River Monsters™ YouTube Stats

@rivermonsters · Animals & Nature · Updated Nov 6, 2026

River Monsters™ channel overview

River Monsters™ (@rivermonsters) is a YouTube channel in the Animals & Nature niche created in 2015. It has 2.9M subscribers and 878M total views across 1.3K videos, an average of 690K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 142K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 115K views. Over the last 12 months, River Monsters™ published 61 videos (52% Shorts), and 11 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, River Monsters™ gained 20K subscribers and 11M views, about 620K views a day.

How much does River Monsters™ make?

Returbe estimates River Monsters™'s YouTube ad revenue at $27K – $107K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.7 to $6.81, typically $3.4, 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 $3.4K.

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

River Monsters™ publishes about 27.2 videos a month. Based on its last 61 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (20% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

River Monsters™'s best outlier videos

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

• 16 Fish That Amazed Jeremy Wade In The Congo | River Monsters6.8M views · Oct 3, 202658.8× typical views
• Moving up the food chain ⬆️643K views · Oct 16, 202617× typical views
• River Monsters Full Episode - Blood River716K views · Sep 16, 20266.2× typical views
• JEREMY WADE IS BACK206K views · Oct 12, 20265.5× typical views
• The Mysterious Deaths Of Two People In Malaysia's Deadliest Lake | River Monsters507K views · Sep 29, 20264.4× typical views
• River Monsters Full Episode - Lair Of Giants [Extended Cut]483K views · Oct 21, 20264.2× typical views
• A relative of the Arapaima 👀158K views · Oct 9, 20264.2× typical views
• These Fish Are OLDER Than Dinosaurs! | River Monsters469K views · Oct 17, 20264.1× typical views

Latest videos

10 of River Monsters™'s last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The 2-Hour Battle That Nearly Broke Jeremy Wade | Fish On! With Jeremy Wade Podcast415 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• River Monsters Full Episode - Fishing Secrets Revealed!43K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• The Papuan Black Bass That's Terrorising Papua New Guinea | River Monsters92K views · Nov 3, 20260.8× typical views
• 'I was worried about my safety!' 😮2.8K views · Nov 1, 20260.1× typical views
• Pike, Sturgeon & More River Monsters Caught In Canada | River Monsters171K views · Oct 31, 20261.5× typical views
• Fishing In The Most Dangerous Spot In The World | River Monsters50K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• River Monsters Full Episode - Aquatic Aliens102K views · Oct 28, 20260.9× typical views
• Fish On! With Jeremy Wade Podcast - Episode 190K views · Oct 27, 20260.8× typical views
• Jeremy Wade Catching Baby River Monsters!97K views · Oct 24, 20260.8× typical views
• Catching a 200-Year Old Shark | River Monsters34K views · Oct 23, 20260.3× typical views

The Animals & Nature niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.7K videos from 640 channels in this niche. 20.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 6.9K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Franchement c'est ça (31K subs, best video 19×), Blackout Docs (105K subs, best video 126.4×), Coco Verse (389K subs, best video 23.2×), Curiosidade 67 (197K subs, best video 45.3×), Belaya Nerpa (42K subs, best video 13.3×), HundC🐶LM (129K subs, best video 361.3×).

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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 River Monsters™ or YouTube.