WW2 Honestly YouTube Stats

@ww2honestly · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 9, 2026

WW2 Honestly channel overview

WW2 Honestly (@ww2honestly) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2012. It has 6.3K subscribers and 2.9M total views across 67 videos, an average of 44K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 51K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 2.1K views. Over the last 12 months, WW2 Honestly published 30 videos, and 6 of them (20%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does WW2 Honestly make?

Returbe estimates WW2 Honestly's YouTube ad revenue at $1.3K – $4.4K 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

WW2 Honestly publishes about 14.1 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (50% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 8, 2026.

WW2 Honestly's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are WW2 Honestly's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Why German Soldiers Thought Americans Could See Through Stone574K views · Sep 10, 2026270.8× typical views
• Why German Soldiers Couldn't Use Captured M1 Garands395K views · Nov 4, 2026186.3× typical views
• How Did American Soldiers Learn to Beat Germany's Best Snipers?291K views · Oct 10, 2026137.3× typical views
• Why US Tank Tactics Terrified Germany's Best Panzer Crews189K views · Oct 10, 202689.2× typical views
• Why Göring Knew Germany Lost the Air War the Moment He Saw This Fighter27K views · Oct 10, 202612.7× typical views
• Why Did Germany's Perfect Defense Have One Fatal Blind Spot?12K views · Sep 10, 20265.7× typical views
• Why German Engineers Studied This Radio and Still Lost5.8K views · Oct 10, 20262.7× typical views
• Why Couldn't Germany Fix a Problem It Documented in 1941?4.7K views · Oct 10, 20262.2× typical views

Latest videos

11 of WW2 Honestly's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• America’s Greatest Tank Ace Destroyed 258 German Vehicles. Why Didn’t He Get the Medal of Honor?1.2K views · Nov 8, 20260.6× typical views
• The Night Texas Lost Its Sons at the Rapido River301 views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• Why Japan Feared the Fighter the U.S. Navy Didn’t Want733 views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Why German Soldiers Couldn't Use Captured M1 Garands395K views · Nov 4, 2026186.3× typical views
• How American Combat Ration Chemistry Surprised German Frontline Interrogators4.6K views · Nov 2, 20262.2× typical views
• Why Germany's Deadliest River Trap Failed to Stop US Troops587 views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• Why German Ambushes Stopped Working Against American Tanks3.5K views · Oct 29, 20261.7× typical views
• Why German Gunners Regretted Firing at Americans630 views · Oct 27, 20260.3× typical views
• Why German Tracking Dogs Couldn't Stop the Black Devils at Anzio (Documentary)381 views · Oct 26, 20260.2× typical views
• Why German Veterans Feared Americans More Than the British1.1K views · Oct 26, 20260.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 6.1K videos from 766 channels in this niche. 14.6% 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 (274K subs, best video 328.7×), Maze Runner (21K subs, best video 8.2×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 90.1×), Military History Talks (46K subs, best video 14.7×), Alex Nguyen (4.2K subs, best video 74.4×), Volkslied (10K subs, best video 26×).

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Frequently asked questions

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