Epic History YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Epic History makes videos about the most dramatic and important stories from our past, from the rise and fall of empires to global conflicts and revolutions. Our team have history degrees and decades of experience in documentary production, and regularly collaborate with specialist historians around
| Subscribers | 3.2M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 450M |
| Videos | 387 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 323K |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2015-03-10 |
Niches: History Documentary, Documentary.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| How Alexander the Great Fooled Darius at Gaugamela | 8.5× | 382K | 2026-07-22 |
| Xerxes Watched His Invincible Fleet Get DESTROYED at Salamis | 6.6× | 286K | 2026-09-18 |
| 1938 Yellow River flood: When Chiang Kai-Shek Killed His Own People to Stop Japan's Army | 4.9× | 218K | 2026-06-07 |
| Napoleon's Empire Didn't Fall on the Battlefield — It Fell in Paris | 4.1× | 184K | 2026-07-13 |
| How Napoleon Lost at Waterloo: Ney’s Catastrophic Cavalry Charge | 3.8× | 162K | 2026-08-18 |
| Big Bertha: Germany’s Giant Gun That Terrorized Verdun | 3.7× | 161K | 2026-08-06 |
| How the Jomsvikings Faced Death with a Joke? | 3.6× | 160K | 2026-05-11 |
| The Army of Alexander the Great: The War Machine That Never Lost a Battle | 3.5× | 155K | 2026-07-19 |
| Ferdinand Magellan's Final Battle | 3.2× | 142K | 2026-07-07 |
| When Superior Discipline Won the Battle: French Crush Prussians at Ligny | 3.1× | 133K | 2026-10-06 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| From Indochina to Pearl Harbor: Japan's Unstoppable Empire Expansion | 0.8× | 37K | 2026-10-27 |
| Lexington: the Shot That Started the American Revolution | 0.6× | 25K | 2026-10-24 |
| The Hundred Days: Battle of Waterloo | 1.1× | 706K | 2026-10-22 |
| The Carpenter Who Almost Killed Hitler: Georg Elser | 0.5× | 23K | 2026-10-21 |
| The Sniper Shot That Killed Admiral Nelson at Trafalgar | 1.5× | 64K | 2026-10-18 |
| Stalin's Brutal Invasion of Finland: The Unexpected Military Disaster | 1.6× | 71K | 2026-10-15 |
| General Lettow-Vorbeck: the Lion of Africa and Father of Guerrilla Warfare | 0.8× | 34K | 2026-10-12 |
| Washington's Daring Victory & Speech at Trenton! | 0.7× | 33K | 2026-10-09 |
| When Superior Discipline Won the Battle: French Crush Prussians at Ligny | 3.1× | 133K | 2026-10-06 |
| The WHITE vs RED Terror during the Russian Civil War | 1× | 43K | 2026-10-03 |
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Repeatable pattern
A number in the title. 9 of the last 90 uploads use it, with a median of 1.4× the channel's usual views. Example: "1938 Yellow River flood: When Chiang Kai-Shek Killed His Own People to Stop Japan's Army".
Content map
What the last 90 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 88 | 43K | 1× |
| Over 60 minutes | 2 | 1.9M | 2.7× |
Levers to test
- Titles of this kind ran at 1.4× the channel's usual views across 9 uploads, against 1× for all uploads. Test the same title shape on your topic.
- The channel posted about 11 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 Epic History have?
Epic History has about 3.2M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Epic History upload?
About 11 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Epic History?
"How Alexander the Great Fooled Darius at Gaugamela" reached 8.5× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Epic 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 Epic History on YouTube.