Crayon Capital YouTube Stats

@crayon_capital · Simplified finance explainers · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Crayon Capital channel overview

Crayon Capital (@crayon_capital) is a YouTube channel in the Simplified finance explainers niche created in 2025. It has 298K subscribers and 25M total views across 33 videos, an average of 753K views per video over its lifetime.

What the channel makes: Animated short videos that break down complex finance, business and economic topics into easy-to-understand explanations, often using a 'like you're 5' style.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 726K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 349K views. Over the last 12 months, Crayon Capital published 23 videos, and 4 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Crayon Capital gained 11K subscribers and 1.4M views, about 119K views a day.

How much does Crayon Capital make?

Returbe estimates Crayon Capital's YouTube ad revenue at $29K – $109K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $8 to $30, typically $14, 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 $14K.

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

Crayon Capital publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 33 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (30% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Crayon Capital's best outlier videos

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

• Rockefeller: The First Confirmed Billionaire (And How He Did It)1.6M views · Feb 28, 20264.5× typical views
• NVIDIA Explained Like You're 51.5M views · Jul 9, 20264.3× typical views
• The Man Who Built Singapore in One Generation1.1M views · Dec 27, 20253.3× typical views
• How Jeff Bezos Actually Built Amazon1.1M views · Nov 28, 20253.3× typical views
• Palantir Technologies Explained Like You’re 51M views · Jan 10, 20262.9× typical views
• The Rise of Anthropic Explained Like You're 5909K views · Oct 16, 20262.6× typical views
• Elon Musk: The First Confirmed Trillionaire (and How He Did It)552K views · Aug 11, 20261.6× typical views
• The Worst Time to be Rich as a Human503K views · Mar 9, 20261.4× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Crayon Capital's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How Steve Jobs Actually Built Apple174K views · Oct 31, 20260.5× typical views
• The Rise of Anthropic Explained Like You're 5909K views · Oct 16, 20262.6× typical views
• The First Big Victim of the AI Bubble442K views · Oct 6, 20261.3× typical views
• BYD: The Copycat That Beat Tesla (And How It Did It)282K views · Sep 9, 20260.8× typical views
• TSMC Explained Like You're 5292K views · Aug 22, 20260.8× typical views
• Elon Musk: The First Confirmed Trillionaire (and How He Did It)552K views · Aug 11, 20261.6× typical views
• Ozempic Explained Like You're 5143K views · Aug 1, 20260.4× typical views
• How Jeffrey Epstein Actually Got So Rich,64K views · Jul 21, 20260.2× typical views
• NVIDIA Explained Like You're 51.5M views · Jul 9, 20264.3× typical views
• The Greatest Slave System Ever Created64K views · Jun 28, 20260.2× typical views

The Finance & Investing niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 1.9K videos from 149 channels in this niche. 6.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $8 to $30.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: BFM Business (264K subs, best video 90.4×), The Iced Coffee Hour Clips (474K subs, best video 83.8×), Rémi Lux - Investir en Bourse (30K subs, best video 56.7×), Oba News (14K subs, best video 47×), CME Group (50K subs, best video 32×), Property Accelerator - James Nicholson (59K subs, best video 5×).

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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 Crayon Capital or YouTube.