Real Crime YouTube Stats

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

Real Crime channel overview

Real Crime (@realcrime) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2019. It has 2.2M subscribers and 545M total views across 1.4K videos, an average of 399K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 67K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 40K views. Over the last 12 months, Real Crime published 67 videos, and 10 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Real Crime gained 10K subscribers and 4.5M views, about 223K views a day.

How much does Real Crime make?

Returbe estimates Real Crime's YouTube ad revenue at $23K – $70K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 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.

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

Real Crime publishes about 26.1 videos a month. Based on its last 69 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (19% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Real Crime's best outlier videos

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

• Real-Life Freddy Krueger: This Murder Scene Terrified The FBI838K views · Mar 25, 202621× typical views
• Money, Love, and Murder: The Tragic Story of Stephen and Evelyn | Real Crime5.4M views · Nov 26, 202013.5× typical views
• Finding Amanda Brown: Florida's Largest Missing Child Investigation463K views · Oct 18, 202611.6× typical views
• Who was Rachel Nickell? The Real Story Behind Netflix’s New True Crime Doc432K views · Jun 12, 202610.8× typical views
• Corrupt Texas Judge Started a Hit List: You Won't Believe Who Was On It299K views · Sep 19, 20267.5× typical views
• The FBI's Most Dangerous Manhunt To Trap A Deadly Cop238K views · Oct 16, 20266× typical views
• Lizzie Borden: True Story of America's Most Famous Double Murder198K views · Sep 18, 20265× typical views
• Deadly Deception: Australia’s Most Chilling Poisoning Murder Cases178K views · Oct 26, 20264.4× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Real Crime's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Bruce McArthur: North America’s Darkest Cold Case Solved1.3K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Inside The FBI's Hunt For America's Most Disturbing Serial Killers23K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Pastor's Deadly Affair: The Shocking Murder of Randy Stone14K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• William Devin Howell: Connecticut's Most Notorious Serial Killer101K views · Nov 3, 20262.4× typical views
• The Shocking Texas Case That Reached the Supreme Court109K views · Nov 2, 20262.6× typical views
• Louis Theroux Goes Inside Miami's Brutal Mega Jail57K views · Nov 1, 20261.4× typical views
• The Shocking Texas Kidnapping That Ended in Murder48K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views
• The District Attorney Murder That Shocked Houston168K views · Oct 30, 20264.2× typical views
• Erin Andrews Stalking: How Hotel Peephole Videos Exposed A Predator58K views · Oct 29, 20261.4× typical views
• Manhunts and Murder: Inside The FBI's Most Disturbing Cases113K views · Oct 28, 20262.8× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 517 channels in this niche. 8.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

Channels similar to Real Crime

• Neoxi2.2M subscribers · 625K typical views
• McSkyz2.4M subscribers · 1.1M typical views
• EWU Crime Storytime2.4M subscribers · 3.7M typical views
• COURT TV2.5M subscribers · 26K typical views
• Jimmy1.9M subscribers · 236K typical views
• 48 Hours2.6M subscribers · 482K typical views
• Investigation Discovery1.9M subscribers · 3.5K typical views
• Annie Elise1.8M subscribers · 449K typical views
• Bella Fiori2.6M subscribers · 446K typical views
• FilmRise True Crime1.6M subscribers · 164K typical views
• MrBallen Shorts3.3M subscribers · 1.1M typical views
• True Crime Central1.5M subscribers · 43K typical views

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 Real Crime or YouTube.