The Decoder YouTube Stats

@thedecodercrime · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Decoder channel overview

The Decoder (@thedecodercrime) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2022. It has 516K subscribers and 99M total views across 106 videos, an average of 936K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 956K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 580K views. Over the last 12 months, The Decoder published 39 videos, and 9 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Decoder gained 2K subscribers and 1.7M views, about 98K views a day.

How much does The Decoder make?

Returbe estimates The Decoder's YouTube ad revenue at $6.5K – $20K 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.

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 Decoder publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 31 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (42% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

The Decoder's best outlier videos

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

• Cops Walk Into A Torture House Searching For A Missing Child4.1M views · Jun 5, 20267.1× typical views
• Parents Discover Their 13-Year-Old Son Is A Wanted Killer4M views · Apr 15, 20266.9× typical views
• Burglars Break In To Steal But Accidentally Solve A Murder3M views · May 1, 20265.2× typical views
• Cops Track Down Babysitter With a Rotting Body in Her Trunk2.2M views · Sep 25, 20263.8× typical views
• Dad Finds A Chopped Up 15 Year Old Inside His Trailer2.1M views · Jun 3, 20263.6× typical views
• Wife Stabbed And Buried Alive Survives To Expose Husband's Secret Life1.6M views · Jul 8, 20262.7× typical views
• Husband Hires a Private Detective Then His Wife and Her Coworker Are Found Dead1.4M views · Oct 15, 20262.4× typical views
• Cheating Boyfriend Thinks He Has The Perfect Plan To Get Away With Murder890K views · Sep 6, 20261.5× typical views

Latest videos

8 of The Decoder's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Murder Suspect Rips Out His Own Eyes After Getting Caught129K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Dad Murders His Entire Family After Discovering His Wife's Secret173K views · Oct 23, 20260.3× typical views
• Husband Hires a Private Detective Then His Wife and Her Coworker Are Found Dead1.4M views · Oct 15, 20262.4× typical views
• Husband Caught Dumping Wife's Body Just Months After Their Wedding332K views · Oct 10, 20260.6× typical views
• How Cops Found a Cannibal Hunting on a Dating Site390K views · Sep 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Cops Track Down Babysitter With a Rotting Body in Her Trunk2.2M views · Sep 25, 20263.8× typical views
• Cheating Boyfriend Thinks He Has The Perfect Plan To Get Away With Murder890K views · Sep 6, 20261.5× typical views
• Cops Discover Disturbing Secrets Inside a Killer’s Remote Cabin487K views · Sep 4, 20260.8× typical views
• Teen Charged With Murder After Snapchat Date Goes Horribly Wrong621K views · Aug 13, 20261.1× typical views
• Mom And Son’s Deadly Revenge on a Home Depot Employee517K views · Aug 10, 20260.9× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 517 channels in this niche. 8.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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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 Decoder or YouTube.