Ancient Recitations YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Here you will find ancient texts from around the world read in a clear British accent, in addition to analysis of texts and history-related news and events.
| Subscribers | 133K |
|---|---|
| Total views | 13M |
| Videos | 79 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 47K |
| Country | - |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2015-05-18 |
Niches: History Documentary.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forging a Bronze-Age Sword | 166× | 3.1M (not yet checked) | 2015-09-28 |
| The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Complete Audiobook, Unabridged) | 110× | 2M (not yet checked) | 2015-07-31 |
| The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Complete Audiobook, Unabridged) | 18× | 959K (not yet checked) | 2015-05-26 |
| The Allegory of the Cave by Plato (Excerpt from The Republic) | 8.8× | 153K (not yet checked) | 2015-06-01 |
| Enuma Elish (Enûma Eliš) (Complete Audiobook, Unabridged) | 8.5× | 247K (not yet checked) | 2015-06-11 |
| The Apology of Socrates by Plato | 8.3× | 668K (not yet checked) | 2016-08-24 |
| The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling | 8.3× | 300K (not yet checked) | 2015-09-07 |
| The Sword of Damocles | 7.3× | 172K (not yet checked) | 2016-02-04 |
| Explicit Graffiti from Pompeii (Very NSFW) | 6.1× | 107K (not yet checked) | 2016-01-15 |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh (Complete Audiobook, Unabridged) | 5.2× | 2.2M (not yet checked) | 2015-05-18 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Battle of Maldon (Full Poem) | 0.2× | 6K (not yet checked) | 2024-10-25 |
| 50 Sumerian Proverbs | 0.3× | 6.1K (not yet checked) | 2024-05-08 |
| Adapa and the Food of Life | 0.1× | 3.6K (not yet checked) | 2024-04-27 |
| The Popul Vuh - The Mayan Epic of Creation | 1× | 19K (not yet checked) | 2023-12-31 |
| The Laws of King Alfred the Great | 0.2× | 4.8K (not yet checked) | 2023-12-16 |
| The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (full text) | 0.1× | 5.8K (not yet checked) | 2023-12-02 |
| Works and Days by Hesiod (Full Text) | 0.2× | 5.7K (not yet checked) | 2023-11-24 |
| Plato's Account of Atlantis (Complete Audiobook) | 1.1× | 30K (not yet checked) | 2023-10-31 |
| The Wanderer | Anglo-Saxon Lament | 1× | 18K (not yet checked) | 2023-07-26 |
| On the Misery of the Human Condition | 1.7× | 40K (not yet checked) | 2018-11-07 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 74 uploads of Ancient Recitations, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 74 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 20 minutes | 49 | 25K | 1.4× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 16 | 26K | 0.9× |
| Over 60 minutes | 9 | 668K | 2.5× |
Levers to test
- Over 60 minutes did best here, at 2.5× against 0.9× for 20 to 60 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 0.2 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 Ancient Recitations have?
Ancient Recitations has about 133K subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Ancient Recitations upload?
About 0.2 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Ancient Recitations?
"Forging a Bronze-Age Sword" reached 166× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Ancient Recitations 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 Ancient Recitations on YouTube.