Wartime Stories YouTube Stats

@wartimestories · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Wartime Stories channel overview

Wartime Stories (@wartimestories) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2020. It has 854K subscribers and 101M total views across 155 videos, an average of 653K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 304K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 278K views. Over the last 12 months, Wartime Stories published 53 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Wartime Stories gained 2K subscribers and 2.3M views, about 119K views a day.

How much does Wartime Stories make?

Returbe estimates Wartime Stories's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $38K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, 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 $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Wartime Stories publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (72% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Wartime Stories's best outlier videos

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

• There is Something Wrong with German Forests850K views · Oct 31, 20253.1× typical views
• What This Marine Never Told About the West Virginia Woods743K views · Mar 27, 20262.7× typical views
• A Compilation of Our Creepiest Military Encounters663K views · Jun 23, 20262.4× typical views
• Small Humanoid Creatures Terrorized Soldiers578K views · Feb 7, 20262.1× typical views
• You Don’t Want to Know What Marines Saw in Shopping Malls574K views · May 22, 20262.1× typical views
• This SoCal Marine Corps Base Has Problems567K views · Apr 10, 20262× typical views
• This Marine Corps Base Has a Lot of Problems546K views · Jul 31, 20262× typical views
• Untold Stories from the War in Afghanistan524K views · Jul 17, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Wartime Stories's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• A Compilation of Warnings, Visions and Messages from Beyond70K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• First Responders Share Their Most Disturbing Experiences312K views · Oct 30, 20261.1× typical views
• A Compilation of Ouija Board Mishaps and Freaky Encounters120K views · Oct 29, 20260.4× typical views
• A Compilation of Famous Wartime UFO Legends and Mysteries117K views · Oct 25, 20260.4× typical views
• Military Sightings of Bipedal Dog Creatures278K views · Oct 23, 20261× typical views
• Skinwalker Encounters by Royal Marines, Tankers, and Soldiers279K views · Oct 16, 20261× typical views
• A Compilation of Strange Things at Sea174K views · Oct 14, 20260.6× typical views
• The Unexpected Truth About Sailors and Giant Squids258K views · Oct 9, 20260.9× typical views
• A Compilation of Strange Things in the Desert254K views · Oct 8, 20260.9× typical views
• Coastguardsmen Realized They Weren’t Alone on the Island309K views · Oct 2, 20261.1× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 372 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 11K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 206.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 43.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 63.4×), James Sullivan (6.7K subs, best video 12×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 39×).

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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 Wartime Stories or YouTube.