Dan Snow's History Hit YouTube Stats

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

Dan Snow's History Hit channel overview

Dan Snow's History Hit (@dshhpodcast) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2025. It has 146K subscribers and 15M total views across 84 videos, an average of 179K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 150K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 138K views. Over the last 12 months, Dan Snow's History Hit published 15 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Dan Snow's History Hit make?

Returbe estimates Dan Snow's History Hit's YouTube ad revenue at $1.2K – $4K 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

Dan Snow's History Hit publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (80% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Dan Snow's History Hit's best outlier videos

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

• The Uprising: When FURIOUS Medieval Peasants Revolted287K views · Sep 11, 20262.1× typical views
• The Bible LIED About The Babylonians284K views · Sep 2, 20262.1× typical views
• Historian Explains The ENTIRE Viking Era In Britain255K views · Aug 5, 20261.9× typical views
• Knights VS The Ottoman Empire: The Epic Battle for Malta230K views · Sep 16, 20261.7× typical views
• Historian Explains EVERYTHING On The Bayeux Tapestry206K views · Sep 9, 20261.5× typical views
• Is Something Wrong With YOU For Loving Henry VIII? (Yes.)142K views · Aug 19, 20261× typical views
• John Dudley: Most Powerful and Evil Tudor?140K views · Oct 7, 20261× typical views
• Where Does The Illuminati Conspiracy Come From?135K views · Oct 14, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Dan Snow's History Hit's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• WWI's Stalingrad: The Long & Bloody Siege of Przemyśl60K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• Eleanor Janega Tells Medieval Ghost Stories117K views · Oct 28, 20260.8× typical views
• Mummification: Myth vs Reality!58K views · Oct 21, 20260.4× typical views
• Where Does The Illuminati Conspiracy Come From?135K views · Oct 14, 20261× typical views
• John Dudley: Most Powerful and Evil Tudor?140K views · Oct 7, 20261× typical views
• 30 Seconds Until The End Of The World: The Cuban Missile Crisis107K views · Sep 30, 20260.8× typical views
• Marie Antoinette: The Queen in The Guillotine98K views · Sep 24, 20260.7× typical views
• Knights VS The Ottoman Empire: The Epic Battle for Malta230K views · Sep 16, 20261.7× typical views
• The Uprising: When FURIOUS Medieval Peasants Revolted287K views · Sep 11, 20262.1× typical views
• Historian Explains EVERYTHING On The Bayeux Tapestry206K views · Sep 9, 20261.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 578 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×), James Sullivan (7K subs, best video 10.2×).

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Frequently asked questions

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