Investigation Discovery YouTube Stats

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

Investigation Discovery channel overview

Investigation Discovery (@investigationdiscovery) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2008. It has 1.9M subscribers and 520M total views across 4.3K videos, an average of 120K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.8K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 3.5K views. Over the last 12 months, Investigation Discovery published 105 videos (49% Shorts), and 10 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Investigation Discovery gained 10K subscribers and 2.4M views, about 120K views a day.

How much does Investigation Discovery make?

Returbe estimates Investigation Discovery's YouTube ad revenue at $3.8K – $12K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.1 to $3.3, typically $1.84, 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 $1.8K.

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Upload schedule

Investigation Discovery publishes about 114.1 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (22% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Investigation Discovery's best outlier videos

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

• A Serial Killer's Ex-Wife Learns the Truth From the FBI | The Serial Killer Connection | ID143K views · Oct 24, 202628.6× typical views
• Fear Thy Neighbor: Lies, Lawns & Murder (S1, E1) | Full Episode2.6M views · Sep 18, 202021.4× typical views
• Episode Recap Marathon: Lt. Joe Kenda's Most Compelling Cases | Homicide Hunter | ID1.1M views · Oct 9, 20259× typical views
• Lt. Joe Kenda’s Most Difficult Investigations | Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda | ID846K views · Jun 7, 20257× typical views
• Kidnapped at 15, She Woke Up Restrained Next to a Serial Killer | The Serial Killer Connection | ID34K views · Oct 21, 20266.8× typical views
• Ep.4: Patterns | Who Killed Angel Harris? | ID Podcasts16K views · Oct 28, 20264.5× typical views
• Husband Kills Estranged Wife, Calls It Accident | American Monster | FULL EPISODE RECAP | ID14K views · Oct 23, 20264× typical views
• Wife Kills Husband to Start New Life | American Monster | FULL EPISODE RECAP | ID14K views · Oct 21, 20264× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Investigation Discovery's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Woman Identified In Suspicious Death | A Body in the Basement | ID217 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Woman Identified In Suspicious Death | A Body in the Basement | ID96 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• She Hitchhiked to the Hospital and Never Came Home | A Body in the Basement | ID2.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• How Visual Effects Helped Recreate Aileen Wuornos | Unmasking A Monster: Aileen Wuornos | ID570 views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Ep.5: Deadly Radius | Who Killed Angel Harris? | ID Podcasts1.8K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Man Describes Searching Dark Basement For A Body | A Body in the Basement | ID2.6K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• Man Describes Searching Dark Basement For A Body | A Body in the Basement | ID1.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Suspect Says He Stabbed a Man in Self-Defense | Signs Of A Psychopath | ID2.3K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• Suspect Says He Stabbed a Man in Self-Defense | Signs Of A Psychopath | ID368 views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Suspect on Parole During Eerily Similar Murder | Who Killed Angel Harris? | ID Podcasts1.2K views · Nov 3, 20260.2× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 500 channels in this niche. 8.2% 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 8.4×), 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 Investigation Discovery or YouTube.