Design Pilot YouTube Stats

@designpilot · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Design Pilot channel overview

Design Pilot (@designpilot) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2015. It has 116K subscribers and 11M total views across 565 videos, an average of 20K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 5.3K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 4.9K views. Over the last 12 months, Design Pilot published 9 videos, and 1 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, Design Pilot gained 0 subscribers and 40K views, about 2.5K views a day.

How much does Design Pilot make?

Returbe estimates Design Pilot's YouTube ad revenue at $283 – $1.1K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $4 to $16, typically $8, 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 $8K.

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

Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (20% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Jul 22, 2026.

Design Pilot's best outlier videos

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

• COMPLETE GUIDE TO AI-POWERED DESIGN PROCESS — 4 HOURS16K views · Apr 20, 20263.2× typical views
• Don't be an NPC - Part 3: Designers Were NEVER Supposed to Exist!9.9K views · Jul 22, 20262× typical views
• Become a Super IC — Designer of the Next Generation!8.9K views · Feb 26, 20261.8× typical views
• Beginners Guide: BEST AI CODING TOOLS in 2026!6.1K views · Mar 6, 20261.3× typical views
• Create Prototypes using REAL DATA in Play — No Code, No AI3.5K views · Aug 9, 20251× typical views
• DATA BINDING in Rive: Create a Dynamic Timer8.1K views · Sep 1, 20251× typical views
• Airbnb Filters: Creating Advanced Prototypes in Play [Part 2]1.3K views · Jul 6, 20251× typical views
• Airbnb Filters: Creating Advanced Prototypes in Play [Part 1]2.4K views · Jun 27, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Design Pilot's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Don't be an NPC - Part 3: Designers Were NEVER Supposed to Exist!9.9K views · Jul 22, 20262× typical views
• Build & Share AI PROTOTYPES with Design System + GitHub + Vercel1.8K views · May 19, 20260.4× typical views
• How to Use AI to Generate Figma Screens From Your Design System2.6K views · May 7, 20260.5× typical views
• From Figma to Claude Code: The AI Workflow Designers Are Missing3.6K views · Apr 27, 20260.7× typical views
• COMPLETE GUIDE TO AI-POWERED DESIGN PROCESS — 4 HOURS16K views · Apr 20, 20263.2× typical views
• Beginners Guide: BEST AI CODING TOOLS in 2026!6.1K views · Mar 6, 20261.3× typical views
• Become a Super IC — Designer of the Next Generation!8.9K views · Feb 26, 20261.8× typical views
• The Rules of Creation have Changed — Teaser1.1K views · Feb 18, 20260.2× typical views
• DATA BINDING in Rive: Create a Dynamic Timer8.1K views · Sep 1, 20251× typical views
• Create Prototypes using REAL DATA in Play — No Code, No AI3.5K views · Aug 9, 20251× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.8K videos from 722 channels in this niche. 11.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.1K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 177.6×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 85.2×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 128.9×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×), Fun Universe (56K subs, best video 96.1×).

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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 Design Pilot or YouTube.