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Here’s Exactly How Much Money We Earn With 28k YouTube Subscribers

6 min readMar 11, 2025

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Days We Spend lifetime YouTube ad revenue May 19, 2021 — March 9, 2025 (all photos by the author)

In December 2023, I shared exactly how much money my wife and I earn from 1.3 million views on our YouTube channel, Days We Spend.

But a lot has changed since I wrote that article.

So here’s an update on how much money we earn every month from a YouTube channel with 28,000 subscribers, what you can expect if you build a YouTube channel with over 25,000 subscribers, and why I still think starting a YouTube channel is a fantastic idea in 2025, even if it takes you a while to earn any “real” money.

Let’s dive into it.

How much does a YouTube channel with +25,000 subscribers earn each month?

I’ll start with the good news.

Over the past 90 days, our channel, Days We Spend, has earned $2,166.63 from YouTube ad revenue. That’s about $722 a month.

Days We Spend YouTube revenue Dec 10, 2024 — March 9, 2025

For context, that’s almost as much as we earned during the first year after we…

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Shawn Forno
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A very left-handed writer | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DaysWeSpend | Lonely Planet, Matt D’Avella, The Startup, MindCafe, Writer’s Cooperative

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