Alex H. Cremades is a Spain-based journalist and documentary filmmaker who has built a substantial Spanish-language following around immersive, on-the-ground reporting from places most media avoids.
Total Followers +2.3%
831K
Across YouTube, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
177K followers · 21% of audience
Engagement
2.4%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
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The Spanish journalist and documentalist appeared on Mexican broadcaster MVS Noticias to discuss findings from his documentary investigation into a cartel safe-house used for torture in Mexico.
The Barcelona-born journalist released his debut book through a mainstream Spanish publisher, drawing on his documentary fieldwork across 20+ countries covering hidden realities from wildlife trafficking to narco networks.
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
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| Last 7 days | +3K +1.7% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +3K |
| Last 30 days | +19K +10.6% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +19K |
| Last 90 days | +28K +15.7% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +28K |
| Last 365 days | +28K +15.7% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +28K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
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| Holafly Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Feb 2026 | — |
| S.C. CyberGhost S.A. Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jul 2025 | — |
| NordVPN Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | May 2025 | — |
| Saily Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Feb 2025 | — |
Alex H. Cremades is a Spain-based journalist and documentary filmmaker who has built a substantial Spanish-language following around immersive, on-the-ground reporting from places most media avoids. Operating under the ethos of "raw narratives and real access," he documents underground economies, marginalized communities, and environments defined by danger or invisibility — as seen in pieces that take him inside Morocco's hashish trafficking networks and to the clandestine burial sites tied to Mexican cartel disappearances. He is also the author of "Viajar para contar" (roughly, "Travel to Tell"), a title that doubles as a mission statement. His content spans investigative infiltrations and nature-adjacent documentary work — including coverage of traditional snake hunters — giving the channel an unpredictable, expedition-journalism feel that resists easy categorization.
His audience skews heavily male and spans a broad age range, with the core concentrated in the 25–44 bracket across Spain, Mexico, and Argentina — the Spanish-speaking world's most engaged markets for long-form documentary content. Engagement runs above category norms, suggesting an audience that follows out of genuine interest rather than algorithmic accident. His sponsor mix — VPN providers like NordVPN and CyberGhost alongside travel eSIM services Holafly and Saily — is unusually coherent: every brand fits a creator who regularly operates in regions with surveillance risk or limited connectivity. As demand grows for documentary journalism produced outside traditional broadcast structures, Cremades is well-positioned to expand his reach into co-production partnerships or international distribution, particularly given the crossover appeal his work already demonstrates in English-language markets.
Alexhcremades reaches an audience concentrated in ESP primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, TikTok branded content. As a documentary creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Demonstrated partners include Holafly and S.C. CyberGhost S.A.. Engagement on YouTube runs around 2.4%, pointing to an audience suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel brand campaigns rather than pure-reach buys.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Alexhcremades's tier (Mid, 831K combined followers, ESP). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Alexhcremades is a Spanish journalist and documentarian who produces immersive, on-the-ground films about underground worlds, dangerous subcultures, and stories mainstream media avoids — his words are 'raw narratives, real access, and uncomfortable questions.' His subjects have included Morocco's hashish trafficking networks, Mexico's cartel-linked mass graves, and a secretive North African snake-hunting brotherhood. He distributes all his full documentaries on YouTube, with short-form cuts on TikTok.
Alexhcremades gained direct access to Morocco's hashish supply chain and documented it in his YouTube film Infiltrated into Morocco's Most Dangerous Underground Business. As a professional journalist, he has built a reputation for sourcing contacts inside closed or dangerous environments that reporters rarely penetrate. The Morocco piece is one of his most prominent long-form investigations.
The Aissauas are a Moroccan Sufi brotherhood historically known for incorporating live snakes and dangerous animals into their spiritual rituals. Alexhcremades documented them in his film The Last Snake Hunters: Aissauas, exploring a tradition at risk of disappearing entirely. The documentary bridges his investigative journalism work with his ongoing personal interest in reptiles, which also shows up regularly in his short-form content.
Alexhcremades produced a documentary investigating Mexico's clandestine graves — the hidden burial sites connected to the tens of thousands of people disappeared by cartels. The project involved on-location filming in genuinely dangerous conditions, and he shared behind-the-scenes footage during production showing the crew working directly at these sites. It is part of his broader focus on human-cost stories that official media rarely covers with direct physical access.
Yes. Alexhcremades is the author of Viajar para contar, which translates roughly as 'Travel to Tell' or 'Travel to Narrate.' The title directly mirrors his journalistic philosophy of using travel as the vehicle for storytelling, and he references it in his TikTok bio alongside his work as a journalist and documentarian.
Tarzández appears to be a personal brand and community nickname for Alexhcremades, combining 'Tarzán' — the Spanish word for Tarzan, the iconic wild-environment explorer — with a typical Spanish surname suffix. He uses #tarzandez as a recurring hashtag across his short-form posts, and it captures his identity as a journalist who throws himself into extreme, off-the-map situations. It functions as a recognizable marker that his regular audience associates with his content.
Snake and reptile rescues appear regularly in his TikTok short-form content, with hashtags including #serpientesvenenosas (venomous snakes), #víbora (viper), and #rescatedeanimales (animal rescue). This content runs parallel to his long-form investigative journalism and has built a dedicated reptile-focused segment of his audience. His Aissauas documentary also bridges both interests, connecting snake culture to his field reporting.
His sponsorship history — which has included NordVPN, CyberGhost, Saily, and Holafly — maps directly onto his content, since he regularly films in countries with restricted internet or environments where journalists benefit from digital security tools. Travel eSIMs like Holafly and Saily are practical necessities for the kind of multi-country fieldwork he does. The partnerships read as authentic to his audience rather than out of place.
Alexhcremades identifies himself explicitly as a periodista y documentalista — journalist and documentarian — in his own social bios. He has authored a book on travel journalism and his field work involves original investigative access to dangerous or closed environments, not commentary or reaction content. YouTube and TikTok are his distribution platforms for professional documentary work.
Alexhcremades is based in Spain and produces his content in Spanish, with his largest audience concentrated in Spain, Mexico, and Argentina. Despite being Spain-based, his reporting regularly takes him to North Africa, Latin America, and other regions with high-risk or hard-to-access stories. His pan-Hispanic reach makes him one of the more broadly watched Spanish-language documentary journalists on YouTube.
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