FBI Investigates YouTube Stats

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

FBI Investigates channel overview

FBI Investigates (@fbiinvestigateschannel) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2025. It has 78K subscribers and 33M total views across 187 videos, an average of 178K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 116K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 60K views. Over the last 12 months, FBI Investigates published 59 videos, and 15 of them (25%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, FBI Investigates gained 4.3K subscribers and 3.2M views, about 162K views a day.

How much does FBI Investigates make?

Returbe estimates FBI Investigates's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $37K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $5K.

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Upload schedule

FBI Investigates publishes about 20.6 videos a month. Based on its last 59 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (27% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

FBI Investigates's best outlier videos

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

• The FBI's Most Dangerous Plan To Trap A Deadly Cop1M views · Oct 11, 202617× typical views
• The Railroad Killer: FBI Manhunt For America's Most Evil Serial Killer576K views · Sep 5, 20269.7× typical views
• Deadly Shootout: FBI Manhunt For America's Most Wanted Fugitive Drug Dealer574K views · Aug 28, 20269.6× typical views
• No Trace: The FBI's Most Difficult Missing Person Case537K views · Mar 27, 20269× typical views
• Campus Killer: The FBI's Strangest Manhunt For Serial Murderer375K views · Jul 24, 20266.3× typical views
• South Carolina Farmer Murdered: FBI Investigates The Most Twisted Assassination Plot373K views · Sep 27, 20266.2× typical views
• The FBI Takes Down America's Most Dangerous Biker Gang367K views · Sep 13, 20266.1× typical views
• FBI Hunt for the Deadliest Multi-State Serial Killer285K views · Oct 2, 20264.8× typical views

Latest videos

10 of FBI Investigates's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Green River Killer: FBI's Longest Ever Manhunt for Identity Theft Murderer477 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• FBI Manhunt For Serial Killer Who Hunted His Victims Like Prey6K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Indian Godfather: FBI RICO Act Takes Down New York Gas Station Mafia21K views · Nov 1, 20260.4× typical views
• FBI Pursues Evil Serial Predator That Targets Young Women37K views · Oct 31, 20260.6× typical views
• Most Wanted: FBI Manhunt For Ohio's Casanova Killer12K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• Million Dollar Wells Fargo Heist: FBI Takedown Armed Bank Robbers In Arizona28K views · Oct 28, 20260.5× typical views
• The FBI’s Most Shocking Cases: Manhunts That Made History69K views · Oct 25, 20261.1× typical views
• Bobby Joe Long: How the FBI Caught Florida's Most Feared Predator42K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views
• The FBI Takes Down New York's Biggest Mob Boss154K views · Oct 23, 20262.6× typical views
• The FBI’s Most Dangerous Standoff and Hostage Negotiation26K views · Oct 21, 20260.4× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 518 channels in this niche. 8.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 9.6×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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Frequently asked questions

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