Meerkat Explains Finance YouTube Stats

@meerkatexplainsfinance · Finance & Investing · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Meerkat Explains Finance channel overview

Meerkat Explains Finance (@meerkatexplainsfinance) is a YouTube channel in the Finance & Investing niche created in 2008. It has 5.8K subscribers and 558K total views across 66 videos, an average of 8.5K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 10K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 8.1K views. Over the last 12 months, Meerkat Explains Finance published 62 videos, and 3 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Meerkat Explains Finance gained 270 subscribers and 180K views, about 11K views a day.

How much does Meerkat Explains Finance make?

Returbe estimates Meerkat Explains Finance's YouTube ad revenue at $3.3K – $12K 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

Meerkat Explains Finance publishes about 30.4 videos a month. Based on its last 62 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (15% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Meerkat Explains Finance's best outlier videos

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

• If You Don't Understand Bonds, You Don't Understand Money37K views · Sep 24, 20264.6× typical views
• If AI Takes The Jobs, Who Buys Anything?33K views · Oct 30, 20264× typical views
• Why Gold Is Falling First (It's Not What You Think)28K views · Oct 17, 20263.5× typical views
• South Africa Is A Warning To The World16K views · Nov 4, 20262× typical views
• The Collapse Of AI Software16K views · Nov 3, 20262× typical views
• Why Tech Companies Are Quietly Cancelling AI Data Centers16K views · Sep 6, 20261.9× typical views
• Every Bond Market In The World Is Breaking15K views · Oct 19, 20261.9× typical views
• America Is About To Reset Its $40 Trillion Debt Problem (With Your Money)15K views · Oct 11, 20261.8× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Meerkat Explains Finance's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• This Is Why You'll Never Retire273 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• The Gig Economy Is Completely Collapsing5.8K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• South Africa Is A Warning To The World16K views · Nov 4, 20262× typical views
• The Collapse Of AI Software16K views · Nov 3, 20262× typical views
• Argentina Is Completely Cooked5.9K views · Nov 2, 20260.7× typical views
• They're Coming For Your Savings (And Europe Just Admitted It)7.3K views · Nov 1, 20260.9× typical views
• 7 Car Brands Are Dying In America (2 Are Already Dead)8K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• If AI Takes The Jobs, Who Buys Anything?33K views · Oct 30, 20264× typical views
• California Towns Are Becoming Uninsurable (Homeowners Can't Sell, Can't Stay)5.5K views · Oct 29, 20260.7× typical views
• Is 1929 Happening All Over Again?9.1K views · Oct 28, 20261.1× typical views

The Finance & Investing niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 1.9K videos from 149 channels in this niche. 7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 6.8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $8 to $30.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: BFM Business (264K subs, best video 97.7×), The Iced Coffee Hour Clips (474K subs, best video 83.8×), Rémi Lux - Investir en Bourse (30K subs, best video 56.7×), Oba News (14K subs, best video 47×), CME Group (50K subs, best video 32×), Property Accelerator - James Nicholson (59K subs, best video 5.7×).

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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 Meerkat Explains Finance or YouTube.