Cold Ledger YouTube Stats

@the-cold-ledger · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Cold Ledger channel overview

Cold Ledger (@the-cold-ledger) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2026. It has 2.2K subscribers and 1.2M total views across 6 videos, an average of 206K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 211K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 69K views. Over the last 12 months, Cold Ledger published 6 videos, and 2 of them (33%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Cold Ledger make?

Returbe estimates Cold Ledger's YouTube ad revenue at $4.1K – $12K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $5K.

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Upload schedule

Cold Ledger publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 6 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (50% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 11, 2026.

Cold Ledger's best outlier videos

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

• How a Mexican Cartel Built a Racehorse Empire588K views · Oct 23, 20268.6× typical views
• Inside the $1 Billion Cocaine Bust That Shocked America513K views · Oct 23, 20267.5× typical views
• How Los Zetas Built a Criminal Empire105K views · Nov 7, 20261.5× typical views
• How Cartels Laundered $8 Million Through a Toy Store33K views · Nov 11, 20260.5× typical views
• How Drug Cartels Laundered $881 Million Through This Bank16K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• How Criminals Paid the FBI to Spy on Them14K views · Nov 1, 20260.2× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Cold Ledger's last 6 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How Cartels Laundered $8 Million Through a Toy Store33K views · Nov 11, 20260.5× typical views
• How Los Zetas Built a Criminal Empire105K views · Nov 7, 20261.5× typical views
• How Criminals Paid the FBI to Spy on Them14K views · Nov 1, 20260.2× typical views
• How Drug Cartels Laundered $881 Million Through This Bank16K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• Inside the $1 Billion Cocaine Bust That Shocked America513K views · Oct 23, 20267.5× typical views
• How a Mexican Cartel Built a Racehorse Empire588K views · Oct 23, 20268.6× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 9K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 10.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 17K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (404K subs, best video 17.1×), FOX 29 Philadelphia (432K subs, best video 82.5×), Criminally Obsessed (248K subs, best video 11.3×), Crime 360 (243K subs, best video 11.1×), Mafia Secrets (5K subs, best video 23.1×), Frontline Crime (79K subs, best video 24.4×).

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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 Cold Ledger or YouTube.