Best Documentary
Best Documentary had 8.4M subscribers as of October 25, 2026, ranked #781 in United States. The channel has accumulated 2.2B views across 3,479 videos since 2016.
Relative to its audience, that is 267 lifetime views per subscriber and 1.3M views generated per day.
Where does Best Documentary rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, Best Documentary sits 781st in United States and 2612th worldwide.
Over the last 29 days, Best Documentary's subscriber count moved by +0.48 %.
When did Best Documentary start on YouTube?
Best Documentary published their first video on May 5, 2016, "Animals Like Us : Animal Emotions - Wildlife Documentary", which has 2.3M views. Their biggest hit since does 25 × that number.
Best Documentary published 2,952 videos between 2016 and 2025, peaking at 818 in 2024.
What is Best Documentary's most-viewed video?
Best Documentary's most-viewed video is "June 6, 1944 – The Light of Dawn | History - D-Day - World War II Documentary", with 56.9M views. That is 90 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 8.1% of the channel's total views.
90 ×outlier multiplier on its best video
Which format works best for Best Documentary?
On Best Documentary, long-form (over 20 min) performs best: a median of 60.2K views across 2,514 videos analysed. That is 6.5 × mid-form (3 to 20 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.
How often does Best Documentary publish?
Best Documentary currently publishes 1,4 vidéos par jour. That is 1.6 × the channel's lifetime average pace. Its catalogue generates 377 views per video per day.
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Best Documentary's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $115,785 and $424,470 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 2% short-form, 98% long-form. At this scale, advertising is typically a minority of a creator's actual income, behind brand partnerships and merchandise, which are not measured here.
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How many views does a typical Best Documentary video get?
The median Best Documentary video has 25.2K views, computed across 3,421 analysed videos.
How long has Best Documentary been publishing on YouTube?
Best Documentary has been publishing for 11 years, averaging 332 videos per year.
Which country is Best Documentary from?
Best Documentary is registered in US.
Is this data up to date?
Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on October 25, 2026. Per-video measures cover 3,421 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.
Methodology
Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 10/25/2026). Per-video measures computed across 3,421 indexed videos, from a database of over 21 million videos and 27,000 YouTube channels. The outlier multiplier compares a video's views to its channel average. Format performance uses the median, more robust than the mean when isolated hits are present.
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