This channel has 20 million views on one skeleton short
No face, no voice, and at the short form rate that pays about $900
I scored 1,593 uploads from 29 real AI channels against their own medians
A hit means beating your own channel by 10x
The base rate is 6.91 percent - one upload in fourteen
Short form hits 6.43 percent and pays cents per thousand views
Long form hits 9.54 percent and pays dollars
Same million views, two orders of magnitude apart, decided before you render a frame
Animal drama is the most copied format in AI video - 459 attempts
IT CONVERTS AT 0.60x THE BASE RATE
History scene, 212 attempts, runs 2.12x
$12 to generate one, one in fourteen lands
Everyone publishes the winner, nobody publishes the other thirteen
The pipeline was never the hard part
The format you pick before the first render is
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