Cipher YouTube Stats

@cipher-hd · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Cipher channel overview

Cipher (@cipher-hd) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2023. It has 285K subscribers and 23M total views across 16 videos, an average of 1.4M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.4M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 568K views. Over the last 12 months, Cipher published 5 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Cipher gained 1K subscribers and 281K views, about 17K views a day.

How much does Cipher make?

Returbe estimates Cipher's YouTube ad revenue at $1.8K – $5.3K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $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

Based on its last 16 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (25% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on May 26, 2026.

Cipher's best outlier videos

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

• Americas Deadliest Mass Shooting998K views · Mar 20, 20261.8× typical views
• The Craziest Hijacking in History673K views · Nov 15, 20251.2× typical views
• How A Printer Lost A Country $81 Million 1.2M views · Jun 27, 20241× typical views
• The Hijacking That Inspired 9/11568K views · Dec 18, 20251× typical views
• The Prodigy Who Outsmarted North Korea3.7M views · Sep 23, 20241× typical views
• The Hunt For Asia's El Chapo1.7M views · Aug 11, 20241× typical views
• How Mexican Cartels Launder $70 Million a Day570K views · Jul 11, 20241× typical views
• The Deadliest Chemical Weapon Ever Created155K views · Jun 30, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

1 of Cipher's last 16 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Massacre That Changed American Schools115K views · May 26, 20260.2× typical views
• Americas Deadliest Mass Shooting998K views · Mar 20, 20261.8× typical views
• The Craziest Shootout In History300K views · Jan 31, 20260.5× typical views
• The Hijacking That Inspired 9/11568K views · Dec 18, 20251× typical views
• The Craziest Hijacking in History673K views · Nov 15, 20251.2× typical views
• How North Korean Hackers Are Stealing Billions | Documentary576K views · Oct 8, 20250.4× typical views
• The Deadliest Chemical Weapon Ever Created155K views · Jun 30, 20251× typical views
• The Bank Robbery That Changed American Policing Forever6.4M views · May 19, 20251× typical views
• MK Ultra: The Most Disturbing Experiment In History825K views · Mar 28, 20251× typical views
• When A Pilot Hijacked A Plane1.3M views · Feb 14, 20251× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 507 channels in this niche. 8.3% 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 Cipher or YouTube.