THIS IS F**KING GOLD he highlighted half a sentence. the other half is the whole answer. $700 TO $65,000+ that range sits in the same google snippet at 0:13. the highlight stops at $4,000 to $7,000 per million views. the sentence doesn't. it continues with the three things that decide which end you land on: niche, audience location, and whether you publish short-form. this video is kids content, in shorts, generated at volume. that's the bottom of all three. a channel set as made for kids can't serve personalized ads a legal requirement, not a youtube preference so contextual is all that runs, and contextual pays a fraction. shorts are paid from a pooled model that splits ad revenue across the feed rather than per video. stack those two and you're not in the $2,000–$5,000 band at all. the hooks says $630/day. and to be fair: the setup works. the images render, the shorts export,the pipeline is real. what doesn't survive is the arithmetic on the other side of it. full breakdown in the article below.