The Cartel Insider YouTube Stats

@thecartelinsider · In-depth Mexican Cartel Stories · Updated Nov 13, 2026

The Cartel Insider channel overview

The Cartel Insider (@thecartelinsider) is a YouTube channel in the In-depth Mexican Cartel Stories niche created in 2025. It has 47K subscribers and 6.3M total views across 46 videos, an average of 137K views per video over its lifetime.

What the channel makes: Detailed biographical stories and insider information about Mexican cartel leaders, hitmen, and their associates, focusing on lesser-known details and exclusive anecdotes.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 140K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 106K views. Over the last 12 months, The Cartel Insider published 30 videos, and 2 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Cartel Insider make?

Returbe estimates The Cartel Insider's YouTube ad revenue at $247 – $742 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $4.5, typically $2.5, 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 $2.5K.

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

The Cartel Insider publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (20% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 10, 2026.

The Cartel Insider's best outlier videos

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

• El Mini 6: The Spoiled Kid Who Became Sinaloa Cartel's Youngest Hitman376K views · Oct 16, 20263.5× typical views
• El M1: The Most Feared Hitman of the Sinaloa Cartel341K views · Oct 14, 20263.2× typical views
• El Mago: How a Sinaloa Cartel Narco Became an LA Celebrity288K views · Jun 16, 20262.7× typical views
• Ramón Arellano: The Most Violent Cartel Boss of All Time249K views · Oct 14, 20262.4× typical views
• La Ardilla: Los Zetas Most Sadistic Boss235K views · Aug 15, 20262.2× typical views
• El Azul: The Only Narco Who Succesfully Faked His Death231K views · Sep 14, 20262.2× typical views
• Inside The Billionaire Life of El Chapo's Smartest Brother225K views · Aug 15, 20262.1× typical views
• Inside the Sinaloa Cartel's Most Infamous Christmas Party216K views · Jul 16, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

10 of The Cartel Insider's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Z-40: The Most Terrifying Cartel Boss of All Time77K views · Nov 10, 20260.7× typical views
• René 00: The Most Underrated Narco of the Sinaloa Cartel77K views · Oct 23, 20260.7× typical views
• El Mini 6: The Spoiled Kid Who Became Sinaloa Cartel's Youngest Hitman376K views · Oct 16, 20263.5× typical views
• El M1: The Most Feared Hitman of the Sinaloa Cartel341K views · Oct 14, 20263.2× typical views
• El Bravo: The Elite Soldier Who Became El Chapo's Best Hitman78K views · Oct 14, 20260.7× typical views
• El Nini: The Most Famous Hitman of the Sinaloa Cartel122K views · Oct 14, 20261.2× typical views
• Inside El Chapo's Secret Vacation With His Favorite Wife29K views · Oct 14, 20260.3× typical views
• Ramón Arellano: The Most Violent Cartel Boss of All Time249K views · Oct 14, 20262.4× typical views
• El Güero Palma: The Tragedy That Changed the Sinaloa Cartel Forever67K views · Oct 14, 20260.6× typical views
• El Azul: The Only Narco Who Succesfully Faked His Death231K views · Sep 14, 20262.2× 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 The Cartel Insider or YouTube.