This week on the channel +2.2M views this week
Speech brings songwriting into jail on Real Stories
The Arrested Development artist works with men in Richmond's voluntary REAL Program, connecting music with recovery and life after release.
Real Stories has 6,770,000 subscribers and 1,064,517,287 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 2,078,349 views. By subscribers it is No. 406 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 6 of 37 in Documentaries and journalism.
The numbers today
subscribers
6,770,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
1,064,517,287
▲ 2,078,349 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
250,546
on a typical day: 311,506
Videos on the channel
1,395
4 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
2 days ago
October 22, 2026
Views per subscriber
157
a new long video usually gets 16,122 views
Next milestone
10,000,000 subscribers
3,230,000 subscribers to go
What happened lately
October 7, 2026 10x its usual first day Raw and Uncensored Footage of the Brutal Russia/U… The video opened at a pace of 113,126 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (11,184). Read the story
This week on the channel +2.3M views this week
Holding on to home in Acre on Real Stories
The channel's five new documentaries range from Palestinian residents' testimonies to Mike Tyson and the collapse of QuadrigaCX.
Video taking off 10x its usual first day
A Ukrainian in a Russian uniform, met on a train, leads Real Stories to the Bakhmut front
The film was shot without press accreditation, and its comment section keeps returning to the faces of the men in it.
The video drawing the most views now
I Nearly Died Smuggling Cocaine To Pay Off My Student Loans
- Video published
- October 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 12,178
- Video views, pace per day
- 4,111
- Views on its first day
- 10,625
Similar channels
Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Documentaries and journalism | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 406 of 5,387 | 6 of 37 |
| By views gained this week | 2,036 of 5,295 | 13 of 37 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 2.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Documentaries and journalism
Views gained this week in the category Documentaries and journalism
Subscribers, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 6,760,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 6,770,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 1,055,716,251 views → October 24, 2026: 1,064,517,287 views · average: 314,322 views a day
The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 10.3 in the category: 19.8
- comments per 1,000 views
- 2.0 in the category: 1.8
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 11,362 views
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 67,384
Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sir Trevor McDonald: Inside America's Most Notorious Prison… | August 28, 2017 | 45:15 | 29,932,311 |
 The Un-Perfect Crime: America’s Dumbest Heist | Real Stories | November 21, 2019 | 1:40:41 | 21,886,279 |
 Life On Death Row: Inside Indiana State Maximum Security Pr… | August 30, 2017 | 45:21 | 18,127,948 |
 Women In Indiana's Maximum Security Prison Meet Sir Trevor … | July 19, 2018 | 45:50 | 16,410,122 |
 The Almost Perfect Murder (True Crime Documentary) | Real S… | July 15, 2017 | 47:14 | 14,695,376 |
Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 No-One But Kids See Ghosts In Haunted House 👻 #shorts | October 31, 2022 | 0:50 | 54,410 |
 51st Annual Grierson Awards 🏆 | November 9, 2023 | 0:11 | 9,482 |
What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Video taking offRaw and Uncensored Footage of the Brutal Russia/U… The video opened at a pace of 113,126 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (11,184).Read the story
- Video taking offChrista Pike: The Truth Behind America's Most Sho… The video opened at a pace of 63,786 views a day, 6.5 times a normal first day on this channel (9,801).
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
This week on the channel +2.2M views this week
Speech brings songwriting into jail on Real Stories
The Arrested Development artist works with men in Richmond's voluntary REAL Program, connecting music with recovery and life after release.
This week on the channel +2.3M views this week
Holding on to home in Acre on Real Stories
The channel's five new documentaries range from Palestinian residents' testimonies to Mike Tyson and the collapse of QuadrigaCX.
Video taking off 10x its usual first day
A Ukrainian in a Russian uniform, met on a train, leads Real Stories to the Bakhmut front
The film was shot without press accreditation, and its comment section keeps returning to the faces of the men in it.
This week on the channel 4 videos this week
Ashley Judd's family chapter outpaces Real Stories' 9/11 archive
A day-old Who Do You Think You Are USA? episode is drawing views a little faster than two 9/11 documentaries that have each passed a millio…
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