VICE YouTube Stats

@vice · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

VICE channel overview

VICE (@vice) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2005. It has 19M subscribers and 5.6B total views across 4.4K videos, an average of 1.3M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 352K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 264K views. Over the last 12 months, VICE published 42 videos (5% Shorts), and 5 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, VICE gained 0 subscribers and 7M views, about 414K views a day.

How much does VICE make?

Returbe estimates VICE's YouTube ad revenue at $36K – $120K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.99 to $9.97, typically $5.48, 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 $5.5K.

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

VICE publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (65% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

VICE's best outlier videos

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

• Jeff Jarrett & The Battle For TNA | Dark Side of the Ring (Full Episode - Part 1)1.7M views · Jul 8, 20266.3× typical views
• Inside a Small-Town Strip Club | The Manor (Full Documentary)1.6M views · Nov 6, 20256.1× typical views
• Tranq: Down Bad In Miami | High Society1.1M views · Mar 26, 20264.3× typical views
• XPLOSION: Inside South Africa’s Underground Taxi Raves825K views · Apr 23, 20263.1× typical views
• The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming3.8M views · Mar 23, 20152.9× typical views
• Inside the UK’s Most Extreme Underground Fight Club | Heavy Weekend697K views · Sep 17, 20262.6× typical views
• The Rise Of Gooning: Inside The World Of The Gooner Subculture594K views · Sep 10, 20262.3× typical views
• Jamie Foy: Two-Time Skater Of The Year And Fisherman | Epicly Later'd551K views · Jun 21, 20262.1× typical views

Latest videos

9 of VICE's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Outrunning Police with France’s Underground Drift Crew | Heavy Weekend31K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Skating & Tattooing Through Manchester with Harry Lintell | LOCALS204K views · Nov 3, 20260.8× typical views
• Icing Out Celebs With America's Diamond Boy | House Of Dang Episode 1118K views · Oct 15, 20260.4× typical views
• 10 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask a Space Expert | Dr. Maggie73K views · Oct 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Inside the UK's New Diamond Wars - Rule Britannia232K views · Sep 24, 20260.9× typical views
• Inside the UK’s Most Extreme Underground Fight Club | Heavy Weekend697K views · Sep 17, 20262.6× typical views
• The Rise Of Gooning: Inside The World Of The Gooner Subculture594K views · Sep 10, 20262.3× typical views
• Deedz Galasso Never Stops Grinding - Epicly Later'd348K views · Aug 23, 20261.3× typical views
• Inside The Poison Frog Venom Craze That's The Suburb's Hot New Drug - High Society253K views · Aug 13, 20261× typical views
• SoCal Skate History And Eating At Tony Hawk's Place with Lizzie Armanto113K views · Aug 6, 20260.4× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 374 channels in this niche. 13.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202.8×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 43.7×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 11.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 62.7×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.9×).

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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 VICE or YouTube.