Defense Diaries Podcast YouTube Stats

@defensediariespod · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Defense Diaries Podcast channel overview

Defense Diaries Podcast (@defensediariespod) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2021. It has 82K subscribers and 15M total views across 1.2K videos, an average of 13K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 4.6K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 2K views. Over the last 12 months, Defense Diaries Podcast published 63 videos (8% Shorts), and 52 of them (83%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Defense Diaries Podcast gained 1.7K subscribers and 917K views, about 54K views a day.

How much does Defense Diaries Podcast make?

Returbe estimates Defense Diaries Podcast's YouTube ad revenue at $4.7K – $14K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.99 to $5.99, typically $3.33, 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 $3.3K.

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

Defense Diaries Podcast publishes about 36.9 videos a month. Based on its last 12 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (25% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Defense Diaries Podcast's best outlier videos

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

• Members Only Ad-Free The Sandra Birchmore Trial: TRIAL DAY 3 RECAP - U.S. v. Matthew Farwell30K views · Oct 15, 202614.5× typical views
• Caleb Flynn’s mistress Alleigha Botner reading some pretty insane messages.7.4K views · Sep 23, 20261.5× typical views
• Lindsay Clancy Trial -Opening Statements3K views · Sep 22, 20261.5× typical views
• Lindsay Clancy Trial Patrick Clancy Full Testimony2.9K views · Sep 22, 20261.4× typical views
• Rose as Scapicchio always tells it like it is. 💥⚖️💪3.4K views · Sep 19, 20260.7× typical views
• Lindsay Clancy Trial Closing Arguments1.2K views · Sep 22, 20260.6× typical views
• Is Alleigha Botner Complicit??2.8K views · Sep 30, 20260.6× typical views
• Sweet Fancy Moses…That song sucks!2.7K views · Sep 25, 20260.5× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Defense Diaries Podcast's last 12 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• USA v. Farwell Trial: CLOSING ARGUMENTS, DAY 19 | Justice for Sandra Birchmore0 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Members Only Ad-Free Trial Day 11 Recap - U.S. v. Matthew Farwell: The Sandra Birchmore Trial0 views · Oct 26, 20260× typical views
• Members Only Ad-Free DAY 10- FAITH HEDGEPETH COLD CASE TRIAL NC v Miguel Salguero Olivares0 views · Oct 21, 20260× typical views
• Members Only Ad-Free The Sandra Birchmore Trial: TRIAL DAY 3 RECAP - U.S. v. Matthew Farwell30K views · Oct 15, 202614.5× typical views
• Is Alleigha Botner Complicit??2.8K views · Sep 30, 20260.6× typical views
• Sweet Fancy Moses…That song sucks!2.7K views · Sep 25, 20260.5× typical views
• Caleb Flynn’s mistress Alleigha Botner reading some pretty insane messages.7.4K views · Sep 23, 20261.5× typical views
• Lindsay Clancy Trial -Opening Statements3K views · Sep 22, 20261.5× typical views
• Lindsay Clancy Trial Closing Arguments1.2K views · Sep 22, 20260.6× typical views
• Lindsay Clancy Trial Patrick Clancy Full Testimony2.9K views · Sep 22, 20261.4× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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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 Defense Diaries Podcast or YouTube.