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  "name": "Does switching niche actually increase your YouTube RPM?",
  "description": "Yes — niche is the single largest RPM lever available. Moving from gaming ($1.80 RPM) to personal finance ($18 RPM) is a 10× change in revenue per view, far bigger than anything you can gain from video length, ad placement or CTR. The catch is that the audience does not transfer, so views usually collapse first.",
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    "question": "Does switching niche actually increase your YouTube RPM?",
    "shortAnswer": "Yes — niche is the single largest RPM lever available. Moving from gaming ($1.80 RPM) to personal finance ($18 RPM) is a 10× change in revenue per view, far bigger than anything you can gain from video length, ad placement or CTR. The catch is that the audience does not transfer, so views usually collapse first.",
    "tableTitle": "RPM lift from common niche moves",
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      "Move",
      "RPM change",
      "Multiple"
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      {
        "label": "Gaming → tech reviews",
        "value": "$1.80 → $9.00",
        "note": "5.0×"
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      {
        "label": "Lifestyle vlog → personal finance",
        "value": "$3.20 → $18.00",
        "note": "5.6×"
      },
      {
        "label": "Entertainment → business",
        "value": "$2.20 → $9.00",
        "note": "4.1×"
      },
      {
        "label": "Education → B2B SaaS",
        "value": "$6.00 → $12.00",
        "note": "2.0×"
      },
      {
        "label": "Food → real estate",
        "value": "$4.50 → $13.00",
        "note": "2.9×"
      },
      {
        "label": "Any niche → adding one sponsor/month",
        "value": "+$5–$15 effective",
        "note": "no audience change"
      }
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    "context": "The economically sane version of a niche switch is a niche drift: keep the audience you have and move the content toward the money. A gaming channel that starts covering PC building economics, a fitness channel that covers supplement costs, a travel channel that covers points and credit cards — each keeps the existing viewers while attracting advertisers who bid more. A hard reset to an unrelated topic usually costs 60–90% of your views for six months or more.",
    "methodology": "Multiples are computed directly from the 2026 niche RPM table (typical RPM figures, post-split). The sponsorship row estimates effective RPM added by one integration a month on a channel doing 200,000–500,000 monthly views at a $25–$45 sponsor CPM.",
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