Al Jazeera English YouTube Stats

@aljazeeraenglish · News & Politics · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Al Jazeera English channel overview

Al Jazeera English (@aljazeeraenglish) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 18M subscribers and 8B total views across 150K videos, an average of 54K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 11K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 52K views. Over the last 12 months, Al Jazeera English published 198 videos (75% Shorts), and 65 of them (33%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, Al Jazeera English gained 0 subscribers and 90M views, about 5.6M views a day.

How much does Al Jazeera English make?

Returbe estimates Al Jazeera English's YouTube ad revenue at $195K – $777K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.76 to $3.01, typically $1.51, 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 $1.5K.

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

Al Jazeera English publishes about 215.1 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (45% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

Al Jazeera English's best outlier videos

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

• Obama joins El-Sayed in Michigan rally cry before key midterms | AJ #shorts392K views · Oct 25, 202678.4× typical views
• The fight to protect India’s 600-year-old mosque in Ujjain | #AJ shorts371K views · Oct 23, 202674.1× typical views
• Train slams into crane that collapsed onto railway line in Brazil290K views · Oct 24, 202658.1× typical views
• Century-old mosque near Indian PM’s residence under gov’t threat | AJ #shorts217K views · Oct 24, 202643.4× typical views
• Michigan voters closely divided between Rogers and El-Sayed205K views · Oct 22, 202641.1× typical views
• Why Israeli tourists and investors are unsettling Cypriots125K views · Oct 24, 202625× typical views
• Is Cyprus becoming Israel's backyard?122K views · Oct 20, 202624.5× typical views
• 16-year-old Malaysian student attacks his teacher with axe118K views · Oct 22, 202623.6× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Al Jazeera English's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why does Zelenskyy feel ‘betrayed’ by the US? | The Bottom Line45 views · Oct 25, 20260× typical views
• Yemen's Taiz sees fragile calm as Houthi attacks worsen humanitarian crisis660 views · Oct 25, 20260.1× typical views
• Iraqis mark seven years since Tishreen protests with reform demands | AJ Shorts1.1K views · Oct 25, 20260.2× typical views
• France protests: Media bias, police brutality and political chaos | The Listening Post2.1K views · Oct 25, 20260× typical views
• Israeli assault on Hebron displaces thousands as West Bank restrictions tighten3.2K views · Oct 25, 20260.1× typical views
• Israeli air strike on Gaza City university kills three people3.5K views · Oct 25, 20260.7× typical views
• Israeli strikes hit Gaza's Islamic University twice, killing three security guards2.7K views · Oct 25, 20260.5× typical views
• US and Israel elections: New leaders, same policies?3.2K views · Oct 25, 20260.6× typical views
• Can protests in Europe bring about change? | Inside Story19K views · Oct 25, 20260.4× typical views
• Jerusalem Daily: Israel expels thousands from Hebron2.2K views · Oct 25, 20260.4× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 811 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.

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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 Al Jazeera English or YouTube.