Michael Girdley YouTube Stats

@michael-girdley · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Michael Girdley channel overview

Michael Girdley (@michael-girdley) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2022. It has 388K subscribers and 82M total views across 606 videos, an average of 135K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 122K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 265K views. Over the last 12 months, Michael Girdley published 61 videos (41% Shorts), and 3 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Michael Girdley gained 7K subscribers and 4.2M views, about 246K views a day.

How much does Michael Girdley make?

Returbe estimates Michael Girdley's YouTube ad revenue at $18K – $61K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.85 to $9.49, typically $5.22, 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 $5.2K.

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Upload schedule

Michael Girdley publishes about 25 videos a month. Based on its last 61 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (25% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Michael Girdley's best outlier videos

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

• Why people stopped buying Doritos335K views · Sep 22, 202628.6× typical views
• The real story behind McDonald’s $5 meal deal41K views · Oct 10, 20263.5× typical views
• Why nobody eats Crumbl Cookies anymore890K views · Sep 23, 20263.4× typical views
• Disney turned $200 land into $14M mansions33K views · Oct 27, 20262.9× typical views
• Why everyone stopped buying Lululemon739K views · Oct 2, 20262.8× typical views
• Why nobody buys GoPro products anymore704K views · Sep 16, 20262.7× typical views
• The rise and fall of KFC619K views · Aug 31, 20262.3× typical views
• How Eddie Bauer invented the modern winter jacket27K views · Sep 7, 20262.3× typical views

Latest videos

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

• How Elon Musk built and destroyed Tesla's cult following9K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• Why USPS is losing $9 billion a year88K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• The secret system that makes Waffle House impossible to copy17K views · Nov 3, 20261.4× typical views
• The rise and fall of Dollar Tree82K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• The advertising trick that sold billions of cereal boxes9.1K views · Oct 31, 20260.8× typical views
• Why nobody can beat Heinz ketchup147K views · Oct 30, 20260.6× typical views
• The rise and fall of Ford125K views · Oct 28, 20260.5× typical views
• Why Waffle House is named after waffles6.6K views · Oct 28, 20260.6× typical views
• Disney turned $200 land into $14M mansions33K views · Oct 27, 20262.9× typical views
• Why the Pokémon card market is heading for a crash186K views · Oct 26, 20260.7× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 404 channels in this niche. 12.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

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