Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime YouTube Stats

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

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime channel overview

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime (@insidetruecrime) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2019. It has 1.3M subscribers and 1.3B total views across 3K videos, an average of 425K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 630K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 132K views. Over the last 12 months, Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime published 78 videos (78% Shorts), and 21 of them (27%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime gained 20K subscribers and 53M views, about 2.7M views a day.

How much does Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime make?

Returbe estimates Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime's YouTube ad revenue at $8.5K – $26K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.14 to $0.44, typically $0.25, 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 $250.

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

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime publishes about 59.7 videos a month. Based on its last 80 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (21% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime's best outlier videos

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

• Prison Love Story!6.9M views · Oct 6, 202629.2× typical views
• How To Get Free Cookies In Prison!5.6M views · Oct 8, 202624.1× typical views
• The LOADED Gift card!5.6M views · Oct 26, 202623.9× typical views
• $100K In 3 Minutes!4.6M views · Oct 6, 202619.6× typical views
• ESCAPING Prison!4.1M views · Nov 2, 202617.1× typical views
• Watch Who You Mess With3M views · Oct 3, 202612.8× typical views
• Getting Caught On The Run!2.7M views · Oct 8, 202611.7× typical views
• The OG Scam!2.7M views · Oct 4, 202611.6× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Running The Prisons!24K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Corrupt Officer Gets Caught!271K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• Mormon Kid Becomes a Gulf Cartel Hitman!30K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Life Before Phones!10K views · Nov 4, 20260× typical views
• The Mexican Millionaire!2M views · Nov 4, 20268.3× typical views
• Is It His Fault?13K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Robbery KARMA!14K views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• The Dark Web Fugitive Who Hacked Mark Cuban47K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• Robbed For No Reason!16K views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• ESCAPING Prison!4.1M views · Nov 2, 202617.1× 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 Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime or YouTube.