Indie Film Hustle Podcast YouTube Stats

@indiefilmhustle · Film, TV & Anime · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Indie Film Hustle Podcast channel overview

Indie Film Hustle Podcast (@indiefilmhustle) is a YouTube channel in the Film, TV & Anime niche created in 2015. It has 97K subscribers and 4.9M total views across 1.8K videos, an average of 2.7K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.8K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 802 views. Over the last 12 months, Indie Film Hustle Podcast published 52 videos, and 5 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Indie Film Hustle Podcast gained 0 subscribers and 24K views, about 1.2K views a day.

How much does Indie Film Hustle Podcast make?

Returbe estimates Indie Film Hustle Podcast's YouTube ad revenue at $47 – $220 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $7, typically $3.5, 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 $3.5K.

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Upload schedule

Indie Film Hustle Podcast publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 53 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (49% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

Indie Film Hustle Podcast's best outlier videos

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

• Why Most Indie Producers FAIL! Clerks Producer Gets BRUTALLY Honest! | Scott Mosier9.1K views · Sep 12, 20269.1× typical views
• Stop Chasing Hollywood—Find Your Own Voice with Edgar Wright | IFH Podcast6.2K views · Jul 21, 20266.2× typical views
• Stop Waiting for Hollywood—MAKE YOUR MOVIE! | Thomas Jane6.2K views · Sep 29, 20266.2× typical views
• Danny Boyle Taught Him How to Direct a Movie in ONE HOUR | Kevin Macdonald4.1K views · Sep 22, 20264.1× typical views
• The BRUTAL Truth About Indie Film Distribution | John Kim3.5K views · Oct 13, 20263.5× typical views
• How QUENTIN TARANTINO MENTORED Her: Typing INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS at 18 | Krystin Ver Linden2.7K views · Oct 17, 20262.7× typical views
• He Went From BLOCKBUSTER to Writing SAW & Directing Horror Films | Marcus Dunstan2.7K views · Oct 3, 20262.7× typical views
• Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker: Stop Going to Film School—MAKE A MOVIE | RJ Cutler2.4K views · Sep 15, 20262.4× typical views

Latest videos

12 of Indie Film Hustle Podcast's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• What Hollywood Was REALLY Like During Its Golden Age | George Stevens Jr.860 views · Nov 3, 20260.9× typical views
• How an Indie Film Made $30K in ONE MONTH on YOUTUBE | Linda Nelson1.9K views · Oct 27, 20261.9× typical views
• How JOHN SINGLETON Risked EVERYTHING to Make HUSTLE & FLOW | Craig Brewer1.5K views · Oct 20, 20261.5× typical views
• How QUENTIN TARANTINO MENTORED Her: Typing INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS at 18 | Krystin Ver Linden2.7K views · Oct 17, 20262.7× typical views
• The BRUTAL Truth About Indie Film Distribution | John Kim3.5K views · Oct 13, 20263.5× typical views
• Con Air’s INSANE & Real-Life Plane Crash: 17 Cameras, ONE Shot | Simon West758 views · Oct 10, 20260.8× typical views
• The BRUTAL Truth About Directing an Indie Film | Katie Aselton1.1K views · Oct 6, 20261.1× typical views
• He Went From BLOCKBUSTER to Writing SAW & Directing Horror Films | Marcus Dunstan2.7K views · Oct 3, 20262.7× typical views
• Stop Waiting for Hollywood—MAKE YOUR MOVIE! | Thomas Jane6.2K views · Sep 29, 20266.2× typical views
• The #1 Thing GREAT Directors Do Differently! What 40 Years in Hollywood Taught Me | Kyra Sedgwick1.5K views · Sep 26, 20261.5× typical views

The Film, TV & Anime niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 20K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 15.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 14K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $7.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: 泡芙剧场PuffDrama (108K subs, best video 185.7×), Memelogyz (133K subs, best video 191.2×), Swagger Exposed Shorts (133K subs, best video 133.7×), Le Mec (205K subs, best video 132×), HSN Explains (24K subs, best video 70.8×), CrispyTheory (86K subs, best video 637.1×).

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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 Indie Film Hustle Podcast or YouTube.