Fortune YouTube Stats

@fortunestories · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Fortune channel overview

Fortune (@fortunestories) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2016. It has 234K subscribers and 25M total views across 126 videos, an average of 196K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 239K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 165K views. Over the last 12 months, Fortune published 22 videos, and 2 of them (9%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 21 days, Fortune gained 3K subscribers and 726K views, about 35K views a day.

How much does Fortune make?

Returbe estimates Fortune's YouTube ad revenue at $2.6K – $7.9K 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

Fortune publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (27% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

Fortune's best outlier videos

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

• The New Epstein Files - Full Analysis839K views · Feb 11, 20265.1× typical views
• Disturbing Information That Cannot Be Forgotten793K views · Jan 17, 20264.8× typical views
• Disturbing Reddit Reading - The Disturbing Reddit Posts Iceberg Explained871K views · Jul 8, 20224.5× typical views
• Unexplainable Internet Stories.589K views · Oct 19, 20223.1× typical views
• The Forbidden Knowledge Iceberg [Vol. 8]364K views · Nov 19, 20252.2× typical views
• The Disturbing Rabbit Hole Collection414K views · Aug 15, 20232.2× typical views
• Investigating Unhinged Conspiracy Theories349K views · Aug 8, 20262.1× typical views
• The Forbidden Knowledge Iceberg [Vol. 11]322K views · Jun 7, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Fortune's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Disturbing Inventions Iceberg128K views · Oct 25, 20260.8× typical views
• 14 Nightmarish Ways People Have Died200K views · Oct 5, 20261.2× typical views
• The Unexplained Phenomena Iceberg276K views · Sep 12, 20261.7× typical views
• 9 Unexplained Stories From The Internet | Anomaly Archive127K views · Sep 5, 20260.8× typical views
• Investigating Unhinged Conspiracy Theories349K views · Aug 8, 20262.1× typical views
• The Disturbing Rise of Mass Surveillance54K views · Jul 27, 20260.3× typical views
• The Dark Secrets of Israel297K views · Jul 11, 20261.8× typical views
• The Forbidden Knowledge Iceberg [Vol. 11]322K views · Jun 7, 20262× typical views
• Mysterious and Disturbing Cold Cases48K views · May 21, 20260.3× typical views
• Disturbing Information That Cannot Be Forgotten [Vol. 2]120K views · May 2, 20260.7× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.8K videos from 612 channels in this niche. 9.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 23K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 32.5×), Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 14.4×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (400K subs, best video 12.3×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 42.6×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58×).

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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 Fortune or YouTube.