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A million views for Cogito's West Papua documentary
Domhnall O Luchrain closes the film with a commitment to keeping every documentary free to watch.
In short
On YouTube, Cogito has 812,000 subscribers and 66,920,627 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 3,000 subscribers and 462,041 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Inside the World’s Most Hidden Conflict", with 1,365,436 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 2,665 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 63 of 96 in category "Explainers, history and education".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
812,000
▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days
▲ 14,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 14,000 in the last 30 days
total views
66,920,627
▲ 462,041 in the last 7 days
▲ 1,995,349 in the last 30 days
▲ 1,995,349 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
57,740
on a typical day: 63,967
Videos on the channel
82
1 uploaded in the last 30 days
Last upload
23 days ago
October 19, 2026
Views per subscriber
82
a new long video usually gets 214,736 views
Next milestone
1,000,000 subscribers
188,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
November 1, 2026 passed 1M views Inside the World’s Most Hidden Conflict The video passed 1,000,000 views.
Views jump 36x the channel's usual pace
Cogito examines West Papua's mines, forests and conflict
A new documentary puts Grasberg and Papuan resistance at the center of a sharp rise in the channel's views.
This week on the channel +140K views this week
Puerto Rico's vanishing population keeps Cogito busy between documentaries
A film posted nineteen months ago, on an island that could shrink to a million people by 2100, has passed two million views.
The video drawing the most views now
Inside the World’s Most Hidden Conflict
- Video published
- October 19, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,365,436
- Video views, pace per day
- 37,022
- Views on its first day
- 132,400
Similar channels
YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Explainers, history and education | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 2,665 of 5,393 | 63 of 96 |
| By views gained this week | 3,464 of 5,274 | 54 of 96 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,423 of 5,043 | 55 of 91 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.2% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.4% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Explainers, history and education
Views gained this week in the category Explainers, history and education
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 798,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 812,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 64,937,708 views → November 11, 2026: 66,920,627 views · average: 68,376 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Inside the World’s Most Hidden Conflict | October 19, 2026 | 50:58 | 1,365,436 | 37,022 | 132,400 | 29,326 | 4,200 |
 Diego Garcia: America's Most Secretive Base | July 23, 2026 | 32:27 | 49,771 | 150 | - | 2,947 | 541 |
 The Darién Gap Is Crazy Dangerous! #shorts #geography #pan… | July 2, 2026 | 2:21 short | 17,103 | 38 | - | 504 | 29 |
 How Europe Stole The Congo #shorts #Africa #geography #worl… | July 1, 2026 | 2:17 short | 5,605 | 6 | - | 348 | 54 |
 Cuba's Medical Empire | June 25, 2026 | 35:11 | 24,824 | 103 | - | 2,025 | 385 |
 The Most Militarised Place on Earth | May 27, 2026 | 43:32 | 238,031 | 912 | - | 10,253 | 3,758 |
 How Washington Built A Continent-Wide Death Squad | February 18, 2026 | 50:22 | 127,178 | 152 | - | 5,547 | 797 |
 The Collapse of Hawai'i and Puerto Rico, Explained | December 26, 2025 | 1:19:56 | 78,589 | 117 | - | 3,444 | 678 |
 The CIA's First Latin American Coup | December 12, 2025 | 38:52 | 238,940 | 94 | - | 11,474 | 1,482 |
 Inside Morocco's Secret War for Western Sahara | October 3, 2025 | 36:36 | 1,042,784 | 1,661 | - | 30,777 | 1,289 |
 How Israel Built Nuclear Weapons (and lied about it) | July 29, 2025 | 32:48 | 976,718 | 179 | - | 31,614 | 1,862 |
 Hawaii Is Dying: Here's Why | June 19, 2025 | 44:43 | 214,736 | 38 | - | 8,000 | 1,494 |
 Puerto Rico Is Dying: Here's Why | March 5, 2025 | 42:55 | 2,086,403 | 589 | - | 62,394 | 4,948 |
 The Dancing Cult At War With China | December 12, 2024 | 38:11 | 185,943 | 83 | - | 7,601 | 1,337 |
 Who Gets Rich Off The Wars On Gaza? | October 3, 2024 | 37:07 | 80,344 | 44 | - | 10,710 | 1,889 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 32.2 in the category: 19.6
- comments per 1,000 views
- 3.7 in the category: 1.2
- short vs long
- 2 short (up to 3 minutes), 13 long
average views per short video: 11,354
average views per long video: 516,130
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Hinduism Explained | July 13, 2019 | 17:52 | 7,823,844 |
 Judaism Explained | May 2, 2020 | 17:02 | 4,409,799 |
 Who Are The Tamil People | June 19, 2021 | 26:11 | 3,259,541 |
 Sikhism Explained | January 11, 2020 | 20:18 | 3,226,851 |
 A Journey Through The Darién Gap: The World's Deadliest Jun… | June 20, 2024 | 43:45 | 3,167,987 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 What is Zoroastrianism? Full video in comments | March 23, 2023 | 0:57 | 217,675 |
 Why Most Of The World Uses The Same Word For Tea #shorts | April 22, 2021 | 0:56 | 83,464 |
 What is Shintoism? Full video in comments | April 13, 2023 | 0:57 | 68,389 |
 Who Are The San Bushmen? Full video in comments | March 28, 2023 | 0:53 | 41,784 |
 What is Taoism? Full video in comments | March 29, 2023 | 0:59 | 27,786 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- MilestoneInside the World’s Most Hidden Conflict The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- MilestoneInside Morocco's Secret War for Western Sahara The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 545,523 views a day, 36 times a normal day (15,285).Read the story
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 +347K views this week
A million views for Cogito's West Papua documentary
Domhnall O Luchrain closes the film with a commitment to keeping every documentary free to watch.
Views jump 36x the channel's usual pace
Cogito examines West Papua's mines, forests and conflict
A new documentary puts Grasberg and Papuan resistance at the center of a sharp rise in the channel's views.
This week on the channel +140K views this week
Puerto Rico's vanishing population keeps Cogito busy between documentaries
A film posted nineteen months ago, on an island that could shrink to a million people by 2100, has passed two million views.