Forge Labs YouTube Stats

@forgelabs · Gaming · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Forge Labs channel overview

Forge Labs (@forgelabs) is a YouTube channel in the Gaming niche created in 2007. It has 6.3M subscribers and 954M total views across 170 videos, an average of 5.6M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.7M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 2.5M views. Over the last 12 months, Forge Labs published 17 videos (6% Shorts), and 3 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Forge Labs gained 20K subscribers and 9.3M views, about 467K views a day.

How much does Forge Labs make?

Returbe estimates Forge Labs's YouTube ad revenue at $16K – $63K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.49 to $5.98, typically $2.99, 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 $3K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Forge Labs publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (45% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 10, 2026.

Forge Labs's best outlier videos

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

• 100 Days in the Amazon Rainforest in REALISTIC Minecraft9.5M views · May 16, 20263.8× typical views
• 1 Year in Alaska in ULTRA REALISTIC Minecraft8.6M views · Oct 10, 20263.5× typical views
• Surviving Minecraft's Best Horror Mod8.2M views · Aug 29, 20263.3× typical views
• I Spent 100 Days in a Flood Apocalypse in Hardcore Minecraft... Here's What Happened18M views · Mar 30, 20243.2× typical views
• I Spent 100 Days in a Plane Crash in Hardcore Minecraft... Here's What Happened14M views · Dec 21, 20242.5× typical views
• I Spent 100 Days in a Medieval Plague in Hardcore Minecraft... Here's What Happened12M views · Feb 15, 20232.2× typical views
• 100 Days in an Parasite Colony in Hardcore Minecraft4.9M views · Jun 20, 20262× typical views
• Simulating a Criminal Empire on Hardcore Minecraft4.9M views · Sep 5, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Forge Labs's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 1 Year in Alaska in ULTRA REALISTIC Minecraft8.6M views · Oct 10, 20263.5× typical views
• Simulating a Criminal Empire on Hardcore Minecraft4.9M views · Sep 5, 20261.9× typical views
• Surviving Minecraft's Best Horror Mod8.2M views · Aug 29, 20263.3× typical views
• Mosquitos in Minecraft are brutal151K views · Jul 20, 2026
• 100 Days in an Parasite Colony in Hardcore Minecraft4.9M views · Jun 20, 20262× typical views
• 100 Days in the Amazon Rainforest in REALISTIC Minecraft9.5M views · May 16, 20263.8× typical views
• I Survived a Parasite Apocalypse in Hardcore Minecraft1.9M views · Apr 1, 20260.8× typical views
• I Survived a Fungal Outbreak in Hardcore Minecraft2.8M views · Mar 14, 20261.1× typical views
• Minecraft's Best Players Simulate a TRUE Zombie Apocalypse3.2M views · Mar 3, 20261.3× typical views
• 1 Year in Ultra Realistic Minecraft 2M views · Feb 22, 20260.8× typical views

The Gaming niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 38K videos from 2.3K channels in this niche. 10.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 77K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $6.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: SISMA FAMILY (439K subs, best video 96.1×), Star Hunt (282K subs, best video 74.1×), Mario Friendly (479K subs, best video 62.6×), More1980sGamer (459K subs, best video 117×), Abi Army (412K subs, best video 41.9×), StundZow Clips (107K subs, best video 121.4×).

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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 Forge Labs or YouTube.