DW Documentary YouTube Stats

@dwdocumentary · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

DW Documentary channel overview

DW Documentary (@dwdocumentary) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2016. It has 6.5M subscribers and 968M total views across 1.7K videos, an average of 576K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 255K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 201K views. Over the last 12 months, DW Documentary published 69 videos (29% Shorts), and 11 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, DW Documentary gained 10K subscribers and 12M views, about 597K views a day.

How much does DW Documentary make?

Returbe estimates DW Documentary's YouTube ad revenue at $57K – $190K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.95 to $9.84, typically $5.41, 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 $5.4K.

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Upload schedule

DW Documentary publishes about 35.8 videos a month. Based on its last 73 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (22% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

DW Documentary's best outlier videos

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

• The lives of the Amish in the US | DW Documentary9.1M views · Jan 5, 202415.8× typical views
• The world of the Amish - Between tradition and temptation | DW Documentary2.3M views · Jan 28, 202611.5× typical views
• North Korea's alliance with China and Russia | DW Documentary1.5M views · Oct 28, 20267.4× typical views
• The housing crisis in Los Angeles - Between homelessness and luxury real estate | DW Documentary1.3M views · Oct 16, 20266.7× typical views
• 9/11 - The day that changed the world | DW Documentary1.3M views · Sep 10, 20266.5× typical views
• No future in Germany? Why skilled Polish workers are going home | DW Documentary1.1M views · Nov 1, 20265.6× typical views
• Putin's foreign fighters - How Russia is recruiting foreign nationals for the war | DW Documentary1.1M views · Oct 6, 20265.3× typical views
• From 0 to 9 - The mysterious origins of our numbers | DW Documentary884K views · Oct 7, 20264.4× typical views

Latest videos

9 of DW Documentary's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• From hate to peace - The power of reconciliation | DW Documentary5K views · Nov 5, 20260× typical views
• North Korea - Propaganda and the next generation | DW Documentary429K views · Nov 4, 20262.1× typical views
• Decoding conflicts - Sudan: The forgotten war | DW Documentary197K views · Nov 3, 20261× typical views
• No before-and-after photos in beauty ads? | DW Documentary7.4K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• No future in Germany? Why skilled Polish workers are going home | DW Documentary1.1M views · Nov 1, 20265.6× typical views
• Cargo sailboats: A sea change for shipping? | DW Documentary126K views · Oct 31, 20260.6× typical views
• What if humans were treated like livestock? | DW Documentary17K views · Oct 31, 20260.7× typical views
• Between Capitol Hill and Black Broadway - Washington, D.C.'s hidden worlds | DW Documentary55K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• Artificial intelligence and psychotherapy | DW Documentary144K views · Oct 29, 20260.7× typical views
• The mobile hospital serving Greece's remote islands | DW Documentary7.3K views · Oct 29, 20260.3× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 373 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 206.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 43.7×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 12×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 63.4×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.9×).

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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 DW Documentary or YouTube.