# IceTales 2026: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-10, IceTales 2026 has 16,700 subscribers, 407,414 total views, and 465 videos. It ranks #2,673,889 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [IceTales 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/). 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 IceTales 2026 is “The Night Ukraine Planted Its Flag on Crimea and Vanished”, a Short published Nov 9, 2026.
- These are IceTales 2026’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Oct 28, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026 (48 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 138. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Ukrainian Sailors Who Refused to Lower Their Flag” (1,920 views, Nov 3, 2026). Least viewed: “The Day Iceland Tear Gassed Its Own People Over NATO” (12 views, Nov 6, 2026).
- Median length: 1:12 for 48 Shorts.
- In this sample, IceTales 2026’s consecutive uploads were a median of 0 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 0 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 10, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Night Ukraine Planted Its Flag on Crimea and Vanished](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/I1zLyGbmUNY/) | 2026-11-09 | Short | 22 | 1:09 | 1.13x |
| [How Iceland's First Grandmaster Put a Tiny Island on the Chess Map](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/GHPiypgeF6g/) | 2026-11-09 | Short | 413 | 1:05 | 26.19x |
| [How Chornobyl's Radiation Sensors Went Blind in 2022](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/WOj6KkDTurA/) | 2026-11-09 | Short | 36 | 1:14 | 1.49x |
| [Iceland's Ground Split Open Again and Again for 9 Years](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/wLLuGiZ0Rto/) | 2026-11-08 | Short | 37 | 1:17 | 1.08x |
| [Ukraine Stopped Chasing Drones and Went Hunting the Hive](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/w0KyGD6IPlI/) | 2026-11-08 | Short | 23 | 1:11 | - |
| [How Iceland's Women Reached Euro Before the Men](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/3hFEEOev6Jk/) | 2026-11-08 | Short | 31 | 1:10 | 1.25x |
| [The Soviet Nightmare Missile Was Built in Ukraine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/xcK_vVrOAdU/) | 2026-11-08 | Short | 87 | 1:08 | 3.2x |
| [Iceland Got a Brand New Island and Locked the Door](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/ySpwf9D7wQQ/) | 2026-11-07 | Short | 101 | 1:13 | 3.62x |
| [The Fog Fight at Vovchansk That Held Back an Army for Weeks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/XFFGFh5vQgs/) | 2026-11-07 | Short | 19 | 1:13 | - |
| [The Cold War Chess Match Solved by Two Dead Flies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/MYS32Ms3RzU/) | 2026-11-07 | Short | 69 | 1:11 | 1.59x |
| [The Soviet Pride Dam That Flooded Southern Ukraine in 2023](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/QUD1QKZT3JQ/) | 2026-11-07 | Short | 15 | 1:13 | - |
| [The Town Iceland Evacuated Before Any Lava Appeared](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/VbwMP607nbw/) | 2026-11-06 | Short | 13 | 1:13 | - |
| [Ukraine Gave Up Its Nukes, Then Built the Flamingo Missile](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/lHPLZB6nHWQ/) | 2026-11-06 | Short | 75 | 1:13 | 1.11x |
| [The Day Iceland Tear Gassed Its Own People Over NATO](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/A0k9bX_d8fc/) | 2026-11-06 | Short | 12 | 1:12 | - |
| [Chernobyl Was Abandoned Once and Invaded Once](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/VG5QhQju0do/) | 2026-11-06 | Short | 21 | 1:10 | - |
| [The Volcano That Woke Up After 102 Years and Dusted Finland](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/AthnA7dtjdg/) | 2026-11-05 | Short | 60 | 1:20 | - |
| [How Ukraine Put a British Missile on a Soviet Bomber](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/MScpiBexUYM/) | 2026-11-05 | Short | 188 | 1:06 | 1.4x |
| [The Plane That Crash-Landed on a Glacier and Everyone Survived](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/gOSy4mZGBW0/) | 2026-11-05 | Short | 37 | 1:11 | - |
| [Old Soviet Tanks Stalled a Russian Column Near Kyiv](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/OxzSA6Py7Y0/) | 2026-11-05 | Short | 554 | 1:10 | 1.89x |
| [Iceland Predicted a Volcano on Live TV and It Erupted on Time](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/cAA-qF1GKUE/) | 2026-11-04 | Short | 75 | 1:13 | - |
| [The Day Hackers Cracked the Kremlin's Victory Day Show](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/jo9bkl-A7n4/) | 2026-11-04 | Short | 81 | 1:07 | - |
