Alaa Starves YouTube Stats

@alaastarves · Food & Cooking · Updated Nov 8, 2026

Alaa Starves channel overview

Alaa Starves (@alaastarves) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2018. It has 892K subscribers and 624M total views across 701 videos, an average of 891K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 205K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 103K views. Over the last 12 months, Alaa Starves published 30 videos, and 6 of them (20%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Alaa Starves make?

Returbe estimates Alaa Starves's YouTube ad revenue at $3.8K – $14K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.5 to $9, typically $5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Alaa Starves publishes about 15.2 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (50% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 8, 2026.

Alaa Starves's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Alaa Starves's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Amazing Grilled Chicken & Bamboo Sticky Rice Making Process in Malaysia1.3M views · Oct 9, 202612.7× typical views
• Amazing Crispy Pork Belly Cooking Skills - Malaysian Street Food1.1M views · Oct 9, 202610.7× typical views
• Amazing Skills! 20 Years of Mastering the Best Fried Noodles - Malaysian Street Food489K views · Oct 9, 20264.8× typical views
• Cooking Legend! Amazing Fried Noodles & Fried Rice Cooking Skills in Malaysia424K views · Oct 18, 20264.1× typical views
• Amazing Teamwork! The Best Street Steaks & Noodles in Taiwan403K views · Oct 9, 20263.9× typical views
• Cooking Master! Amazing Goat Meat Cooking Legend - Indonesian Street Food308K views · Oct 9, 20263× typical views
• 70 Years Ancient Peanuts! World's Best Peanuts Making Skills - Thai Street Food283K views · Oct 18, 20262.8× typical views
• Open Before Dawn! Amazing Egg Fried Noodles & Egg Fried Rice Cooking Skills210K views · Oct 11, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Alaa Starves's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Legendary Grandpa! Amazing Fried Noodle Cooking Skills - Malaysian Street Food7.4K views · Nov 8, 20260.1× typical views
• Selling out Fast! The Biggest Grilled Chicken Stall in Bangkok - Thai Street Food10K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Amazing Skills! 40 Years of Cooking Famous Char Koay Teow in Penang84K views · Nov 4, 20260.8× typical views
• Incredible Street Food Cooking Skills in Penang - Malaysian Street Food29K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• Legendary Grandpa! The Best Fried Noodle Hawker in Penang160K views · Oct 31, 20261.6× typical views
• Meat Heaven! Smoked Duck, Chicken & Beef Curry Cooking Process in Malaysia97K views · Oct 29, 20260.9× typical views
• 85 Years Traditional Egg Roti Cooking Skills - Malaysian Street Food111K views · Oct 27, 20261.1× typical views
• The Most Satisfying Fruits Cutting Skills in Taiwan16K views · Oct 25, 20260.2× typical views
• Amazing Char Koay Kak Cooking Skills in Penang - Malaysian Street Food61K views · Oct 25, 20260.6× typical views
• Amazing Taiwan Night Market - Ultimate Street Food Collection7.2K views · Oct 25, 20260.1× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.5K videos from 961 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hauptsache Wissen (139K subs, best video 49×), ChefClick (46K subs, best video 137.3×), Outback Caravan Guide (92K subs, best video 107.6×), Chinese Cuisine 6969 (105K subs, best video 8.4×), CuriousThinks (384K subs, best video 58.5×), TODAY Food (38K subs, best video 15.9×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Alaa Starves or YouTube.