The Cherno
Checks out @TheCherno Channel on YouTube Australia Takes sponsors
Takes sponsors. Estimate $840 to $1,700 for one integrated mid-roll.
Average views a post 66,694 Averaged across 6 posts, from YouTube's own API. Read Sep 4, 2026. Latest post 60,326 views, Jul 26, 2026
Median views 55,968 The typical post. Budget against this one.
subscribers 758,000 From YouTube's own API. Read Sep 4, 2026.
Last posted 1mo ago Posts every 21 days, across 6 recent posts. Read Sep 4, 2026.
Last 6 posts
Views per post, oldest to newest. Average 66,694.
What one integrated mid-roll likely costs
Our estimate, not a quote$840 to $1,700for one integrated mid-roll
55,968 median views × $15 to $30 per 1,000 views Influencer Marketing Hub, 31 Aug 2026 ↗
55,968 median views x $15 to $30 per 1,000 views (Influencer Marketing Hub, 31 Aug 2026). This is our arithmetic on a published benchmark, not a quote from the creator.
| Post | Date | Views |
|---|---|---|
| ls AI Code Actually BAD? | 60,326 | |
| How to Use AI for Programming | 81,681 | |
| Introducing the NEW 3D Game Engine Series | 51,609 | |
| Let's Talk About AI | 145,111 | |
| Code Reviewing My Own Game Engine Series (Hazel 2D) | 25,592 | |
| Hazel's New Renderer IS DONE! | 35,844 |
Who sponsors The Cherno?
3 documented sponsors: Endor Labs, GitKraken and Let's Get Rusty. Last read Sep 4, 2026.
Each name is read from the creator's own words in the post it links to. A tick means the platform also flagged that post as paid.
What we checked, in full
20 checks, 19 passed
| ✓ | Metrics came from the platform | Every audience figure here is a value YouTube's own API returned, never estimated or inferred. The price estimate is the one number we work out ourselves, and it is labelled and shows its arithmetic. | not published |
| ✓ | Enough recent posts to judge | 6 recent posts sampled (target 6). | not published |
| ✓ | Average views ≥ 20,000 | 66,694 average views, median 55,968, across 6 posts. | required |
| ✓ | Typical post also clears 20,000 | Median views 55,968 and outlier-trimmed mean 57,365 both clear the floor. A sponsored post should land in that range. | integrity |
| ✓ | Tech / dev / software engineering | 7 distinct dev signals in the bio and post text: rust, java, c++, software, programming, git. | required |
| ✓ | Not a gaming channel | YouTube's own category for the sampled posts: Education. | required |
| ✓ | Not a hardware / gear channel | No hardware/gear pattern. | preference |
| ✓ | Target region (US / UK / EU / AU / NZ / SG) | Australia (AU), from the platform's own country field. | required |
| ✓ | Like rate ≥ 0.5% of views | 4.04% like rate, 0.862% comment rate, averaged per post. | integrity |
| ✓ | Average is not one viral outlier (YouTube limit 11×) | Top post is 2.6× the median, within the normal spread for YouTube, so the average reflects repeatable performance. | integrity |
| ✓ | Comment volume matches the view counts | Median 665 comments against 2,434 median likes: a normal ratio. | integrity |
| ✓ | views plausible for the subscribers count | 66,694 average views against 758,000 subscribers (9%). | integrity |
| ✓ | Posted recently | Last post 43 day(s) ago. | preference |
| ✓ | Publishes on a regular schedule | Median 21 day(s) between posts; the 6 sampled posts span 121 days. | preference |
| ✓ | Sampled posts are recent enough to compare | The 6 sampled posts span 121 days, close enough together that their views counts are comparable. | integrity |
| ✓ | Same numbers from two endpoints of the same API | 2 post(s) appeared in both the YouTube search index and the profile feed. View counts agree to within 0.0%. | integrity |
| ✓ | Verified against the platform's own published feed | 6 video(s) cross-checked against YouTube's official RSS feed for this channel. View counts agree to within 0.0%, likes to within 0.1%. Two independent sources, same numbers. | integrity |
| ✓ | An independent creator, not a company's own channel | Nothing marks this as a company-run channel: it is not a known company account, the name carries no corporate designation, and the bio is not written in a company's voice. | required |
| – | Same person confirmed on other platforms | No other public profile was linked from this account, so this record covers one platform only. | not published |
| ✓ | Runs paid promotions (platform-declared) | 1 of 2 recent videos carries YouTube's paid-promotion flag. | not published |