The Crystal Barista
Adrienne McElwain, known as @thecrystalbarista, is a geologist and rock shop owner in Utah, USA, making travel and rockhounding videos about gems, crystals and minerals. Her channel has about 5,000 subscribers and a median of roughly 1,400 views per video, with about nine uploads a year. Sponsored integrations are quoted at $150 to $250 per video.
Reach rockhounding and geology fans with a family-friendly, hands-on channel
- Median of about 1,376 views per video across 88 uploads
- Lifetime channel views of about 260,000 since 2011
- Recent long-form travel videos reach up to 5,500 views
Brand fit report
Content
- Formats
- travel vlog, shop and show promotion, field digging and prospecting
- Tone
- curious, enthusiastic
- Language
- English
- On camera
- Yes, talking head
- Production
- Phone, natural light
- Typical length
- under 60 seconds for Shorts, 8 to 12 minutes for long-form travel
Audience
Commercial
- Brands seen
- None yet
- Categories promoted
- rocks, minerals and crystals retail, event tickets for rock shows
- Affiliate links
- No
No sponsorship disclosures found in the last 50 videos; the channel promotes its own shop and the Crystal Festival show.
Suitability GARM Brand Safety Floor + Suitability
Family friendly
Content is educational travel and mining footage with no flagged material in the recent titles.
We classify content, never people. No age, gender, ethnicity, religion or political views are inferred about the creator. Audience figures are estimates unless marked verified. Creators can correct anything on their profile.
Platforms
| Platform | Followers | Median views | Uploads, 90d |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | 5k | 1.4k | 2 |
Benchmark score: 37 / 100
Public rule, same for everyone. How it works.
Recent videos
▶Two Millennia of Mining: The Italian Marble of Carrara · 1.4k views
▶Crystal Festival - A Rock, Mineral, Gem, & Crystal Show Aug · 814 views
▶May 27, 2026 · 174 viewsLast three uploads, latest 41 days ago.
The Crystal Barista is an online rock and crystal shop with the flair for mixing up magically fun gemstone, crystal, and mineral games and trivia. The Crystal Barista is the founder and creator of The Crystal Festival in Utah. The Crystal Barista (Adrienne McElwain) runs a Rock Show called The Crystal Festival in Utah and Colorado, teaches geology at local schools and co-ops, and travels the world making videos for children and adults that love rocks. Adrienne McElwain started The Crystal Barista in 2018 after her father closed his lifelong rock shop in Salt Lake City, Utah. Geologist by trad
About The Crystal Barista
Adrienne McElwain runs The Crystal Barista, a YouTube channel that covers rockhounding, geology and gemstone travel. Her videos follow her trips to mines, gem markets and rock shows, mixing field digging with short explainers on minerals. Per the website, she is a geologist, teaches classes, and runs the Crystal Festival rock show in Utah.
The channel has about 5,000 subscribers and a median of roughly 1,400 views per video. Audience estimates lean toward hobbyist rock collectors and families in the United States, with a sizable share of older viewers; these are estimates, not platform-reported figures. Uploads run at around nine per year, so reach is steady rather than fast-growing.
Brands selling rock hounding equipment, educational geology products or collectible minerals should consider this channel. Sponsored integrations are quoted at $150 to $250 per video, which works out to roughly $20 to $35 CPM on median views, compared with $10 to $30 CPM for typical paid ads.
Written from The Crystal Barista's public YouTube profile, platform data and web mentions. Numbers updated 2026-10-19. The Crystal Barista can edit or remove this page at any time.
Questions about The
How much does Adrienne McElwain charge for a sponsored video?
Adrienne McElwain of The Crystal Barista is quoted at $150 to $250 per sponsored video, based on the channel's median views of about 1,400 per video. That works out to roughly $20 to $35 per 1,000 views, so the cost is set by the rate rule rather than a published card.
What does Adrienne McElwain post about on YouTube?
She posts rockhounding and geology content, including travel to gem mines in Brazil, Madagascar and Australia, gold digging, and rock show promotion. Shorts and longer travel vlogs both appear, with a focus on minerals, crystals and the history of mining sites.
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