French Cooking Academy YouTube Stats

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

French Cooking Academy channel overview

French Cooking Academy (@frenchcookingacademy) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2014. It has 880K subscribers and 72M total views across 543 videos, an average of 132K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 41K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 27K views. Over the last 12 months, French Cooking Academy published 41 videos (24% Shorts), and 6 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 11 days, French Cooking Academy gained 0 subscribers and 196K views, about 18K views a day.

How much does French Cooking Academy make?

Returbe estimates French Cooking Academy's YouTube ad revenue at $1.4K – $5.2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.41 to $8.67, typically $4.81, 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 $4.8K.

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Upload schedule

French Cooking Academy publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (31% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 29, 2026.

French Cooking Academy's best outlier videos

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

• Testing the French mother sauce that fell out of grace379K views · Sep 19, 202614.1× typical views
• The #1 Most Beloved Recipe From My Cookbook (It’s Foolproof!)111K views · Dec 7, 20254.1× typical views
• How to Cook a la Bonne Femme Simple, Honest French Home Cooking110K views · Nov 13, 20254.1× typical views
• Why Your Potato Salad is Bland (And the Classic Trick to Fix It)95K views · Jun 23, 20263.6× typical views
• Stop Pan Frying Your Fish! Try This easy Normandy Poach Instead82K views · Apr 18, 20263.1× typical views
• The Mac & Cheese Recipe with no roux or eggs81K views · Jul 17, 20263× typical views
• The Soul of Corsica: Traditional Lemon & Sage Braised Chicken60K views · May 4, 20262.2× typical views
• The chicken chasseur recipe alternative you did not know59K views · Sep 8, 20262.2× typical views

Latest videos

8 of French Cooking Academy's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• What is this herb?8.4K views · Oct 29, 20261.3× typical views
• The Strangest Toast in French History4.6K views · Oct 29, 20260.7× typical views
• Only kings could afford that dish in 130037K views · Oct 24, 20261.4× typical views
• Antonin Carême Favorite sauce for fasting days (totally forgotten today)28K views · Oct 15, 20261× typical views
• Antonin Carême Grand béchamel 1800’s recipe- part 153K views · Oct 9, 20262× typical views
• Testing the French mother sauce that fell out of grace379K views · Sep 19, 202614.1× typical views
• The chicken chasseur recipe alternative you did not know59K views · Sep 8, 20262.2× typical views
• The Power of Madeira Wine and the sauce Escoffier’s kept using25K views · Aug 24, 20260.9× typical views
• How Dry Vermouth Elevates Fish Dishes | French Cooking Academy31K views · Aug 16, 20261.1× typical views
• Slow Cooked Lamb in Red Wine with Garlic Toast | French Cooking19K views · Aug 5, 20260.7× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 686 channels in this niche. 12.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

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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 French Cooking Academy or YouTube.