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Animated History

94,500 subscribers · about 12 months old · ~7.7K subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Documentary / History, Explainer / Science, Short Films & Stories

12tracked breakouts
3.3×best breakout score
13.8×best reach, views per subscriber
8.3Mtotal views tracked
7.8×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    2000 Years of Israel History in 35 Minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·1.3M views · 20.0K/day ·13.8× its audience · 35:59 ·2026-08-07 · English / Global

    3.3×
  2. 02

    1500 Years of Russian History in 30 Minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·1.2M views · 9.6K/day ·13.7× its audience · 27:27 ·2026-06-12 · English / Global

    1.5×
  3. 03

    Why the Mongols Vanished After Conquering Everything

    📖 Documentary / History ·567.9K views · 4.2K/day ·8.1× its audience · 32:20 ·2026-05-29 · English / Global

    1.2×
  4. 04

    1600 Years of Chaotic British History in 17 Minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·835.8K views · 2.4K/day ·11.9× its audience · 17:32 ·2025-10-31 · English / Global

    0.9×
  5. 05

    The ENTIRE American Civil War Explained in 23 Minutes

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.0M views · 5.8K/day ·11.0× its audience · 23:06 ·2026-04-17 · English / Global

    0.9×
  6. 06

    4000 Years of Chinese History in 25 Minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·521.9K views · 11.9K/day ·7.4× its audience · 25:56 ·2026-08-28 · English / Global

    0.7×
  7. 07

    2000 Years of Mysterious Japan History in 35 Minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·288.6K views · 2.8K/day ·4.1× its audience · 36:04 ·2026-06-29 · English / Global

    0.7×
  8. 08

    2000 Years of A Secret North Korea History in 14 Minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·929.0K views · 3.1K/day ·13.2× its audience · 14:28 ·2025-12-19 · English / Global

    0.6×
  9. 09

    Why Latin America Never Became One Country

    📖 Documentary / History ·279.3K views · 1.9K/day ·4.0× its audience · 21:54 ·2026-05-15 · English / Global

    0.5×
  10. 10

    Why America Once Feared the Netherlands

    🎞 Short Films & Stories ·459.8K views · 1.6K/day ·6.5× its audience · 13:27 ·2026-01-02 · English / Global

    0.5×
  11. 11

    300 Years of Viking History in 15 Minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·415.8K views · 1.8K/day ·5.9× its audience · 15:16 ·2026-02-21 · English / Global

    0.4×
  12. 12

    100 Years of Wild West History in 11 minutes

    📖 Documentary / History ·533.1K views · 2.2K/day ·7.6× its audience · 11:40 ·2026-02-09 · English / Global

    0.4×

How to read this channel

Animated History is a 94,500-subscriber channel (about 12 months old) working mainly in Documentary / History, Explainer / Science, Short Films & Stories, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 12 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 3.3× the dataset median) reaches 13.8× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 20,038 views a day since it was published 65 days ago, on “2000 Years of Israel History in 35 Minutes” (1,302,480 views). That is a lifetime average, not a current rate — one capture per video means this dataset cannot distinguish a video that is still climbing from one that already peaked.

There is one statistic this page deliberately does not print: a per-channel “share of uploads that reached 3×”. Every video on this site cleared that floor before it could be tracked at all, so the figure would read 100% for every channel and would distinguish nothing. What is left instead: 12 tracked uploads pulling 8,319,705 views between them, the strongest reaching 13.8× its audience. Repeated strong reach across several uploads is the part that suggests a format; one outlier is not. The hook patterns the tracker infers from its titles are number / list hook (9), statement / cold open (2), contradiction hook (1), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), countdown / ranked structure in title, ai historical reenactment (period visuals), single-sitting long-form (30min+).

What to copy and what to skip: copy the packaging pattern (title structure, the promise made in the first seconds, the episode length that keeps working) and skip the parts that only this channel can do — an existing subscriber base, cross-posting, or a back catalogue that feeds recommendations. Then compare this channel against the others on its category board: same niche, different market, different length. That comparison is where the transferable part usually hides.

Those are audience numbers, not earnings: the public API returns views and subscribers but never revenue, so nothing on this site can tell you what the channel takes in. To turn an audience size like this one into a money figure under assumptions you set yourself, the YouTube channel value calculator applies an RPM you choose to views the API actually reports — it draws its comparables from the same tracked channels, and it holds no revenue data either.

Reproducible playbook

Opening hook (title-derived)

Number / list hook · estimated hook window 21s before the main body.

Beat rhythm (Cold open → context → segmented build → reveal)

  • Hook 0%–4%
  • Context 4%–18%
  • Escalation 18%–55%
  • Peak 55%–82%
  • Close 82%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • AI historical reenactment (period visuals)
  • Countdown / ranked structure in title
  • Single-sitting long-form (30min+)
  • Ends on a cliffhanger to farm next-episode views

Derived from the title, duration and market — no frame-level video analysis, and no use of the labels this site writes on an entry.

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Niche board and neighbouring channels

Snapshot rebuilt 2026-10-11 · 3536 signals · 1334 channels. Metrics come from the YouTube Data API v3 and are stored captures, not live counters; ages are recalculated from each video's publish date at build time.