Retro Wheels YouTube Stats

@retrowheels-1960s · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Retro Wheels channel overview

Retro Wheels (@retrowheels-1960s) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2025. It has 12K subscribers and 1.9M total views across 228 videos, an average of 8.2K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 16K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 6.3K views. Over the last 12 months, Retro Wheels published 31 videos, and 7 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Retro Wheels make?

Returbe estimates Retro Wheels's YouTube ad revenue at $1.4K – $4.6K 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.

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Upload schedule

Retro Wheels publishes about 31.5 videos a month. Based on its last 31 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (58% of uploads), usually around 08:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Retro Wheels's best outlier videos

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

• 25 Things That Were Normal in 1970s CLEVELAND But Would Be ILLEGAL Today88K views · Oct 17, 202614× typical views
• 20 FORGOTTEN Chicago Restaurants From the 1970s That No Longer Exist66K views · Oct 10, 202610.5× typical views
• I Bet You Can’t Remember All 20 of These Boston TV Shows From the 1970s (Almost All GONE)52K views · Oct 24, 20268.3× typical views
• I Bet You Can't Remember All 20 of These Chicago TV Shows From the 1970s (Almost All GONE)50K views · Oct 17, 20267.9× typical views
• 20 BOSTON Bars We Lost in the 1970s and Never Got Back44K views · Oct 17, 20267× typical views
• I Bet You Can’t Remember All 20 of These Chicago Department Stores From the 1970s (All GONE)38K views · Oct 17, 20266× typical views
• I Bet You Can’t Remember All 20 of These Milwaukee Taverns From the 1970s (All GONE)37K views · Oct 26, 20265.9× typical views
• The PHILADELPHIA TV Shows We Grew Up On in the 1970s (Almost All GONE)19K views · Nov 2, 20263× typical views

Latest videos

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

• 20 FORGOTTEN Philadelphia Restaurants From the 1970s That No Longer Exist0 views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• I Bet You Can’t Remember All 20 of These Chicago Radio Stars From the 1970s (Almost All GONE)4.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• The Strange Story of Ghoulardi, the Cleveland TV Host Who Took Over the City5.8K views · Nov 6, 20260.9× typical views
• What Happened to Jordan Marsh’s Enchanted Village, Boston’s Christmas Tradition1.7K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• 20 FORGOTTEN Milwaukee Restaurants From the 1970s That No Longer Exist10K views · Nov 4, 20261.6× typical views
• The Strange Story of Chicago’s Bozo’s Circus and Its 10-Year Waiting List957 views · Nov 3, 20260.2× typical views
• The PHILADELPHIA TV Shows We Grew Up On in the 1970s (Almost All GONE)19K views · Nov 2, 20263× typical views
• I Bet You Can’t Remember All 20 of These Chicago Christmas Traditions From the 1970s (All GONE)1.2K views · Nov 1, 20260.2× typical views
• 20 Chicago Steakhouses and Supper Clubs Our Parents Dressed Up For (Almost All GONE)7.7K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views
• The CLEVELAND Nightclubs and Supper Clubs We Lost in the 1970s and Never Got Back3.8K views · Oct 30, 20260.6× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 578 channels in this niche. 13.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 281.1×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 54.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 28.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.8×), Military History Talks (45K subs, best video 25.8×), James Sullivan (7K subs, best video 10.2×).

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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 Retro Wheels or YouTube.