David Perell YouTube Stats

@davidperellchannel · Self-improvement & Motivation · Updated Nov 6, 2026

David Perell channel overview

David Perell (@davidperellchannel) is a YouTube channel in the Self-improvement & Motivation niche created in 2017. It has 336K subscribers and 27M total views across 778 videos, an average of 35K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 26K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 116K views. Over the last 12 months, David Perell published 63 videos (83% Shorts), and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, David Perell gained 7K subscribers and 1.9M views, about 112K views a day.

How much does David Perell make?

Returbe estimates David Perell's YouTube ad revenue at $8.4K – $31K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.38 to $8.74, typically $4.77, 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 $4.8K.

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Upload schedule

David Perell publishes about 26.1 videos a month. Based on its last 64 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (27% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

David Perell's best outlier videos

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

• Imitate Your Favorite Writers - R.F. Kuang33K views · Sep 12, 20264.8× typical views
• Johnny Harris Reveals How He Writes YouTube Videos114K views · Mar 12, 20253.4× typical views
• Write Sentences That Grammarly Hates20K views · Oct 18, 20262.9× typical views
• Milan Kundera Revolutionized The Novel - Alain de Botton17K views · Sep 28, 20262.5× typical views
• This Is What a Harvard Writing Masterclass Feels Like (Francine Prose Interview)279K views · Sep 16, 20262.4× typical views
• Don't Let AI Write For You - Robert Greene15K views · Oct 11, 20262.2× typical views
• How The Martian Went From Blog To Best-Seller - Andy Weir13K views · Oct 1, 20261.9× typical views
• Van Gogh Painted Flowers To Stay Alive - Alain De Botton14K views · Nov 5, 20261.8× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Van Gogh Painted Flowers To Stay Alive - Alain De Botton14K views · Nov 5, 20261.8× typical views
• The Most Useful Hour You'll Ever Spend on Storytelling (Malcolm Gladwell Interview)27K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• The 2,000 Words A Day Rule Is Nonsense - David Baldacci6.9K views · Nov 4, 20261× typical views
• Computers Have Made Our Buildings Ugly - Robert Greene4.7K views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views
• The Bird By Bird Rules For Dialogue - Anne Lamott7.9K views · Nov 2, 20261.2× typical views
• Her Dad Took Her to Watch Alien When She Was Seven - Gillian Flynn2.4K views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• The Writing Exercise That Helped Her Write Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn8.2K views · Oct 29, 20261.2× typical views
• How to Write Thrilling Stories (Gillian Flynn Interview)74K views · Oct 28, 20260.6× typical views
• The 400-Hour First Draft - Steven Pressfield8.4K views · Oct 27, 20261.2× typical views
• How Taylor Tomlinson Writes a Netflix Special5.6K views · Oct 26, 20260.8× typical views

The Self-improvement & Motivation niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3K videos from 190 channels in this niche. 15.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.2K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $11.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: T21 (3.7K subs, best video 37.6×), XYT WORLD (4.9K subs, best video 1158.3×), MOTIVATIONAL SD (13K subs, best video 98.4×), The Stoic Scroll (9.3K subs, best video 40.8×), The Mental Health Space (5.8K subs, best video 14.9×), stoic physiology (18K subs, best video 10.4×).

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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 David Perell or YouTube.