François Calvier YouTube Stats

@francoiscalvier · Survival stories and extreme adventures · Updated Nov 14, 2026

François Calvier channel overview

François Calvier (@francoiscalvier) is a YouTube channel in the Survival stories and extreme adventures niche created in 2011. It has 705K subscribers and 67M total views across 110 videos, an average of 606K views per video over its lifetime.

What the channel makes: Documenting and narrating real-life survival stories and personal extreme adventure experiences, often involving challenging environments and life-threatening situations.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 361K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 164K views. Over the last 12 months, François Calvier published 7 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does François Calvier make?

Returbe estimates François Calvier's YouTube ad revenue at $5K – $17K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $5, typically $2.75, 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 $2.8K.

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Upload schedule

François Calvier publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (30% of uploads), usually around 03:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 12, 2026.

François Calvier's best outlier videos

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

• L'homme qui a survécu à une éruption cataclysmique (et qui a tout filmé) - HDS#38490K views · Aug 15, 20263× typical views
• On tente de gravir 14 sommets de 2 000 mètres avec Laink341K views · Oct 14, 20262.1× typical views
• Le prisonnier qui a survécu 23 jours dans la jungle après s'être évadé (-27kg) - HDS #36235K views · May 17, 20261.4× typical views
• Les survivants du crash du Mont Sainte-Odile (France, 1992) - HDS #31400K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views
• Piégés 630 jours en Antarctique : la pire expédition de l'Histoire - HDS #28367K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views
• L’histoire folle de la famille ermite qui n’avait jamais vu d’autres Humains - HDS #29372K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views
• L'incroyable histoire des survivants du crash de l’Hudson - HDS #3375K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views
• Les 2 hommes qui ont survécu 3 jours au fond de la mer - HDS #32148K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

2 of François Calvier's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• L'homme qui s'est fait COUPER la jambe sous l'eau pour survivre - HDS#39161K views · Nov 12, 20261× typical views
• On tente de gravir 14 sommets de 2 000 mètres avec Laink341K views · Oct 14, 20262.1× typical views
• L'homme qui a survécu à une éruption cataclysmique (et qui a tout filmé) - HDS#38490K views · Aug 15, 20263× typical views
• L'homme qui a survécu à sa propre mort - HDS #3765K views · Jun 16, 20260.4× typical views
• Le prisonnier qui a survécu 23 jours dans la jungle après s'être évadé (-27kg) - HDS #36235K views · May 17, 20261.4× typical views
• La fille retrouvée seule en mer après avoir échappé au meurtre de sa famille - HDS #3594K views · Feb 16, 20260.6× typical views
• « Enterrés vivants » - 33 hommes bloqués deux mois sous terre - HDS #3490K views · Jan 17, 20260.5× typical views
• Piégés 630 jours en Antarctique : la pire expédition de l'Histoire - HDS #28367K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views
• L’histoire folle de la famille ermite qui n’avait jamais vu d’autres Humains - HDS #29372K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views
• Les survivants du crash du Mont Sainte-Odile (France, 1992) - HDS #31400K views · Nov 13, 20251× typical views

The Travel & Outdoors niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.3K videos from 1.1K channels in this niche. 13.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: France 3 Bretagne (141K subs, best video 83.1×), Ngoc Linh (337K subs, best video 160.4×), Crusty Face (76K subs, best video 44.7×), Sharon Dawson (11K subs, best video 132.8×), Greenbrier Bushcraft (41K subs, best video 122.3×), kohstan kal (6.2K subs, best video 139.6×).

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Frequently asked questions

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