LifebyMikeG YouTube Stats

@lifebymikeg · Food & Cooking · Updated Nov 8, 2026

LifebyMikeG channel overview

LifebyMikeG (@lifebymikeg) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2013. It has 5.4M subscribers and 956M total views across 643 videos, an average of 1.5M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.2M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 633K views. Over the last 12 months, LifebyMikeG published 45 videos (49% Shorts), and 10 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does LifebyMikeG make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate LifebyMikeG's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.02 to $3.65, typically $2.03, 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 $2K.

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Upload schedule

LifebyMikeG publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (24% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 29, 2026.

LifebyMikeG's best outlier videos

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

• Which Groceries Are Actually Worth Making From Scratch?4.1M views · Sep 30, 20266.5× typical views
• Why Tobacco Changes Color 🍃🍂4.6M views · Oct 16, 20265.5× typical views
• Turning Amazon Boxes📦 into Gourmet Mushrooms🍄‍🟫4.3M views · Jul 6, 20265.1× typical views
• A Revolution in Meal Prepping...3.2M views · Dec 20, 20255× typical views
• These 5 Cubes Will Save You 20+ Hours of Cooking3.1M views · Oct 19, 20264.8× typical views
• Mason Jar Lid Hack!3.5M views · Nov 10, 20254.1× typical views
• Grow an Insane Amount of Mushrooms at Home 🍄3.2M views · Sep 10, 20263.7× typical views
• Greatest food hack ever from the @thechefoutwest3.1M views · Mar 31, 20263.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of LifebyMikeG's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 2 Ingredient Recipes That Shouldn't Be Possible945K views · Oct 29, 20261.5× typical views
• I’m Never Buying Deli Turkey Again676K views · Oct 20, 20260.8× typical views
• These 5 Cubes Will Save You 20+ Hours of Cooking3.1M views · Oct 19, 20264.8× typical views
• Why Tobacco Changes Color 🍃🍂4.6M views · Oct 16, 20265.5× typical views
• fresh garden tomatoes in the middle of winter?! 🍅1.6M views · Oct 9, 20261.9× typical views
• I Fixed the Pumpkin Spice Latte 🎃☕213K views · Oct 7, 20260.3× typical views
• 🍅 3 Easy Ways to Save Your Tomatoes358K views · Oct 1, 20260.4× typical views
• Which Groceries Are Actually Worth Making From Scratch?4.1M views · Sep 30, 20266.5× typical views
• 3 Ways to Preserve Shiitake Mushrooms 🍄225K views · Sep 25, 20260.3× typical views
• I Pickled Cucumbers… in Cucumbers 🥒🤯851K views · Sep 21, 20261× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.5K videos from 976 channels in this niche. 13.5% 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 (139K subs, best video 47.5×), ChefClick (46K subs, best video 137.3×), Outback Caravan Guide (92K subs, best video 88.5×), Chinese Cuisine 6969 (105K subs, best video 8.4×), CuriousThinks (384K subs, best video 66.4×), TODAY Food (38K subs, best video 15.9×).

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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 LifebyMikeG or YouTube.