Police raid footage and surveillance anchor the most-watched of five new reports from the Birmingham-based news channel.
On YouTube, Scarcity Studios has 448,000 subscribers and 236,440,360 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 581,362 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "The Essex gun factory on caravan site supplying London gangsters for street wars", with 362,426 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 3,493 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 42 of 59 in category "True crime and courts".
YouTube: The numbers today
no significant change in the last month
▲ 1,164,672 in the last 30 days
YouTube: What happened lately
November 7, 2026 5.4x its usual comments Russell Brand police interview tapes after convic… The video drew 449 comments in its first day, 5.4 times a normal first day on this channel (83).
The Birmingham channel posted four court and crime reports, two of them on October 7, and those two drew most of its new viewers.
The video drawing the most views now
The Essex gun factory on caravan site supplying London gangsters for street wars
- Video published
- November 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 362,426
- Video views, pace per day
- 4,126
- Views on its first day
- 178,357
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category True crime and courts | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 3,493 of 5,393 | 42 of 59 |
| By views gained this week | 3,238 of 5,274 | 44 of 59 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,845 of 5,043 | 50 of 58 |
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
Subscribers in the category True crime and courts
Views gained this week in the category True crime and courts
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 448,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 448,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 235,285,517 views → November 11, 2026: 236,440,360 views · average: 39,822 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.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 7.7 in the category: 17.7
- comments per 1,000 views
- 3.1 in the category: 1.7
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 23,644 views
- short vs long
- 2 short (up to 3 minutes), 13 long
average views per short video: 38,280
average views per long video: 64,031
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YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Police struggle with door in Bury raid | April 12, 2025 | 0:51 | 21,144,700 |
Police find a concealed weapon during arrest in London | April 15, 2025 | 0:23 | 6,482,384 |
A woman gets pushed into water by a police officer | August 19, 2025 | 0:14 | 6,226,819 |
Man attempts to set fire to petrol pump prevented by police | April 23, 2025 | 0:31 | 5,043,803 |
Essex police use chainsaw to gain entry during drug raid | January 6, 2024 | 0:17 | 4,913,328 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Video people are talking aboutRussell Brand police interview tapes after convic… The video drew 449 comments in its first day, 5.4 times a normal first day on this channel (83).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 167,808 views a day, 3.1 times a normal day (53,503).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 266,872 views a day, 9 times a normal day (29,801).
- Video taking offThe Essex gun factory on caravan site supplying L… The video opened at a pace of 154,166 views a day, 7.7 times a normal first day on this channel (19,921).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 102,435 views a day, 4.6 times a normal day (22,450).
Stories
Police raid footage and surveillance anchor the most-watched of five new reports from the Birmingham-based news channel.
The Birmingham channel posted four court and crime reports, two of them on October 7, and those two drew most of its new viewers.

























