Mafia Files YouTube Stats

@mafiafiles07 · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Mafia Files channel overview

Mafia Files (@mafiafiles07) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2025. It has 3.5K subscribers and 1.3M total views across 45 videos, an average of 29K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 44K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 4.7K views. Over the last 12 months, Mafia Files published 30 videos, and 13 of them (43%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Mafia Files make?

Returbe estimates Mafia Files's YouTube ad revenue at $2.9K – $8.8K 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.

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

Mafia Files publishes about 11.9 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (47% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 12, 2026.

Mafia Files's best outlier videos

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

• The Women Trained by the Cartel to Kill265K views · Oct 30, 202656.4× typical views
• How El Chapo's Sons Took Over the World's Biggest Cartel229K views · Oct 23, 202648.8× typical views
• El Azul: Why the FBI Still Hunts a Dead Man152K views · Oct 30, 202632.3× typical views
• El Nini: The Most Feared Hitman in the Sinaloa Cartel133K views · Oct 31, 202628.3× typical views
• The Betrayal That Killed Ramón Arellano Félix111K views · Apr 17, 202623.6× typical views
• Kiki Camarena: The Truth They Never Told109K views · Apr 17, 202623.2× typical views
• 7 Narcos Executed by Their Own Cartel71K views · Nov 5, 202615.2× typical views
• The True Story of the Man Who Terrified Pablo Escobar71K views · Mar 18, 202615.1× typical views

Latest videos

14 of Mafia Files's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Death Pablo Escobar Never Forgave1.2K views · Nov 12, 20260.2× typical views
• Iván Archivaldo: El Chapo's Untouchable Heir50K views · Nov 8, 202610.7× typical views
• 7 Narcos Executed by Their Own Cartel71K views · Nov 5, 202615.2× typical views
• The Dark Side of Crime: A Journey Into the Iceberg1.5K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• El Nini: The Most Feared Hitman in the Sinaloa Cartel133K views · Oct 31, 202628.3× typical views
• What Happened to the Capone Family 75 Years Later?611 views · Oct 30, 20260.1× typical views
• El Azul: Why the FBI Still Hunts a Dead Man152K views · Oct 30, 202632.3× typical views
• The Women Trained by the Cartel to Kill265K views · Oct 30, 202656.4× typical views
• 8 Hitmen Who Changed Organized Crime Forever1.1K views · Oct 23, 20260.2× typical views
• What Really Happened to Escobar's Hitmen?4.5K views · Oct 23, 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 Mafia Files or YouTube.