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The Cooking Foodie - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 3-min uploads · 3.3M subscribers · started 2017 · ~6.6/week
Est. ad revenue$4K–$16K/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 102 public uploads. One of the best cooking youtube channels we track. Visit The Cooking Foodie on YouTube →

In The Cooking Foodie's own words
Hello and Welcome to my channel, I am the cooking foodie and here you can find many different recipes. Healthy recipes, desserts, dinner, lunch and breakfast recipes. Feel free to ask any question and share with me recipes you have tried.

The Cooking Foodie's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 75% of all views, so the median upload (91K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

91K
median views
147.6×
top vs median
35%
hit rate (2×+)
75%
views from top 10%

What is The Cooking Foodie's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Macaroni and Cheese Recipe | How to Make Mac and Cheese" at 13M views - 147.6× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Macaroni and Cheese Recipe | How to Make Mac and Cheese13M
Easy Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe (Only 3-Ingredients)12M
Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe10M

Which titles work best for The Cooking Foodie - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Macaroni and Cheese Recipe | How to Make Mac and Cheese13M
Easy Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe (Only 3-Ingredients)12M
Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe10M
7 Easy Homemade Ice Cream Recipes (No Ice Cream Machine)8.4M
9 Egg Recipes for Breakfast6.9M
Easy Homemade Oreo Ice Cream Recipe6.5M
Quick and Easy Chicken Curry Recipe6.5M
How to Make a Quiche - 4 Easy Recipes6.0M
Spinach and cheese Quiche Recipe4.6M
Lemon Tart Recipe4.3M

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Easy Nutella Cheesecake | No-Bake, No Gelatin (Super Creamy)6K
Easy Baked Panko Crusted Cod Recipe | Lemon Parmesan Crusted Cod6K
Healthy Cottage Cheese Zucchini Bread (High Protein & So Moist!)5K
Mediterranean Stuffed Peppers | The Best Version Ever5K
This Crunchy Celery & Cucumber Salad Is Surprisingly Addictive | Healthy and Easy5K
Easy Number Cake Recipe for Birthdays | Letter Cake | Cream Tart5K
The BEST Homemade Harissa (Better Than Store-Bought!)3K
Viral Dot Cake Recipe | The Sprinkle Cakes Everyone's Obsessed With3K
Juicy Oven Baked Chicken Skewers (No Grill Needed!) | Chicken Kabobs in the Oven3K
Tuna Caesar Salad with Homemade Dressing3K

The title patterns that win here

  • Numbers pull the click here: 29% of its winners use one ("3-ingredient", "in 10 minutes") vs 10% of its flops.
  • Its winning titles run about 6 words; the ones that flop run 11. Shorter and sharper wins here.

What keywords does The Cooking Foodie rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: cream, ice, homemade, chocolate, cheese, macaroni, mac, only. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does The Cooking Foodie post, and when?

The Cooking Foodie publishes about 6.6 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Tue, Fri, Mon, and thin out on Wed. The single best-performing slot is Tue around 12:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
2K
Mon
21K
Tue
142K
Wed
2K
Thu
16K
Fri
35K
Sat
2K

How long are The Cooking Foodie's videos?

Typical uploads run about 3 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (296K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
72K
5-10m
114K
10-20m
296K
20m+
35K

How does The Cooking Foodie compare to other cooking channels?

At 91K median views, The Cooking Foodie runs above the typical cooking channel we track (22K). It is outperforming its niche.

What is The Cooking Foodie'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, The Cooking Foodie pulls roughly 2.6M long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $3K-$10K a month in ad revenue (about $31K-$124K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like The Cooking Foodie make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Tue, and build titles around its proven words. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 91K views.

The Cooking Foodie stats at a glance

Subscribers3.3M
Total views541M
Videos published1K
Average views / video452K
Engagement rate2.1%
Uploads per week6.6
Typical length3 min
On YouTube since2017 (9 yrs)

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

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