United Kingdom
Dje-Media is a UK-based YouTube channel built around street-level documentary footage — raw, unscripted video captured across British cities and towns, with…
Total Followers +2.0%
259K
Across YouTube
Primary Platform
YouTube
259K followers · 100% of audience
Engagement
4.0%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
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Curtis Arnold (DJE Media) pleaded guilty to trespassing on the grounds of Chequers — the Prime Minister's protected country estate — while carrying recording equipment, and was handed a suspended four-month jail sentence.
The piece profiled Curtis Arnold as one of the UK's most prominent 'auditor' creators and highlighted his criminal history, including prior convictions for fraud, burglary, and perverting the course of justice.
An MEN investigation confirmed that Curtis Arnold operates under a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (active until 2029) stemming from a 2019 conviction, and that he is monitored by Thames Valley Police.
| Platform | Followers | 30d Growth | Engagement | Posts / wk | Last upload |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | 259,000 | +5K | 4.0% | 4.7 | today |
| Window | YouTube | Combined | ||
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| Last 7 days | +1K +0.4% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +1K |
| Last 30 days | +5K +2.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +5K |
| Last 90 days | +9K +3.6% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +9K |
| Last 365 days | +9K +3.6% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +9K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
Dje-Media is a UK-based YouTube channel built around street-level documentary footage — raw, unscripted video captured across British cities and towns, with occasional forays into European locations. The channel sits at the intersection of several overlapping YouTube subcultures: police audit filming (where creators assert their legal right to film in public spaces and document interactions with authorities), citizen journalism covering local crime and public order incidents, and cinematic drone footage of urban environments. Hashtags referencing West Midlands Police, BBC News coverage, and high-profile missing persons cases like Nicola Bulley point to a channel that leans into newsworthy local events, giving it a documentary edge rather than a pure entertainment one. Recent upload titles — covering knife incidents, youth gang confrontations, and comedic police-encounter clips — reflect a content mix that balances serious incident coverage with lighter, reaction-friendly short-form material.
Despite being rooted in UK street content, Dje-Media draws nearly half its viewership from the United States, a pattern common among audit and public-order channels whose appeal transcends geography — American audiences with an appetite for police-interaction and true-crime adjacent content engage readily with British equivalents. The audience skews heavily male and spans a wide age band from young adults into their mid-forties and beyond, suggesting the channel resonates across generational lines on themes of civil accountability and local crime. Engagement sits well above the category median, indicating a core community that comments and interacts rather than passively browsing. No prominent brand partnerships are visible at this stage, which is consistent with the channel's edgy, citizen-journalism tone — mainstream advertisers tend to be cautious around crime and confrontation content. The channel's trajectory points toward continued growth in the audit and street-documentation niche, where a loyal, high-engagement base can sustain monetisation through platform revenue and selective partnerships with brands comfortable in the law, security, or news-adjacent space.
Dje-Media reaches an audience concentrated in United Kingdom primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations. As a vlog creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Engagement on YouTube runs around 4.0%, pointing to an audience suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel brand campaigns rather than pure-reach buys.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Dje-Media's tier (Mid, 259K combined followers, United Kingdom). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Yes, police auditing is a core part of Dje-Media's content — "audit" is one of their most-used hashtags, placing them firmly within the UK police audit genre, where creators film in public spaces and document interactions with officers and officials to test their legal rights in England and Wales. This format is blended with their wider street documentary coverage, giving the channel a distinct citizen-journalism angle.
Yes, Nicola Bulley — the woman who disappeared in Lancashire in early 2023 and whose case became one of the most-watched viral news stories in the UK — appears among Dje-Media's most-used hashtags, confirming they produced content around the case. Her disappearance drew hundreds of independent creators to document the story, and Dje-Media's raw on-the-ground footage style suited that kind of breaking event directly.
Dje-Media is based in the United Kingdom and concentrates heavily on the West Midlands region, with Coventry explicitly named in video titles and West Midlands Police among their most-tagged subjects. Their channel bio says they also cover cities and towns across broader UK and Europe, but the West Midlands appears to be their main territory.
Yes, drone cinematography is one of the platform-classified content formats linked to Dje-Media, and their regular use of the #cinematic hashtag backs this up. The combination of aerial drone shots and ground-level street footage gives their raw documentary style a wider visual range than a purely handheld approach.
Despite filming almost entirely in the UK, Dje-Media draws its largest share of viewers from the United States, with British viewers making up a smaller but still sizeable portion of the audience. This pattern is common for UK urban documentary and police audit channels — American viewers are drawn to the novelty of British street culture, policing style, and social issues that rarely appear in US media.
Yes, several Dje-Media video titles directly reference youth gang attacks and street confrontations in the Coventry and West Midlands area, consistent with their stated mission of showing "RAW real life footage" of UK cities. Their audience skews overwhelmingly male, reflecting the strong crossover with viewers who follow street-level crime and policing content online.
No, Dje-Media is an independent YouTube channel with no affiliation to the BBC. They use the #bbcnews hashtag to tag videos covering stories that have also received mainstream BBC coverage, which helps their content surface alongside wider searches for those news events.
Dje-Media mixes in genuinely comedic footage alongside their more serious crime and audit content — titles like "Doctor on Break" and "Brand New Doctor" carry the #funny tag, suggesting they also capture absurd or humorous real-life scenarios. This blend of tones helps explain the channel's appeal across a wide age range rather than a purely hardcore crime-documentary audience.
Dje-Media's own channel description positions their work as unfiltered, on-the-ground documentation of real events happening in British cities — police incidents, street confrontations, missing person cases, and gang activity — rather than scripted or staged content. This authenticity-first approach is a key reason their engagement rate runs well above the category average for channels their size.
Dje-Media has grown to over 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, placing them in the Mid tier of independent content creators. Their engagement rate sits well above the category median, meaning a comparatively high share of viewers actively interact with each video rather than passively watching.
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