Big Water Guy YouTube Stats

@bigwaterguy · Food & Cooking · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Big Water Guy channel overview

Big Water Guy (@bigwaterguy) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2011. It has 407K subscribers and 222M total views across 839 videos, an average of 265K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 244K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 358K views. Over the last 12 months, Big Water Guy published 43 videos (33% Shorts), and 3 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Big Water Guy make?

Returbe estimates Big Water Guy's YouTube ad revenue at $3K – $11K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.3 to $8.29, typically $4.61, 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 $4.6K.

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

Big Water Guy publishes about 17.4 videos a month. Based on its last 44 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (23% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Big Water Guy's best outlier videos

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

• This is how to trap a clam271K views · Oct 21, 20267.4× typical views
• Eating whale and reindeer195K views · Oct 30, 20265.4× typical views
• The best tasting fish in our ocean150K views · Oct 24, 20264.1× typical views
• Eating ONLY What I Catch For 5 Days!953K views · Apr 11, 20262.7× typical views
• This is what grocery shopping in the North Pole looks like88K views · Oct 29, 20262.4× typical views
• 3 Days in an Alaskan Emergency Shelter (Hunting, Diving, Cooking)779K views · Jan 11, 20262.2× typical views
• This is how you filet a halibut cheek75K views · Nov 1, 20262.1× typical views
• 7 Days of Hunting Giant Tuna656K views · Jun 10, 20261.8× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Big Water Guy's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• You can’t larp big fish32K views · Nov 6, 20260.9× typical views
• I Speared a Potential WORLD RECORD Bluefin Tuna226K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• #CarGurusPartner Whatever your job looks like, there’s a car built for it.6.2K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• This is how you filet a halibut cheek75K views · Nov 1, 20262.1× typical views
• Eating whale and reindeer195K views · Oct 30, 20265.4× typical views
• This is a very rare seafood37K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views
• This is what grocery shopping in the North Pole looks like88K views · Oct 29, 20262.4× typical views
• Swimming with orcas22K views · Oct 28, 20260.6× typical views
• We’re so back!35K views · Oct 25, 20261× typical views
• The best tasting fish in our ocean150K views · Oct 24, 20264.1× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.6K videos from 845 channels in this niche. 13.4% 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 (134K subs, best video 51.2×), ChefClick (46K subs, best video 119.7×), Outback Caravan Guide (89K subs, best video 106.8×), Chinese Cuisine 6969 (105K subs, best video 7.9×), Dadi’s Crazy Kitchen (186K subs, best video 22.7×), TODAY Food (38K subs, best video 16.2×).

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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 Big Water Guy or YouTube.