CALIFORNIA911K
5 LAS VEGAS SHOWS that are a WASTE OF MONEY731K
7 REASONS WHY WE'D NEVER LIVE IN THE MEXICO CARIBBEAN AGAIN682K
Mexico Residency in 2024 - THIS CAN'T BE REAL660K
Why we broke up...656K
4 PATHETIC Luxury Hotels in LAS VEGAS558K
21 Things NOT to do in CANCUN MEXICO539K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
THIS will MAKE YOU ANGRY in LAS VEGAS51K
Americans in OAXACA, MEXICO in 202151K
SHOCKING COST OF LIVING - Mexico vs USA in 202450K
THIS PLACE IS STRAIGHT OUT OF A FAIRY TALE48K
HOW MUCH HOME can you get FOR YOUR MONEY in Mexico?47K
BEST and WORST HOTELS in LAS VEGAS45K
Small Town MEXICO has SO MUCH TO OFFER!45K
Best ways to GET PESOS for your MEXICO TRIP - Avoid costly TOURIST TRAPS & Save $100s44K
10 AWESOME Places to Visit in MEXICO43K
MEXICO REAL ESTATE MYTH BUSTING43K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 180 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 - Tangerine Travels
Speaks to "you"16% of videos
-36%
Best / top / worst / ultimate6% of videos
+30%
Starts How / Why / What16% of videos
+26%
An ALL-CAPS word89% of videos
-23%
Has a number28% of videos
+15%
The title formula for Tangerine Travels

Lean on best / top / worst / ultimate and starts how / why / what - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on speaks to "you".

Surprise: speaks to "you" costs this channel 36% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Tangerine Travels rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: las vegas, mexico home, home price, price shack, shack california, huge mexico, truth americans, americans leave. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Tangerine Travels post, and when?

Tangerine Travels publishes about 0.9 videos a week, most often on Tue.

Views by day of week
Sun
0
Mon
6
Tue
54
Wed
54
Thu
49
Fri
17
Sat
0

How long are Tangerine Travels's videos?

Typical uploads run about 16 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (119K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
119K
10-20 min
85K
5-10 min
62K
under 5 min
22K

How does Tangerine Travels compare to other travel channels?

At 93K median views, Tangerine Travels runs above the typical travel channel we track (38K). It is outperforming its niche.

Tangerine Travels'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, Tangerine Travels pulls roughly 360K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $360-$1,440 a month in ad revenue (about $4,319-$17,276 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 Tangerine Travels make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Tue. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 93K views.

Tangerine Travels stats at a glance

Subscribers295K
Total views64M
Videos published546
Avg views (of 180 analyzed)169K
Uploads per week0.9
Typical length16 min
On YouTube since2018 (8 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for Tangerine Travels, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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