YouTube Shorts RPM: what Shorts actually pays per 1,000 views

YouTube Shorts pays roughly $0.01 to $0.15 per 1,000 views, through the YouTube Partner Programme's Shorts revenue sharing — and only once you are in it. Open to anyone who clears published thresholds.

Clipping campaigns accepting YouTube Shorts posts are paying a median of $1.00 per 1,000 views right now, across 550 live campaigns — and the good end of that board is at $2.00. No follower minimum, no view threshold, no application to a partner programme.

This is the half of the comparison that usually gets left out. The rate above is what you earn after clearing all of this:

• 1,000 subscribers
• 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days — or 4,000 qualified watch hours on long-form video in the last 12 months
• An active AdSense for YouTube account linked to the channel, and no active Community Guidelines strikes
• Advanced features access, and 2-Step Verification on the Google account
• Living in a country where the Partner Programme is available

A clipping campaign asks for none of it. The account you post from can be a week old with forty followers; what the campaign buys is views on a clip, and it pays on the views the clip earns. That is the entire difference in access between the two, and for most people reading this it matters more than the difference in rate.

Both clipping columns are read from the live board at the moment this page was rendered: 541 of the 550 live campaigns accepting YouTube Shorts publish a rate worth counting. The median is the middle of those; the good-campaign figure is the same weighted reading the rest of the site uses, so it matches what you will see on the rate index.

The honest caveat on this table cuts both ways. Campaign budgets run out, so a rate only pays while there is money behind it — and a clip has to be approved. But the views that merely qualify you to enter YouTube Shorts's programme are, on a campaign, simply paid — from the first clip, on an account with no history.

Shorts revenue is pooled, not per-video. Ad money from the Shorts feed goes into one pot, music licensing is paid out of it first, and creators split what is left in proportion to their share of views — so your rate moves month to month for reasons that have nothing to do with your clips.

The range is mostly niche. Most channels report $0.01 to $0.07 per 1,000; finance, B2B and tech reach the top of the range and occasionally beyond it. Entertainment and gaming clips — which is most clipping — sit at the bottom.

The 10-million-view threshold is the one that catches people. A channel can be well past 1,000 subscribers and still years from being paid a cent for Shorts.

Two different places, and the difference matters more than either figure. The clipping rates are measured: read at render time from every live campaign ClipRadar covers, and shown as an em dash rather than an estimate when the read fails.

The YouTube Shorts figures are compiled. No platform publishes a per-view rate, so the eligibility thresholds come from the platform’s own terms and the payout range from what creators report earning. It is a range for that reason: anyone quoting a single RPM for a pooled, revenue-shared programme is quoting somebody else’s page.

YouTube Shorts figures compiled from YouTube's Partner Programme eligibility page and from creator-reported earnings. Last checked 2026-09-03.

Looking for the campaigns rather than the comparison? Every live campaign accepting YouTube Shorts posts is on one page, with the rate and remaining budget on each row.