BBC Archive YouTube Stats

@bbcarchive · Film, TV & Anime · Updated Nov 6, 2026

BBC Archive channel overview

BBC Archive (@bbcarchive) is a YouTube channel in the Film, TV & Anime niche created in 2018. It has 803K subscribers and 250M total views across 2K videos, an average of 127K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 83K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 66K views. Over the last 12 months, BBC Archive published 72 videos (28% Shorts), and 11 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, BBC Archive gained 7K subscribers and 6.8M views, about 397K views a day.

How much does BBC Archive make?

Returbe estimates BBC Archive's YouTube ad revenue at $16K – $75K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.1 to $5.14, typically $2.57, 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 $2.6K.

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

BBC Archive publishes about 43.4 videos a month. Based on its last 72 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (19% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

BBC Archive's best outlier videos

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

• 1988: Sir Patrick Stewart on becoming Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard | BBC Archive635K views · Oct 30, 202627.6× typical views
• 1976: British Rail introduces high speed trains | BBC Archive596K views · Oct 4, 202626× typical views
• 1996: Can a Computer Produce Art? | It'll Never Work | BBC Archive674K views · Oct 1, 202610.3× typical views
• 1982: King Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose is recovered | BBC Archive227K views · Oct 11, 20269.9× typical views
• 1980: Residents Return to St Kilda After 50 Years | BBC Archive580K views · Oct 3, 20268.8× typical views
• 1988: When even Olympic athletes couldn't outrun the clock | BBC Archive159K views · Oct 29, 20266.9× typical views
• 1981: Nothing to do Nowhere to go in Nottingham | Grapevine | BBC Archive376K views · Sep 23, 20265.7× typical views
• 1988: Patrick Stewart on Becoming Jean-Luc Picard | Wogan | BBC Archive258K views · Oct 30, 20263.9× typical views

Latest videos

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

• 1997: Waiting Tables | Picture This | BBC Archive7.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• 1992: Donna Tartt on the Secret (History) of her Success | BBC Archive4.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• 1975: Is Hollywood in Crisis? | Film Night | BBC Archive10K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• 1960: How to Find Your Way Around | Science and Life | BBC Archive14K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• 1975: Could this be the world’s most elaborate one-man band? | BBC Archive4.9K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• 1994: Dressing Funny | The Clothes Show | BBC Archive23K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• 1979: Make Your Own Tables | Make Your Own Furniture | BBC Archive47K views · Nov 2, 20260.7× typical views
• 1989: Tony Robinson on Baldrick’s enduring appeal | BBC Archive31K views · Nov 2, 20261.4× typical views
• 1955: Orson Welles on The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast | BBC Archive20K views · Nov 1, 20260.3× typical views
• 1984: Meet the Modern-Day Witches | The Afternoon Show | BBC Archive26K views · Oct 31, 20260.4× typical views

The Film, TV & Anime niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 21K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 15.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 14K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $7.

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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 BBC Archive or YouTube.