Hungry Minds Books YouTube Stats

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

Hungry Minds Books channel overview

Hungry Minds Books (@hungrymindsart) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2024. It has 3.2K subscribers and 8.1M total views across 63 videos, an average of 129K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 464 views. Over the last 12 months, Hungry Minds Books published 10 videos (30% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 11 days, Hungry Minds Books gained 40 subscribers and 4.5K views, about 413 views a day.

How much does Hungry Minds Books make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate Hungry Minds Books's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.45 to $1.51, typically $0.83, 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 $830.

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Upload schedule

Hungry Minds Books publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (32% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 16, 2026.

Hungry Minds Books's best outlier videos

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

• Unveiling 'The Escape Artist' puzzle: Hungry Minds x Greg "Craola" Simkins Collab1.7K views · Sep 4, 20261.7× typical views
• What to Plant Now to Survive Any Crisis ?1.7K views · Jun 5, 20251× typical views
• How to Take Photos Without Camera (Photo Evolution)710 views · Jun 9, 20251× typical views
• How to Make Civilization From Scratch Step by step4.9K views · Jun 10, 20251× typical views
• How SAND turns into GLASS The simplest explanation1.8K views · Jun 6, 20251× typical views
• Witches and Scapegoats, part II: messages to the underworld, venom and magic regulations in Rome779 views · Jul 4, 20251× typical views
• A Celebration of Creation - The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization4.3K views · Oct 10, 20251× typical views
• Ancient Medical Secrets: How To Survive Without Hospitals323 views · Jun 2, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

1 of Hungry Minds Books's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How to Explain Humanity to Aliens | Jonah Howell, author of The Last Book | Ep. 5175 views · Oct 16, 20260.2× typical views
• From Dr. Stone to The Black Book | Aaron Dismuke, the voice behind Dr. Stone’s English lead | Ep. 4487 views · Sep 19, 20260.5× typical views
• Unveiling 'The Escape Artist' puzzle: Hungry Minds x Greg "Craola" Simkins Collab1.7K views · Sep 4, 20261.7× typical views
• Bali, The Black Book and The Atlas of Archetypes | Timur Kadyrov, Founder of Hungry Minds | Ep. 2464 views · Aug 17, 20260.5× typical views
• The Birth of The Book | Seva Batishchev, Founder of Hungry Minds | Ep. 1254 views · Aug 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Welcome to The Hungry Minds Podcast! | Noah Charney, author of The Black Book and host | Ep. 0142 views · Aug 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Author Noah Charney Introduces The Black Book | Now Available for Preorder876 views · Jul 16, 20260.9× typical views
• The Bizarre History of Christmas: From Chaos to Cozy2K views · Dec 21, 2025
• The Face of Christmas Before the Whitewash & Glow-Up1.9K views · Dec 14, 2025
• The Christmas Tree’s Hidden Past1.1K views · Dec 7, 2025

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 404 channels in this niche. 12.9% 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×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), 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 Hungry Minds Books or YouTube.