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Traveling with Kristin - what's actually working, and what isn't

Travel · 18-min uploads · 306K subscribers · started 2017 · ~0.9/week
Est. ad revenue$222–$889/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 179 most recent of 473 long-form uploads. One of the travel YouTube channels we track. Visit Traveling with Kristin on YouTube →

In Traveling with Kristin's own words
Want to live abroad or travel the world? You're in the right place! Subscribe for weekly videos about moving or retiring abroad. Kristin Wilson is an international relocation specialist who's traveled to 65 countries in 20 years. She's the author of Digital Nomads For Dummies, Moving Abroad For...Based in US

What are Traveling with Kristin's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 44% of all views and its biggest is 17.6× the median, so the median upload (38K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

38K
median views
17.6×
top vs median
34%
hit rate (2×+)
44%
views from top 10%

What is Traveling with Kristin's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Culture Shock in Ireland: My First Impressions as an American" at 670K views - 17.6× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Culture Shock in Ireland: My First Impressions as an American670K
10 Best Places to Retire in 2024 (Visas, Residency, Healthcare, Taxes)666K
I Asked Digital Nomads How They Make Money Living On A Remote Island 🏝659K

Which titles work best for Traveling with Kristin - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Culture Shock in Ireland: My First Impressions as an American670K
10 Best Places to Retire in 2024 (Visas, Residency, Healthcare, Taxes)666K
I Asked Digital Nomads How They Make Money Living On A Remote Island 🏝659K
Top 10 Best Places To Live Well on $1,000 Per Month562K
How I See the US After Living in Europe468K
10 Cheap Places To Retire Abroad (on Social Security)445K
Why People Are Leaving the USA (and Where They're Going)443K
How I See the UK as an American Abroad [CULTURE SHOCK]415K
American in the UK: 15 British Culture Shocks395K
10 Places I Would Live with $1,000 per Month (or Less)392K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Talking to British Locals in My New Neighborhood [American in England]18K
GEO-ARBITRAGE: Save Money For Retirement While Traveling Full-Time 💵18K
Malta's Golden Passport Program TERMINATED!16K
Lofoten Norway 🇳🇴 Travel Guide and Living Abroad16K
100 Places To See Before You Die (Travel Bucket List!)15K
How Much Money Do You Need To Live Abroad? (FREE BUDGET DOWNLOAD)15K
What Is Istanbul Like? First Time Visitor Travel Tips & Things To Do 🇹🇷15K
Spain vs Portugal for Expats: An Honest Scorecard14K
10 Places To Retire in Luxury Under $3,000/Month14K
11 American Things that are BANNED Abroad13K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 179 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 - Traveling with Kristin
Best / top / worst / ultimate17% of videos
+330%
Speaks to "you"7% of videos
-58%
Asks a question8% of videos
-40%
Uses (brackets)27% of videos
+39%
Has a number43% of videos
+38%
Starts How / Why / What22% of videos
-36%
The title formula for Traveling with Kristin

Lean on best / top / worst / ultimate and uses (brackets) - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on speaks to "you".

Surprise: speaks to "you" costs this channel 58% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Traveling with Kristin rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: digital nomads, places retire, culture shock, expats retirees, retirees digital, per month, countries expats, asked digital. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Traveling with Kristin post, and when?

Traveling with Kristin publishes about 0.9 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
8
Mon
4
Tue
23
Wed
42
Thu
45
Fri
51
Sat
6

How long are Traveling with Kristin's videos?

Typical uploads run about 18 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (59K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
59K
5-10 min
33K
10-20 min
32K

How does Traveling with Kristin compare to other travel channels?

At 38K median views, Traveling with Kristin runs above the typical travel channel we track (38K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much money does Traveling with Kristin 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, Traveling with Kristin pulls roughly 147K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $147-$588 a month in ad revenue (about $1,765-$7,059 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 Traveling with Kristin make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Fri. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 38K views.

Traveling with Kristin stats at a glance

Subscribers306K
Total views32M
Videos published473
Avg views (of 179 analyzed)102K
Engagement rate8.9%
Uploads per week0.9
Typical length18 min
On YouTube since2017 (9 yrs)

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

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