Explained Like You´re Five YouTube Stats

@explainedlikeyourefive · Finance & Investing · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Explained Like You´re Five channel overview

Explained Like You´re Five (@explainedlikeyourefive) is a YouTube channel in the Finance & Investing niche created in 2026. It has 3K subscribers and 341K total views across 19 videos, an average of 18K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 19K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.6K views. Over the last 12 months, Explained Like You´re Five published 20 videos, and 9 of them (45%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Explained Like You´re Five make?

Returbe estimates Explained Like You´re Five's YouTube ad revenue at $3.3K – $12K 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

Explained Like You´re Five publishes about 21.7 videos a month. Based on its last 20 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (35% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Explained Like You´re Five's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Explained Like You´re Five's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• The Housing Market Crisis Is 2008 Happening Again… or Something Worse — Explained Like You’re 5100K views · Nov 1, 202662.5× typical views
• Trump and the Midterms What Happens to Your Money — Explained Like You’re 584K views · Oct 29, 202652.5× typical views
• Why the 2026 Midterms Could Shake the Global Economy — Explained Like You’re 569K views · Nov 5, 202643.1× typical views
• Why Everyone Feels Broke in a “Strong” US Economy — Explained Like You’re 553K views · Nov 2, 202633.1× typical views
• The Real Estate Crisis Is Already Here… They Just Haven’t Told You — Explained Like You’re 520K views · Nov 4, 202612.5× typical views
• How Rockefeller Became the Richest Man in History — Explained Like You’re 515K views · Oct 25, 20269.4× typical views
• Why China Had to Restart Its Entire Economy — Explained Like You’re 514K views · Nov 6, 20268.8× typical views
• If You Wanted to DESTROY the US Economy… Here’s How — Explained Like You’re 511K views · Nov 3, 20266.9× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Explained Like You´re Five's last 20 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Democrats Won Congress Here’s What They Can and Can’t Do — Explained Like You’re 52.3K views · Nov 6, 20261.4× typical views
• Why China Had to Restart Its Entire Economy — Explained Like You’re 514K views · Nov 6, 20268.8× typical views
• Why the 2026 Midterms Could Shake the Global Economy — Explained Like You’re 569K views · Nov 5, 202643.1× typical views
• The Real Estate Crisis Is Already Here… They Just Haven’t Told You — Explained Like You’re 520K views · Nov 4, 202612.5× typical views
• If You Wanted to DESTROY the US Economy… Here’s How — Explained Like You’re 511K views · Nov 3, 20266.9× typical views
• Why Everyone Feels Broke in a “Strong” US Economy — Explained Like You’re 553K views · Nov 2, 202633.1× typical views
• The Housing Market Crisis Is 2008 Happening Again… or Something Worse — Explained Like You’re 5100K views · Nov 1, 202662.5× typical views
• How Jeff Bezos Built Amazon and Became One of the Richest Men Alive — Explained Like You’re 54.6K views · Oct 31, 20262.9× typical views
• How the 2008 Financial Crisis Happened and Who Got Rich — Explained Like You’re 56.6K views · Oct 30, 20264.1× typical views
• Trump and the Midterms What Happens to Your Money — Explained Like You’re 584K views · Oct 29, 202652.5× typical views

The Finance & Investing niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.9K videos from 252 channels in this niche. 6.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $8 to $30.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: BFM Business (264K subs, best video 108.6×), The Iced Coffee Hour Clips (475K subs, best video 100.4×), Rémi Lux - Investir en Bourse (31K subs, best video 54.1×), Macro Tradecraft (1.7K subs, best video 45.9×), Matthias Baccino (89K subs, best video 14.3×), Econ in a Nutshell (3K subs, best video 89×).

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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 Explained Like You´re Five or YouTube.