Islestead YouTube Stats

@islestead · DIY, Home & Crafts · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Islestead channel overview

Islestead (@islestead) is a YouTube channel in the DIY, Home & Crafts niche created in 2011. It has 37K subscribers and 2.6M total views across 176 videos, an average of 15K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 65K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 26K views. Over the last 12 months, Islestead published 35 videos (14% Shorts), and 7 of them (20%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Islestead make?

Returbe estimates Islestead's YouTube ad revenue at $842 – $2.9K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.4 to $11.65, typically $6.31, 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 $6.3K.

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Upload schedule

Islestead publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 35 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (26% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 11, 2026.

Islestead's best outlier videos

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

• What It Takes to Manually Dig Your Own Well453K views · Jul 16, 202617.4× typical views
• How We’re Expanding Our Self-Sufficient Food System (Step by Step & Tips and Tricks)218K views · May 17, 20268.4× typical views
• What It Takes To Manually Dig a Well (Part 2.)191K views · Aug 15, 20267.4× typical views
• Living Off Our Land? An Honest Look at Our Harvest185K views · Oct 23, 20267.1× typical views
• The Harvest Begins at Our Self-Sufficient Island Homestead134K views · Oct 14, 20265.2× typical views
• Building a Simple Solar Boat For Our Island Life99K views · Sep 14, 20263.8× typical views
• Building a Traditional Well for Our Island Homestead93K views · Oct 14, 20263.6× typical views
• Important Homestead Preparations Before Winter64K views · Sep 14, 20262.5× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Our hand-dug well is now complete, bringing drinking water on our island. Water is life.3K views · Nov 11, 2026
• Completing Our Own Well | Self-Sufficient Island Homestead51K views · Nov 11, 20262× typical views
• Time to take it more slowly for the coming winter months as our root cellar is filled with food.4.3K views · Nov 8, 2026
• Living Off Our Land? An Honest Look at Our Harvest185K views · Oct 23, 20267.1× typical views
• The Harvest Begins at Our Self-Sufficient Island Homestead134K views · Oct 14, 20265.2× typical views
• We Built a Solar Boat… Now We’re Putting It to Real Test49K views · Oct 14, 20261.9× typical views
• Building a Traditional Well for Our Island Homestead93K views · Oct 14, 20263.6× typical views
• Klaus dug this well by hand. #islandlife #offgrid #handdugwell34K views · Sep 21, 2026
• Important Homestead Preparations Before Winter64K views · Sep 14, 20262.5× typical views
• Building a Simple Solar Boat For Our Island Life99K views · Sep 14, 20263.8× typical views

The DIY, Home & Crafts niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.4K videos from 918 channels in this niche. 14.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.3K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hand Works (4.7K subs, best video 23.7×), LuxeRenaissance (41K subs, best video 39.8×), AstuceKing (36K subs, best video 41.3×), TechnoclipHd (256K subs, best video 31.8×), Wood You Believe (58K subs, best video 110.6×), Mohamad Iza Askana (72K subs, best video 36.5×).

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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 Islestead or YouTube.