Kings and Generals YouTube Stats

@kingsandgenerals · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Kings and Generals channel overview

Kings and Generals (@kingsandgenerals) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2016. It has 4.2M subscribers and 1.1B total views across 2.3K videos, an average of 483K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 221K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 363K views. Over the last 12 months, Kings and Generals published 50 videos (52% Shorts), and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Kings and Generals make?

Returbe estimates Kings and Generals's YouTube ad revenue at $13K – $43K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.22 to $7.39, typically $4.07, 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 $4.1K.

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Upload schedule

Kings and Generals publishes about 27.2 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (18% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Kings and Generals's best outlier videos

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

• Why Rome’s Greatest Threat Was Its Own Settler Legions478K views · Sep 14, 20265.5× typical views
• Why England Banned Peasants from Wearing Pointy Shoes423K views · Sep 16, 20264.8× typical views
• The 3,000 vs 60,000 "Battle" That Conquered India251K views · Sep 23, 20262.9× typical views
• War of the Spanish Succession: All Battles and Events - FULL DOCUMENTARY1M views · Sep 13, 20262.8× typical views
• How Anglo-Saxons Became the Byzantine Emperor’s Bodyguards227K views · Oct 14, 20262.6× typical views
• Why Rome didn't care about Britain #romanempire #history223K views · Oct 26, 20262.5× typical views
• How 60,000 French Controlled Half of North America221K views · Sep 11, 20262.5× typical views
• How the Hundred Years' War Bankrupted England200K views · Oct 12, 20262.3× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Kings and Generals's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The king was a child and the richest man in England was running everything #history #medieval17K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Not only Janissaries - The Ottoman Empire’s Elite Army199K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• The Roman Frontier Was Dangerous But Nobody Wanted to Leave #history #shorts22K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• From India to Europe: The Romani Odyssey167K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• Why Vikings Built Their Ships Like This #history #vikings #shorts38K views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• Yugoslavia 1991: How the Wars Began290K views · Nov 1, 20260.8× typical views
• Disease and Guns Destroyed Siberia's Indigenous Peoples #ColonialHistory #history33K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• Medieval Horror Stories97K views · Oct 29, 20260.3× typical views
• The Room Only the High Priest Could Enter Was Empty #Jerusalem #HistoryShorts44K views · Oct 28, 20260.5× typical views
• Why Spain Collapsed Into Civil War - Kings and Generals Modern439K views · Oct 27, 20261.2× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 578 channels in this niche. 13.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 281.1×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 54.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 28.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.8×), Military History Talks (45K subs, best video 25.8×), James Sullivan (7K subs, best video 10.2×).

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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 Kings and Generals or YouTube.