Insider YouTube Stats

@insider · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Insider channel overview

Insider (@insider) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2015. It has 9.6M subscribers and 5.7B total views across 8.1K videos, an average of 700K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 670K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 658K views. Over the last 12 months, Insider published 54 videos (56% Shorts), and 9 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Insider gained 0 subscribers and 15M views, about 744K views a day.

How much does Insider make?

Returbe estimates Insider's YouTube ad revenue at $31K – $94K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.27 to $6.81, typically $3.79, 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 $3.8K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Insider publishes about 7.6 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (45% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Insider's best outlier videos

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

• A former #CIA officer says a double agent was ordered to kill him. #blackops #authorizedaccount5.3M views · Aug 24, 2026710.5× typical views
• A diagnosed #sociopath explains the "sociopathic mask." #aspd #antisocialpersonalitydisorder1.3M views · Aug 18, 2026172.9× typical views
• A former #CIA officer recalls the moment he realized he was a target. #counterterrorism1.1M views · Aug 20, 2026148× typical views
• How #CIA officers check if they're being followed. #surveillance #intelligence #authorizedaccount252K views · Aug 21, 202633.4× typical views
• A diagnosed #sociopath explains why people confess their darkest thoughts to her. #aspd215K views · Aug 19, 202628.6× typical views
• How Money Laundering Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider4.9M views · Aug 7, 20237× typical views
• How different can the same #jeans size be? #denim #straightlegjeans #sizing #Gap51K views · Sep 22, 20266.7× typical views
• Former #CIA #spy John Kiriakou shares Black Ops facts. #blackops38K views · Apr 23, 20265× typical views

Latest videos

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

• What led to Catherine Zeta-Jones's breakout in the US? #Zorro #StevenSpielberg #actors1.7K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• How CIA Agents Hunt Terrorists | Authorized Account | Insider100K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• #AlexGibney says #ElonMusk has a lot in common with #ElizabethHolmes. Here's why. #muskdocumentary16K views · Nov 3, 20262.1× typical views
• How Military Trauma Surgeons Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider504K views · Oct 29, 20260.8× typical views
• These #Korean #beauty treatments have an unusual ingredient: the #skin of dead American donors.11K views · Oct 21, 20261.4× typical views
• How #televangelists built multimillion-dollar prosperity #gospel empires6.6K views · Oct 17, 20260.9× typical views
• How Scientology Actually Works | Authorized Account | Insider1.9M views · Oct 15, 20262.9× typical views
• Here's why professionals are spending thousands of dollars on #workwear. #NYFW6.8K views · Oct 2, 20260.9× typical views
• How different can the same #jeans size be? #denim #straightlegjeans #sizing #Gap51K views · Sep 22, 20266.7× typical views
• How Televangelists Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider1.5M views · Sep 17, 20262.3× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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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 Insider or YouTube.