ARD CrimeTime YouTube Stats

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

ARD CrimeTime channel overview

ARD CrimeTime (@ardcrimetime) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2021. It has 249K subscribers and 51M total views across 305 videos, an average of 168K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 85K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 50K views. Over the last 12 months, ARD CrimeTime published 55 videos (42% Shorts), and 7 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, ARD CrimeTime gained 2K subscribers and 1.2M views, about 122K views a day.

How much does ARD CrimeTime make?

Returbe estimates ARD CrimeTime's YouTube ad revenue at $9.1K – $27K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.42 to $7.26, typically $4.03, 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 $4K.

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Upload schedule

ARD CrimeTime publishes about 13 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (35% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

ARD CrimeTime's best outlier videos

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

• In der Schule gemobbt, im Darknet gefeiert | SUDO Folge 1/3 | ARD True Crime534K views · Aug 27, 202610.7× typical views
• Luxusleben, Zwangsräumung, Mord | Der Fall Mörlenbach486K views · Oct 28, 20269.6× typical views
• Der Germanwings-Absturz: Chronologie eines Verbrechens | Folge 1/4 | ARD True Crime424K views · Sep 7, 20268.5× typical views
• Kindesmutter sollte sterben, damit seine Lügen nicht auffliegen | Der Fall Torsten B.343K views · Aug 19, 20266.9× typical views
• Was steckt hinter dem sogenannten Satansmord von Witten? | Der Fall251K views · Sep 16, 20265× typical views
• Der Fall Josephine R. - Eine Familie am Abgrund | Folge 1 / 3 | ARD True Crime182K views · Oct 21, 20263.6× typical views
• Doppelleben: Zwischen Studium und Darknet | SUDO Folge 2/3 | ARD True Crime166K views · Sep 21, 20263.3× typical views
• Die tödliche Täuschung des Knastpoeten| Der Fall Jack Unterweger148K views · Jul 15, 20263× typical views

Latest videos

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

• 13 Jahre unschuldig im Gefängnis: Manfred G. erhält Entschädigung | #ardtruecrime #verbrechen5.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.8× typical views
• Tödliche Date Night | Bayern 3 Videopodcast | ARD True Crime7.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Nach Tötung - Frau und Kinder waren nur Stastisten | Der Fall Mörlenbach #crimetime13K views · Oct 30, 20261.9× typical views
• Mord für das perfekte Image: Wenn ein Polizist für sein Ego tötet | #ardtruecrime #verbrechen4.4K views · Oct 29, 20260.6× typical views
• Luxusleben, Zwangsräumung, Mord | Der Fall Mörlenbach486K views · Oct 28, 20269.6× typical views
• Hamer ist Gründer der Pseudolehre „GNM“ und ein falscher Heiler #gnm #hamer #seelenfänger3.2K views · Oct 26, 20260.5× typical views
• Unschuldig verurteilt und in Haft | Der Fall Josephine R. #truecrime4.7K views · Oct 23, 20260.7× typical views
• Bestattung auf dem Küchenboden | Bayern 3 Videopodcast | ARD True Crime15K views · Oct 22, 20260.3× typical views
• Erstochen nach der Disco - Cold Case Anja Lengnick | Podcast ARD True Time30K views · Oct 22, 20260.6× typical views
• Der Fall Josephine R. - Eine Familie am Abgrund | Folge 1 / 3 | ARD True Crime182K views · Oct 21, 20263.6× 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 ARD CrimeTime or YouTube.