MrBallen Shorts YouTube Stats

@mrballenshorts · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

MrBallen Shorts channel overview

MrBallen Shorts (@mrballenshorts) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2021. It has 3.3M subscribers and 1.5B total views across 1.3K videos, an average of 1.1M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 562K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.1M views. Over the last 12 months, MrBallen Shorts published 60 videos (100% Shorts), and 15 of them (25%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, MrBallen Shorts gained 20K subscribers and 27M views, about 1.3M views a day.

How much does MrBallen Shorts make?

Returbe estimates MrBallen Shorts's YouTube ad revenue at $1.1K – $3.5K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, 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 $60.

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Upload schedule

MrBallen Shorts publishes about 20.6 videos a month. Based on its last 63 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (24% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

MrBallen Shorts's best outlier videos

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

• Most horrifying TRUE story11M views · Jan 10, 202110.2× typical views
• This Photo Will Make Your Skin Crawl.....2.7M views · Oct 18, 20268.7× typical views
• She Had A Higher IQ Than Albert Einstein!2.5M views · Sep 22, 20268.1× typical views
• They Accidentally Found A 100-Year-Old BOMB.....2M views · Aug 23, 20266.5× typical views
• My SCARIEST Moment As A Navy SEAL1.7M views · Oct 27, 20265.3× typical views
• How Is This Guy STILL Alive?? 😭🙏1.5M views · Oct 17, 20264.8× typical views
• This Accident SHOCKED The Police1.5M views · Sep 2, 20264.8× typical views
• The scariest true story on the internet5.2M views · Jan 10, 20214.7× typical views

Latest videos

12 of MrBallen Shorts's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Most TRAGIC Coincidence In History.....179K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Nobody Was Supposed To See This Footage....110K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• This Lady Brought Back A DEAD Guy To Life??325K views · Nov 3, 20261× typical views
• Why You Always Take A School Lockdown Seriously163K views · Nov 2, 20260.5× typical views
• The INSANE Way He Met His Best Friend 🤯638K views · Oct 28, 20262.1× typical views
• My SCARIEST Moment As A Navy SEAL1.7M views · Oct 27, 20265.3× typical views
• The Most DANGEROUS Island In The World!250K views · Oct 27, 20260.8× typical views
• The HORRIBLE Way He Found His Missing Mother 20 Years Later!533K views · Oct 25, 20261.7× typical views
• What Is This Guy DOING?? 😭🙏139K views · Oct 24, 20260.4× typical views
• Solo Camping Gone HORRIBLY Wrong….92K views · Oct 24, 20260.3× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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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 MrBallen Shorts or YouTube.