HISTORY YouTube Stats

@history · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

HISTORY channel overview

HISTORY (@history) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2006. It has 16M subscribers and 5.3B total views across 13K videos, an average of 420K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 68K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 62K views. Over the last 12 months, HISTORY published 129 videos (13% Shorts), and 24 of them (19%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, HISTORY gained 0 subscribers and 48M views, about 2.4M views a day.

How much does HISTORY make?

Returbe estimates HISTORY's YouTube ad revenue at $208K – $694K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.97 to $9.89, typically $5.44, 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 $5.4K.

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

HISTORY publishes about 140.1 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (19% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

HISTORY's best outlier videos

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

• The Proof Is Out There: Top 7 TERRIFYING Unexplained Phenomena | History13M views · Jan 6, 202429.8× typical views
• Legends of Extraterrestrial Influence *Marathon* | Ancient Aliens606K views · Oct 16, 20269.8× typical views
• Creatures That SHOULDN'T Exist | MonsterQuest566K views · Oct 17, 20269.1× typical views
• WILD Military UFO Encounters | MonsterQuest501K views · Oct 10, 20268.1× typical views
• Alien Influence in Australia | Ancient Aliens485K views · Oct 19, 20267.8× typical views
• Out Of This World Extraterrestrials | Ancient Aliens441K views · Oct 20, 20267.1× typical views
• Could Ancient Carvings Be Proof of Aliens? | Ancient Aliens409K views · Oct 13, 20266.6× typical views
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Mystic Text Predates the Bible | Full Special368K views · Oct 22, 20265.9× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Lost Geniuses of History | Ancient Impossible (S1, E5) | Full Episode39K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• World's MOST Dangerous Volcano | How the Earth Was Made (S2, E2) | Full Episode32K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Towing Across A 10 Mile Back Country Gauntlet | Mountain Men: Wild North20K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• The ULTIMATE War Deception | The UnBelievable8.8K views · Nov 5, 20261.3× typical views
• Untold Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission | Desert One | Special33K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Who Were the Heavenly Messengers? | Ancient Aliens (S2, E10) | Full Episode91K views · Nov 4, 20261.5× typical views
• Are The Oceans Home To Extraterrestrials? | Ancient Aliens347K views · Nov 4, 20265.5× typical views
• Inside the Amityville Horror House | History's Greatest Mysteries (S3, E5) | Full Episode99K views · Nov 4, 20261.6× typical views
• Thermal Experiment Reveals Presence | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S2, E5) | Full Episode70K views · Nov 3, 20261.1× typical views
• Washington to Lincoln: Foundations of American Leadership | Ultimate Guide to the Presidents42K views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 376 channels in this niche. 13.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202.6×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 11.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 HISTORY or YouTube.