How Money Works YouTube Stats

@howmoneyworks · Finance & Investing · Updated Nov 11, 2026

How Money Works channel overview

How Money Works (@howmoneyworks) is a YouTube channel in the Finance & Investing niche created in 2018. It has 1.8M subscribers and 309M total views across 331 videos, an average of 934K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.1M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 823K views. Over the last 12 months, How Money Works published 55 videos, and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does How Money Works make?

Returbe estimates How Money Works's YouTube ad revenue at $240K – $900K 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

How Money Works publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (20% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 10, 2026.

How Money Works's best outlier videos

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

• Why A National Debt Default Now Looks Genuinely Possible... (sort of)3.1M views · Sep 7, 20263.8× typical views
• We (Still) Don't Know How Epstein Got So Rich...3.1M views · Jan 14, 20263.8× typical views
• WTF Is Happening To The Car Market?2.3M views · Jun 12, 20262.8× typical views
• Can Meta Actually Survive This?1.8M views · Aug 27, 20262.2× typical views
• 50% Of AI Data Centers Have Quietly Been Cancelled Or "Delayed"1.8M views · Apr 16, 20262.2× typical views
• If We Tax Rich People... They Will Just Leave!1.7M views · Nov 16, 20252.1× typical views
• How American Real Estate Is Delaying The Inevitable... For Now1.6M views · Oct 24, 20262× typical views
• The End Of Budget Tourism1.6M views · May 24, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

10 of How Money Works's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Is The AI Bubble (finally) Popping?1.4M views · Nov 10, 20261.7× typical views
• If You Were TRYING To Destroy The Economy...1.2M views · Oct 31, 20261.4× typical views
• How American Real Estate Is Delaying The Inevitable... For Now1.6M views · Oct 24, 20262× typical views
• tHe pOpULaTiOn iS CoLlapSiNg!862K views · Oct 18, 20261× typical views
• How Sports Predicted "The Everything Bubble"705K views · Sep 29, 20260.9× typical views
• Canada Is Joining The EU... But WTF Does That Even Mean?!1.3M views · Sep 24, 20261.5× typical views
• Why Are We Doing This To Canada?1.6M views · Sep 19, 20261.9× typical views
• Why A National Debt Default Now Looks Genuinely Possible... (sort of)3.1M views · Sep 7, 20263.8× typical views
• Can Meta Actually Survive This?1.8M views · Aug 27, 20262.2× typical views
• "Dude I'm Broke" Why Is My Data Worth Harvesting?573K views · Aug 23, 20260.7× typical views

The Finance & Investing niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.3K videos from 368 channels in this niche. 7.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 18K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $8 to $30.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: BFM Business (265K subs, best video 111.7×), The Iced Coffee Hour Clips (478K subs, best video 105.8×), POV Simple Finance (15K subs, best video 278.4×), Boursorama (137K subs, best video 14.3×), Matthias Baccino (91K subs, best video 13.6×), POV Finance Mindset (1.4K subs, best video 20.7×).

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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 How Money Works or YouTube.