DroneScapes YouTube Stats

@dronescapes · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

DroneScapes channel overview

DroneScapes (@dronescapes) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2015. It has 587K subscribers and 321M total views across 2.4K videos, an average of 137K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 176K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 83K views. Over the last 12 months, DroneScapes published 40 videos, and 4 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does DroneScapes make?

Returbe estimates DroneScapes's YouTube ad revenue at $4.8K – $16K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, 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 $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

DroneScapes publishes about 31.5 videos a month. Based on its last 27 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (37% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

DroneScapes's best outlier videos

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

• 1940 Total War: Stuka Assembly, Channel Raids, Heavy Artillery, and U-Boats. Rare WWII Films1.2M views · Oct 8, 202614.5× typical views
• Rare WWII Restored Color Footage: Stuka Dive Bombers, Tanks, Coastal Convoys, and Aerial Supremacy952K views · Oct 8, 202611.5× typical views
• Global War in Color: Ju 88 Servicing, Mediterranean Submarines, and Atlantic Airships466K views · Oct 8, 20265.6× typical views
• WWII in Restored Color: The Strategic Air Offensive and Ground Front of 1944 and Rare Archival Films256K views · Oct 17, 20263.1× typical views
• Rare WWII Archives in Color: A Continental Conflict Expands240K views · Oct 8, 20262.9× typical views
• Restored WWII History in Color: Pearl Harbor 1941, The Day of Infamy221K views · Oct 8, 20262.7× typical views
• High-Speed Strategic Strike: The Convair B-58 in New Restored Archival Film203K views · Oct 28, 20262.4× typical views
• Inside the 1942 Junkers Ju 87 Stuka Assembly Lines & Rare WWII Color Frontline Combat Footage.157K views · Oct 27, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

10 of DroneScapes's last 27 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Biplanes to Twin-Engines: Inside Amelia Earhart’s Career. Restored Archival Footage in Color3.7K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Sixty Below Zero: Inside the USAF Cold War Defense of the Arctic42K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• When Pilots Go Down: Inside America’s Perilous Air Missions & How Vietnam Air Rescue Actually Worked20K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Restored WWII Archives: Breaking the Gothic Line. The 1945 Apennine Mountain Battles27K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• WWII Restored: Anatomy of Victory, Testing the P-51 Mustang & the Merlin Engine16K views · Nov 1, 20260.2× typical views
• Restored WWII in Color: How Allied Air Power Shattered the Atlantic Wall Defenses in 1944152K views · Oct 31, 20261.8× typical views
• Restored WWII: Midway, the Kamikaze Campaign, and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero | Japan's Defeat27K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• High-Speed Strategic Strike: The Convair B-58 in New Restored Archival Film203K views · Oct 28, 20262.4× typical views
• Inside the 1942 Junkers Ju 87 Stuka Assembly Lines & Rare WWII Color Frontline Combat Footage.157K views · Oct 27, 20261.9× typical views
• Gun Sights and Afterburners: The History of Dogfights. Restored Aviation History in Color19K views · Oct 25, 20260.2× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 577 channels in this niche. 13.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 281.1×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 54.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 28.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.8×), Military History Talks (45K subs, best video 25.8×), JTM History (7.6K subs, best video 39.3×).

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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 DroneScapes or YouTube.