PBS America YouTube Stats

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

PBS America channel overview

PBS America (@pbsamerica) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2011. It has 396K subscribers and 64M total views across 433 videos, an average of 148K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 117K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 17K views. Over the last 12 months, PBS America published 58 videos, and 23 of them (40%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, PBS America gained 4K subscribers and 1.8M views, about 104K views a day.

How much does PBS America make?

Returbe estimates PBS America's YouTube ad revenue at $9.5K – $32K 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.

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

PBS America publishes about 17.4 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (33% of uploads), usually around 08:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

PBS America's best outlier videos

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

• Nazi Town, USA (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE2.7M views · Sep 23, 2026158.8× typical views
• The Poison Squad (2020) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE562K views · Jul 22, 202633.3× typical views
• Clinton - Episode 1 (2012) | Full Documentary245K views · Aug 12, 202614.5× typical views
• Chernobyl: The New Evidence - Episode 1 (2021) | Full Documentary237K views · Aug 5, 202614.1× typical views
• The Secret of Tuxedo Park (2018) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE237K views · Sep 9, 202614× typical views
• Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017) | Full Documentary | NOVA204K views · Sep 16, 202612.1× typical views
• Billy Graham (2021) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE126K views · Jul 24, 20267.5× typical views
• Robert E. Lee (2011) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE108K views · Aug 21, 20266.4× typical views

Latest videos

11 of PBS America's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos - Episode 3 (2024) | Full Documentary385 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos - Episode 2 (2024) | Full Documentary2.7K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos - Episode 1 (2024) | Full Documentary5.7K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Black in Latin America - Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet (2016) | Full Documentary55K views · Oct 31, 20263.2× typical views
• Black in Latin America - Brazil: A Racial Paradise? (2016) | Full Documentary71K views · Oct 30, 20264.2× typical views
• Black in Latin America - Cuba: The Next Revolution (2016) | Full Documentary33K views · Oct 29, 20262× typical views
• Black in Latin America - Haiti & Dominican Republic: An Island Divided (2016) | Full Documentary92K views · Oct 28, 20265.4× typical views
• Gospel - Gospel's Second Century (2024) | Full Documentary3.8K views · Oct 24, 20260.2× typical views
• Gospel - Take the Message Everywhere (2024) | Full Documentary1.8K views · Oct 23, 20260.1× typical views
• Gospel - The Golden Age of Gospel (2024) | Full Documentary3.4K views · Oct 22, 20260.2× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 377 channels in this niche. 13.4% 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 202.4×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 11.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), 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 PBS America or YouTube.