History Matters's breakout videos
Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.
Why didn't Castro try to retake Guantanamo Bay from America?
Why didn't Germany stop expanding in 1939? (Short Animated Documentary)1.7×3
Why did France get so much of Africa? (Short Animated Documentary)1.7×4
Why wasn't France a part of the Holy Roman Empire? (Short Animated Documentary)1.6×5
Why did Britain join WW1? (Short Animated Documentary)1.5×6
How close was the US to another Civil War in 1876? (Short Animated Documentary)1.5×What's working for History Matters right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 859K views. “Why didn't Castro try to retake Guantanamo Bay from America?” reached 2.5M, roughly 2.9 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are question (1). When one idea outperforms a channel's baseline this much, the audience is telling you the topic and packaging resonated, which makes it worth studying before you plan your next video.
How these scores work
We take the channel's latest long-form uploads (Shorts excluded), find the median view count, and divide each video's views by it. A 5× score means five times the channel's normal performance. Data comes from the public YouTube Data API and refreshes weekly. Last updated November 5, 2026.
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