A Current Affair YouTube Stats

@acurrentaffair9 · News & Politics · Updated Nov 8, 2026

A Current Affair channel overview

A Current Affair (@acurrentaffair9) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2013. It has 838K subscribers and 688M total views across 7.2K videos, an average of 95K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 39K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 25K views. Over the last 12 months, A Current Affair published 111 videos (34% Shorts), and 18 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, A Current Affair gained 1K subscribers and 4.1M views, about 343K views a day.

How much does A Current Affair make?

Returbe estimates A Current Affair's YouTube ad revenue at $18K – $70K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.9 to $7.6, typically $3.8, 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 $3.8K.

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

A Current Affair publishes about 120.6 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (19% of uploads), usually around 08:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

A Current Affair's best outlier videos

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

• $2 million clean up left behind by tenant | A Current Affair702K views · Oct 27, 202627.7× typical views
• How customer abuse cost a passionate young vet her life | A Current Affair365K views · Nov 6, 202614.4× typical views
• Inside the collapse of Bathla55K views · Oct 20, 202611× typical views
• How a mum-of-four turned chores into cash | A Current Affair260K views · Oct 28, 202610.3× typical views
• It didn't surprise me one bit': Inside the collapse of developer Bathla | A Current Affair211K views · Oct 19, 20268.3× typical views
• ‘Shoddy steps, bad tiling’: Exposing landscaper Stephen Hiku | A Current Affair132K views · Oct 21, 20265.2× typical views
• Couple shocked after opening door to dream rental property | A Current Affair130K views · Oct 24, 20265.1× typical views
• Democrats seize House and Senate in crushing midterm defeat for Trump | A Current Affair123K views · Nov 4, 20264.9× typical views

Latest videos

11 of A Current Affair's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Shane Jacobson on the hunt for Australia’s worst dunny| A Current Affair9.2K views · Nov 7, 20260.4× typical views
• Parents of toddler with Down syndrome speak out after airline nightmare | A Current Affair111K views · Nov 7, 20264.4× typical views
• The school program tackling toxic masculinity | A Current Affair5.3K views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• What happened to Vinny Knight's remains? | A Current Affair11K views · Nov 7, 20260.4× typical views
• The Young Doctors cast reunites after 50 years | A Current Affair17K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• Small business fights insurer four years after flood disaster | A Current Affair15K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• How customer abuse cost a passionate young vet her life | A Current Affair365K views · Nov 6, 202614.4× typical views
• Sophie's Legacy2.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• David Jones collapses3.1K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Barista devastated after beloved coffee van torched | A Current Affair21K views · Nov 5, 20260.8× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 63K videos from 1.1K channels in this niche. 16.9% 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 A Current Affair or YouTube.