Nat Geo Animals YouTube Stats

@natgeoanimals · Animals & Nature · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Nat Geo Animals channel overview

Nat Geo Animals (@natgeoanimals) is a YouTube channel in the Animals & Nature niche created in 2007. It has 6.5M subscribers and 1.9B total views across 4.4K videos, an average of 427K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 99K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 47K views. Over the last 12 months, Nat Geo Animals published 60 videos (30% Shorts), and 14 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Nat Geo Animals gained 20K subscribers and 12M views, about 614K views a day.

How much does Nat Geo Animals make?

Returbe estimates Nat Geo Animals's YouTube ad revenue at $35K – $141K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.84 to $7.36, typically $3.68, 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 $3.7K.

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

Nat Geo Animals publishes about 22.8 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (24% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

Nat Geo Animals's best outlier videos

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

• Never-Before-Seen Wildlife Footage (Full Episode) | America the Beautiful | Nat Geo Animals712K views · Aug 30, 202615.1× typical views
• Strange Animal Relationships (Full Episode) | Super/Natural | Nat Geo Animals646K views · Oct 2, 202613.7× typical views
• Surviving the Ancient Grasslands (Full Episode) | Hidden Kingdoms of China | Nat Geo Animals534K views · Oct 11, 202611.3× typical views
• Welcome to Africa (Full Episode) | Africa Earth's Wild Home | SPECIAL | Nat Geo Animals503K views · Oct 3, 202610.7× typical views
• Meet the Most Dangerous Snakes Around the Globe | Deadliest Snakes MEGA Episode | Nat Geo Animals435K views · Aug 28, 20269.2× typical views
• Beaver dad's working the night shift 🌙🦫 #WildYellowstone136K views · Sep 15, 20267.6× typical views
• Following Alaska's Waterways (Full Episode) | Incredible Animal Journeys | Nat Geo Animals316K views · Sep 4, 20266.7× typical views
• Legendary Animals of China's Forests (Full Episode) | Hidden Kingdoms of China | Nat Geo Animals277K views · Sep 13, 20265.9× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Nat Geo Animals's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Introducing the Brown Bear (Full Episode) | World's Most Iconic Animals | Nat Geo Animals7.4K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Few people have ever seen what lurks deep inside this Amazonian cave. 🕷️ #PoleToPole15K views · Nov 2, 20260.8× typical views
• Celebrating Bald Eagles Across America | MEGA Episode Special | Nat Geo Animals23K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• Meet the Coastal Queens (Full Episode) | Queens | Nat Geo Animals43K views · Oct 31, 20260.9× typical views
• Inside Animal Rivalries | Documentary Special MEGA Episode | Nat Geo Animals37K views · Oct 30, 20260.8× typical views
• American Cougar: Revealed (Full Episode) | DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL | Nat Geo Animals38K views · Oct 28, 20260.8× typical views
• Lion Survival in African Wilderness (Full Episode) | The Lakeshore Killers | Nat Geo Animals152K views · Oct 25, 20263.2× typical views
• Alligators, Bears, & Toxic Creatures: Monsters of Nature | MEGA Episode | Nat Geo Animals39K views · Oct 24, 20260.8× typical views
• Send this to someone who could use a little wildlife joy today. 💛 #IncredibleAnimalJourneys17K views · Oct 23, 20261× typical views
• It Comes at Night (Full Episode) | Dead by Dawn Compilation | Nat Geo Animals45K views · Oct 23, 20260.9× typical views

The Animals & Nature niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.7K videos from 639 channels in this niche. 20.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Franchement c'est ça (31K subs, best video 17×), Blackout Docs (105K subs, best video 129.4×), Fact Finderz (105K subs, best video 51.3×), Coco Verse (389K subs, best video 23.4×), HundC🐶LM (127K subs, best video 361.6×), Catzhub (50K subs, best video 235.4×).

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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 Nat Geo Animals or YouTube.