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Weird Explorer - what's actually working, and what isn't

Travel · 13-min uploads · 460K subscribers · started 2013 · ~1.2/week
Est. ad revenue$320–$1K/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 182 most recent of 1K long-form uploads. One of the travel YouTube channels we track. Visit Weird Explorer on YouTube →

In Weird Explorer's own words
My name is Jared Rydelek. I am on a mission to find and taste every species of fruit in the world. In 2012 I decided to do something crazy: Document every fruit in the world! I didn't know it at the time, but there are over 70,000 edible species of fruit, so this is impossible. Still I am...Based in US

Weird Explorer's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 45% of all views and its biggest is 34.1× the median, so the median upload (41K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

41K
median views
34.1×
top vs median
19%
hit rate (2×+)
45%
views from top 10%

What is Weird Explorer's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "WOOD APPLE - I finally found a good one and it tastes... special." at 1.4M views - 34.1× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
WOOD APPLE - I finally found a good one and it tastes... special.1.4M
NUTMEG: The Horrible History Behind The Popular Spice1.1M
GINGER IS WEIRD - All about the edible seeds, flowers, rhizomes and FRUIT of gingers488K

Which titles work best for Weird Explorer - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
WOOD APPLE - I finally found a good one and it tastes... special.1.4M
NUTMEG: The Horrible History Behind The Popular Spice1.1M
GINGER IS WEIRD - All about the edible seeds, flowers, rhizomes and FRUIT of gingers488K
BUNYA BUNYA - I Tried Nuts That Dinosaurs Once Ate (and made hummus with them)355K
What a mutant coconut tastes like - MACAPUNO284K
THE KING OF DRAGON FRUITS - I Ate 20 Different Dragonfruits to find the Best One!275K
AFRICAN BUTTER PEAR - This Fruit is like Avocado but BETTER (Safou Fruit)187K
Cloves Have a Fruit (and a dark history)182K
I Tasted A Berry from The World's Most Painful Plant - GYMPIE GYMPIE180K
I Made a CANDLE out of BERRIES - The Incredible North American Bayberry163K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Back to the FUCHSIA - Eating the berry of a fuchsia plant25K
GIANT AMBARELLA - Trying a familiar fruit a whole new way (Wei Apple IN FIJI)25K
GREEN MANGOSTEEN? - Why this unripe fruit is trendy in Vietnam (Gỏi gà măng cụt)24K
The Forgotten Spice That Once Cured Scurvy - WINTER'S BARK24K
KASHAKA - The Bizarre Fruit Behind a Musical Instrument (snuffbox fruit, asalato, fried egg tree)24K
Shonan Gold - A very special citrus in Japan24K
FIJIAN ROSE APPLE - It Looks Ugly, But Tastes Great!24K
I Found Interesting FRUIT in The Bahamas23K
SUN SAPOTE - An incredible fruit... with a hairball inside of it23K
Floating Markets are Changing.23K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 182 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 - Weird Explorer
Starts How / Why / What7% of videos
+32%
Short title (≤6 words)5% of videos
-29%
An ALL-CAPS word71% of videos
+24%
Uses (brackets)32% of videos
+16%
Asks a question7% of videos
+15%
The title formula for Weird Explorer

Lean on starts how / why / what and an all-caps word - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on short title (≤6 words).

short title (≤6 words) drags views 29% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does Weird Explorer rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: history behind, rare fruit, dragon fruits, fruit tastes, north american, banana varieties, fruit behind, fight against. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Weird Explorer post, and when?

Weird Explorer publishes about 1.2 videos a week, most often on Thu.

Views by day of week
Sun
14
Mon
5
Tue
4
Wed
14
Thu
70
Fri
61
Sat
4

How long are Weird Explorer's videos?

Typical uploads run about 13 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (66K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
66K
10-20 min
46K
5-10 min
31K

How does Weird Explorer compare to other travel channels?

At 41K median views, Weird Explorer runs above the typical travel channel we track (38K). It is outperforming its niche.

What is Weird Explorer'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, Weird Explorer pulls roughly 212K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $212-$846 a month in ad revenue (about $2,539-$10,155 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 Weird Explorer make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Thu. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 41K views.

Weird Explorer stats at a glance

Subscribers460K
Total views79M
Videos published1K
Avg views (of 182 analyzed)70K
Engagement rate9.5%
Uploads per week1.2
Typical length13 min
On YouTube since2013 (13 yrs)

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