Mark Manson YouTube Stats

@iammarkmanson · Self-improvement & Motivation · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Mark Manson channel overview

Mark Manson (@iammarkmanson) is a YouTube channel in the Self-improvement & Motivation niche created in 2017. It has 3.2M subscribers and 197M total views across 716 videos, an average of 275K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 170K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 175K views. Over the last 12 months, Mark Manson published 44 videos (32% Shorts), and 5 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Mark Manson make?

Returbe estimates Mark Manson's YouTube ad revenue at $8.2K – $30K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.79 to $10.21, typically $5.57, 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 $5.6K.

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Upload schedule

Mark Manson publishes about 26.1 videos a month. Based on its last 44 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (25% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Mark Manson's best outlier videos

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

• Psychology of People Who Don't Post Their Photos on Social Media1.6M views · Oct 8, 20269.2× typical views
• The Ensh*ttification of Everything977K views · Oct 24, 20265.6× typical views
• 22 Years of Dating Advice Summarized in 11 Minutes665K views · Sep 8, 20263.8× typical views
• 7 Surprising Habits that Changed My Life in My 30s584K views · Aug 9, 20263.3× typical views
• 33 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do547K views · Oct 8, 20263.1× typical views
• I Locked Myself in a Cabin for 6 Days. Here's What Discipline Really Is508K views · Aug 9, 20262.9× typical views
• If You Want to Fix Brain Rot, Watch This Immediately489K views · Oct 17, 20262.8× typical views
• I Met My Wife by Explaining Russian Grammar99K views · Nov 4, 20262.1× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Mark Manson's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Not Giving a F*ck Equation1.5K views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• Treat Your Attention Like Money17K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Everyone Manipulates (Including You)20K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Nietzsche’s Marriage Test62K views · Nov 5, 20261.3× typical views
• Why Romance Is the Wrong Reason to Marry48K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• How to Spot Manipulation, Solved52K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• I Met My Wife by Explaining Russian Grammar99K views · Nov 4, 20262.1× typical views
• Fear Kills More Dreams Than Failure41K views · Nov 3, 20260.9× typical views
• Why You Lose Friends When You Grow42K views · Nov 3, 20260.9× typical views
• If They Leave, Your Boundary Worked42K views · Nov 2, 20260.9× typical views

The Self-improvement & Motivation niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.4K videos from 250 channels in this niche. 15.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $11.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: The Mental Health Space (5.9K subs, best video 24.7×), The Stoic Scroll (9.3K subs, best video 46.3×), XYT WORLD (4.9K subs, best video 1158.3×), MOTIVATIONAL SD (13K subs, best video 98.4×), T21 (3.7K subs, best video 31.5×), stoic physiology (18K subs, best video 10.2×).

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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 Mark Manson or YouTube.