Top Dead Center YouTube Stats

@topdeadc · Cars & Vehicles · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Top Dead Center channel overview

Top Dead Center (@topdeadc) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2024. It has 629K subscribers and 108M total views across 218 videos, an average of 495K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 753K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 733K views. Over the last 12 months, Top Dead Center published 52 videos (37% Shorts), and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Top Dead Center gained 10K subscribers and 3.6M views, about 303K views a day.

How much does Top Dead Center make?

Returbe estimates Top Dead Center's YouTube ad revenue at $35K – $121K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.85 to $13.47, typically $6.74, 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 $6.7K.

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

Top Dead Center publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (69% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 2, 2026.

Top Dead Center's best outlier videos

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

• Me when I see a Corvette #cars #tdc #fyp #trending #corvette #carspotting #v8163K views · Apr 23, 20264.4× typical views
• The sound of productivity and mild amounts of pain #tdc #fyp #meme #trending #mechanic130K views · Mar 19, 20263.5× typical views
• POV: you walk into a TDC merch shoot #tdc #bts #merchdrop #trending #trend #cars88K views · Apr 15, 20262.4× typical views
• Can You Still Buy A £500 Car In 2026?1.5M views · Oct 5, 20262× typical views
• EVERYONE KNOWS A GUY WHO KNOWS A GUY... #tdc #mot #cars #meme #mechanic #americancars #fail #rust74K views · Apr 13, 20262× typical views
• Can This NEGLECTED Maserati Be Saved?1.4M views · Sep 7, 20262× typical views
• ENGLISH PEOPLE DRIVING AMERICAN CARS BE LIKE #tdc #fyp #cars #trending #driving #usa72K views · Mar 20, 20261.9× typical views
• I Bought a Suspiciously Cheap Titanium Exhaust for My V8 BMW M31.4M views · Sep 28, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Top Dead Center's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• I Went WAY Too Far Restoring My BMW M3606K views · Nov 2, 20260.8× typical views
• £5000 Cool Daily Driver Challenge972K views · Oct 26, 20261.3× typical views
• We Fitted £3500 Parts To A £500 Volvo1.1M views · Oct 19, 20261.5× typical views
• I Bought The World’s Worst Classic Alfa Romeo, Then Spent 7 Days Fixing It983K views · Oct 12, 20261.3× typical views
• Can You Still Buy A £500 Car In 2026?1.5M views · Oct 5, 20262× typical views
• I Bought a Suspiciously Cheap Titanium Exhaust for My V8 BMW M31.4M views · Sep 28, 20261.9× typical views
• I Bought a CHEAP Abandoned V8 BMW M31M views · Sep 21, 20261.4× typical views
• Why Was This Luxury Maserati Only £4,000?888K views · Sep 14, 20261.2× typical views
• Can This NEGLECTED Maserati Be Saved?1.4M views · Sep 7, 20262× typical views
• Can We Save The World's Worst AMG?905K views · Aug 31, 20261.2× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.8K videos from 594 channels in this niche. 17.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 30K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $14.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Drivewhisperer (123K subs, best video 182.5×), SOUTENIR L'AGRICULTURE (138K subs, best video 35.2×), Petroleum (35K subs, best video 639.4×), The Daily Downshift (294K subs, best video 17.9×), GHOSTFACE WORKSHOP (25K subs, best video 184.4×), That Car Guy (88K subs, best video 215.9×).

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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 Top Dead Center or YouTube.