Citizen YouTube Stats

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

Citizen channel overview

Citizen (@citizen) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2018. It has 75K subscribers and 20M total views across 317 videos, an average of 63K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 14K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1K views. Over the last 12 months, Citizen published 55 videos (7% Shorts), and 19 of them (35%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Citizen gained 200 subscribers and 211K views, about 12K views a day.

How much does Citizen make?

Returbe estimates Citizen's YouTube ad revenue at $594 – $2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.76 to $5.86, typically $3.22, 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 $3.2K.

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

Citizen publishes about 14.1 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (22% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Citizen's best outlier videos

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

• Barbès, Retour sur deux siècles d'immigration195K views · Sep 12, 2026187.4× typical views
• Cadillac : l'asile psychiatrique de haute sécurité186K views · Jul 24, 2026178.5× typical views
• Électricité : sa facture passe de 350€ à 25€ par mois106K views · Sep 8, 2026101.5× typical views
• Fraude au chèque : les banques sont-elles responsable ?37K views · Jul 30, 202635.1× typical views
• Loï, le CPE qui tient un collège de Montreuil23K views · Sep 29, 202621.8× typical views
• Votre potager peut vous rapporter un SMIC !20K views · Oct 13, 202619.5× typical views
• LE POUVOIR D'ACHAT EN VACANCES : Le Grand Piège du Budget Estival 💸19K views · Sep 6, 202617.8× typical views
• J'ai vécu 10 jours dans les rues de Paris15K views · Oct 22, 202614.6× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Citizen's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Propriétaires vs locataires : qui a tord devant la loi ?2.1K views · Nov 5, 20262× typical views
• Burn-out, dépression : quand le travail rend malade683 views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views
• Elle confronte son père et lui annonce son future métier1K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• Quatre énormes bennes sont remplies pour effacer cette misère5.9K views · Oct 30, 2026
• Ils réinventent la mode dans la ville la plus pauvre de France3.1K views · Oct 29, 20263× typical views
• Le Papotin : quand des journalistes autistes interviewent les célébrités600 views · Oct 24, 20260.6× typical views
• J'ai vécu 10 jours dans les rues de Paris15K views · Oct 22, 202614.6× typical views
• Moins polluer au quotidien : entre bonne volonté et vraies difficultés1.2K views · Oct 20, 20261.2× typical views
• Ils fuient les supermarchés français pour économiser 800 euros sur l'année4.4K views · Oct 18, 2026
• Gilets Jaunes : anatomie d'une colère française9.6K views · Oct 17, 20269.2× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 374 channels in this niche. 13.3% 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 202.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 43.7×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 11.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 58.4×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.9×).

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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 Citizen or YouTube.