Sesame Street YouTube Stats

@sesamestreet · Music · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Sesame Street channel overview

Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) is a YouTube channel in the Music niche created in 2006. It has 30M subscribers and 32B total views across 4.2K videos, an average of 7.6M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 311K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 463K views. Over the last 12 months, Sesame Street published 51 videos (39% Shorts), and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Sesame Street make?

Returbe estimates Sesame Street's YouTube ad revenue at $4.6K – $23K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.57 to $2.84, typically $1.28, 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 $1.3K.

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

Sesame Street publishes about 27.2 videos a month. Based on its last 49 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (22% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Sesame Street's best outlier videos

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

• Cookie or Biscuit? 🍪 Elmo & Peppa Pig #sesamestreet #peppapig941K views · Sep 24, 20263.4× typical views
• Elmo's Halloween Festival! 🎃 🦇 | 2 HOURS | Sesame Street1.4M views · Oct 4, 20263.1× typical views
• Play 123 Freeze with Elmo! #sesamestreet784K views · Sep 10, 20262.9× typical views
• Let's Find Shapes with Elmo! 🔴 🟦 ⭐ | 60 Mins | Sesame Street1.3M views · Sep 23, 20262.7× typical views
• E is for Elmo! Learn the Letter E ❤️ | 50 Mins | Sesame Street1M views · Sep 9, 20262.2× typical views
• Halloween Costume Ideas with Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby! 👻 🦇 | 50 Mins | Sesame Street996K views · Oct 18, 20262.2× typical views
• Elmo's Number of the Day is ONE! #sesamestreet568K views · Oct 1, 20262.1× typical views
• Let's Learn Colors with Elmo! 🌈 🎨 | 65 Min | Sesame Street918K views · Sep 20, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Sesame Street's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Cookie Monster Songs! 🍪 #sesamestreet1.7K views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• Let's Get Creative with Elmo and Abby! ✨ | FOUR Sesame Street Episodes119K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Animals on the Farm! 🐄 🐔 🐎 #sesamestreet33K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Build a Butterfly House with Elmo, Abby, and Grover! 🦋 | Sesame Street & LEGO Little Ones35K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Elmo's Favorite Nursery Rhymes 🤩 | 2 Hours | Sesame Street362K views · Nov 1, 20260.8× typical views
• Counting Songs with Elmo! #sesamestreet103K views · Oct 31, 20260.4× typical views
• Sesame Street: In the Saturday Night Live Writer's Room with Elmo and friends77K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• Elmo & Friends Visit the Farm! 🐄 🐖 🐤 | FOUR Sesame Street Full Episodes372K views · Oct 30, 20260.8× typical views
• Sesame Street: Weekday Update with Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Saturday Night Live128K views · Oct 29, 20260.3× typical views
• Elmo and Puppy's Number of the Day is 2! #sesamestreet218K views · Oct 29, 20260.8× typical views

The Music niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.4K videos from 717 channels in this niche. 12.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $0.8 to $4.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Jennie bee.. (92K subs, best video 128.8×), SHARP (145K subs, best video 21×), Debates Capital (47K subs, best video 86.4×), Nova Melody (13K subs, best video 271×), everythingye (20K subs, best video 33.5×), Shorts Render (423K subs, best video 16×).

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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 Sesame Street or YouTube.