Dark Skies YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Business Inquiries: [email protected] Join Dark Skies as we explore the world of aviation with cinematic short documentaries featuring the most powerful airplanes ever built, top-secret projects, and classified missions. Including US, German, and Soviet warplanes, along with aircra
| Subscribers | 699K |
|---|---|
| Total views | 275M |
| Videos | 651 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 209K |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2020-04-07 |
Niches: History Documentary.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| How One Defection Exposed the Soviet Union's Biggest Lie | 15× | 1.6M | 2026-06-11 |
| 440mph Monster That Cracked Germany’s Air Force | 10× | 1.1M | 2025-10-17 |
| America’s Prop Monster No Jet Could Kill | 7.8× | 888K | 2025-09-07 |
| Why the A-6 Intruder Looked Terrible But Killed Everything | 6× | 689K | 2026-04-21 |
| The Weird Slow Little Plane America Used When Wars Got Nasty | 5.7× | 647K | 2026-05-08 |
| The Mach 3 Aircraft That Simply Vanished | 5.4× | 590K | 2026-07-16 |
| The Fighter Built to Humiliate the F-15 | 5× | 565K | 2026-03-20 |
| This Jet was So Fast the US Had to Steal One | 4.9× | 553K | 2025-12-11 |
| Ripped Out of America's Super Jet at Mach 3 | 4.7× | 529K | 2025-09-18 |
| Russia Won't Risk Its Ultimate Fighter | 4.3× | 463K | 2026-09-17 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Weird Slow Jet That Terrified Soviet MiG Pilots | 1.7× | 185K | 2026-10-15 |
| WW2’s Perfect Fighter That Nobody Trusted | 1.8× | 193K | 2026-10-08 |
| The Space Age Jet Terrorized by a Rust Bucket | 0.8× | 94K | 2026-10-01 |
| The Widowmaker Was Too Fast to Fly | 3.9× | 427K | 2026-09-24 |
| Russia Won't Risk Its Ultimate Fighter | 4.3× | 463K | 2026-09-17 |
| The German Monster They Couldn’t See | 1.2× | 127K | 2026-09-10 |
| The Jet That Kept Killing the Wrong Targets | 0.8× | 94K | 2026-09-03 |
| Japan's Most Important Plane in WW2 | 1.1× | 119K | 2026-08-27 |
| The Scariest Plane You've Never Heard Of | 2.7× | 297K | 2026-08-21 |
| The Slowest Most Lethal Tiny Planes Doing What Jets Never Could | 0.3× | 36K | 2026-08-13 |
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Repeatable pattern
How, why or what titles. 6 of the last 100 uploads use it, with a median of 3.2× the channel's usual views. Example: "How One Defection Exposed the Soviet Union's Biggest Lie".
Content map
What the last 100 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 20 minutes | 5 | 193K | 1.8× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 91 | 120K | 1.1× |
| Over 60 minutes | 4 | 106K | 0.9× |
Levers to test
- Titles of this kind ran at 3.2× the channel's usual views across 6 uploads, against 1.1× for all uploads. Test the same title shape on your topic.
- Under 20 minutes did best here, at 1.8× against 0.9× for over 60 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 5.2 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 Dark Skies have?
Dark Skies has about 699K subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Dark Skies upload?
About 5.2 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Dark Skies?
"How One Defection Exposed the Soviet Union's Biggest Lie" reached 15× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Dark Skies 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 Dark Skies on YouTube.