| [Iceland Joined NATO With No Army and Tear Gassed Its Own People](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/ueelmwsk0Qk/) | 2026-11-04 | Short | 64 | 1:12 | - |
| [The 13 Soldiers Mourned as Heroes While Still Alive](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/CPDXZmwzccU/) | 2026-11-04 | Short | 303 | 1:05 | - |
| [The Storm That Saved an Entire Icelandic Island From a Volcano](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/2RZ7AFXgxl8/) | 2026-11-03 | Short | 79 | 1:12 | - |
| [The Quiet Railway Town That Fed Russia's Army](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/DNoK0ZkKG0A/) | 2026-11-03 | Short | 1,018 | 1:13 | 2.31x |
| [Bobby Fischer's Quiet Burial in Iceland: The Chess Champion Nobody Mourned](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/NfHiQVpYmrM/) | 2026-11-03 | Short | 500 | 1:11 | 1.14x |
| [The Ukrainian Sailors Who Refused to Lower Their Flag](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/IMSTyDNIT2M/) | 2026-11-03 | Short | 1,920 | 1:12 | 4.66x |
| [The Icelandic Volcano That Dropped Ash on Finland in 1947](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/xWTCSkzBNHE/) | 2026-11-02 | Short | 280 | 1:16 | - |
| [How Ukraine Built a Drone Navy From Scratch and Took On Russia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/yDclTb00wyk/) | 2026-11-02 | Short | 331 | 1:10 | - |
| [How a Steel Wire Cutter Beat the Royal Navy in the Cod War](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/ph5Hqdcwats/) | 2026-11-02 | Short | 539 | 1:16 | 1.22x |
| [The Unknown Defenders Who Stopped the Bucha Convoy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/ZqdSxhbxxtU/) | 2026-11-02 | Short | 458 | 1:16 | 1.04x |
| [The Sheikh Who Bought a Bank With Its Own Money](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/RWS3iPsxrw0/) | 2026-11-01 | Short | 19 | 1:09 | - |
| [The City That Hid Its Flag for 8 Months in Kherson](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/Oh4ItAYnU4o/) | 2026-11-01 | Short | 423 | 1:07 | - |
| [The French Teacher on TV Who Became the World's First Elected Female President](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/4cDo5BoNd24/) | 2026-11-01 | Short | 402 | 1:08 | - |
| [How Ukraine Broke Russia's Black Sea Blockade With Almost No Navy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/qcvPAq83UjA/) | 2026-11-01 | Short | 1,237 | 1:13 | 2.73x |
| [How Iceland Emptied a Town Before the Volcano Erupted](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/eBDoiNHq5zs/) | 2026-10-31 | Short | 179 | 1:17 | - |
| [The 169 Young Soldiers Who Guarded Chernobyl in 2022](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/wac4IbmnSeU/) | 2026-10-31 | Short | 15 | 1:08 | - |
| [The Icelandic Striker Who Came Back From a Broken Leg](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/GJF7KYcxYcY/) | 2026-10-31 | Short | 531 | 1:12 | 1.17x |
| [The Chernobyl Workers Held at Gunpoint for a Month](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/nx90f423rRo/) | 2026-10-31 | Short | 581 | 1:23 | 1.22x |
| [Iceland Never Fought in WWII, But Its Ships Were Torpedoed Anyway](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/BvZhrdySPTc/) | 2026-10-30 | Short | 820 | 1:16 | 2.67x |
| [He Attended His Own Death News: The Fake Murder That Fooled the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/zsa9Qwcd8sU/) | 2026-10-30 | Short | 30 | 1:08 | - |
| [He Lost for Years, Then Became the World's Strongest Man](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/YsqzFSQJMjk/) | 2026-10-30 | Short | 1,294 | 1:14 | 2.95x |
| [How Ukraine Jammed Russia's Orlan-10 Spy Drone Out of the Sky](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/Wn0TnoocZ3I/) | 2026-10-30 | Short | 376 | 1:10 | - |
| [The Nobel Winner Iceland Once Called a Traitor](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/D3n8wZqJoeI/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 131 | 1:10 | - |
| [Ukraine's Commandos Stormed Russian Towers in the Open Sea](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/qOVn83TWRb4/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 145 | 1:13 | - |
| [Iceland Said It Was Nuclear Free, But Its Runway Was in the War Plans](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/gjeSYMJluBc/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 203 | 1:13 | - |
| [The Second Strike on Kyiv Almost Nobody Remembers: Vasylkiv](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/4NQV2gXK0aQ/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 641 | 1:05 | 1.41x |
| [The Fugitive Chess Master Iceland Wouldn't Hand Over](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@icetales2026/videos/TXv8jADnSWI/) | 2026-10-28 | Short | 929 | 1:11 | 2.04x |

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