Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Outdoors YouTube outliers
8,574 Outdoors videos from 113 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 291 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
113
Videos scored
8,574
Reach 2x or more
26.4%
5x or more 9.7% · 10x or more 4.2%
Leaderboard pool
291
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Weather, season and location set the ceiling in Outdoors before a single frame is shot. Hiking, camping, bushcraft and backcountry travel all draw audiences that plan months ahead, which makes demand highly seasonal and highly regional, and gives channels baselines that rise and fall with the hiking calendar. Gear content behaves differently, arriving from search year-round and holding a median up on its own. Outliers usually come from a trip that went wrong, a route many people have heard of but never seen, or a test that settles an argument about equipment. Read the top rows for whether the video sells a place or a skill, because places bring a large one-time audience and skills bring a returning one. Then check the season it was published in against the one you are planning for.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MyLifeOutdoors | 18.2M | 148K | 124x | ||
| 2 | Wilderness Survival Man | 4.3M | 44.7K | 100x | ||
| 3 | Bushcraft and Wild Camping | 646K | 9.3K | 69x | ||
| 4 | The Trek | 247K | 7.3K | 37x | ||
| 5 | Justin Outdoors | 1.3M | 35K | 37x | ||
| 6 | The Adventure Addicts | Zoe & Kelby | 610K | 19.4K | 31x | ||
| 7 | Jack Brookes | 208K | 7.1K | 31x | ||
| 8 | Quadzilla Hikes | 32.2K | 1.1K | 29x | ||
| 9 | Bushcraft and Wild Camping | 271K | 9.3K | 29x | ||
| 10 | Wilderness Survival Man | 1.2M | 44.7K | 28x |
Showing the top 10 of 291 outliers in Outdoors (at least 2x, uploaded in the past 12 months, at most 2 per channel). The full list, every filter, and daily refreshes are in the free Outlier Database.
Open the free Outlier DatabaseHow the Outdoors ranking is built
- Every Outdoors video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 8,574 videos from 113 channels are scored in this snapshot.
- A row reaches this table only when it clears four floors — a multiplier of at least 2x, uploaded within the past 365 days, at least 10,000 views, and a channel median of at least 1,000 views. 291 Outdoors videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Outdoors channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 26.4% of scored Outdoors videos reach 2x or more, 9.7% reach 5x and 4.2% reach 10x — which is what a large multiplier is worth in this niche specifically.
Read the full methodology on the outliers hub, including why the baseline is a median, why Shorts are pooled separately, and which channels are excluded.
Common questions
Why do trips that went wrong outperform successful ones?
Because a successful trip contains no question. A storm, an injury, a navigation error or an abandoned route creates a story with a real outcome, and the thumbnail can show the moment without giving away the ending. Audiences also treat the failure as more useful than another highlight reel.
Does gear content or trip content build a better channel?
Gear builds the floor and trips build the peaks. Equipment videos arrive from search for years and keep the median high, while a trip film reaches further but fades faster. Most durable channels here run both, using the trips to bring people into a catalog of gear answers.
How much does region limit the audience?
Less than it limits the search terms. Naming a specific trail, park or range narrows who looks for it but raises how strongly they respond. The strongest small-channel rows on this list are usually local in exactly that way, and their ceiling comes from the place rather than from the creator.
How many Outdoors videos are behind this leaderboard?
8,574 scored Outdoors videos from 113 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 291 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Outdoors leaderboard change?
It is rebuilt from each dataset publish and the page revalidates hourly, so the ranking you are reading belongs to the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. Ranks move between refreshes as views accumulate and as videos age past the 12-month eligibility window.
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Public YouTube statistics, snapshot September 21, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or the channels shown.
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