Cold Trace - True Crime Stories YouTube Stats
@_coldtrace · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026
Subscribers
191K
+4K in 20 days
Total views
52M
+3.2M in 20 days
Videos
354
11.9 / month
Est. monthly earnings
$15K – $44K
RPM $3–$9
Avg. views (last 30)
110K
Typical views
63K
median per video
Avg. video length
46 min
Channel age
2 years
since Mar 19, 2024
Cold Trace - True Crime Stories channel overview
Cold Trace - True Crime Stories (@_coldtrace) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2024. It has 191K subscribers and 52M total views across 354 videos, an average of 146K views per video over its lifetime.
Its last 30 uploads averaged 110K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 63K views. Over the last 12 months, Cold Trace - True Crime Stories published 55 videos (4% Shorts), and 14 of them (25%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.
Subscriber growth
Over the last 20 days, Cold Trace - True Crime Stories gained 4K subscribers and 3.2M views, about 161K views a day.
How much does Cold Trace - True Crime Stories make?
Returbe estimates Cold Trace - True Crime Stories's YouTube ad revenue at $15K – $44K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $5, 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 $5K.
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
Cold Trace - True Crime Stories publishes about 11.9 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (33% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 2, 2026.
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Cold Trace - True Crime Stories's best outlier videos
An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Cold Trace - True Crime Stories's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?
Trevor McDonald Meets America's Most Dangerous Death Row Killers8.4M views · Jul 24, 2026133.9× typical views
Piers Morgan Meets America's Most Feared Serial Killer1.9M views · Jun 29, 202630.1× typical views
Trevor Mcdonald Meets Death Rows Most Hated Man1.7M views · Jul 31, 202627.6× typical views
The Father Who Executed His Entire Family During Lockdown803K views · Oct 2, 202612.8× typical views
The Most Haunting Missing Person Case Nobody Can Explain689K views · Aug 17, 202611× typical views
The Disturbing Case Of Britain's Most Abusive Boyfriend466K views · Aug 28, 20267.5× typical views
He Murdered His Pregnant Ex and Hid Her Body in a Cemetery445K views · Aug 9, 20267.1× typical views
Trevor McDonald Meets the Mafia’s Most Notorious Killers310K views · Aug 14, 20265× typical views
Latest videos
10 of Cold Trace - True Crime Stories's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.
The Tiny Detail That Exposed a Teenage Killer’s Chilling Lie20K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
Vanished: The Sinister Case Of Katie Breen42K views · Oct 31, 20260.7× typical views
A Murder So Calculated It’s Chilling… She Dug His Grave Before Killing Him99K views · Oct 30, 20261.6× typical views
A Walk Turned Into a Family’s Worst Nightmare16K views · Oct 28, 20260.3× typical views
Man Reports His Ex Missing… Then CCTV Exposes His Chilling Lie153K views · Oct 26, 20262.5× typical views
The Most Chilling Missing Person Case | He Left A Family BBQ… Then Vanished64K views · Oct 23, 20261× typical views
The Mom Who Never Made the School Pickup | Britain's Most Chilling Murder66K views · Oct 19, 20261.1× typical views
UK's Most Chilling Case | The Fake Pregnancy Behind A Twisted Murder30K views · Oct 18, 20260.5× typical views
Jennifer Pan | The Daughter From Hell15K views · Oct 16, 20260.2× typical views
The 15-Year-Old Murdered And Hidden In A School Playground104K views · Oct 12, 20261.7× typical views
The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube
In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 500 channels in this niche. 8.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.
Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.4×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).
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Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does Cold Trace - True Crime Stories have?
Cold Trace - True Crime Stories has 191K subscribers on YouTube and 52M total views across 354 videos (Returbe data, updated Nov 6, 2026).
How much does Cold Trace - True Crime Stories make on YouTube?
Returbe estimates Cold Trace - True Crime Stories's YouTube ad revenue at $15K – $44K per month, based on recent views and an RPM of about $3–$9 per 1,000 views for this niche and audience. Sponsorships, merch and memberships are not included.
How often does Cold Trace - True Crime Stories upload?
Cold Trace - True Crime Stories uploads about 11.9 videos a month, most often on Monday. The last upload was on Nov 2, 2026.
What is Cold Trace - True Crime Stories's best performing video?
"Trevor McDonald Meets America's Most Dangerous Death Row Killers" is Cold Trace - True Crime Stories's biggest outlier: 8.4M views, 133.9× the channel's typical views.
What channels are similar to Cold Trace - True Crime Stories?
Channels similar to Cold Trace - True Crime Stories include yapmaster, Unseen Again, True Crime Stories - Documentaires Criminels, Crimes of Passion, The Bloody Bunny.
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 Cold Trace - True Crime Stories or YouTube.
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