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VOA Learning English - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 30-min uploads · 3.0M subscribers · started 2009 · ~/week
Est. ad revenue—/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 80 most recent of 7K long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit VOA Learning English on YouTube →

In VOA Learning English's own words
Learn English with fun videos! Learning English is VOA's multimedia source of news and information for millions of English learners worldwide. Learning English began as Special English, which Voice of America launched in 1959. Special English newscasts and features were a primary fixture of VOA's...Based in US

What are VOA Learning English's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 36% of all views and its biggest is 16× the median, so the median upload (13K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

13K
median views
16×
top vs median
8%
hit rate (2×+)
36%
views from top 10%

What is VOA Learning English's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Sew and Knit, Adverbs, Yellowstone, Open Boat 2" at 208K views - 16× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Sew and Knit, Adverbs, Yellowstone, Open Boat 2208K
James Madison, Rescued rower, Imagery, Guilty pleasure61K
US Election Day, Pneumonia vaccine, Present perfect55K

Which titles work best for VOA Learning English - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Sew and Knit, Adverbs, Yellowstone, Open Boat 2208K
James Madison, Rescued rower, Imagery, Guilty pleasure61K
US Election Day, Pneumonia vaccine, Present perfect55K
Golden Gate, Physical Therapy, Deep ocean, Help for spinal cord problems54K
Coasts, Time change, Open Boat34K
Polar bears in town, Walking benefits, Thanksgiving grammar, Hopes & Wishes29K
Japan's new satellite, More tigers in India, Sound barrier, US History game25K
Bald Eagle, Blue Ghost, Knitting at Movies, Feedback23K
Saving the Everglades, Microcredentials, Usual and unusual21K
Statue of Liberty, Polar weather, Lead in Greece20K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Climate change hurts rice harvest, Delivery drone, Black preschool educators, Gut decisions9K
Winter gardening, Young people's orchestra, Encryption for messages, My treatmp49K
South Atlantic iceberg, Invasive lizards, Write better emails, Reduced forms9K
Women on motorcycles, Iodine, Resolutions, People watching9K
Nepal's environment, Neuralink, Memory palace, Hard and soft skills8K
Gettysburg, Power couple, Moon's grand canyon, Homophones8K
Waterless Venus, Card playing idioms, Joshua trees, Reported speech8K
Elephants in court, Missing school, Changing workplace for science, Hafta8K
South Korean Army recruit, Rohingya fighters in Myanmar, Tips on writing, Reflexive pronouns7K
Protecting Bulbs, World's Oldest Tadpole, Immigrant's Children's Education, Sneaking Around7K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 80 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 - VOA Learning English
Has a number6% of videos
-23%
The title formula for VOA Learning English

Its biggest drag is has a number - worth avoiding.

What keywords does VOA Learning English rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: open boat, present perfect, winter gardening, blue hotel, reflexive pronouns, past perfect, future continuous, south korean. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does VOA Learning English post, and when?

VOA Learning English posts on an irregular schedule, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
0
Mon
0
Tue
0
Wed
0
Thu
0
Fri
80
Sat
0

How long are VOA Learning English's videos?

Typical uploads run about 30 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (13K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
13K

How does VOA Learning English compare to other education channels?

At 13K median views, VOA Learning English sits below the typical education channel we track (23K) - there is headroom.

What should a channel like VOA Learning English 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 13K views.

VOA Learning English stats at a glance

Subscribers3.0M
Total views240M
Videos published7K
Avg views (of 80 analyzed)17K
Typical length30 min
On YouTube since2009 (17 yrs)

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