Thomas Flight YouTube Stats

@thomasflight · Film, TV & Anime · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Thomas Flight channel overview

Thomas Flight (@thomasflight) is a YouTube channel in the Film, TV & Anime niche created in 2011. It has 1.3M subscribers and 166M total views across 168 videos, an average of 989K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 682K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 598K views. Over the last 12 months, Thomas Flight published 13 videos (23% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Thomas Flight gained 0 subscribers and 1.6M views, about 83K views a day.

How much does Thomas Flight make?

Returbe estimates Thomas Flight's YouTube ad revenue at $3K – $14K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.49 to $6.93, typically $3.47, 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 $3.5K.

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

Thomas Flight publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (33% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 24, 2026.

Thomas Flight's best outlier videos

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

• Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?5.1M views · May 23, 20235.1× typical views
• Chernobyl - A Masterclass in Perspective4.4M views · Jul 25, 20194.5× typical views
• Why The Wire is one of the Most Brilliant TV Shows Ever3.4M views · Apr 29, 20193.5× typical views
• What Movies Lose When They Use "Blender Cutting"1M views · May 28, 20261.7× typical views
• Why Horror Is The Last Real Genre Left971K views · Jul 30, 20261.6× typical views
• Why The Movies Don't Feel The Same Anymore1.4M views · Jul 31, 20251.4× typical views
• Why The Elizabeth Holmes Doc is so Wild668K views · Oct 24, 20261.1× typical views
• How Real Is The Rehearsal?1.1M views · Sep 13, 20221.1× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Thomas Flight's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why The Elizabeth Holmes Doc is so Wild668K views · Oct 24, 20261.1× typical views
• The Real Villain of The Backrooms558K views · Aug 31, 20260.9× typical views
• Why Horror Is The Last Real Genre Left971K views · Jul 30, 20261.6× typical views
• In Praise of Brilliant Voiceover265K views · Jun 25, 20260.4× typical views
• What Movies Lose When They Use "Blender Cutting"1M views · May 28, 20261.7× typical views
• Why Does "Most" Acting Win All The Awards?638K views · Apr 27, 20261.1× typical views
• How Nope Tricks Your Ears34K views · Apr 6, 2026
• It is REQUIRED that you watch Project Hail Mary from the very beginning.104K views · Apr 2, 2026
• When the Style Falls Away #thomasflight #videoessay #movie #film51K views · Apr 1, 2026
• He Went To Prison For Directing, Then Kept Making Movies107K views · Mar 24, 20260.2× typical views

The Film, TV & Anime niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 21K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 15.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 14K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $7.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: 泡芙剧场PuffDrama (108K subs, best video 69×), Memelogyz (133K subs, best video 191.2×), Le Mec (205K subs, best video 132.1×), HSN Explains (24K subs, best video 71.3×), CrispyTheory (86K subs, best video 689.5×), Swagger Exposed Shorts (133K subs, best video 93.4×).

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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 Thomas Flight or YouTube.