IMPERIAL YouTube Stats

@imperialyt · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 10, 2026

IMPERIAL channel overview

IMPERIAL (@imperialyt) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2019. It has 532K subscribers and 34M total views across 30 videos, an average of 1.1M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.1M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 900K views. Over the last 12 months, IMPERIAL published 3 videos, and 1 of them (33%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does IMPERIAL make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate IMPERIAL's monthly revenue. 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

Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (23% of uploads), usually around 03:00 UTC. The last video went out on Jul 13, 2026.

IMPERIAL's best outlier videos

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

• The Most Famous Killing in History5.3M views · Mar 15, 20265.9× typical views
• The Evil Genius of Fascist Design2.4M views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Hunt for London's Most Wanted Gang986K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Most Depressing Soviet Cities765K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• How Britain Defeated its Hitler900K views · Jul 13, 20261× typical views
• How America Hired the Mafia to Kill Castro415K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Greatest Escape in History2.7M views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Genius Design of Communist Kiosks406K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

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

• How Britain Defeated its Hitler900K views · Jul 13, 20261× typical views
• YouTube's AI Plagiarism Problem270K views · Apr 14, 20260.3× typical views
• The Most Famous Killing in History5.3M views · Mar 15, 20265.9× typical views
• The Hunt for London's Most Wanted Gang986K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Most Depressing Soviet Cities765K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Evil Genius of Fascist Design2.4M views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• How America Hired the Mafia to Kill Castro415K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Greatest Escape in History2.7M views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• The Genius Design of Communist Kiosks406K views · Nov 10, 20251× typical views
• Europe's North Korea4.6M views · Nov 10, 20241× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 6.6K videos from 820 channels in this niche. 14.6% 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 (274K subs, best video 274×), Maze Runner (21K subs, best video 9.8×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 89.7×), Military History Talks (46K subs, best video 14.8×), Alex Nguyen (4.2K subs, best video 65.9×), Volkslied (10K subs, best video 25.1×).

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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 IMPERIAL or YouTube.