Pay Or Wait YouTube Stats

@payorwait · Film, TV & Anime · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Pay Or Wait channel overview

Pay Or Wait (@payorwait) is a YouTube channel in the Film, TV & Anime niche created in 2016. It has 75K subscribers and 17M total views across 1.8K videos, an average of 9K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 13K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 9.5K views. Over the last 12 months, Pay Or Wait published 54 videos, and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 14 days, Pay Or Wait gained 200 subscribers and 92K views, about 6.6K views a day.

How much does Pay Or Wait make?

Returbe estimates Pay Or Wait's YouTube ad revenue at $427 – $2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $7, typically $3.5, 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 $3.5K.

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

Pay Or Wait publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (20% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 2, 2026.

Pay Or Wait's best outlier videos

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

• Who’s Really Telling the Truth in Verity? Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson & Josh Hartnett | Interview47K views · Sep 20, 20265× typical views
• American Horror Story Season 13 Episodes 1-3 Breakdown | WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!36K views · Sep 25, 20263.8× typical views
• Lioness Season 3 Episode 8 Breakdown- SEASON 4 IS GOING TO GET MESSY28K views · Sep 20, 20262.9× typical views
• Practical Magic 2 Cast Interview: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Joey King, Maisie Williams, & MORE26K views · Sep 3, 20262.7× typical views
• American Horror Story Season 13 Episode 13 Breakdown | THROW RYAN MURPHY UNDER THE JAIL!!24K views · Nov 1, 20262.5× typical views
• American Horror Story Season13 Episodes 4-6 Breakdown | RYAN MURPHY… WHAT ARE WE DOING?!23K views · Oct 4, 20262.4× typical views
• Outer Banks Season 5 Cast Interview | The Cast Reveals Their Favorite Final Season Moments22K views · Aug 18, 20262.3× typical views
• American Horror Story Season 13 Episodes 9-10 Breakdown | THIS SHOW KEEPS GETTING WORSE!22K views · Oct 16, 20262.3× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Pay Or Wait's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Gilded Age Season 4 Episode 1 Breakdown | WHAT IS WRONG WITH MR. RUSSELL?!8.2K views · Nov 2, 20260.9× typical views
• American Horror Story Season 13 Episode 13 Breakdown | THROW RYAN MURPHY UNDER THE JAIL!!24K views · Nov 1, 20262.5× typical views
• La Bola Negra Cast Interview: Miguel Bernardeau, Guitarricadelafuente, & Los Javis4K views · Oct 29, 20260.4× typical views
• Love Is Blind Season 11 Cast Interview | Jax REVEALS Why She REALLY Left Stew!3.2K views · Oct 21, 20260.3× typical views
• Jenna Ortega & Taika Waititi on AI, Humanity & Being an Outsider | Klara and the Sun Cast Interview7.2K views · Oct 21, 20260.8× typical views
• CLAYFACE Cast Interview: Tom Rhys Harries, Naomi Ackie & James Watkins on DC's Terrifying Villain!5.3K views · Oct 20, 20260.6× typical views
• Sense and Sensibility (2026) Cast Interview | Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles & Caitríona Balfe2.7K views · Oct 17, 20260.3× typical views
• American Horror Story Season 13 Episodes 9-10 Breakdown | THIS SHOW KEEPS GETTING WORSE!22K views · Oct 16, 20262.3× typical views
• The Diplomat Season 4 Cast Interview | Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, Allison Janney & More7.8K views · Oct 15, 20260.8× typical views
• Street Fighter Cast Interview | Cody Rhodes, Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo & More!13K views · Oct 15, 20261.3× typical views

The Film, TV & Anime niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 21K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 15.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 14K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $7.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: 泡芙剧场PuffDrama (108K subs, best video 69×), Memelogyz (133K subs, best video 191.2×), Le Mec (205K subs, best video 132.1×), HSN Explains (24K subs, best video 71.3×), CrispyTheory (86K subs, best video 689.5×), Swagger Exposed Shorts (133K subs, best video 93.4×).

Channels similar to Pay Or Wait

• AV Pop Culture78K subscribers · 34K typical views
• Abdul Habib Attari25 80K subscribers · 224K typical views
• Scaredy Cats69K subscribers
• Movie Timelines68K subscribers · 8.8K typical views
• Just Blue67K subscribers · 34K typical views
• The Drama Network86K subscribers · 19K typical views
• Audible UK 63K subscribers · 2.3K typical views
• Boulet Brothers62K subscribers · 18K typical views
• CTV Television62K subscribers · 783 typical views
• Farscape91K subscribers · 4.1K typical views
• Bila Asan93K subscribers · 42K typical views
• Miguel Munuera60K subscribers · 271K typical views

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 Pay Or Wait or YouTube.