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Cecil Rowe

@cecilrowe1943

Language: EnglishCountry not available2 months old

  • Persona: Cecil Rowe · Home cook · Senior
  • Sells · $37 cookbook
  • Appalachian cooking
  • Cast iron cooking
  • Old-fashioned recipes
  • Mountain cooking
  • Homesteading
  • Hog butchering
  • Meat curing
  • Cooking tips
Subscribers
11.4K
Total views
236K
Videos
20

Stats updated Stats from YouTube

Growth

Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days

Dotted: 2 days without a fresh subscriber total stored in this range. Left out, not filled in.

Show the numbers
Subscribers per UTC day, last 30 days, newest first
Day (UTC)Subscribers
Oct 14, 202611,400
Oct 13, 202611,400
Oct 12, 202611,400
Oct 11, 202611,400
Oct 10, 202611,400
Oct 9, 202611,400
Oct 8, 202611,300
Oct 7, 2026not available
Oct 6, 2026not available
Oct 5, 202611,300
Oct 4, 202611,200
Oct 3, 202611,200
Oct 2, 202611,100
Oct 1, 202611,100
Sep 30, 202611,100
Sep 29, 202611,000
Sep 28, 202611,000
Sep 27, 202610,900
Sep 26, 202610,800
Sep 25, 202610,800
Sep 24, 202610,700
Sep 23, 202610,600
Sep 22, 202610,600
Sep 21, 202610,500
Sep 20, 202610,400
Sep 19, 202610,400
Sep 18, 202610,300
Sep 17, 202610,200
Sep 16, 202610,100
Sep 15, 202610,100
Sep 14, 202610,000

Top videos

Most viewed

What they sell

From the public store pages the channel links to, checked Oct 6, 2026.

How they sell it

  1. 1Video
  2. 2DescriptionThe first line of every recent description links cecilrowe.com; some descriptions also name the book in the body
  3. 3Landing pageSales page for The Holler Receipt Book: $37 against a struck-through $157, 30-day money-back guarantee · cecilrowe.com
  4. 4EmailA pop-up on the sales page offers five free recipes for an email address
  5. 5CheckoutGumroad · Buy buttons lead to the Gumroad checkout for The Holler Receipt Book Collection + BONUSES
  • Store link in 100% of recent descriptions
  • Link in descriptions since Aug 22, 2026
  • Entry points: the About page, the first line of descriptions

All 15 recent descriptions open with a link to cecilrowe.com, which is also the channel's about link, labelled "daddys cook book". The page sells The Holler Receipt Book, credited to Opal Rowe, presented as Cecil's wife: 118 recipes across five kitchens plus companion pieces such as an audio narration, a large-print edition and a putting-up almanac, for $37 against a struck-through $157, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Its buy buttons lead to a Gumroad checkout for "The Holler Receipt Book Collection + BONUSES". A pop-up on the page offers five free recipes in exchange for an email address, and several descriptions also name the book in their body text.

Analysis

Our own reading of the channel’s public titles, descriptions and thumbnails, not data from YouTube.

Persona

Cecil Rowe

Home cook · Senior · Male · Outdoors on a mountain farm and in a rustic cabin kitchen, beside cast-iron cookware

Niche

Appalachian mountain cooking tricks and old homestead know-how

Audience

Home cooks drawn to traditional Appalachian cast-iron cooking, thrifty no-waste meals and old farm skills such as curing and smoking pork (inferred from titles and descriptions; the pack has no audience data).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic elderly man with a worn brown cap, round wire glasses, a white mustache, a plaid flannel shirt and denim overalls, placed at the edge of the frame beside cast-iron food, outdoors by green hills or in a dim cabin kitchen.
Format

A numbered countdown of 15 to 48 'Appalachian tricks' about one food or farm job, told as the persona's mountain know-how from the top number down to one, often holding one secret back for number one.

Content pillars
  • Cast-iron cooking of everyday staples (bacon, onions, potatoes, eggs)
  • Mountain breads and cornbread
  • Pork from hog-killing and curing to ham, ribs and chops
  • Old homestead and farm know-how
Title patterns
  • STOP Frying [X] The OLD Way! Try These [N] Appalachian Tricks
  • NEVER [Cook X] Again! Try These [N] Appalachian Cooking Tricks
  • [N] Appalachian [X] Tricks Grandpa Never Wrote Down
  • [N] BANNED Appalachian [X] Tricks That Scientists Now Say Were GENIUS
Thumbnails

The persona at one edge making a hush gesture (9 of 10) beside a heaped cast-iron skillet or Dutch oven of the food; a red box reading 'DADDY'S OLD TRICKS' with a curved arrow on 6 of 10, including the 4 most viewed; 3 of the 4 newest use yellow 'NEVER [X]' text.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • Two videos with one formula, 'STOP Frying [X] The Old Way! Try These [N] Appalachian Tricks', hold 157K of 233K total views (68%)
  • A numbered countdown in 14 of 15 titles and 'Appalachian' in all 15, so every upload reads as part of one series
  • One recognizable persona: the same elderly man with a hush gesture in 9 of 10 thumbnails, always next to the food
  • Descriptions build a backstory: sixty years of cast-iron cooking in a Kentucky holler, and the recipes his wife finally wrote down
  • A direct funnel: the $37 recipe-book link opens all 15 stored descriptions and is also the about link

Where the channel points

Links from the channel’s About page and its video descriptions.

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