Bold History YouTube Stats

@theboldhistory · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 8, 2026

Bold History channel overview

Bold History (@theboldhistory) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2010. It has 8.4K subscribers and 2.3M total views across 195 videos, an average of 12K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 11K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 11K views. Over the last 12 months, Bold History published 30 videos, and 2 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Bold History make?

Returbe estimates Bold History's YouTube ad revenue at $499 – $1.7K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $5, typically $2.75, 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 $2.8K.

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Upload schedule

Bold History publishes about 29.3 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (57% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Bold History's best outlier videos

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

• USA vs Spain 1898: Everything Both Navies Had58K views · Oct 28, 20265.3× typical views
• The 15 Worst Armored Cruisers: One U-boat Sank Three in an Hour34K views · Oct 31, 20263.1× typical views
• The 15 Worst Dreadnoughts Ever Built (One Had Seven Turrets)31K views · Oct 25, 20262.8× typical views
• Britain Built a Fleet of Fake Battleships (When One Was Torpedoed, Its Turrets Floated)22K views · Oct 18, 20262× typical views
• The 15 Worst Naval Weapons Ever Built (One Cruiser Fired Dynamite With Compressed Air)15K views · Oct 18, 20261.4× typical views
• Russia's Pre-Dreadnoughts: Eight Sailed to Tsushima, None Came Home14K views · Oct 29, 20261.3× typical views
• Every Battleship Sunk by Another Battleship (One Killer Had Been Sunk at Pearl Harbor)13K views · Oct 25, 20261.2× typical views
• The 15 Worst Warships of WW2 (Japan Built Two Half-Carriers That Never Launched a Plane in Battle)13K views · Oct 18, 20261.2× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Bold History's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• USA vs Confederacy 1861–1865: Everything Both Navies Had3.1K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• The 15 Worst Pre-Dreadnoughts Ever Built (One Capsized in Two Minutes With 650 Men)11K views · Nov 7, 20261× typical views
• The 14 most powerful fighter planes of the Second World War2.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• The 15 Worst US Warships: One Gun Killed Two Cabinet Secretaries11K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• The 15 Worst Escort Carriers: One Exploded Off Scotland, 379 Dead4.7K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• The 15 Deadliest Warships of WW1: No. 1 Was a Tiny Minelayer7.6K views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views
• Britain vs Germany 1914: Everything Both Navies Had11K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• Britain vs Germany 1940: Everything Both Air Forces Had1.2K views · Nov 1, 20260.1× typical views
• The 15 Worst Armored Cruisers: One U-boat Sank Three in an Hour34K views · Oct 31, 20263.1× typical views
• Every Floating Gun Raft: Battleship Guns on a Barge2.7K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 6.1K videos from 766 channels in this niche. 14.6% 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 (274K subs, best video 328.7×), Maze Runner (21K subs, best video 8.2×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 90.1×), Military History Talks (46K subs, best video 14.7×), Alex Nguyen (4.2K subs, best video 74.4×), Volkslied (10K subs, best video 26×).

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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 Bold History or YouTube.