Real Stories YouTube Stats

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

Real Stories channel overview

Real Stories (@realstories) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2015. It has 6.8M subscribers and 1.1B total views across 1.4K videos, an average of 761K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 54K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 17K views. Over the last 12 months, Real Stories published 59 videos, and 14 of them (24%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Real Stories gained 0 subscribers and 4.7M views, about 234K views a day.

How much does Real Stories make?

Returbe estimates Real Stories's YouTube ad revenue at $19K – $62K 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

Real Stories publishes about 21.7 videos a month. Based on its last 62 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (19% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Real Stories's best outlier videos

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

• Inside Afghanistan: Rare Uncensored Footage From The Battle For Marjah2.6M views · Aug 26, 2026151.8× typical views
• 9/11 The First Hours Minute By Minute (Intense Footage)1.2M views · Sep 11, 202673.3× typical views
• Untold 9/11 Survivor Stories From Inside the Twin Towers1.2M views · Sep 12, 202671× typical views
• 9/11 As It Happened: Uncensored Footage Minute By Minute1M views · Sep 14, 202660.3× typical views
• Raw and Uncensored Footage of the Brutal Russia/Ukraine War638K views · Oct 5, 202637.8× typical views
• The Un-Perfect Crime: America’s Dumbest Heist | Real Stories22M views · Nov 21, 201928.6× typical views
• 9/11 The Day That Changed America: Full Timeline 20 Hours of Raw Footage378K views · Sep 3, 202622.4× typical views
• The Almost Perfect Murder (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories15M views · Jul 15, 201719.2× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Boston Marathon Bombing: As It Happened | Full Documentary9.7K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• Surviving The USS Cole Attack: The Tragedy and Al-Qaeda Connections To 9/119.5K views · Nov 3, 20260.6× typical views
• The Most Ruthless Presidential Election Power Grabs in US History9.2K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• How To Really Win The US Presidency13K views · Oct 31, 20260.8× typical views
• What I learned From Growing Up In My Dad's Strip Club: Inside The Manor34K views · Oct 29, 20262× typical views
• The Greatest Bitcoin Gamble of the Pandemic: How To Fund a Movie With Crypto10K views · Oct 27, 20260.6× typical views
• The Dangerous Truth About Propaganda and Censorship in Putin's Russia15K views · Oct 26, 20260.9× typical views
• The Most Dangerous Mid-Life Career Move in Combat Sports10K views · Oct 25, 20260.6× typical views
• Fear, Money and Death: The Dangerous Life Of Mexico's Narco Pilots16K views · Oct 24, 20260.9× typical views
• I Nearly Died Smuggling Cocaine To Pay Off My Student Loans61K views · Oct 22, 20263.6× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 375 channels in this niche. 13.3% 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 202.6×), 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 Real Stories or YouTube.