American Experience | PBS YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Bringing to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America's past and present. Learn more at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience. Major funding for American Experience provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance, Carlisle Companies, and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
| Subscribers | 585K |
|---|---|
| Total views | 109M |
| Videos | 1.3K |
| Average views per video (est.) | 186K |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2007-05-15 |
Niches: History Documentary.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| One of the worst civil engineering failures in American history | 29× | 315K | 2026-05-27 |
| The Brief, Violent Life of Billy The Kid | Full Documentary | American Experience PBS | 14× | 2.6M | 2026-09-01 |
| When the White House got its name | 10× | 107K | 2026-10-17 |
| The True Story of Bonnie and Clyde | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS | 9.5× | 1.7M | 2026-09-09 |
| Bringing water to L.A. | 7.4× | 81K | 2026-05-15 |
| So you want to be an astronaut in the 60s… | 4.7× | 48K | 2026-08-05 |
| A raccoon lived in the White House?! | 4.5× | 50K | 2026-07-01 |
| "And then they were gone." | 3.5× | 36K | 2026-09-11 |
| The deadliest killer in human history | 3.4× | 37K | 2026-04-23 |
| Teddy Roosevelt's daughter was unpredictable | 3.3× | 36K | 2026-07-10 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| When the White House got its name | 10× | 107K | 2026-10-17 |
| The Nobel Peace Prize that shocked the world | 0.6× | 6.6K | 2026-10-16 |
| How the U.S. survived the 1900s bubonic plague | 1.4× | 14K | 2026-10-15 |
| How L.A.’s toxic smog changed America forever | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS | 1.1× | 204K | 2026-10-13 |
| They resisted development in the Everglades | 0.9× | 9.6K | 2026-10-12 |
| Why the Hispanos of New Mexico protected Billy the Kid | 0.4× | 4.6K | 2026-10-08 |
| This is the world Boomers were born into | 1.6× | 17K | 2026-10-07 |
| Celebrating 38 Years of American Experience | 1.9× | 19K | 2026-10-04 |
| How Russia beat the U.S. to space | 0.6× | 7K | 2026-10-01 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Full Documentary | American Experience PBS | 3.2× | 583K | 2026-09-29 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of American Experience | PBS, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 100 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 80 | 8.4K | 0.8× |
| Under 20 minutes | 3 | 73K | 0.3× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 7 | 204K | 1.1× |
| Over 60 minutes | 10 | 282K | 1× |
Levers to test
- 20 to 60 minutes did best here, at 1.1× against 0.3× for under 20 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 12.7 uploads a month over its last 30 uploads. Plan a pace you can hold for the same stretch.
These come from the channel's public numbers. They show what went with better results, not what caused them.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does American Experience | PBS have?
American Experience | PBS has about 585K subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does American Experience | PBS upload?
About 12.7 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from American Experience | PBS?
"One of the worst civil engineering failures in American history" reached 29× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the American Experience | PBS audience?
No. YouTube keeps audience details private to the channel owner in YouTube Studio, and the public API does not share them. TubeMind does not guess them.
Public statistics from the official YouTube Data API; averages and multipliers are TubeMind estimates, see how scores work. Open American Experience | PBS on YouTube.