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Travel With Chef - what's actually working, and what isn't

Cooking · 7-min uploads · 282K subscribers · started 2019 · ~0.8/week
Est. ad revenue$20–$78/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 136 public uploads. One of the best cooking youtube channels we track. Visit Travel With Chef on YouTube →

In Travel With Chef's own words
Travel with Chef aims to teach an easy, healthier way to cook traditional Sri-Lankan foods that avoids the use of unnatural flavour enhancers and chemicals. We seek to explore and bring together global cuisines of the world to Sri-Lankan's and other Asian cultures. Hosted by Desha Paranavithana, a qualified-chef with 2Based in AU

What are Travel With Chef's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 46% of all views, so the median upload (4K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

4K
median views
28×
top vs median
36%
hit rate (2×+)
46%
views from top 10%

What is Travel With Chef's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "වම්බටු හදන පහසුම සහ රසම ක්රමය. How to Make Tempered Eggplant" at 106K views - 28× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
වම්බටු හදන පහසුම සහ රසම ක්රමය. How to Make Tempered Eggplant106K
How to make sri lankan tempered potato? අල තෙල්දන පහසුම විදිය.62K
කිරි හොදි රසට සුවදට හදන පහසු ක්රමය. How to make Kiri Hodi59K

Which titles work best for Travel With Chef - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
වම්බටු හදන පහසුම සහ රසම ක්රමය. How to Make Tempered Eggplant106K
How to make sri lankan tempered potato? අල තෙල්දන පහසුම විදිය.62K
කිරි හොදි රසට සුවදට හදන පහසු ක්රමය. How to make Kiri Hodi59K
නෝකෝල් කරිය රසට හදමු. How to make Knol Khol Curry.50K
චිකන් ගිසාඩ් රසට හදමු. HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN GIZZARD47K
How to make Devilled Cuttlefish. දැල්ලො ඩෙවල් රසට හදමු.42K
How to make a Stingray fish curry. මඩු මාළු කරිය රසට හදමු.38K
How to make a Carrot Curry. කැරට් කරියක් රසට හදමු.37K
How to make Sri Lankan Beans Curry. බෝංචි කිරට හදමු.33K
කේල් මැල්ලුමක් රසට හදමු. How to make a Kale Mallum.31K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
How to make young jackfruit mallum. පොලොස් මැල්ලුමක් රසට හදමු.1K
How to make a potato leeks soup. අල සහ ලීක්ස් සුප් එකක් හදමු1K
How to cut leeks finely1K
cutting cauliflower1K
Chinese fried rice | Chef Desha | චයිනීස් ෆ්රයිඩ් රයිස් රසට හදමු878
How to make kale Omelet #food #travel695
Travel with Chef - Mt Donna Buang Adventure/Rain forest Melbourne678
Vegetable nasi goreng | එළවලු නාසි ගොරෙන් රසට හදමු.676
Vegetable fried rice | එළවලු ෆ්රයිඩ් රියිස් රසට හදමු.666
Egg sweet corn soup | එග් සුවිට් කෝන් සුප් රසට හදමු597

The title patterns that win here

  • Words that show up in winners, not flops: curry sri lankan.
  • Its winning titles run about 10 words; the ones that flop run 9. It gets away with longer, more descriptive titles.

What keywords does Travel With Chef rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: curry, sri, lankan, tempered, rice, eggplant, fish, chicken. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Travel With Chef post, and when?

Travel With Chef publishes about 0.8 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Fri, Tue, Wed, and thin out on Thu. The single best-performing slot is Fri around 7:00.

Views by day of week
Sun
15K
Mon
18K
Tue
476K
Wed
77K
Thu
7K
Fri
678K
Sat
66K

How long are Travel With Chef's videos?

Typical uploads run about 7 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (5K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5m
3K
5-10m
4K
10-20m
5K
20m+
458

How does Travel With Chef compare to other cooking channels?

At 4K median views, Travel With Chef sits below the typical cooking channel we track (22K) - there is headroom.

How much money does Travel With Chef 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, Travel With Chef pulls roughly 13K long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $13-$52 a month in ad revenue (about $156-$624 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.

What should a channel like Travel With Chef make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Fri, and build titles around its proven words (curry, sri, lankan). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 4K views.

Travel With Chef stats at a glance

Subscribers282K
Total views29M
Videos published559
Average views / video51K
Engagement rate3.3%
Uploads per week0.8
Typical length7 min
On YouTube since2019 (7 yrs)

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