World History YouTube Stats

@worldhistoryvideos · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

World History channel overview

World History (@worldhistoryvideos) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2021. It has 557K subscribers and 226M total views across 814 videos, an average of 277K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 251K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 219K views. Over the last 12 months, World History published 27 videos, and 1 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does World History make?

Returbe estimates World History's YouTube ad revenue at $7.3K – $24K 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.

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

World History publishes about 13 videos a month. Based on its last 27 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (48% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

World History's best outlier videos

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

• Even the SS Had Enough of Him: The End of Karl Otto Koch1.1M views · Oct 8, 20265× typical views
• She Betrayed 50 People to Nazis—Then Her Own Sister Betrayed Her522K views · Oct 8, 20262.4× typical views
• Zero Mercy: When 2,300 SS Collaborators Met Yugoslav Justice476K views · Oct 8, 20262.2× typical views
• When Himmler’s SS Police Division Paid for What They Did457K views · Oct 8, 20262.1× typical views
• The Final Reckoning: How Norway Dealt with Nazi Collaborators378K views · Oct 30, 20261.7× typical views
• She Hunted for the SS — Then Smiled at Trial Before Reckoning Came340K views · Oct 24, 20261.5× typical views
• When Hitler’s Albanian SS Division Finally Paid: Skanderbeg335K views · Oct 8, 20261.5× typical views
• The Final Reckoning: How Czechs Dealt With Hitler's Soldiers321K views · Oct 17, 20261.5× typical views

Latest videos

8 of World History's last 27 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• She Ruled Auschwitz — Then Her Body Became an Experiment81K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Reckoning of Nazi Collaborator Who Sold Her Brother to the SS73K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• When Hitler's Old Men & Boys Paid For What They Did: Volkssturm92K views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• The Final Reckoning: How Norway Dealt with Nazi Collaborators378K views · Oct 30, 20261.7× typical views
• When Hitler's SS General Paid for What He Did: Moscow 1947105K views · Oct 28, 20260.5× typical views
• From Nazi Princess to Cleaning Toilets: The Fall of Schirach216K views · Oct 26, 20261× typical views
• When the SS “King of the Warsaw Ghetto” Finally Paid—Warsaw 1952289K views · Oct 24, 20261.3× typical views
• She Hunted for the SS — Then Smiled at Trial Before Reckoning Came340K views · Oct 24, 20261.5× typical views
• Too Much Even for the SS: Fall of SS Division Handschar144K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views
• Worse Than Nazis: Jewish Collaborator Who Hunted Jews for the SS90K views · Oct 17, 20260.4× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 577 channels in this niche. 13.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 281.1×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 54.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 28.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.8×), Military History Talks (45K subs, best video 25.8×), JTM History (7.6K subs, best video 39.3×).

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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 World History or YouTube.