ABC News In-depth YouTube Stats

@abcnewsindepth · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

ABC News In-depth channel overview

ABC News In-depth (@abcnewsindepth) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2019. It has 2.5M subscribers and 1.1B total views across 8.2K videos, an average of 131K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 197K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 51K views. Over the last 12 months, ABC News In-depth published 121 videos (45% Shorts), and 28 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, ABC News In-depth gained 10K subscribers and 20M views, about 1M views a day.

How much does ABC News In-depth make?

Returbe estimates ABC News In-depth's YouTube ad revenue at $69K – $274K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.62 to $6.47, typically $3.24, 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 $3.2K.

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

ABC News In-depth publishes about 130.3 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (23% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

ABC News In-depth's best outlier videos

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

• Inside the $45 billion megacity trying to become the new capital of Indonesia | ABC News1.9M views · Oct 17, 202637.5× typical views
• Trump's midterms: Democracy under threat in America | Four Corners Documentary1.9M views · Nov 2, 202637.2× typical views
• ‘How did I not know?’: For months, a childcare worker was assaulting their son491K views · Oct 27, 202633.1× typical views
• A blue tsunami sweeps the US midterms as Democrats take control of the House and Senate | 7.301.5M views · Nov 4, 202628.4× typical views
• Pregnant construction worker assigned to 'unsafe' machine356K views · Oct 21, 202624× typical views
• Inside the Republican event as Ken Paxton loses the Texas senate seat | ABC NEWS Loop324K views · Nov 5, 202621.8× typical views
• Hacking this BYD was too easy; it didn’t even have a password | Four Corners Documentary966K views · Sep 21, 202618.8× typical views
• Survivors speak out three years on from horrific wedding bus crash | Australian Story906K views · Oct 20, 202617.7× typical views

Latest videos

15 of ABC News In-depth's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Airline's chip news absolutely fries the media | Media Watch6.7K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• One school chose to take screens away from students. Did it make a difference? | 7.3023K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Donald Trump has 'killed' the MAGA movement, says Marjorie Taylor Greene | 7.30595K views · Nov 5, 202611.6× typical views
• MAGA is dead and Trump 'killed it', says MTG | 7.3049K views · Nov 5, 20263.3× typical views
• Inside the Republican event as Ken Paxton loses the Texas senate seat | ABC NEWS Loop324K views · Nov 5, 202621.8× typical views
• Joe Hockey says Republicans should lawyer up for potential corruption probe | 7.3064K views · Nov 4, 20264.3× typical views
• A blue tsunami sweeps the US midterms as Democrats take control of the House and Senate | 7.301.5M views · Nov 4, 202628.4× typical views
• Speaking with Texas voters on midterms election day | ABC NEWS Loop9.3K views · Nov 4, 20260.6× typical views
• Can El-Sayed win Michigan despite shock “betrayal”?13K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views
• How big of a threat is Putin to the rest of Europe? | 7.3016K views · Nov 4, 20261.1× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18.2% 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: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 72.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 147.4×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 52.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.1×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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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 ABC News In-depth or YouTube.