WELT Documentary YouTube Stats

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

WELT Documentary channel overview

WELT Documentary (@weltdocumentary) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2019. It has 1.3M subscribers and 362M total views across 472 videos, an average of 767K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 60K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 14K views. Over the last 12 months, WELT Documentary published 34 videos, and 8 of them (24%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, WELT Documentary gained 0 subscribers and 546K views, about 32K views a day.

How much does WELT Documentary make?

Returbe estimates WELT Documentary's YouTube ad revenue at $2.8K – $9.3K 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

WELT Documentary publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 38 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (55% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

WELT Documentary's best outlier videos

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

• The Drone War: Lessons from Ukraine and the Future of Combat671K views · Dec 28, 202546.6× typical views
• Billionaires in a Shoebox: Inside Monaco, the World's Wealthiest Square Mile403K views · Dec 14, 202528× typical views
• Lost Cold War strongholds: Germany’s secret bunkers revealed162K views · Dec 21, 202511.3× typical views
• Underwater graveyards of sunken warships: The Bombs are still waiting to explode130K views · Mar 8, 20269× typical views
• The most expensive car ever built | Mercedes Benz Silver Arrow F181K views · Mar 6, 20265.6× typical views
• Millions of Tons of WW2 Bombs Still Corroding Beneath the Baltic Sea63K views · Mar 1, 20264.4× typical views
• HOW POWER IS BUILT: Inside the 500,000 Battery Factory Near Berlin | WELT Documentary53K views · Oct 4, 20263.7× typical views
• MEASURING THE COSMOS: Exploring the Limits of Time and Space | SPACETIME S08E0525K views · Aug 23, 20261.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of WELT Documentary's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• SPACETIME TO SLEEP: Sail through the infinite Sea of Stars | Season 7 I WELT HD Documentary12K views · Oct 25, 20260.8× typical views
• SPACETIME TO SLEEP: Fly through Space and Time with Intergalactic Knowledge | Season 6 I WELT HD11K views · Oct 11, 20260.8× typical views
• HOW POWER IS BUILT: Inside the 500,000 Battery Factory Near Berlin | WELT Documentary53K views · Oct 4, 20263.7× typical views
• Inside the World’s Biggest Stage | Friedrichstadt-Palast Secrets! | WELT Documentary7K views · Sep 22, 20260.5× typical views
• ICE GIANTS AND GAS GIANTS: Diamond Rain and Other Secrets of the Solar System | SPACETIME S08E0624K views · Aug 30, 20261.7× typical views
• MEASURING THE COSMOS: Exploring the Limits of Time and Space | SPACETIME S08E0525K views · Aug 23, 20261.7× typical views
• STARDUST: The Incredible Power of Carbon | SPACETIME S08E048.5K views · Aug 16, 20260.6× typical views
• Inside the Pentagon’s UFO Files: U.S. Military UAP Footage Explained | WELT Documentary17K views · Aug 13, 20261.2× typical views
• EYES IN SPACE: Every Place on Earth, Every Single Day | SPACETIME S08E036.6K views · Aug 9, 20260.5× typical views
• Ernstfall: Inside a German Wargame – Episode 5: Moment of Truth | Podcast783 views · Aug 5, 20260.1× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 378 channels in this niche. 13.5% 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 202.4×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 12×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 WELT Documentary or YouTube.