A Current Affair YouTube Stats

@acurrentaffair9 · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 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 687M total views across 7.2K videos, an average of 95K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 30K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 19K views. Over the last 12 months, A Current Affair published 111 videos (34% Shorts), and 21 of them (19%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 11 days, A Current Affair gained 1K subscribers and 3.7M views, about 335K views a day.

How much does A Current Affair make?

Returbe estimates A Current Affair's YouTube ad revenue at $17K – $69K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.9 to $7.58, typically $3.79, 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 Affair693K views · Oct 27, 202636.1× typical views
• How customer abuse cost a passionate young vet her life | A Current Affair229K views · Nov 6, 202611.9× typical views
• How a mum-of-four turned chores into cash | A Current Affair225K views · Oct 28, 202611.7× typical views
• Inside the collapse of Bathla55K views · Oct 20, 202611× typical views
• It didn't surprise me one bit': Inside the collapse of developer Bathla | A Current Affair211K views · Oct 19, 202611× typical views
• ‘Shoddy steps, bad tiling’: Exposing landscaper Stephen Hiku | A Current Affair132K views · Oct 21, 20266.9× typical views
• Couple shocked after opening door to dream rental property | A Current Affair129K views · Oct 24, 20266.7× typical views
• Democrats seize House and Senate in crushing midterm defeat for Trump | A Current Affair123K views · Nov 4, 20266.4× typical views

Latest videos

10 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 Affair2.8K views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• Parents of toddler with Down syndrome speak out after airline nightmare | A Current Affair26K views · Nov 7, 20261.4× typical views
• The school program tackling toxic masculinity | A Current Affair2.9K views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• What happened to Vinny Knight's remains? | A Current Affair5.3K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• The Young Doctors cast reunites after 50 years | A Current Affair12K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Small business fights insurer four years after flood disaster | A Current Affair14K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• How customer abuse cost a passionate young vet her life | A Current Affair229K views · Nov 6, 202611.9× typical views
• Sophie's Legacy1.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• David Jones collapses2.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Barista devastated after beloved coffee van torched | A Current Affair18K views · Nov 5, 20261× 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 A Current Affair or YouTube.