OTR Food & History YouTube Stats

@otrontheroad · Food & Cooking · Updated Nov 6, 2026

OTR Food & History channel overview

OTR Food & History (@otrontheroad) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2022. It has 340K subscribers and 28M total views across 130 videos, an average of 216K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 205K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 139K views. Over the last 12 months, OTR Food & History published 23 videos (4% Shorts), and 1 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, OTR Food & History gained 1K subscribers and 329K views, about 19K views a day.

How much does OTR Food & History make?

Returbe estimates OTR Food & History's YouTube ad revenue at $1.6K – $5.9K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.5 to $9, typically $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 $5K.

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Upload schedule

OTR Food & History publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 46 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (57% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 28, 2026.

OTR Food & History's best outlier videos

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

• How Bread Built Civilization: From the First Farmers to the Modern Factory1.5M views · Jan 15, 20256.8× typical views
• Nutmeg, Mace, and the Four Small Islands that Changed the World469K views · Jan 13, 20263.4× typical views
• Going Big in Jakarta: The World's Most Underrated Food Megalopolis376K views · Sep 22, 20262.7× typical views
• Bacon, Barbecue, and Religious Bans: The 10,000 Year Saga of Pork245K views · Dec 10, 20251.8× typical views
• How the World Got Hooked on Coffee: Spies, Thieves, and German Housewives244K views · Aug 27, 20261.8× typical views
• The Wild Story of Tomatoes: From "Poison Apple" to Pizza Sauce219K views · Jan 28, 20261.6× typical views
• How Beer Conquered the World (Twice): From Cavemen to Craft Breweries198K views · Mar 18, 20261.4× typical views
• How Garlic Took Over the (Culinary) World190K views · Jul 22, 20261.4× typical views

Latest videos

5 of OTR Food & History's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Aunty Nid: The Queen of Thai Tea #thailand #thaitea #foodhistory3.7K views · Oct 28, 2026
• The Wild Story Behind Thai Tea, and the Recipe that Changed Everything120K views · Oct 27, 20260.9× typical views
• A Food Trip to Southeast Asia's Forgotten Megacity (9 Million People!)139K views · Oct 7, 20261× typical views
• Going Big in Jakarta: The World's Most Underrated Food Megalopolis376K views · Sep 22, 20262.7× typical views
• How the World Got Hooked on Coffee: Spies, Thieves, and German Housewives244K views · Aug 27, 20261.8× typical views
• One Epic Day of Eating with OTR Food & History: Our 4-Year Anniversary60K views · Aug 12, 20260.4× typical views
• How Garlic Took Over the (Culinary) World190K views · Jul 22, 20261.4× typical views
• The Not-So-Sweet Story of Bananas: Blights, Brutality, and the Berlin Wall100K views · Jul 8, 20260.7× typical views
• OTR Food & History Live Stream0 views · Jun 26, 20260× typical views
• A Food Trip into the Golden Triangle: Southeast Asia's Underworld89K views · Jun 24, 20260.6× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 686 channels in this niche. 12.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $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 OTR Food & History or YouTube.