7 News Spotlight YouTube Stats

@7newsspotlight · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

7 News Spotlight channel overview

7 News Spotlight (@7newsspotlight) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2019. It has 1.2M subscribers and 340M total views across 598 videos, an average of 568K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 49K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 66K views. Over the last 12 months, 7 News Spotlight published 68 videos (44% Shorts), and 7 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 21 days, 7 News Spotlight gained 0 subscribers and 3.3M views, about 159K views a day.

How much does 7 News Spotlight make?

Returbe estimates 7 News Spotlight's YouTube ad revenue at $11K – $45K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.96 to $7.84, typically $3.92, 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 $3.9K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

7 News Spotlight publishes about 27.2 videos a month. Based on its last 68 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (35% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

7 News Spotlight's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are 7 News Spotlight's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Haunting new details revealed eight months after 4-year-old Gus Lamont's disappearance716K views · Jun 22, 202610.9× typical views
• Hidden dangers in modern foods | Uncovering what's really in the foods on our supermarket shelves612K views · Sep 7, 20269.3× typical views
• Relative danger: The hidden risks of DNA testing529K views · Oct 18, 20268.1× typical views
• What Happened To Chloe? FULL Documentary on one of Australia's most shocking true crime cases. 7NEWS2.9M views · Jun 24, 20214.9× typical views
• Eleven days stranded in the outback | How I survived and my darkest moment257K views · Sep 4, 20263.9× typical views
• What happened to Rory Sykes | Gripping real-time investigation237K views · Apr 28, 20263.6× typical views
• 'Miraculous in her averageness' | The young girl who could hold the key to curing dementia213K views · Sep 14, 20263.3× typical views
• 70 Years of Seven: Cub reporter Larry Emdur14K views · Oct 12, 20262.8× typical views

Latest videos

9 of 7 News Spotlight's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How the search for Dezi Freeman evolved over time1.4K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• Inside Victoria's biggest police operation2.2K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• Wife meets her husband's killer | Widow sits down with man who stabbed her cop husband45K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• The story behind the final 24 hours of Dezi Freeman3.9K views · Nov 5, 20260.8× typical views
• Detective speaks on husband murdered by mushrooms1.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Man creates AI twin of his late mother1.1K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Meet the man who married an AI companion1.9K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• Will AI models replace real models?1.1K views · Nov 3, 20260.2× typical views
• LinkedIn co-founder on most companies deploying digital twins668 views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• The one that got away | How a 17-year-old fled two of Australia's worst serial killers121K views · Nov 2, 20261.9× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 997 channels in this niche. 17% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

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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 7 News Spotlight or YouTube.