Curiosity Dude YouTube Stats

@itscuriositydude · Travel & Outdoors · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Curiosity Dude channel overview

Curiosity Dude (@itscuriositydude) is a YouTube channel in the Travel & Outdoors niche created in 2012. It has 38K subscribers and 13M total views across 58 videos, an average of 227K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 229K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 94K views. Over the last 12 months, Curiosity Dude published 30 videos, and 7 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Curiosity Dude make?

Returbe estimates Curiosity Dude's YouTube ad revenue at $2.1K – $7.1K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, 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 $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Curiosity Dude publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (20% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Curiosity Dude's best outlier videos

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

• The Most Impossible to Reach Islands on Google Earth2.6M views · Jul 10, 202627.3× typical views
• What Is the Hardest Island in the World to Reach?661K views · Sep 8, 20267× typical views
• What Is the Most Absurdly Vertical Mountain on Earth?584K views · Oct 24, 20266.2× typical views
• What Is the Most Unexplored Mountain Range on Earth?501K views · Oct 8, 20265.3× typical views
• The Most Isolated Mountains You’ll Never Reach in Your Lifetime394K views · Aug 9, 20264.2× typical views
• The Last Truly Unexplored Places on Earth329K views · Jun 10, 20263.5× typical views
• The Last Truly Empty Mountain Ranges on Earth319K views · Aug 9, 20263.4× typical views
• The Most Mysterious Islands That Actually Exist239K views · Jun 10, 20262.5× typical views

Latest videos

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

• The Last Places on Earth No Human Has Ever Reached31K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• What Is the Deadliest Mountain in Human History?14K views · Oct 30, 20260.1× typical views
• What Is the Most Absurdly Vertical Mountain on Earth?584K views · Oct 24, 20266.2× typical views
• What Is the Last Island Humans Ever Discovered?39K views · Oct 17, 20260.4× typical views
• What Is the Most Dangerous Inhabited Island on Earth?4.2K views · Oct 10, 20260× typical views
• What Is the Most Unexplored Mountain Range on Earth?501K views · Oct 8, 20265.3× typical views
• World’s Strangest Lakes That Actually Exist9.9K views · Oct 8, 20260.1× typical views
• What Is the Strangest Island on Earth?98K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• What Is the Hardest Island in the World to Reach?661K views · Sep 8, 20267× typical views
• What Is the Easiest Unclimbed Mountain You Could Be THE FIRST to Climb?22K views · Sep 8, 20260.2× typical views

The Travel & Outdoors niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.4K videos from 517 channels in this niche. 12.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 28K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: France 3 Bretagne (141K subs, best video 59.5×), Ngoc Linh (330K subs, best video 36.2×), LazyWave (114K subs, best video 93×), Tania💕Mum of 4 (15K subs, best video 29.1×), Apni Dukaan Vlogs (8.8K subs, best video 10.4×), ALLSTAR STEVEN (182K subs, best video 594.3×).

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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 Curiosity Dude or YouTube.