Darius Cooks YouTube Stats

@dariuscookstoo · Food & Cooking · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Darius Cooks channel overview

Darius Cooks (@dariuscookstoo) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2008. It has 472K subscribers and 61M total views across 2.7K videos, an average of 23K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 17K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 7.6K views. Over the last 12 months, Darius Cooks published 73 videos (32% Shorts), and 24 of them (33%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Darius Cooks gained 2K subscribers and 1.1M views, about 64K views a day.

How much does Darius Cooks make?

Returbe estimates Darius Cooks's YouTube ad revenue at $3.1K – $11K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.64 to $2.3, typically $1.28, 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 $1.3K.

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

Darius Cooks publishes about 56.5 videos a month. Based on its last 48 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (25% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Darius Cooks's best outlier videos

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

• Made some salmon croquettes. Recipe is up on the blog.95K views · Nov 2, 20264.1× typical views
• My Grandmother’s cucumber and tomato salad. Recipe is up on the blog.83K views · Oct 11, 20263.8× typical views
• I made Jamaican brown stew pot roast. Recipe is up on the blog.72K views · Oct 21, 20263.3× typical views
• Darius Cooks is live!22K views · Oct 26, 20262.9× typical views
• Here's Everything I Ate At Joe Muer in Detroit16K views · Oct 7, 20262.1× typical views
• Darius Cooks is live!16K views · Oct 26, 20262.1× typical views
• Made a tomato sandwich. The recipe is up on the blog!43K views · Oct 26, 20262× typical views
• It’s almoooooost that time.43K views · Oct 15, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Darius Cooks's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Another week of teacher fits. Which one is your fave?579 views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Made some buttermilk biscuits with sweet tea syrup. Recipe is up on the blog!7.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Made some beef neck bones…7.2K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Here's Everything I Ate At Yo Mamas in Houston3.7K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• Made some salmon croquettes. Recipe is up on the blog.95K views · Nov 2, 20264.1× typical views
• Another week of teacher fits. Which one is your fave?!7.6K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• I Ate At Pandora On The Square in Atlanta McDonough, GA5.2K views · Oct 30, 20260.7× typical views
• A cheesesteak. It’s so simple. Yet so many people make it so complicated. Recipe is up on the blog.22K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views
• Here's Everything I Ate At Latuli in Houston4.7K views · Oct 29, 20260.6× typical views
• I Ate At Jordyns Soul Food Cafe in Houston4.6K views · Oct 28, 20260.6× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 688 channels in this niche. 12.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.9K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hauptsache Wissen (130K subs, best video 37.4×), ChefClick (46K subs, best video 110×), Outback Caravan Guide (86K subs, best video 92.5×), Chinese Cuisine 6969 (105K subs, best video 7.6×), Dadi’s Crazy Kitchen (183K subs, best video 21.5×), TODAY Food (38K subs, best video 15.5×).

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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 Darius Cooks or YouTube.