Optic Lure YouTube Stats

@opticlureproductions · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Optic Lure channel overview

Optic Lure (@opticlureproductions) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2007. It has 40K subscribers and 4.1M total views across 12 videos, an average of 339K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 339K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 332K views. Over the last 12 months, Optic Lure published 2 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Optic Lure gained 100 subscribers and 81K views, about 4.8K views a day.

How much does Optic Lure make?

Returbe estimates Optic Lure's YouTube ad revenue at $489 – $1.6K 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.

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Upload schedule

Based on its last 12 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (33% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on May 16, 2026.

Optic Lure's best outlier videos

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

• The Matrix Was a Documentary3.5M views · Dec 21, 202110.4× typical views
• Kowloon Walled City Documentary27K views · Feb 18, 20241× typical views
• Frutiger Aero and the Lost Future of the 2000's46K views · Jan 15, 20241× typical views
• How Zombies Captured Pop Culture3.9K views · Jul 2, 20231× typical views
• Sega's Unfinished Masterpeice 19K views · May 20, 20231× typical views
• Cultural Decline and the Rise of Nostalgia67K views · Aug 22, 20251× typical views
• Survival Horror Is In Trouble214K views · Jan 7, 20231× typical views
• Avatar 2 Is a Masterpiece21K views · Dec 21, 20221× typical views

Latest videos

1 of Optic Lure's last 12 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• North Hollywood Shootout Documentary124K views · May 16, 2026
• Critics and Gatekeepers are Important1.9K views · Feb 20, 2026
• Cultural Decline and the Rise of Nostalgia67K views · Aug 22, 20251× typical views
• Kowloon Walled City Documentary27K views · Feb 18, 20241× typical views
• Frutiger Aero and the Lost Future of the 2000's46K views · Jan 15, 20241× typical views
• How Zombies Captured Pop Culture3.9K views · Jul 2, 20231× typical views
• Sega's Unfinished Masterpeice 19K views · May 20, 20231× typical views
• The Rocky Balboa Story: Hollywood's Greatest Loser4.9K views · Jan 21, 20231× typical views
• Survival Horror Is In Trouble214K views · Jan 7, 20231× typical views
• Avatar 2 Is a Masterpiece21K views · Dec 21, 20221× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 400 channels in this niche. 13% 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

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 Optic Lure or YouTube.