Banijay History YouTube Stats

@banijayhistory · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Banijay History channel overview

Banijay History (@banijayhistory) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2018. It has 1.1M subscribers and 178M total views across 1.3K videos, an average of 136K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 14K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 13K views. Over the last 12 months, Banijay History published 72 videos (26% Shorts), and 7 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, Banijay History gained 0 subscribers and 1.7M views, about 107K views a day.

How much does Banijay History make?

Returbe estimates Banijay History's YouTube ad revenue at $7.9K – $26K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.94 to $9.79, typically $5.38, 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 $5.4K.

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Upload schedule

Banijay History publishes about 43.4 videos a month. Based on its last 72 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (22% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Banijay History's best outlier videos

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

• Queen Victoria's Royal Scandals, Affairs & Drugs | The Private Lives | Season 2 Episode 2158K views · Oct 12, 202612.5× typical views
• Did Japan Bury Billions in Imperial Gold in the Philippines? | Forbidden History150K views · Oct 19, 202611.8× typical views
• What Really Happened to Henry VIII's Legs? | The Private Lives | Season 1 Episode 2128K views · Oct 9, 202610.1× typical views
• $400K Church Renovation on Remote Scottish Island | The Restoration Man | Season 2 Episode 1388K views · Oct 4, 20267× typical views
• The Secret Life of the Unwashed King! | The Private Lives | Season 2 Episode 472K views · Oct 14, 20265.7× typical views
• 500-Year-Old Tudor Hat Linked to Henry VIII | The Private Lives | Season 1 Episode 171K views · Oct 8, 20265.6× typical views
• Did Vatican Secrets Cost the Pope His Life? | Forbidden History59K views · Oct 27, 20264.7× typical views
• Wewelsburg Castle and Himmler's Occult Secrets | Forbidden History34K views · Oct 25, 20262.7× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Banijay History's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Tunnel That Helped People Escape Slavery | Underground Railroad The Secret History72 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Why Did Bermuda Locals Want Ships to Sink? #shorts #forbiddenhistory75 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Uncovering America's Secret Paths to Freedom | Underground Railroad The Secret History2.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Mata Hari The Spy Who Played With Empires! | Treason: Codes, Spies & Conspiracies3.2K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Noah's Grave: Evidence of a Giant? #shorts #forbiddenhistory503 views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• She Raised the Union Flag in the Heart of Enemy Territory! | Treason: Codes, Spies & Conspiracies3.4K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• The Unbreakable Code That Protected France's Darkest Secrets | Treason: Codes, Spies & Conspiracies9.3K views · Nov 2, 20260.7× typical views
• Was Hitler's Power Something Beyond Human? #shorts #forbiddenhistory831 views · Nov 2, 20260.2× typical views
• Did England's Spymaster Let the Gunpowder Plot Happen? | Treason: Codes, Spies & Conspiracies6.7K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• The Spy Who Brought Down a Queen | Treason: Codes, Spies & Conspiracies8.5K views · Oct 31, 20260.7× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 400 channels in this niche. 13% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 Banijay History or YouTube.