Witness YouTube Stats

@witnessdocumentaries · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Witness channel overview

Witness (@witnessdocumentaries) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2013. It has 267K subscribers and 50M total views across 522 videos, an average of 96K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 110K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 26K views. Over the last 12 months, Witness published 57 videos, and 13 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Witness gained 1K subscribers and -7.8M views, about -460K views a day.

How much does Witness make?

Returbe estimates Witness's YouTube ad revenue at $3.7K – $15K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2 to $8, typically $4, 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 $4K.

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

Witness publishes about 13 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (38% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Witness's best outlier videos

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

• The Mafia That Rules Italy From the Shadows: Killed for Betrayal1.2M views · Sep 8, 202647.2× typical views
• Hacked, Cloned, Gone: Inside Europe's Car Theft Underworld745K views · Sep 22, 202628.5× typical views
• Alaska's Most Remote Corner: America's Last Frontier483K views · Jun 18, 202618.5× typical views
• The Cult of Suicide Bombers: Inside the Mind of Martyrdom246K views · Sep 15, 20269.4× typical views
• Inside Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel: The Most Violent Gang on Earth238K views · Oct 3, 20269.1× typical views
• Inside Mexico's Murder Capital: Chihuahua City173K views · Jul 11, 20266.6× typical views
• Frontlines: Inside France's Anti-Terrorism Unit152K views · Jul 7, 20265.8× typical views
• Stolen Dogs: Inside Europe's Fastest-Growing Illegal Market136K views · Sep 17, 20265.2× typical views

Latest videos

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

• El Salvador: Inside the World’s Biggest Prison6.8K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• What Happens When Migrants Are Sent Back to Guatemala?40K views · Nov 3, 20261.5× typical views
• Meet the World’s First Commercially Available Love Robot1.9K views · Oct 31, 20260.1× typical views
• The Hidden World of Ultra-Orthodox Jews: Rules Unchanged for Centuries11K views · Oct 29, 20260.4× typical views
• Who Is Really Running Organised Crime in France?30K views · Oct 27, 20261.2× typical views
• Faking It or Making It: Inside Miami's Exotic Car Rental Hustle8.1K views · Oct 24, 20260.3× typical views
• Inside Sweden: Why Is a Peaceful Nation Struggling With Gangs?120K views · Oct 22, 20264.6× typical views
• The Cartel Killing an Entire Species: Inside the Totoaba Trade21K views · Oct 20, 20260.8× typical views
• 13.5 Million Leaked Documents Exposed the World's Richest Tax Secrets2.2K views · Oct 17, 20260.1× typical views
• Inside The Tournament of Death: Wrestling's Bloodiest Event31K views · Oct 15, 20261.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 72.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 147.4×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 52.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.1×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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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 Witness or YouTube.