DW Documentary

DW Documentary

@dwdocumentary
6.5M subscribers1.7K videos958M viewsDEen9.9y old
Stock footage · confirmed$Likely monetizedHistory & culture
Channel statsLifetime · refreshed hourly
Subscribers
6.5M
0 · 1d
Views / hour
8.8K
recent uploads · 17.5K in 24 h
Views 7d
628K
over 1 day so far
Total views
958M
1.7K videos
Uploads / week
8.3
43 min median
Median views
109K
last 20 uploads
Outlier
7.7×
vs niche median
Ad revenue 30d
$23.9K–53.8K
see how we estimated it

Growth

Subscribers and views as FameX records them

Subscribers

Daily snapshots stored by FameX

Monetization

YouTube Partner Program: 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months

$Likely monetized
Subscribers6.5M / 1K
Watch hours (12 mo, est.)21.6M / 4K

Estimated from public YouTube data, not confirmed by YouTube. Watch hours estimated from lifetime views per year and recent uploads × typical watch time.

The formula

Niche, persona, format and what makes it work

Niche

documentary and global affairs

Content pillar

Global affairs and geopolitics

Title patterns

The $[N] [X] That [benefit] Forever

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Why it's faceless

Stock footage · confirmed · 100% confidence

The evidence
  • 1The channel belongs to Deutsche Welle (DW), a professional broadcasting organization. Videos consist of professionally produced journalistic documentary reports, investigative segments, and short features using real-world footage, interviews, and professional stock or archival material.

Videos

28:22
One electric truck's road trip to Norway | DW Documentary
131K views · 1d ago
51:51
Mao Zedong and China's Cultural Revolution (3/3) | DW Documentary
71.4K views · 2d ago
1:17
How students took climate justice to the world's top court | DW Documentary
26K views · 2d ago
6.1×43:41
The housing crisis in Los Angeles - Between homelessness and luxury real estate | DW Documentary
661K views · 3d ago
1:24
Your location isn’t private | DW Documentary
31.5K views · 4d ago
52:01
The Global North taken to court - Who pays for the climate catastrophe? | DW Documentary
87K views · 5d ago
1:11
Laughter as survival | DW Documentary
13.8K views · 6d ago
4.4×27:01
How Iran survives - Defectors expose the secret apparatus
478K views · 1w ago
42:46
The Dolomites - Summer in the Italian Alps | DW Documentary
197K views · 1w ago
51:41
Mao Zedong and the founding of the People's Republic of China (2/3) | DW Documentary
75.5K views · 1w ago
1:43
The mystery of the Holy Grail | DW Documentary
14.3K views · 1w ago
43:31
Skin: Multitalented and underappreciated | DW Documentary
84.6K views · 1w ago
1:26:02
Through Kazakhstan by train | DW Documentary
81K views · 1w ago
1:19
Rethinking chocolate | DW Documentary
22.8K views · 1w ago
6.3×51:42
From 0 to 9 - The mysterious origins of our numbers | DW Documentary
675K views · 1w ago
6.8×29:12
Putin's foreign fighters - How Russia is recruiting foreign nationals for the war | DW Documentary
729K views · 1w ago
1:00
An artist on her own terms | DW Documentary
16K views · 1w ago
2.3×28:21
Humanoid robots and new chips - Will Germany become a tech hotspot? | DW Documentary
245K views · 2w ago
51:51
Mao Zedong - From peasants' son to communist revolutionary (1/3) | DW Documentary
163K views · 2w ago
7.6×43:31
Trump and power - A deep divide across America | DW Documentary
821K views · 2w ago

How it makes money

Ad revenue estimate, products and where the channel sends viewers

How we estimated ad revenue

Last 30 days. Every step is shown, and the parts add up to the total.

Niche RPM
what this niche typically earns per 1,000 views from an English audience
$4.00–$9.00
Audience
English
×1
Video length
40+ min · several mid-rolls
×1.3
Long-form · 4.6M views
at $5.20–$11.7 RPM
$23,896–$53,767
Shorts · 27.7K views (1%)
at $0.03–$0.08 RPM
$1.00–$2.00
Estimated total$23,897–$53,769

An estimate from public data, not YouTube Analytics. Sponsorships, memberships and products aren't included.

What they sell

No product found yet.

Channels like DW Documentary

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Data from YouTube via YouTube API Services, refreshed hourly. Analysis by FameX — not YouTube data. Revenue is an estimate from niche RPM ranges.

About DW Documentary

Is DW Documentary a faceless channel?

Yes. FameX classifies DW Documentary as a stock footage channel (confirmed, 100% confidence). The channel belongs to Deutsche Welle (DW), a professional broadcasting organization. Videos consist of professionally produced journalistic documentary reports, investigative segments, and short features using real-world footage, interviews, and professional stock or archival material.

Is DW Documentary monetized?

Probably. With 6,510,000 subscribers and an estimated 21,601,895 watch hours in the last 12 months, DW Documentary appears to meet the YouTube Partner Program thresholds (1,000 subscribers and 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months). This is a FameX estimate, not confirmed by YouTube.

How much does DW Documentary make?

FameX estimates DW Documentary earns about $23,897–$53,769 a month from YouTube ads, based on 4.6M views in 30 days and a typical RPM for the history & culture niche. Sponsorships, memberships and product sales are not included.

How fast is DW Documentary growing?

In the last 1 days, DW Documentary gained 0 subscribers and got 627,692 channel views. It has 6,510,000 subscribers and 957,811,984 total views.

What kind of videos does DW Documentary post?

DW Documentary makes documentary and global affairs; it uploads about 8.3 videos a week; typical videos run 43 minutes.

Data updated 20 Oct 2026. Subscriber and view counts come from the YouTube Data API; verdicts, monetization and revenue are FameX estimates. How FameX works · More history & culture channels