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History Unwalled

19,400 subscribers · about 7 months old · ~2.9K subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Documentary / History

5tracked breakouts
1.9×best breakout score
47.4×best reach, views per subscriber
1.7Mtotal views tracked
14.8×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    Cyrus the Great: How Persia Conquered the World's Greatest City Without a Battle

    📖 Documentary / History ·919.6K views · 5.8K/day ·47.4× its audience · 30:01 ·2026-05-06 · English / Global

    1.9×
  2. 02

    The Entire History of Nineveh: The Largest City on Earth, Erased From History

    📖 Documentary / History ·369.2K views · 2.4K/day ·22.9× its audience · 30:45 ·2026-05-09 · English / Global

    1.2×
  3. 03

    The Entire History of Jerusalem - Brought Back to Life with AI (5,000 Years)

    📖 Documentary / History ·237.6K views · 1.5K/day ·14.8× its audience · 29:50 ·2026-05-04 · English / Global

    0.9×
  4. 04

    The Entire History of the Middle East: Every Empire, Every War, Every Century

    📖 Documentary / History ·146.4K views · 7.7K/day ·7.5× its audience · 27:41 ·2026-09-22 · English / Global

    0.4×
  5. 05

    The Queen of Sheba: Missing for 3,000 Years (Nobody Can Find Her Grave)

    📖 Documentary / History ·48.6K views · 811/day ·3.1× its audience · 33:37 ·2026-08-12 · English / Global

    0.3×

How to read this channel

History Unwalled is a 19,400-subscriber channel (about 7 months old) working mainly in Documentary / History, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 5 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 1.9× the dataset median) reaches 47.4× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 5,820 views a day since it was published 158 days ago, on “Cyrus the Great: How Persia Conquered the World's Greatest City Without a Battle” (919,602 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. The API reports the audio track language as en.

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: 5 tracked uploads pulling 1,721,439 views between them, the strongest reaching 47.4× 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 (2), contradiction hook (1), shock / scale hook (1), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), single-sitting long-form (30min+), ai historical reenactment (period visuals), countdown / ranked structure in title.

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)

Contradiction 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)
  • Single-sitting long-form (30min+)
  • Ends on a cliffhanger to farm next-episode views
  • AI historical reenactment (period visuals)
  • AI-generated visuals declared in the title
  • Countdown / ranked structure in title

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.