48 Hours YouTube Stats

@48hours · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

48 Hours channel overview

48 Hours (@48hours) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2013. It has 2.6M subscribers and 1.5B total views across 2.5K videos, an average of 610K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 615K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 482K views. Over the last 12 months, 48 Hours published 104 videos (17% Shorts), and 34 of them (33%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, 48 Hours gained 30K subscribers and 38M views, about 1.9M views a day.

How much does 48 Hours make?

Returbe estimates 48 Hours's YouTube ad revenue at $236K – $709K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.91 to $8.74, typically $4.86, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $4.9K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

48 Hours publishes about 47.8 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (23% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

48 Hours's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are 48 Hours's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• A date night turns deadly ... #shorts1.6M views · Oct 29, 202656.6× typical views
• Mandy Stavik: The Case No One Could Forget | Full Episode16M views · Nov 1, 202225.8× typical views
• Multiple cameras capture the final moments of a woman's life #shorts647K views · Oct 22, 202623.4× typical views
• "Little minute details" help solve a murder #shorts250K views · Oct 22, 20269.1× typical views
• Murder at the Mall: The Michelle Martinko Case | Full Episode4.7M views · Dec 19, 20237.8× typical views
• The Mansion Above Dale Hollow Lake | Full Episode3.6M views · Oct 29, 20267.5× typical views
• The Love Bombing of Gloria Choi | Full Episode3.5M views · May 8, 20267.4× typical views
• Police say S.C. soldier killed estranged wife, then fled with 17-year-old girlfriend | Full Episode3.4M views · Oct 8, 20267.2× typical views

Latest videos

12 of 48 Hours's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Naresh Bhatt's Shocking Testimony | Case by Case | "48 Hours" Podcast2.5K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Who Killed JonBenét' Ramsey?294K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• Jade Benning's Final Call | Full Episode1.1M views · Nov 3, 20262.3× typical views
• Natalie Holloway: New Clues in Paradise | Full Episode316K views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views
• Friends investigate scene after accusation that woman's date put something in her drink#shorts40K views · Oct 31, 20261.4× typical views
• What happened to Tara Grinstead? | Full Episode1.1M views · Oct 31, 20262.2× typical views
• The “accident” defense | "48 Hours" marathon502K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• What the Cameras Saw | Post Mortem33K views · Oct 31, 20260.1× typical views
• Inside Philly's "House of Horrors" | Case by Case | "48 Hours" Podcast98K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• Did a Nashville chef's final phone call reveal clues to her death?85K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 507 channels in this niche. 8.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with 48 Hours or YouTube.