BlackWater YouTube Stats

@blackwater_labs · Science & Education · Updated Nov 10, 2026

BlackWater channel overview

BlackWater (@blackwater_labs) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2025. It has 58K subscribers and 15M total views across 9 videos, an average of 1.7M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.7M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 925K views. Over the last 12 months, BlackWater published 9 videos, and 2 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does BlackWater make?

Returbe estimates BlackWater's YouTube ad revenue at $26K – $90K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.5 to $12, typically $6.5, 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 $6.5K.

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Upload schedule

BlackWater publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 9 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (22% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 30, 2026.

BlackWater's best outlier videos

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

• Scientists Dropped Alligators Into the Deep Sea. Here’s What Ate Them6.6M views · Oct 19, 20267.2× typical views
• Colossal Squid Are Everywhere. We've Been Looking Wrong4.2M views · Jul 12, 20264.6× typical views
• Are We Permanently Blinding Deep Sea Creatures?1.3M views · Sep 10, 20261.4× typical views
• The Deep Sea Line No Fish Can Cross935K views · Aug 11, 20261× typical views
• Scientists Finally Worked Out Why Fish Are Growing Legs925K views · Sep 10, 20261× typical views
• We Were Wrong About How Old Sharks Can Get593K views · Oct 10, 20260.6× typical views
• The One Problem No Octopus Can Solve352K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• The Deep Sea Flaw Evolution Cannot Fix (It's In You Too)24K views · Jul 12, 20260× typical views

Latest videos

2 of BlackWater's last 9 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The One Problem No Octopus Can Solve352K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• Scientists Dropped Alligators Into the Deep Sea. Here’s What Ate Them6.6M views · Oct 19, 20267.2× typical views
• We Were Wrong About How Old Sharks Can Get593K views · Oct 10, 20260.6× typical views
• Are We Permanently Blinding Deep Sea Creatures?1.3M views · Sep 10, 20261.4× typical views
• Scientists Finally Worked Out Why Fish Are Growing Legs925K views · Sep 10, 20261× typical views
• Something Strange Happens in the Deep Sea After Nuclear War21K views · Aug 11, 20260× typical views
• The Deep Sea Line No Fish Can Cross935K views · Aug 11, 20261× typical views
• The Deep Sea Flaw Evolution Cannot Fix (It's In You Too)24K views · Jul 12, 20260× typical views
• Colossal Squid Are Everywhere. We've Been Looking Wrong4.2M views · Jul 12, 20264.6× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.1K videos from 625 channels in this niche. 12.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 326.4×), MemeBlaze HFY (1.4K subs, best video 46.6×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 25×), The Scale Room (1.6K subs, best video 481.5×), Live Wild (1K subs, best video 72.2×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8.1K subs, best video 78.1×).

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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 BlackWater or YouTube.