60 Minutes Australia YouTube Stats

@60minutesau · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

60 Minutes Australia channel overview

60 Minutes Australia (@60minutesau) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2013. It has 6.8M subscribers and 2.9B total views across 6.5K videos, an average of 442K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 84K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 76K views. Over the last 12 months, 60 Minutes Australia published 74 videos (54% Shorts), and 17 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, 60 Minutes Australia gained 10K subscribers and 9.8M views, about 975K views a day.

How much does 60 Minutes Australia make?

Returbe estimates 60 Minutes Australia's YouTube ad revenue at $57K – $229K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.86 to $7.42, typically $3.71, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $3.7K.

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Upload schedule

60 Minutes Australia publishes about 75 videos a month. Based on its last 74 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (31% of uploads), usually around 05:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

60 Minutes Australia's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are 60 Minutes Australia's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Theranos fraud: Up close and personal with Elizabeth Holmes' charm and lies | 60 Minutes Australia2M views · Oct 16, 202626.4× typical views
• How Air France 447 fell from the sky in just 4 minutes | 60 Minutes Australia1.6M views · Oct 7, 202620.4× typical views
• How AI is causing an unemployment crisis among middle aged job seekers | 60 Minutes Australia1.1M views · Oct 11, 202614.9× typical views
• How three women captive held in a home for 10 years were able to escape | 60 Minutes Australia658K views · Oct 21, 20268.6× typical views
• Who’s to blame for the interest rate hikes and rising cost of living? | 60 Minutes Australia458K views · Oct 25, 20266× typical views
• F1’s biggest shakeup: Christian Horner speaks out on his abrupt Red Bull exit | 60 Minutes Australia431K views · Oct 25, 20265.7× typical views
• Yacht Murder: Woman convicted for murdering her partner reveals her side of the story | 60 Minutes388K views · Oct 18, 20265.1× typical views
• Inside the Bangladesh factories producing millions of cheap clothing for the world | 60 Minutes380K views · Oct 28, 20265× typical views

Latest videos

9 of 60 Minutes Australia's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• SNEAK PEEK: Is the end of the world nigh? | 60 Minutes Australia17K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• How prevalent is Uber's safety problem? | Extra Minutes3.3K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Why many older women taking the plunge into parenthood | 60 Minutes Australia99K views · Nov 4, 20261.3× typical views
• The growing trend of new mothers at 60 years old | 60 Minutes Australia40K views · Nov 4, 20263.1× typical views
• SNEAK PEEK: Party time for Pauline! | 60 Minutes Australia9.6K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Rideshare service for women as a response to Uber complaints | 60 Minutes Australia12K views · Nov 4, 20261× typical views
• The backlash of exposing Nazis | 60 Minutes Australia6.5K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• The Bavarian Town That Hid Its Third Reich History | 60 Minutes Australia64K views · Nov 3, 20260.8× typical views
• What happened when a passenger reported an Uber driver | 60 Minutes Australia18K views · Nov 2, 20261.4× typical views
• What does it take to recycle plastic and why isn’t it being done? | 60 Minutes Australia321K views · Nov 1, 20264.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 810 channels in this niche. 17.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: M6 Info (315K subs, best video 67.7×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 27.6×), ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 49.1×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 97.8×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with 60 Minutes Australia or YouTube.