Crime Thread YouTube Stats

@crimethreadyt · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Crime Thread channel overview

Crime Thread (@crimethreadyt) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2020. It has 25K subscribers and 6.9M total views across 224 videos, an average of 31K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 10K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 5.3K views. Over the last 12 months, Crime Thread published 31 videos, and 5 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Crime Thread make?

Returbe estimates Crime Thread's YouTube ad revenue at $861 – $2.6K 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.

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Upload schedule

Crime Thread publishes about 29.3 videos a month. Based on its last 31 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (68% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 13, 2026.

Crime Thread's best outlier videos

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

• Where Is Hati's Top Gang Leader Barbecue Hiding89K views · Nov 7, 202616.8× typical views
• The Real Gangster That Played O-Dog In Menace II Society52K views · Oct 30, 20269.8× typical views
• Pablo Escobars Son's Son Just Inherited $10M, How He lives IS INSANE23K views · Nov 8, 20264.4× typical views
• John Gotti's Daughter Just Inherited $25M, How She Lives Today Is INSANE19K views · Oct 16, 20263.6× typical views
• Inside The 2026 Billionaire Lifestyle Of John Gotti's Deadliest Son - John Gotti Jr17K views · Oct 16, 20263.2× typical views
• The Last Chapito Standing Why Nobody Can Catch Iván Archivaldo16K views · Nov 2, 20262.9× typical views
• It's Been Years Since John Alite Told On Gotti, How He Now Lives Is INSANE13K views · Oct 30, 20262.5× typical views
• Why The Chicago Outfit Hated Tony Spilotro So Much7.8K views · Nov 1, 20261.5× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Crime Thread's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Real Toney Montana Was Worse Than The Movie560 views · Nov 13, 2026
• The Warning Signs Nobody Saw: John Gotti | Psychological Analysis2.9K views · Nov 12, 20260.5× typical views
• How Much Money Did Tony Montana Actually Make? (I did the math)293 views · Nov 12, 20260.1× typical views
• Pablo Escobars Son's Son Just Inherited $10M, How He lives IS INSANE23K views · Nov 8, 20264.4× typical views
• Where Is Hati's Top Gang Leader Barbecue Hiding89K views · Nov 7, 202616.8× typical views
• Inside The Humble Billionaire Lifestyle Of Mob Boss Paul Castellano's5.7K views · Nov 6, 20261.1× typical views
• Inside The Deadly War Between Gottis Gambino Mafia & Gigante's Genovese Mafia2.1K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• Inside The Millionaire Lifestyle Of Al Capone Granddaughter Diane Capone924 views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Gamblers Who Owed The Wrong Mafia2.8K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• The Last Chapito Standing Why Nobody Can Catch Iván Archivaldo16K views · Nov 2, 20262.9× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 9K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 10.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 17K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (404K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (248K subs, best video 11.3×), FOX 29 Philadelphia (432K subs, best video 48.5×), Crime 360 (243K subs, best video 11.1×), Mafia Secrets (5K subs, best video 23.1×), Frontline Crime (79K subs, best video 24.4×).

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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 Crime Thread or YouTube.