The Rest Is History YouTube Stats

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

The Rest Is History channel overview

The Rest Is History (@restishistorypod) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2022. It has 608K subscribers and 137M total views across 1.2K videos, an average of 118K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 121K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 251K views. Over the last 12 months, The Rest Is History published 56 videos (63% Shorts), and 6 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 15 days, The Rest Is History gained 8K subscribers and 5.1M views, about 339K views a day.

How much does The Rest Is History make?

Returbe estimates The Rest Is History's YouTube ad revenue at $23K – $75K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.75 to $5.84, typically $3.21, 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 $3.2K.

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Upload schedule

The Rest Is History publishes about 20.6 videos a month. Based on its last 53 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (43% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

The Rest Is History's best outlier videos

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

• The Fall of The British Empire in 30 (ish) seconds440K views · Oct 27, 202610× typical views
• "Was penicillin founded by accident?"365K views · Sep 24, 20268.3× typical views
• Did NASA already know how they were going to land on the moon?362K views · Sep 23, 20268.2× typical views
• "Tom, I know you're passionate about cows, aren't you?"354K views · Sep 21, 20268× typical views
• Did Darwin have a Eureka moment in the Galapagos?343K views · Sep 22, 20267.8× typical views
• Romans had no idea what they looked like171K views · Oct 6, 20263.9× typical views
• Dominic Trump88K views · Sep 17, 20262× typical views
• Danton vs Robespierre: the accusations are true86K views · Oct 6, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

6 of The Rest Is History's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Revolution That Almost Destroyed the Soviet Empire9.5K views · Nov 5, 20260× typical views
• Yet another fantastic moustache17K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• Suez: The Strategic Disaster that Broke Britain’s Imperial Status368K views · Oct 29, 20261.5× typical views
• What did Ceasar get up to in Gaul?43K views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views
• The Fall of The British Empire in 30 (ish) seconds440K views · Oct 27, 202610× typical views
• The terror...kind of worked?29K views · Oct 27, 20260.7× typical views
• Julius Ceasar's biggest legacy is the calendar23K views · Oct 22, 20260.5× typical views
• They had the Daily Mail in the dark ages34K views · Oct 22, 20260.8× typical views
• The Truth Behind the Legend of King Arthur265K views · Oct 22, 20261.1× typical views
• Robespierre was the inventor of woke50K views · Oct 21, 20261.1× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 372 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 11K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 206.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 43.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 63.4×), James Sullivan (6.7K subs, best video 12×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 39×).

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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 The Rest Is History or YouTube.