History Matters YouTube Stats

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

History Matters channel overview

History Matters (@historymatters) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2015. It has 1.9M subscribers and 811M total views across 397 videos, an average of 2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 990K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 768K views. Over the last 12 months, History Matters published 18 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, History Matters gained 0 subscribers and 3.1M views, about 181K views a day.

How much does History Matters make?

Returbe estimates History Matters's YouTube ad revenue at $15K – $49K 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

History Matters publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (40% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 16, 2026.

History Matters's best outlier videos

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

• Why didn't Germany stop expanding in 1939? (Short Animated Documentary)1.4M views · May 14, 20261.9× typical views
• Why did France get so much of Africa? (Short Animated Documentary)1.4M views · Oct 27, 20251.8× typical views
• Why did Britain join WW1? (Short Animated Documentary)1.3M views · Aug 31, 20261.7× typical views
• Why didn't the US focus on Japan first in WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)1.2M views · Dec 19, 20251.6× typical views
• Why didn't the border states join the confederacy? (Short Animated Documentary)1.2M views · Nov 30, 20251.6× typical views
• Why did Charles V split up his empire? (Short Animated Documentary)1.2M views · Sep 25, 20261.5× typical views
• Why did Austria-Hungary do so poorly in World War One? (Short Animated Documentary)1.1M views · Jan 9, 20261.4× typical views
• Why did Mao win the Chinese Civil War?985K views · Feb 7, 20261.3× typical views

Latest videos

6 of History Matters's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why did Germany and the USSR sign the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact? (Short Animated Documentary)821K views · Oct 16, 20261.1× typical views
• Why did Charles V split up his empire? (Short Animated Documentary)1.2M views · Sep 25, 20261.5× typical views
• Why did Britain join WW1? (Short Animated Documentary)1.3M views · Aug 31, 20261.7× typical views
• Why didn't the Dutch also scramble Africa? (Short Animated Documentary)659K views · Aug 16, 20260.9× typical views
• Why did the Treaty of Versailles Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)470K views · Jul 20, 20260.6× typical views
• When did the Cold War actually start? (Short Animated Documentary)507K views · Jun 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Why wasn't Japan allowed to keep Taiwan after WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)564K views · Jun 13, 20260.7× typical views
• Why did the Spanish choose to fight the USA in 1898? (Short Animated Documentary)648K views · May 30, 20260.8× typical views
• Why didn't Germany stop expanding in 1939? (Short Animated Documentary)1.4M views · May 14, 20261.9× typical views
• Why didn't the other Central Powers have to pay reparations too? (Short Animated Documentary)634K views · May 3, 20260.8× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 372 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 11K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 206.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 43.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 63.4×), James Sullivan (6.7K subs, best video 12×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 39×).

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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 Matters or YouTube.