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Fire of Learning - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 14-min uploads · 897K subscribers · started 2011 · ~0.3/week
Est. ad revenue$801–$3K/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 134 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit Fire of Learning on YouTube →

In Fire of Learning's own words
Hello and welcome to Fire of Learning. We are a channel that produces videos on a broad range of topics, focusing primarily on history, anthropology, folklore and mythology, science, and related areas. We have proudly been citing our sources for years. Our largest and most popular series: • The...Based in US

How many views does Fire of Learning actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 44% of all views and its biggest is 11.2× the median, so the median upload (411K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

411K
median views
11.2×
top vs median
27%
hit rate (2×+)
44%
views from top 10%

What is Fire of Learning's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "What Your Last Name Means" at 4.6M views - 11.2× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
What Your Last Name Means4.6M
Skinwalker Ranch - The Full Story | Documentary4.3M
Last Words and Cause of Death of Each President4.3M

Which titles work best for Fire of Learning - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
What Your Last Name Means4.6M
Skinwalker Ranch - The Full Story | Documentary4.3M
Last Words and Cause of Death of Each President4.3M
History of Germany - Documentary4.1M
Mythical Creatures of North America - Documentary3.9M
The Unbelievable History of Strawberries3.4M
How To Tell Who Your Ancestors Were3.1M
History of Rome - Documentary2.7M
History of Halloween - Documentary2.5M
The Dark Ages (Documentary)2.4M

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Why The Fourth Crusade Happened100K
Swedish Moose Cavalry - Weird History94K
Legendary Creatures of Australia - Documentary85K
How Napoleon and America Saw Each Other82K
Famous Quotes That Were Never Said76K
10 Tips From Da Vinci76K
The Yowie - The Story of Australia's Bigfoot73K
The Origins of Mardi Gras Explained72K
When Did The Modern World Start?72K
What The Names of Fruits & Vegetables Mean65K

The words that win for Fire of Learning

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: documentary history.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 134 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - Fire of Learning
Has a number5% of videos
-65%
Asks a question15% of videos
-21%
Short title (≤6 words)60% of videos
+17%
The title formula for Fire of Learning

Lean on short title (≤6 words) - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on has a number.

Surprise: has a number costs this channel 65% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Fire of Learning rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: america documentary, each president, name means, story documentary, germany documentary, legendary creatures, unbelievable history, history germany. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Fire of Learning post, and when?

Fire of Learning publishes about 0.3 videos a week, most often on Sun.

Views by day of week
Sun
33
Mon
15
Tue
16
Wed
15
Thu
12
Fri
22
Sat
21

How long are Fire of Learning's videos?

Typical uploads run about 14 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (738K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
738K
10-20 min
278K
5-10 min
202K

How does Fire of Learning compare to other education channels?

At 411K median views, Fire of Learning runs above the typical education channel we track (23K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much does Fire of Learning make? (estimated)

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, Fire of Learning pulls roughly 530K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $530-$2,121 a month in ad revenue (about $6,362-$25,449 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like Fire of Learning make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Sun, and build titles around its proven words (documentary, history). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 411K views.

Fire of Learning stats at a glance

Subscribers897K
Total views98M
Videos published134
Avg views (of 134 analyzed)720K
Uploads per week0.3
Typical length14 min
On YouTube since2011 (15 yrs)

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