BBC Timestamp YouTube Stats

@bbctimestamp · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

BBC Timestamp channel overview

BBC Timestamp (@bbctimestamp) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2018. It has 964K subscribers and 61M total views across 323 videos, an average of 188K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.3M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 372K views. Over the last 12 months, BBC Timestamp published 15 videos, and 5 of them (33%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does BBC Timestamp make?

Returbe estimates BBC Timestamp's YouTube ad revenue at $8.2K – $27K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, 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 $5.5K.

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

BBC Timestamp publishes about 7.6 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (33% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

BBC Timestamp's best outlier videos

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

• Breathtaking WW1 battlefield uncovers a soldier untouched since the war | BBC Timestamp10M views · Oct 9, 202627.5× typical views
• Debunking the biggest myths history made you believe | BBC Timestamp2.6M views · Sep 25, 20267× typical views
• What You Weren't Taught About The American Civil War | BBC Timestamp1.5M views · Oct 30, 20263.9× typical views
• Remarkable rare look at a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth | BBC Timestamp1.3M views · Sep 30, 20263.4× typical views
• Prof Alice Roberts uncovers how ancient humans survived the Ice Age | BBC Timestamp1.2M views · Sep 10, 20263.1× typical views
• Has science finally found the real Atlantis? | BBC Timestamp1.1M views · Sep 21, 20262.8× typical views
• Did archaeologists just find North America's second Viking settlement? | BBC Timestamp560K views · Oct 15, 20261.5× typical views
• The terrifying truth behind America's Cold War weapons | BBC Timestamp183K views · Oct 23, 20260.5× typical views

Latest videos

7 of BBC Timestamp's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Prof Alice Roberts Best Archeological Discoveries | BBC Timestamp42K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Prof Alice Roberts uncovers animal remains untouched since the ice age | BBC Timestamp53K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• What You Weren't Taught About The American Civil War | BBC Timestamp1.5M views · Oct 30, 20263.9× typical views
• Remarkable discovery rewrites when human history began | BBC Timestamp118K views · Oct 27, 20260.3× typical views
• The terrifying truth behind America's Cold War weapons | BBC Timestamp183K views · Oct 23, 20260.5× typical views
• Astonishing archaeological discovery of the earliest Americans | BBC Timestamp148K views · Oct 19, 20260.4× typical views
• Did archaeologists just find North America's second Viking settlement? | BBC Timestamp560K views · Oct 15, 20261.5× typical views
• Breathtaking WW1 battlefield uncovers a soldier untouched since the war | BBC Timestamp10M views · Oct 9, 202627.5× typical views
• Why what you know about human evolution is wrong | BBC Timestamp57K views · Oct 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Remarkable rare look at a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth | BBC Timestamp1.3M views · Sep 30, 20263.4× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5K videos from 645 channels in this niche. 13.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 281.1×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 68.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 28.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.8×), Military History Talks (45K subs, best video 25.8×), JTM History (7.6K subs, best video 39×).

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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 Timestamp or YouTube.