Forgotten British Cities YouTube Stats

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

Forgotten British Cities channel overview

Forgotten British Cities (@forgottenbritishcities) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2026. It has 2.9K subscribers and 1M total views across 58 videos, an average of 17K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 16K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 3.8K views. Over the last 12 months, Forgotten British Cities published 59 videos, and 17 of them (29%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 18 days, Forgotten British Cities gained 300 subscribers and 187K views, about 10K views a day.

How much does Forgotten British Cities make?

Returbe estimates Forgotten British Cities's YouTube ad revenue at $1.2K – $4.1K 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

Forgotten British Cities publishes about 18.5 videos a month. Based on its last 59 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (19% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Forgotten British Cities's best outlier videos

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

• Why Nobody Wants to Visit The Isle of Man Anymore173K views · Sep 2, 202645.5× typical views
• Why Nobody Wants to Visit Jersey Anymore108K views · Sep 28, 202628.4× typical views
• Why Nobody Wants to Visit London's Seaside Anymore: Southend71K views · Oct 12, 202618.7× typical views
• Why Nobody Wants to Visit the Isle of Wight Anymore65K views · Sep 6, 202617.1× typical views
• Why Nobody Wants to Visit Canvey Island Anymore64K views · Oct 31, 202616.8× typical views
• How One Takeover Killed Britain's Greatest Holiday Empire: Butlin's63K views · Aug 29, 202616.4× typical views
• Why Nobody Wants to Visit Bournemouth Anymore54K views · Sep 20, 202614.3× typical views
• How One Takeover Killed Britain's Favourite High Street Empire: Woolworths47K views · Oct 3, 202612.2× typical views

Latest videos

13 of Forgotten British Cities's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Rise and Fall of the City That Launched the Titanic: Belfast4 views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• How Britain Built a Ski Resort and Let It Rot: Aviemore263 views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• How Barbie Killed Britain's Favourite Doll: Sindy180 views · Nov 4, 20260× typical views
• How One Death Nearly Destroyed Britain's Greatest Estate: Chatsworth262 views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• How One Takeover Killed Britain's Fireworks Capital: Huddersfield1.3K views · Nov 1, 20260.3× typical views
• Why Nobody Wants to Visit Canvey Island Anymore64K views · Oct 31, 202616.8× typical views
• Why Britain Abandoned Its Greatest Fishing Port: Grimsby661 views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• The Horrors of the Victorian Asylum183 views · Oct 28, 20260× typical views
• How Ford Built a Town for 40,000 Workers — Then Abandoned It: Dagenham20K views · Oct 26, 20265.2× typical views
• How One Strike Decided the Fate of Britain's Coalfields1.5K views · Oct 25, 20260.4× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 577 channels in this niche. 14% 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.

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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 Forgotten British Cities or YouTube.