History Abridged YouTube Stats

@jackrackam · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

History Abridged channel overview

History Abridged (@jackrackam) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2011. It has 413K subscribers and 111M total views across 303 videos, an average of 365K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 169K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 154K views. Over the last 12 months, History Abridged published 30 videos (37% Shorts), and 3 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 15 days, History Abridged gained 0 subscribers and 666K views, about 44K views a day.

How much does History Abridged make?

Returbe estimates History Abridged's YouTube ad revenue at $2.9K – $9.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.58 to $5.27, typically $2.9, 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 $2.9K.

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Upload schedule

History Abridged publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (24% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 28, 2026.

History Abridged's best outlier videos

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

• "The Living Dead" Medieval Bio-Weapon Brigade #history718K views · Jun 12, 202624.7× typical views
• Where are the Anti-Crusades? #history469K views · Feb 5, 202616.1× typical views
• The nicest (and most dangerous) captor #history196K views · Oct 31, 20256.5× typical views
• How WW1 Killed Four Empires522K views · Oct 17, 20263.4× typical views
• WW2 But it's Just the Stupid Ideas444K views · Feb 28, 20262.9× typical views
• When the U.S. military needed an entire squadron to remove a tree #history68K views · Oct 24, 20252.2× typical views
• Rockets how do they work54K views · Jan 22, 20261.8× typical views
• When You Accidentally Start a Religion282K views · Nov 19, 20251.8× typical views

Latest videos

8 of History Abridged's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• I found the Real Life Prince Charming68K views · Oct 28, 20260.4× typical views
• How WW1 Killed Four Empires522K views · Oct 17, 20263.4× typical views
• Napoleon's Worst Enemy282K views · Oct 2, 20261.8× typical views
• Why No One in America Wanted to Go to the Moon79K views · Sep 15, 20260.5× typical views
• Everything's Bigger in China58K views · Sep 5, 20260.4× typical views
• The Slowest Bank Heist in American History118K views · Aug 9, 20260.8× typical views
• Teddy Roosevelt's Idea of Retirement132K views · Jul 22, 20260.9× typical views
• The Ottomans Shouldn't Have Joined WW1154K views · Jul 3, 20261× typical views
• First Contact Looks Unexpected #history32K views · Jun 26, 20261.1× typical views
• Andrew Jackson's Haunted Parrot #history19K views · Jun 23, 20260.6× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 400 channels in this niche. 13% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 History Abridged or YouTube.