James May’s Planet Gin YouTube Stats

@jamesmaydrinks · Food & Cooking · Updated Nov 7, 2026

James May’s Planet Gin channel overview

James May’s Planet Gin (@jamesmaydrinks) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2024. It has 990K subscribers and 140M total views across 177 videos, an average of 791K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.6M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 997K views. Over the last 12 months, James May’s Planet Gin published 15 videos, and 2 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does James May’s Planet Gin make?

Returbe estimates James May’s Planet Gin's YouTube ad revenue at $24K – $87K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.5 to $9, typically $5, 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 $5K.

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Upload schedule

James May’s Planet Gin publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (80% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

James May’s Planet Gin's best outlier videos

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

• Can James May land an Airbus A350?6.6M views · Sep 16, 20266.6× typical views
• James May drives America's cheapest new pick-up truck4.8M views · Oct 28, 20264.8× typical views
• James May tests weird TV gadgets2.6M views · Sep 30, 20262.7× typical views
• James May bought a Series 3 Land Rover and he hates it2.5M views · Oct 14, 20262.5× typical views
• James May finally drives the new Fiat Panda1.5M views · Aug 19, 20261.5× typical views
• James May doesn't love his Triumph Stag anymore1.1M views · Sep 23, 20261.1× typical views
• Can James May make the best fish finger sandwich in the world?1M views · Oct 7, 20261× typical views
• James May drives his favourite Grand Tour car989K views · Sep 9, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

5 of James May’s Planet Gin's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• James May has created his own Lego set193K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• James May savagely ranks UK crisps609K views · Nov 4, 20260.6× typical views
• James May drives America's cheapest new pick-up truck4.8M views · Oct 28, 20264.8× typical views
• We booked James May a very strange Airbnb340K views · Oct 21, 20260.3× typical views
• James May reveals what he really thinks of the Ferrari Luce626K views · Oct 18, 20260.6× typical views
• James May bought a Series 3 Land Rover and he hates it2.5M views · Oct 14, 20262.5× typical views
• Can James May make the best fish finger sandwich in the world?1M views · Oct 7, 20261× typical views
• James May tests weird TV gadgets2.6M views · Sep 30, 20262.7× typical views
• James May tries to teach Lucy his favourite recipe428K views · Sep 27, 20260.4× typical views
• James May doesn't love his Triumph Stag anymore1.1M views · Sep 23, 20261.1× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.5K videos from 840 channels in this niche. 13.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hauptsache Wissen (134K subs, best video 47.4×), ChefClick (46K subs, best video 119.7×), Outback Caravan Guide (89K subs, best video 106.8×), Chinese Cuisine 6969 (105K subs, best video 7.9×), Dadi’s Crazy Kitchen (186K subs, best video 22.7×), Das perfekte Dinner | VOX (37K subs, best video 18.9×).

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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 James May’s Planet Gin or YouTube.