# Doug Barnard: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, Doug Barnard has 657,000 subscribers, 68,357,715 total views, and 254 videos. It ranks #115,343 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Doug Barnard](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Doug Barnard is “Inside Turkey's Syrian Community”, a long-form video published Sep 22, 2026.
- These are Doug Barnard’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 12, 2024 and Sep 22, 2026 (29 long-form videos and 19 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 43,229. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “First Impressions of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (World's Strangest City)” (1,293,295 views, Jan 25, 2026). Least viewed: “Iranians on the ceasefire” (1,469 views, Apr 20, 2026).
- Median length: 19:02 for 29 long-form videos; 1:03 for 19 Shorts.
- In this sample, Doug Barnard’s consecutive uploads were a median of 10 days apart (shortest gap 2 days, longest 66 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 30, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Inside Turkey's Syrian Community](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/7GbbseE7nrI/) | 2026-09-22 | Long-form | 31,748 | 24:27 | 2.06x |
| [Istanbul side quest 🏊‍♂️🇹🇷](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/rJ1c2sPaJB4/) | 2026-08-13 | Short | 2,853 | 2:58 | 1.31x |
| [How Turkey Got So Expensive](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/pVMHfuVVsRU/) | 2026-06-28 | Long-form | 349,376 | 9:25 | 4.17x |
| [I asked Iranians what they want to say to Americans](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/Aahzhe2ZE_o/) | 2026-04-27 | Short | 29,175 | 0:45 | 8.33x |
| [Iranians on the ceasefire](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/Sy4ue439pog/) | 2026-04-20 | Short | 1,469 | 0:44 | - |
| [Iranians to Trump: “Have some decency.”](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/vx4XY8qOZn0/) | 2026-04-17 | Short | 3,205 | 1:11 | - |
| [I Asked Iranians What They Want to Say to America](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/4CLrY4hIzaw/) | 2026-04-14 | Long-form | 22,358 | 15:39 | - |
| [Scarf Shopping in Urfa, Turkey #şanlıurfa #urfa #turkey #türkiye](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/icmU_Ifp5Hg/) | 2026-03-18 | Short | 2,618 | 1:59 | - |
| [Nightlife in Southeastern Turkey #urfa #turkey #türkiye #sıragecesi #travel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/HfkOOHdR9r0/) | 2026-03-17 | Short | 2,944 | 1:11 | - |
| [This is the Other Side of Turkey (The Middle East!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/qLzONf9ch3E/) | 2026-03-12 | Long-form | 132,947 | 36:16 | 1.59x |
| [Watch This Before You Visit Istanbul (5 Scams to Avoid)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/AdD1vC4fXH8/) | 2026-02-28 | Long-form | 53,468 | 19:02 | 1.06x |
| [Wedding Crashing in Turkmenistan #travel #turkmenistan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/umCmpznh4qs/) | 2026-02-18 | Short | 2,628 | 1:49 | - |
| [Wedding Crashing in Turkmenistan's Countryside (Not What I Expected)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/C6SRuV0x954/) | 2026-02-16 | Long-form | 66,425 | 22:56 | - |
| [Turkmenistan: The Land of Many Guinness Records](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/5Kup4FEh4AA/) | 2026-02-05 | Short | 3,814 | 1:09 | - |
| [Welcome to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 🇹🇲](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/IV4chjPyoFw/) | 2026-02-02 | Short | 41,722 | 0:49 | 1.59x |
| [I Visited the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan (Wild Experience)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/5QFpD0FUhrc/) | 2026-01-30 | Long-form | 61,153 | 17:19 | 1.26x |
| [First Impressions of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (World's Strangest City)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/G0oUpgzkl6c/) | 2026-01-25 | Long-form | 1,293,295 | 23:23 | 8.21x |
| [This Is the ONLY eSIM You Need to Travel in 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/OgzrHNe0Epo/) | 2026-01-20 | Long-form | 6,339 | 9:29 | - |
| [I Spent 7 Days in Xinjiang, China (Not What I Expected)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/QNpTvPd6p4M/) | 2026-01-08 | Long-form | 101,751 | 39:27 | 0.71x |
| [This Place Was the Capital of ISIS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/GrTF9pLxZ1Y/) | 2025-12-30 | Long-form | 164,536 | 23:43 | 1.15x |
| [The universal debate #iraq #messi #ronaldo #travel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/iZ-49E8kZOY/) | 2025-11-12 | Short | 4,547 | 0:31 | - |
