Absolute Documentaries YouTube Stats

@absolutedocumentaries · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Absolute Documentaries channel overview

Absolute Documentaries (@absolutedocumentaries) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2020. It has 572K subscribers and 77M total views across 1K videos, an average of 76K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 6.1K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.7K views. Over the last 12 months, Absolute Documentaries published 62 videos, and 12 of them (19%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Absolute Documentaries gained 1K subscribers and 1M views, about 51K views a day.

How much does Absolute Documentaries make?

Returbe estimates Absolute Documentaries's YouTube ad revenue at $4.5K – $14K 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

Absolute Documentaries publishes about 22.8 videos a month. Based on its last 64 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (22% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Absolute Documentaries's best outlier videos

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

• The Untold Genius of the Northern Renaissance - Art, Truth and Innovation96K views · Oct 4, 202657.5× typical views
• The Mystery of the 1944 B-17 Bomber Crash - Unearthing WWII Secrets90K views · Sep 8, 202653.6× typical views
• Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: $17 Million In Cash Stolen | Unperfect Crime | Absolute Documentaries3.9M views · Mar 9, 202251.2× typical views
• The Battle for Marjah: U.S. Marines Under Fire in Afghanistan67K views · Aug 29, 202639.9× typical views
• Bugs, Bites and Deadly Parasites - Shocking Real Medical Cases56K views · Sep 22, 202633.5× typical views
• 9/11 Uncensored Footage The Complete Story46K views · Sep 14, 202627.2× typical views
• Christa Pike: The Teen Devil on Deathrow40K views · Oct 3, 202623.9× typical views
• Aileen Wuornos: The Bizarre Trial of America's First Female Serial Killer36K views · Sep 19, 202621.7× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Absolute Documentaries's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Lost Village Beneath Castle Howard - Unearthing Henderskelf's Secrets675 views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• 10 Elephants Moved at Shamwari as Rescuers Save 3-Month-Old Calf1.2K views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• Unearthing Henry VIII's Lost Tudor Palace - The Shocking Truth Revealed3.1K views · Nov 2, 20261.8× typical views
• History’s Strangest War Machines - Tanks, Samurai & Secret Arctic Bases825 views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• The My Lai Massacre - Untold Truths of the Vietnam War4.3K views · Nov 1, 20262.5× typical views
• Haida Gwaii: Untouched Beauty, Ancient Culture, and Coastal Wonders1.6K views · Oct 30, 20261× typical views
• The Secret Prison Where Nazi Leaders Awaited Justice - Ashcan Revealed863 views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• Inside the Migrant Journey - Hopes, Hardships and the American Dream1.8K views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views
• The Ghosts of Edgehill - Haunting Origins of the English Civil War1.2K views · Oct 28, 20260.7× typical views
• The Shocking Manhunt for Lois Reese - The Killer Grandma on the Run1.6K views · Oct 26, 20260.9× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 517 channels in this niche. 8.2% 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 Absolute Documentaries or YouTube.