Lume YouTube Stats

@lume-channel · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Lume channel overview

Lume (@lume-channel) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2024. It has 349K subscribers and 67M total views across 151 videos, an average of 447K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 348K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 225K views. Over the last 12 months, Lume published 58 videos, and 11 of them (19%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 21 days, Lume gained 25K subscribers and 6.9M views, about 328K views a day.

How much does Lume make?

Returbe estimates Lume's YouTube ad revenue at $26K – $88K 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.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Lume publishes about 13 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (36% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Lume's best outlier videos

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

• He Outsmarted Europe's Best Bank Engineers and Stole $10 Million Using a $5 Tool4.4M views · May 13, 202619.6× typical views
• The Engineer Who Legally Cheated Airlines Out of $800,000 Using Pudding Cups2.4M views · Apr 22, 202610.6× typical views
• Pepsi Spent $2 Million to Stop One Kid1.6M views · Jul 25, 20267.3× typical views
• He Lived Rent-Free in an Airport for 18 Years. Then Hollywood Paid Him.1.6M views · Oct 5, 20267.2× typical views
• North Korea Printed Better Dollars Than America. So How Did They Get Caught?1.6M views · Oct 14, 20267× typical views
• He Bought All Lottery Ticket and Won $27 Million1.1M views · May 30, 20264.8× typical views
• Why One Old Woman Refused $1M for Her Tiny House & Ruined Developers’ Plans978K views · Oct 17, 20264.3× typical views
• She Legally Cheated Lottery 4 Times for $20 Million Using a Paper846K views · May 23, 20263.8× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Wall Street's Trillion $ Loss Came From a Bedroom in London6.4K views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• How One Ordinary Man Helped Thousands Escape the Nazis Using Monopoly44K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• How a Broke Single Mom Cheated Every Casino in Las Vegas — Run by the Mob226K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• What Really Happened to Pablo Escobar’s Money?283K views · Oct 31, 20261.3× typical views
• He Legally Cheated American Airlines Out of $21 Million. Why Did They Hunt Him Down?317K views · Oct 28, 20261.4× typical views
• He Built His Own Country Just to Avoid Paperwork. Italy Sent the Navy151K views · Oct 26, 20260.7× typical views
• How a Security Guard Fooled the FBI & Pulled Off One of the Biggest Heists in History455K views · Oct 24, 20262× typical views
• How a High School Dropout Printed $10 Million on Phone Book Pages350K views · Oct 22, 20261.6× typical views
• Everyone Mocked This 71-Year-Old. Then He Found a $75M Betting Loophole.192K views · Oct 19, 20260.9× typical views
• Why One Old Woman Refused $1M for Her Tiny House & Ruined Developers’ Plans978K views · Oct 17, 20264.3× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.8K videos from 591 channels in this niche. 13.6% 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×), JTM History (7.6K subs, best video 39.1×).

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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 Lume or YouTube.