| [Is Iraq safe to visit in 2025? #iraq #baghdad #visitiraq #middleeast](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/oYKmoruP58U/) | 2025-11-07 | Short | 7,608 | 0:56 | 1.54x |
| [Is Iraq Safe to Visit in 2026? (Solo in Baghdad)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/k39CkanZvMU/) | 2025-11-04 | Long-form | 149,984 | 13:56 | 1.05x |
| [Street food in Syria #damascus #syria #streetfood](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/6emlVk00qvs/) | 2025-10-13 | Short | 13,263 | 0:35 | - |
| [The Rokid Glasses Do It All ​⁠@RokidGlobal #Rokid #RokidGlasses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/t-gOd_cbPoQ/) | 2025-10-04 | Short | 138,105 | 1:03 | 3.65x |
| [I Brought the Rokid Glasses to SYRIA (No More Language Barriers)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/o8NCekwXzcQ/) | 2025-09-30 | Long-form | 25,013 | 13:48 | - |
| [Istanbul shot POV on the Rokid Glasses ​⁠@RokidGlobal #Rokid #RokidGlasses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/7u9DDtJ-ZaM/) | 2025-09-17 | Short | 6,850 | 0:54 | - |
| [Hands on with the new Rokid Glasses by @RokidGlobal! #Rokid #RokidGlasses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/Lo2gvLPCR4Y/) | 2025-09-06 | Short | 8,749 | 0:46 | - |
| [Is Ankara Boring? (Capital of Turkey)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/e1CUlIRkulo/) | 2025-08-19 | Long-form | 300,262 | 23:18 | 1.93x |
| [The Foreigner Experience in Istanbul, Turkey (Good & Bad)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/GEBuy39j5GI/) | 2025-08-13 | Long-form | 408,372 | 12:43 | 2.62x |
| [Is Istanbul’s Water Too Polluted to Swim In?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/8yF8wKg4Kj0/) | 2025-07-16 | Long-form | 20,019 | 14:07 | - |
| [This City May Have the Best Food in Turkey](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/ST40hDUII_I/) | 2025-06-05 | Long-form | 175,236 | 16:40 | 1.13x |
| [Why You Need to Visit the Asian Side of Istanbul (Underrated!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/brVwQlArx88/) | 2025-04-29 | Long-form | 135,885 | 22:13 | 0.98x |
| [Inside Syria’s Human Slaughterhouse: Sednaya Prison #syria](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/5DTINA4NpIE/) | 2025-04-26 | Short | 32,261 | 2:36 | - |
| [World’s best falafel in Aleppo, Syria?! #syria #aleppo #streetfood](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/Jw7Oyd16wCg/) | 2025-04-23 | Short | 12,349 | 2:04 | - |
| [Traditional Syrian “Booza” ice cream in Damascus, Syria! #syria #damascus #icecream #travel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/PoYvQXvnCUA/) | 2025-04-20 | Short | 53,235 | 1:13 | - |
| [Not many Americans around these parts… 🇸🇾🇺🇸 #syria #hama #travel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/npR-hHPdPgA/) | 2025-04-18 | Short | 43,319 | 0:21 | - |
| [This is Aleppo, Syria in 2025 (Surprising!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/3nqG4n1uAsw/) | 2025-04-12 | Long-form | 133,698 | 19:45 | 0.97x |
| [This is What It's Like Traveling Across Syria After Assad](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/JHH8fAhTVSA/) | 2025-03-25 | Long-form | 77,763 | 24:46 | 1.48x |
| [Inside Sednaya Prison: Assad's Human Slaughterhouse](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/gS1EIY6Rhvg/) | 2025-03-03 | Long-form | 770,656 | 18:53 | 4.86x |
| [Inside Syria After the Fall of Assad (Damascus First Impressions)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/XhJEhBsUuJE/) | 2025-02-23 | Long-form | 490,344 | 27:37 | 5.11x |
| [Diving with Oceanic Whitetip Sharks on a Red Sea Liveaboard](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/MRiLPHm8myM/) | 2025-02-09 | Long-form | 20,191 | 17:50 | - |
| [How to Spend 24 Hours in ISTANBUL, TURKEY](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/HhF3xinJAvA/) | 2025-02-04 | Long-form | 187,529 | 24:03 | 1.54x |
| [TRANSNISTRIA: 24 Hours Inside a Russian Proxy State](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/P7V3oesC-Os/) | 2024-11-30 | Long-form | 49,608 | 30:56 | - |
| [How to Spend 5 Days in TAIPEI, TAIWAN (Underrated!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/GIlY0iWHWvw/) | 2024-10-20 | Long-form | 350,175 | 27:29 | 3.55x |
| [First Impressions of TAIWAN (Surprising!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/O1h0m__eDU8/) | 2024-09-26 | Long-form | 142,364 | 12:51 | 1.91x |
| [What's Going On in Cyprus? Europe's Divided Country](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/_MOVyKZwlo4/) | 2024-09-06 | Long-form | 26,858 | 13:51 | - |
| [We Found Italy's Best-Kept Secret (Seaside Town)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@doug_barnard/videos/5z6jGe_zIo0/) | 2024-08-12 | Long-form | 43,138 | 16:04 | - |

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