Extra History YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Welcome! We’re an educational YouTube channel made up of entertainment enthusiasts with backgrounds in game design, television production, literature and academia. Our team creates animated video essays about world history, mythology, and other subjects, all of which may or may not involve a cat!
| Subscribers | 4.6M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 1.8B |
| Videos | 1.4K |
| Average views per video (est.) | 839K |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2011-08-05 |
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hitler's Dip!@#$ Dad | Worst Dads in History | 7.2× | 9.1M | 2026-01-08 |
| Banning Birthright Citizenship?!? | Recently Deleted Amendments | 5.6× | 7.1M | 2026-03-05 |
| Trump Bans Slavery (Images) | Recently Deleted History | 4.6× | 5.8M | 2026-04-09 |
| Code Talkers Taken Down! | Recently Deleted History | 4.5× | 5.6M | 2026-03-12 |
| America's First Emperor | Weird Dudes in History | 4.1× | 5.2M | 2026-01-15 |
| Recently Deleted History: The White House | 4.1× | 5.1M | 2026-02-05 |
| Nazi Archaeologist @**hole | Weird Dudes in History | 3.9× | 4.9M | 2025-12-18 |
| Insulin Initiated! | Best Days in History | 3.8× | 4.8M | 2026-01-01 |
| Washington's Dirty Secret | Recently Deleted History | 3.4× | 4.3M | 2026-03-26 |
| Elon Musk’s Potato Famine | Recently Repeated History | 3× | 3.7M | 2026-09-03 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of The Thirty Years' War | Best Days in History | 0.3× | 356K | 2026-11-05 |
| Nathanael Greene 2: Logistics of War | | U.S. Revolutionary War History | 0.8× | 250K | 2026-11-01 |
| Data Centers Decimate your Air and Water | Recently Repeated History | 1.3× | 1.7M | 2026-10-29 |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | Extra History Complete | European History | 1.1× | 348K | 2026-10-24 |
| Dracula in WWI, For REAL! | U.S. History | 0.7× | 987K | 2026-10-22 |
| Nathanael Greene: The Fighting Quaker | U.S. Revolutionary War History | 1.5× | 384K | 2026-10-17 |
| Why Food USED to be Safer | Recently Repeated History | 2× | 2.5M | 2026-10-15 |
| Ptolemy Butchered His Boy | Worst Dads in History | 0.5× | 728K | 2026-10-08 |
| Kent State Shootings | Extra Context | U.S. History | 0.3× | 98K | 2026-10-07 |
| The President's House | North American History | 1.5× | 406K | 2026-10-03 |
Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 98 uploads of Extra History, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 98 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 51 | 1.8M | 1.4× |
| Under 20 minutes | 28 | 299K | 1.2× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 19 | 327K | 1× |
Levers to test
- Shorts did best here, at 1.4× against 1× for 20 to 60 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 9 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 Extra History have?
Extra History has about 4.6M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Extra History upload?
About 9 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Extra History?
"Hitler's Dip!@#$ Dad | Worst Dads in History" reached 7.2× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Extra History 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 Extra History on YouTube.