BFBS Forces News YouTube Stats

@forces_news · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 5, 2026

BFBS Forces News channel overview

BFBS Forces News (@forces_news) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2010. It has 1.1M subscribers and 687M total views across 9.1K videos, an average of 75K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 35K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 83K views. Over the last 12 months, BFBS Forces News published 107 videos (75% Shorts), and 33 of them (31%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 15 days, BFBS Forces News gained 0 subscribers and 8M views, about 531K views a day.

How much does BFBS Forces News make?

Returbe estimates BFBS Forces News's YouTube ad revenue at $15K – $49K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.15 to $3.82, typically $2.11, 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 $2.1K.

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Upload schedule

BFBS Forces News publishes about 116.2 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (22% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

BFBS Forces News's best outlier videos

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

• Army Chief warns Britons must prepare to make sacrifices for war894K views · Oct 16, 2026155.9× typical views
• UK Army chief's close combat warning⚠️773K views · Oct 20, 2026134.7× typical views
• Factory floor tour of Toyota's LMV replacement contender👀307K views · Oct 22, 202653.4× typical views
• Tanks vs drones: the future of warfare?💥238K views · Oct 14, 202641.5× typical views
• Floating Docks: The £6bn plan to boost Britain’s ageing submarine infrastructure194K views · Oct 18, 202633.9× typical views
• Meet Stephan and Oscar, the military working dog193K views · Nov 2, 202633.5× typical views
• Gunpower meets Merlin airpower🚁189K views · Oct 16, 202632.9× typical views
• Greywolf Vs Nemesis125K views · Nov 2, 202621.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of BFBS Forces News's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why I don't wear my medals on Remembrance Sunday🌹1.7K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• HMS Prince of Wales demonstrates warfighting readiness👀1K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• 84 Squadron fatal crash remembered1.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• How does the situation in Iran affect the British military? | Sitrep2.2K views · Nov 5, 20260× typical views
• Why FN ARKA could be a contender2.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• Special delivery: How to ship lethal force secretly26K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Could this rifle replace the SA80?39K views · Nov 4, 20266× typical views
• Preparing to the highest standard in honour of those fallen🌹34K views · Nov 4, 20265.8× typical views
• 4 Scots take on bagpipe boot camp20K views · Nov 4, 20262.8× typical views
• Submariners remember the fallen🌹15K views · Nov 4, 20262.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 372 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 11K 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×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 63.4×), James Sullivan (6.7K subs, best video 12×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 39×).

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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 BFBS Forces News or YouTube.