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Very unOfficial Travel Guides - what's actually working, and what isn't

Travel · 12-min uploads · 89K subscribers · started 2008 · ~3.2/week
Est. ad revenue$162–$648/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 167 most recent of 2K long-form uploads. One of the travel YouTube channels we track. Visit Very unOfficial Travel Guides on YouTube →

In Very unOfficial Travel Guides's own words
Welcome to the Youtube home of the "Very unOfficial Travel Guides"! I travel the world and visit popular, (and not so popular), tourist destinations to give you honest reviews, tips, and tricks. I'm also the author of 2 travel related books, "Getting Stitches on a Cruise Ship" and "Places, Please!"...Based in DE

How does Very unOfficial Travel Guides perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 56% of all views and its biggest is 92.6× the median, so the median upload (8K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

8K
median views
92.6×
top vs median
20%
hit rate (2×+)
56%
views from top 10%

What is Very unOfficial Travel Guides's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "LEFT BEHIND in Mexico! Two Cruisers Miss the Ship in Puerto Vallarta - NCL Bliss Pier Runners" at 722K views - 92.6× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
LEFT BEHIND in Mexico! Two Cruisers Miss the Ship in Puerto Vallarta - NCL Bliss Pier Runners722K
WHAT HAPPENED to Coco Cay? Royal Caribbean's Private Island, then and now - CROWDED and EXPENSIVE221K
When is Premium BETTER than Biz Class? Airline Review on Delta / KLM / AirFrance Flights86K

Which titles work best for Very unOfficial Travel Guides - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
LEFT BEHIND in Mexico! Two Cruisers Miss the Ship in Puerto Vallarta - NCL Bliss Pier Runners722K
WHAT HAPPENED to Coco Cay? Royal Caribbean's Private Island, then and now - CROWDED and EXPENSIVE221K
When is Premium BETTER than Biz Class? Airline Review on Delta / KLM / AirFrance Flights86K
TRAVEL CHAOS - USA Flights Delayed, Cancelled, Missing Bags, and the Police! Storytime79K
Club Balcony Suite on NCL - NOT WORTH IT!61K
Royal Caribbean's WORST SHIP? Horrible Food, Cheap Luxury, and more cruise tips!52K
Cruise Ship EMERGENCY! MSC Seaside Breaks Free from Pier and Leaves Passengers Feb 5th 202651K
7 Day Cruise to MEXICO on the NCL Bliss - Full Experience Highlights from Los Angeles42K
Club Balcony vs Haven Balcony: Which Luxury Cruise Suite is WORTH IT?41K
These are the Inside Cabins you WANT on Royal Caribbean's Utopia of the Seas41K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Cruising to Cabo and MEDICAL EMERGENCY - NCL Bliss, November 20244K
Flights: Cancelled and Now We Are Unaccompanied Minors at 50? - Travel Chaos to Get to our Cruise!4K
BUCKET LIST Hotel Room Tour - Swim Up Pool directly on our Terrace at Abora Catarina Gran Canaria4K
Bucket List or NIGHTMARE? 35 Days at Sea on Princess Cruise Ship - Sunday SofaTime Live Stream4K
Pre - Cruise Hotel: Pullmann Miami Airport Review and Tour - Freezing!4K
Pre-Cruise Stay at "the Florida Hotel" - Close to Orlando Airport and Port Canaveral4K
Two Giant Cruise Ships - Star of the Seas vs Utopia SAILAWAY MADNESS on Coco Cay - August 17th, 20254K
Cruising the Mediterranean - I Took a Little Boat to Mykonos, and it was CROWDED4K
Do RUDE and CLUELESS Travelers Have More Fun? Discuss! Sunday SofaTime4K
Begging a Spanish Police Officer... Storytime on Gran Canaria - Sunday SofaTime4K

The words that win for Very unOfficial Travel Guides

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: royal.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 167 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 - Very unOfficial Travel Guides
An ALL-CAPS word86% of videos
+77%
Includes a year5% of videos
+28%
Best / top / worst / ultimate8% of videos
-25%
Starts How / Why / What9% of videos
+23%
Has a number17% of videos
-22%
Speaks to "you"12% of videos
-21%
The title formula for Very unOfficial Travel Guides

Lean on an all-caps word and includes a year - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on best / top / worst / ultimate.

best / top / worst / ultimate drags views 25% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does Very unOfficial Travel Guides rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: ncl bliss, pier runners, left behind, cruise ship, coco cay, private island, cay royal, royal private. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Very unOfficial Travel Guides post, and when?

Very unOfficial Travel Guides publishes about 3.2 videos a week, most often on Sun.

Views by day of week
Sun
105
Mon
9
Tue
13
Wed
6
Thu
15
Fri
8
Sat
11

How long are Very unOfficial Travel Guides's videos?

Typical uploads run about 12 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (10K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
10K
10-20 min
8K
5-10 min
8K
under 5 min
4K

How does Very unOfficial Travel Guides compare to other travel channels?

At 8K median views, Very unOfficial Travel Guides sits below the typical travel channel we track (38K) - there is headroom.

Very unOfficial Travel Guides'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, Very unOfficial Travel Guides pulls roughly 107K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $107-$429 a month in ad revenue (about $1,288-$5,152 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 Very unOfficial Travel Guides make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Sun, and build titles around its proven words (royal). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 8K views.

Very unOfficial Travel Guides stats at a glance

Subscribers89K
Total views26M
Videos published2K
Avg views (of 167 analyzed)18K
Engagement rate11.9%
Uploads per week3.2
Typical length12 min
On YouTube since2008 (18 yrs)

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