Matt Spears YouTube Stats

@mattspears · Travel & Outdoors · Updated Nov 14, 2026

Matt Spears channel overview

Matt Spears (@mattspears) is a YouTube channel in the Travel & Outdoors niche created in 2017. It has 947K subscribers and 101M total views across 118 videos, an average of 857K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.5M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.7M views. Over the last 12 months, Matt Spears published 17 videos, and 2 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 7 days, Matt Spears gained 35K subscribers and 6M views, about 857K views a day.

How much does Matt Spears make?

Returbe estimates Matt Spears's YouTube ad revenue at $77K – $256K 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

Matt Spears publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (22% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 8, 2026.

Matt Spears's best outlier videos

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

• Riding 1300 Miles to Alaska on Jet Ski - Camping & Fishing20M views · Oct 19, 202611.6× typical views
• Exploring 100 Miles of Abandoned Railroad Camping & Fishing8.8M views · Jun 1, 20265.2× typical views
• Exploring 100 Miles of Abandoned Railroad on E-Bike Micro Camper - Solo Camping3.5M views · Mar 4, 20262.1× typical views
• I Built a Micro Camper for Abandoned Railroads! Start to Finish2.9M views · Apr 30, 20261.7× typical views
• Riding 1000 Miles Across Alaska on $1000 Motorcycle2.4M views · Nov 8, 20261.4× typical views
• Jet Ski Camper Build | Cooking & Sleeping on Water1.9M views · May 17, 20261.1× typical views
• I Build an E-Bike Camper for Abandoned Railroads1.8M views · Feb 18, 20261.1× typical views
• I Bought a Wrecked Flying Hovercraft From The Navy!1.8M views · Jan 18, 20261.1× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Matt Spears's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Riding 1000 Miles Across Alaska on $1000 Motorcycle2.4M views · Nov 8, 20261.4× typical views
• Riding 1300 Miles to Alaska on Jet Ski - Camping & Fishing20M views · Oct 19, 202611.6× typical views
• I built a Roof Top Camper for my Motorcycle - Solo Camping826K views · Aug 18, 20260.5× typical views
• I Build an E-Bike for Abandoned Railroads!1.2M views · Aug 1, 20260.7× typical views
• Exploring 100 Miles of Abandoned Railroad Camping & Fishing8.8M views · Jun 1, 20265.2× typical views
• Jet Ski Camper Build | Cooking & Sleeping on Water1.9M views · May 17, 20261.1× typical views
• I Built a Micro Camper for Abandoned Railroads! Start to Finish2.9M views · Apr 30, 20261.7× typical views
• I Rebuilt This Wrecked Rail Car to Explore Abandoned Railroads!1.3M views · Apr 16, 20260.7× typical views
• Exploring 100 Miles of Abandoned Railroad on E-Bike Micro Camper - Solo Camping3.5M views · Mar 4, 20262.1× typical views
• Rebuilding Wrecked Navy Flying Hovercraft!1.4M views · Mar 1, 20260.8× typical views

The Travel & Outdoors niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.3K videos from 1.1K channels in this niche. 13.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: France 3 Bretagne (141K subs, best video 83.1×), Ngoc Linh (337K subs, best video 160.4×), Crusty Face (76K subs, best video 44.7×), Sharon Dawson (11K subs, best video 132.8×), Greenbrier Bushcraft (41K subs, best video 122.3×), kohstan kal (6.2K subs, best video 139.6×).

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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 Matt Spears or YouTube.