Curious Archive YouTube Stats

@curiousarchive · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Curious Archive channel overview

Curious Archive (@curiousarchive) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2021. It has 1.5M subscribers and 192M total views across 135 videos, an average of 1.4M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.8M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 858K views. Over the last 12 months, Curious Archive published 10 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Curious Archive gained 10K subscribers and 1.2M views, about 72K views a day.

How much does Curious Archive make?

Returbe estimates Curious Archive's YouTube ad revenue at $6.7K – $23K 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.

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 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (98% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 2, 2026.

Curious Archive's best outlier videos

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

• The Beautiful Horror of Deep Space4M views · Dec 8, 20232.8× typical views
• The Scariest Type of Cosmic Horror2.4M views · Oct 2, 20262.7× typical views
• The Monsters that God Abandoned2.4M views · May 8, 20262.7× typical views
• Creating the Largest Lifeform Possible2.2M views · Nov 21, 20252.6× typical views
• A Weapon to Destroy a God2.1M views · Jan 23, 20262.5× typical views
• The Most Complex Ecosystem in any Game | Full Documentary882K views · Dec 19, 20251× typical views
• I Made an Ecosystem That's Only Predators3.1M views · Oct 17, 20251× typical views
• I Fixed Earth's Terrible Worldbuilding1.1M views · Sep 12, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Curious Archive's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Scariest Type of Cosmic Horror2.4M views · Oct 2, 20262.7× typical views
• Sympathy for the Gods440K views · Aug 28, 20260.5× typical views
• The Most Powerful Type of Magic System773K views · Jul 17, 20260.9× typical views
• The Biology of Subnautica 2442K views · Jun 12, 20260.5× typical views
• The Monsters that God Abandoned2.4M views · May 8, 20262.7× typical views
• The Beauty of Ecosystemic Horror834K views · Apr 3, 20261× typical views
• The Monster that Appears in Everyone’s Dreams533K views · Feb 27, 20260.6× typical views
• A Weapon to Destroy a God2.1M views · Jan 23, 20262.5× typical views
• The Most Complex Ecosystem in any Game | Full Documentary882K views · Dec 19, 20251× typical views
• Creating the Largest Lifeform Possible2.2M views · Nov 21, 20252.6× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 324 channels in this niche. 10.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.9K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 23.1×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 19.1×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 281×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.4×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 70.5×).

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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 Curious Archive or YouTube.