Telltale Boats YouTube Stats

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

Telltale Boats channel overview

Telltale Boats (@telltaleboats) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2026. It has 5.1K subscribers and 2.1M total views across 93 videos, an average of 23K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 12K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 4.1K views. Over the last 12 months, Telltale Boats published 57 videos, and 16 of them (28%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Telltale Boats gained 200 subscribers and 131K views, about 7.7K views a day.

How much does Telltale Boats make?

Returbe estimates Telltale Boats's YouTube ad revenue at $735 – $2.4K 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

Telltale Boats publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 57 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (16% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Telltale Boats's best outlier videos

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

• The Rise and Fall of Lake Cumberland: The Houseboat Capital of the World160K views · Oct 14, 202638.9× typical views
• The Strangest American Outboard Engine Ever Made89K views · Aug 1, 202621.6× typical views
• The Rise and Fall of Kawasaki Jet Ski: How the Brand That Invented a Category Lost It43K views · Jul 18, 202610.4× typical views
• The Rise and Fall of Egg Harbor: The Sportfishing Empire That New Jersey Forgot30K views · Jul 16, 20267.3× typical views
• The Rise and Fall of Baja Marine: The Performance Boat Brand Brunswick Killed Twice27K views · Jul 20, 20266.6× typical views
• How Just One Recession Ended 300 Years of American Boatbuilding: The Ocean Yachts Story27K views · Sep 6, 20266.5× typical views
• How New Jersey Built America's Sportfishing Boats — Then Lost Every Single Builder27K views · Sep 8, 20266.5× typical views
• The Secret Lake: Why Mercury Bought a Swamp Full of Alligators24K views · Oct 20, 20265.8× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Telltale Boats's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Rise and Fall of America's Largest Reservoir: Lake Mead, Nevada99 views · Nov 5, 20260× typical views
• The Rise and Fall of America's Wildest Lake Party: Lake of the Ozarks9.5K views · Nov 3, 20262.3× typical views
• Why America Can't Save Its Houseboat Paradise: Lake Powell170 views · Nov 1, 20260× typical views
• The Last American Outboard: How Mercury Alone Survived Japan386 views · Oct 31, 20260.1× typical views
• Miami Marine Stadium Was Abandoned & Left to Rot468 views · Oct 30, 20260.1× typical views
• How a Hundred American Snowmobile Makers Became Four565 views · Oct 28, 20260.1× typical views
• How America’s Greatest Boat Empire Faded Away: Chris-Craft4.4K views · Oct 26, 20261.1× typical views
• The Most Impossible Rise of a City Ever: Lake Havasu City, Arizona269 views · Oct 24, 20260.1× typical views
• The Tragic End of Egg Harbor: Closed With a Full Order Book15K views · Oct 22, 20263.5× typical views
• The Secret Lake: Why Mercury Bought a Swamp Full of Alligators24K views · Oct 20, 20265.8× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 404 channels in this niche. 12.9% 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×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), 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 Telltale Boats or YouTube.