American Crime Stories YouTube Stats

@americancrimestories.channel · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 11, 2026

American Crime Stories channel overview

American Crime Stories (@americancrimestories.channel) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2009. It has 2.8K subscribers and 821K total views across 53 videos, an average of 15K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 13K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 9.6K views. Over the last 12 months, American Crime Stories published 10 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does American Crime Stories make?

Returbe estimates American Crime Stories's YouTube ad revenue at $364 – $1.1K 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

Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (97% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Apr 12, 2026.

American Crime Stories's best outlier videos

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

• #49 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)23K views · Dec 13, 20252.4× typical views
• #44 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)14K views · Dec 13, 20251.5× typical views
• #51 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)11K views · Apr 12, 20261.1× typical views
• #45 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)10K views · Dec 13, 20251.1× typical views
• #48 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)10K views · Dec 13, 20251× typical views
• #25 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)13K views · Nov 8, 20251× typical views
• #26 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)2.6K views · Nov 8, 20251× typical views
• #24 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)11K views · Nov 8, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

2 of American Crime Stories's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• #51 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)11K views · Apr 12, 20261.1× typical views
• #43 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)2.9K views · Dec 13, 20250.3× typical views
• #44 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)14K views · Dec 13, 20251.5× typical views
• #45 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)10K views · Dec 13, 20251.1× typical views
• #42 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)6.3K views · Dec 13, 20250.7× typical views
• #48 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)10K views · Dec 13, 20251× typical views
• #47 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)1.4K views · Dec 13, 20250.1× typical views
• #49 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)23K views · Dec 13, 20252.4× typical views
• #46 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)1.3K views · Dec 13, 20250.1× typical views
• #50 The Most Shocking True Crime Cases in the USA (3 Hours Full Documentary)9.2K views · Dec 13, 20251× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.1K videos from 922 channels in this niche. 10.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 17K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (403K subs, best video 20.9×), Criminally Obsessed (248K subs, best video 25.9×), Crime 360 (242K subs, best video 13.2×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (26K subs, best video 58.4×), FOX 29 Philadelphia (431K subs, best video 34×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 71.4×).

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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 American Crime Stories or YouTube.