Ian Hietala YouTube Stats

@ianwhietala · Sports · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Ian Hietala channel overview

Ian Hietala (@ianwhietala) is a YouTube channel in the Sports niche created in 2014. It has 762K subscribers and 979M total views across 1.7K videos, an average of 583K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.7M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.1M views. Over the last 12 months, Ian Hietala published 62 videos (98% Shorts), and 18 of them (29%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 7 days, Ian Hietala gained 107K subscribers and 88M views, about 13M views a day.

How much does Ian Hietala make?

Returbe estimates Ian Hietala's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $40K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, 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 $60.

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Upload schedule

Ian Hietala publishes about 45.6 videos a month. Based on its last 62 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (18% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Ian Hietala's best outlier videos

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

• Guess the sound!36M views · Oct 27, 202647.8× typical views
• Guess the time challenge!15M views · Oct 15, 202620.5× typical views
• Every shot, the ball gets smaller!13M views · Oct 4, 202616.9× typical views
• Guess the time challenge!10M views · Sep 29, 202613.4× typical views
• Can you guess the country? 9.9M views · Oct 22, 202613.3× typical views
• Guess the time challenge!9.6M views · Sep 28, 202612.9× typical views
• Guess the time challenge!6.8M views · Oct 10, 20269.1× typical views
• Guess the Time Challenge!6.6M views · Oct 21, 20268.9× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Ian Hietala's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Can you guess the sound?123K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Can you guess the NBA player?366K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Which NBA player has the farthest 3-pointer? 537K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• Guess the Time Challenge!219K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Trying Steph Curry’s dinner!78K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Every shot, the ball gets worse!794K views · Nov 4, 20261.1× typical views
• Can I walk further than LeBron? 817K views · Nov 3, 20261.1× typical views
• Can you name the sound?84K views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• Every 3pt Steph Curry Makes, I eat 100 calories!2.3M views · Nov 2, 20263.1× typical views
• Guess the time challenge!870K views · Nov 2, 20261.2× typical views

The Sports niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 34K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 17.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Victor Foot (56K subs, best video 204.2×), MATHIS FOOTBALL (103K subs, best video 607.2×), DAZN Fútbol (390K subs, best video 230.6×), Cam 23 (155K subs, best video 1020.3×), NFL on FOX (287K subs, best video 53×), El Balón de Icaro (353K subs, best video 651.5×).

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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 Ian Hietala or YouTube.