James Whitfield YouTube Stats

@jameswhitfield-g4l · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 13, 2026

James Whitfield channel overview

James Whitfield (@jameswhitfield-g4l) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2026. It has 12K subscribers and 4.7M total views across 48 videos, an average of 98K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 129K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 90K views. Over the last 12 months, James Whitfield published 31 videos, and 4 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does James Whitfield make?

Returbe estimates James Whitfield's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $37K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $5K.

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Upload schedule

James Whitfield publishes about 31.5 videos a month. Based on its last 31 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (58% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 13, 2026.

James Whitfield's best outlier videos

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

• Jobs You Better Not Walk Into Prison With600K views · Nov 4, 20266.7× typical views
• Prison Tattoos Explained: The Ones That Get You Hurt Inside449K views · Oct 23, 20265× typical views
• 15 Phrases Prisoners Use to Test You (Free People Fall for Them Every Day)339K views · Oct 30, 20263.8× typical views
• 15 Things You Better Not Do on the Prison Yard337K views · Nov 2, 20263.7× typical views
• 15 Prison Tattoos and What They REALLY Mean (Civilians Read Them Wrong)240K views · Oct 23, 20262.7× typical views
• 10 Phrases That Earn Instant Respect in Prison (Free People Never Say Them)205K views · Oct 23, 20262.3× typical views
• Habits You Better Not Walk Into Prison With198K views · Nov 7, 20262.2× typical views
• Crimes You Better Not Walk Into Prison With196K views · Nov 6, 20262.2× typical views

Latest videos

10 of James Whitfield's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 12 Things Prisoners Do to Always Get Left Alone (You Do Them Every Day)9.3K views · Nov 13, 2026
• Debts You Better Not Walk Into Prison With16K views · Nov 12, 20260.2× typical views
• Unwritten Rules You Better Not Break in Prison31K views · Nov 11, 20260.3× typical views
• Prison Habits That Follow You Home (And Give You Away in Seconds)11K views · Nov 11, 20260.1× typical views
• Looks You Better Not Walk Into Prison With66K views · Nov 10, 20260.7× typical views
• Contraband I Saw Walk Into Prison (And Who Carried It In)22K views · Nov 9, 20260.2× typical views
• Every Tattoo You Better Not Walk Into Prison With131K views · Nov 8, 20261.4× typical views
• Habits You Better Not Walk Into Prison With198K views · Nov 7, 20262.2× typical views
• Crimes You Better Not Walk Into Prison With196K views · Nov 6, 20262.2× typical views
• The Health Problems That Make You Prey in Prison87K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 9K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 10.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 17K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (404K subs, best video 17.1×), FOX 29 Philadelphia (432K subs, best video 82.5×), Criminally Obsessed (248K subs, best video 11.3×), Crime 360 (243K subs, best video 11.1×), Mafia Secrets (5K subs, best video 23.1×), Frontline Crime (79K subs, best video 24.4×).

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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 James Whitfield or YouTube.